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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. 10, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2014
Applicant:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Martin Hunt, Mountain View, CA (US);
Chris Szeto, San Jose, CA (US);
James Rodgers, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Vijay Raghunathan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
Techniques that enable instant communications services to be provisioned for an online community of users such that the members of the community can interact with each other using instant communications including using instant messaging (IM). In one embodiment, an instant communications facilitator operating from a first domain may provision instant communication services for members of an online community maintained in different domains from the first domain.