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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:
Jan. 26, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 18, 2014
Applicant:
Gary M. Lauder, Atherton, CA (US);
Inventor:
Gary M. Lauder, Atherton, CA (US);
Assignee:
MediaFriends, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 4/14 (2009.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04M 1/725 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/14 (2013.01); H04L 51/043 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01); H04M 1/72552 (2013.01);
Abstract
A social messaging hub provides communication services for a data enabled device having Internet network access capabilities. A user is given a registered phone number and unique IP addressable identification which serve as a source and destination identifier of the associated data enabled device. User signatures can be appended onto SMS messages and using resources on the social messaging hub a user can control when the signatures are appended.