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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:
Dec. 23, 2014

Filed:

Feb. 28, 2013
Applicants:

Zhu-song Mei, Chicago, IL (US);

Justin Matthew Brown, Chicago, IL (US);

Inventors:

Zhu-Song Mei, Chicago, IL (US);

Justin Matthew Brown, Chicago, IL (US);

Assignee:

BigMarker.com, LLC, Chicago, IL (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01); H04L 12/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04M 3/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/403 (2013.01); H04L 12/1818 (2013.01); H04M 3/56 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, device, system or article of manufacture is provided for social networking. In one embodiment, a method comprises hosting, by a master server, a plurality of client devices for a conference event, wherein each of the plurality of client devices is associated with a member of a community, wherein the master server is associated with a first computer program running on a first computer hardware system; identifying that a capacity of the master server is not sufficient to host the conference event; initiating, in response to identifying that the capacity of the master server is not sufficient for hosting the conference event, a secondary server, wherein the secondary server is associated with a second computer program running on a second computer hardware system; and assigning a portion of the plurality of client devices to the secondary server.


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