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Method, apparatus, and computer program product for authorizing and authenticating user communication within an enterprise group-based communication platform

US10997557B2 · kind B2 · utility

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29Claims

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Assignee

Slack Technologies, LLC · US

Inventors

Ilan Frank · Los Altos, US
Daniel Stewart Butterfield · Aspen, US
Callum Henderson-Begg · San Francisco, US
April Underwood · San Francisco, US
Leah Jones · San Francisco, US
Myles Grant · San Francisco, US
Todd Lindsay Wirth · Atlanta, US
Eric Vierhaus · San Francisco, US
Samantha Stoller · San Francisco, US
Gregory Pelly · Oakland, US
Yongxing Deng · San Francisco, US
Matthew James Mullen · Danville, US

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 12, 2017
Grant date	May 4, 2021
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Nov 22, 2038

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH04W12/76
WIPO fieldDigital communication
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The disclosure generally relates to an enterprise group-based communication system. Group-based communication channels may be created and access by client devices associated with users within the enterprise group-based communication system that have various identifiers associated therewith.

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