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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.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2017

Filed:

Jan. 24, 2012
Applicants:

Anand Rajagopalan, Bangalore, IN;

Hemanth Sambrani, Bangalore, IN;

Jonathan Katzman, San Francisco, CA (US);

Alexandre Linares, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Anand Rajagopalan, Bangalore, IN;

Hemanth Sambrani, Bangalore, IN;

Jonathan Katzman, San Francisco, CA (US);

Alexandre Linares, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/58 (2006.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); H04N 21/4788 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/32 (2013.01); G06Q 10/10 (2013.01); H04L 12/1818 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04N 21/4788 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, system and computer readable medium for allowing a user to participate in an online private conversation for a head content includes detecting a selection of the content published on a website hosted by a host. A conversation interface is provided for initiating a private conversation within a context of the content. A comment related to the content is provided and one or more users are selected, using the conversation interface. The selected users are socially related to the user and are selected from one or more social networking sites. A link to the private conversation for the content is generated and the generated link is forwarded to the selected users in a notification inviting the users to participate in the private conversation. The link provides access to the content and the private conversation initiated for the content at the website.


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