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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.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 28, 2014

Filed:

Aug. 21, 2012
Applicants:

Gang (Tiger) Lan, San Jose, CA (US);

Michael Fertik, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Saad Mir, Burlingame, CA (US);

Abbey Sparrow, Redwood City, CA (US);

Jeffrey A. Harnois, Ii, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Gang (Tiger) Lan, San Jose, CA (US);

Michael Fertik, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Saad Mir, Burlingame, CA (US);

Abbey Sparrow, Redwood City, CA (US);

Jeffrey A. Harnois, II, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Reputation.com, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/168 (2013.01); H04L 63/0407 (2013.01); H04L 63/10 (2013.01); H04L 63/08 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and methods for facilitating secure communications on a website are presented. The system comprising a security server configured to receive a secure message from a creator device is disclosed. The security server encodes the received message and sends the encoded message or a representation of the encoded message for posting on the website so that one or more users of the website have the ability to request that the security server make the message available after the encoded message has been decoded.


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