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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2013
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Adrian Ludwig, Atherton, CA (US);
Robert J. Greenwalt, III, Redwood City, CA (US);
Winthrop Lyon Saville, III, Soquel, CA (US);
Nicholas Neil Kralevich, IV, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Jake Hamby, Mountain View, CA (US);
Randall Sarafa, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alexander Faaborg, Mountain View, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A device includes at least one processor, a messaging service operable by the at least one processor to determine whether an outgoing message is a likely premium message, and a user interface module operable by the at least one processor to responsive to determining that outgoing message is the likely premium message, output, for display, a prompt for confirmation to send the outgoing message to a likely premium code, and receive an indication of input detected within the prompt for confirmation. The module is further operable by the at least one processor to selectively send, based at least in part on the received indication of the user input, the outgoing message to the likely premium code.