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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2012
Applicant:
James Crawford, Belmont, MA (US);
Inventor:
James Crawford, Belmont, MA (US);
Assignee:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/06 (2013.01); H04L 12/581 (2013.01); H04L 51/04 (2013.01); H04L 67/2819 (2013.01); H04L 67/28 (2013.01); H04L 51/08 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and techniques for transferring one or more files by connecting to a communications system host; sending, to a client connected to the communications system host, a request to transfer one or more files; when a client permits access to the one or more files, establishing a direct socket connection from the client and bypassing the communications system host; and initiating the transfer of the one or more files from the client over the direct socket connection.