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Patent No.:

US 8726171 B1

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Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2014

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2011
Applicants:

Serge Lachapelle, Valentuna, SE;

John E. Knapp, Seattle, WA (US);

Rian Liebenberg, Bushey, GB;

Inventors:

Serge Lachapelle, Valentuna, SE;

John E. Knapp, Seattle, WA (US);

Rian Liebenberg, Bushey, GB;

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing communication initiation controls. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a term that a user has entered into a text field, selecting one or more contacts that match the term, providing a communication initiation control for each of multiple communication modes, determining, for each of the multiple communication modes, whether any of the selected contacts are available or are capable of communicating through the communication mode, and enabling or disabling, for each of the multiple communication modes, the communication initiation control for the communication mode based on determining whether any of the selected contacts are available or are capable of communicating through the communication mode.


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Lachapelle, Serge. (2014). Communication initiation control (U.S. Patent No. 8726171). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/8726171

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