Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Enabling participation in an online community using visual machine-readable symbols
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Application No.: US14801632Application Date: 2015-07-16
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Publication No.: US09246858B2Publication Date: 2016-01-26
- Inventor: John-Alistair George , Adam Connelly
- Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Agency: Fenwick & West LLP
- Main IPC: G06F3/0481
- IPC: G06F3/0481 ; H04L12/58 ; H04L29/06 ; G06K19/06 ; G06Q30/02
Abstract:
A facility for coordinating an online discussion is described. The facility receives an indication that a user has captured a machine-readable symbol encoding an identifier that identifies a particular online discussion. In response, the facility incorporates into an online forum that hosts this online discussion an indication that this user captured a symbol encoding an identifier that identifies this online discussion.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150326516A1 Enabling Participation in an Online Community using Visual Machine-Readable Symbols Public/Granted day:2015-11-12
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