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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:
Jul. 26, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2013
James Luke Sontag, Portland, OR (US);
Robert Angelo Difalco, Portland, OR (US);
Benjamin Van Der Veen, Portland, OR (US);
Joel G. Norvell, Portland, OR (US);
James Luke Sontag, Portland, OR (US);
Robert Angelo DiFalco, Portland, OR (US);
Benjamin Van Der Veen, Portland, OR (US);
Joel G. Norvell, Portland, OR (US);
Wai LLC, Portland, OR (US);
Abstract
A system registers participant information and inter-participant relationship information, and then, at variable times, selects two or more participants with a pre-existing relationship and attempts to establish a communication link between them. The identities of the selected participants are withheld from at least one of the participants (and potentially from all of the participants), so the call is a partial surprise (i.e., the participant may know the set of possible people from whom the call could be, but does not know exactly which person or people are calling until he answers the call). A number of applications are described and claimed.