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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2012
Filed:
May. 27, 2008
Ebbe Altberg, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Scott Faber, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ron Hirson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sean Van Der Linden, Berkeley, CA (US);
Ebbe Altberg, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Scott Faber, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ron Hirson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sean Van Der Linden, Berkeley, CA (US);
UTBK, Inc., Dover, DE (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses to connect people for real time communications to access diverse categories of information. One embodiment includes: storing data representing a privilege of a user during a predetermined period of time; responsive to a first request made via a presentation of a listing of the first entity for a service of the first entity, establishing a connection for real time communications between the user and the first entity to deliver the service of the first entity, if the user has the privilege at a time of the first request; and responsive to a second request made via a presentation of a listing of the second entity for a service of the second entity, establishing a connection for real time communications between the user and the second entity to deliver the service of the second entity, if the user has the privilege at a time of the second request.