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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2014
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Matthew John Leske, San Francisco, CA (US);
Per Johan Gustafsson, Stockholm, SE;
Lars Olof Joakim Lindholm, Stockholm, SE;
Christopher David Vander Mey, Seattle, WA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for chat-enabling a social circle in response to user input provided by a first user, the social circle being defined by the first user and including one or more contacts, the one or more contacts including a second user, for each of the one or more contacts, issuing a chat service subscription request, determining that a subscription request associated with the second user is fulfilled, and in response to determining that the subscription request associated with the second user is fulfilled, adding the second user as a chat contact of the first user and adding the first user as a chat contact of the second user.