The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2010
Ravikant Cherukuri, Snoqualmie, WA (US);
Aditya Bandi, Redmond, WA (US);
Cheuk Wan William Lau, Bellevue, WA (US);
George Joy, Kirkland, WA (US);
Ravikant Cherukuri, Snoqualmie, WA (US);
Aditya Bandi, Redmond, WA (US);
Cheuk Wan William Lau, Bellevue, WA (US);
George Joy, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A content item hosted by a content item source (such as a weblog post of a weblog) may receive updates (e.g., comments submitted by users), and may be discussed among users in a chat group of a chat service. The content item source and the chat service may coordinate to notify users of updates to the content item, and to share content regarding the content item. When a user requests to subscribe to updates of the content item, the content item source may invite the user to join a chat group of the chat service created for discussion of the content item. Additionally, updates to the content item received by the content item source may be automatically posted as messages in the chat group, and messages posted in the chat group regarding the content item may be automatically posted as updates to the content item at the content item source.