US 12,261,815 B2
Initiating a business messaging session
Grant C. Ritchie, Los Gatos, CA (US); Mithilesh Kumar, San Jose, CA (US); Austin A. Marusco, San Francisco, CA (US); Akshay Bapat, Sunnyvale, CA (US); John N. Meehan, Campbell, CA (US); Elmira Petrenco, San Jose, CA (US); Malay Mallick, San Jose, CA (US); Sampath Sree Kumar Kolluru, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Adam R. Podstawczynski, Lodz (PL); Zhaoyuan Ye, San Jose, CA (US); Jae Woo Chang, Cupertino, CA (US); and Marcel Van Os, Santa Cruz, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 1, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/889,693.
Application 16/889,693 is a continuation of application No. 16/428,897, filed on May 31, 2019.
Application 16/428,897 is a continuation in part of application No. 15/721,571, filed on Sep. 29, 2017, granted, now 10,764,340.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/507,163, filed on May 16, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2020/0366636 A1, Nov. 19, 2020
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04L 51/56 (2022.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 61/4552 (2022.01); H04L 67/52 (2022.01); H04L 101/65 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 51/56 (2022.05) [H04L 61/4552 (2022.05); H04L 67/52 (2022.05); H04L 2101/65 (2022.05)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
receiving an identifier at a device;
generating, by the device, an encoded identifier based on the identifier;
requesting, by the device, a cluster of identifiers from a remote server using the encoded identifier generated by the device;
receiving, by the device responsive to the requesting, the cluster of identifiers from the remote server;
determining, by the device, whether the identifier is included in the received cluster of identifiers received from the remote server; and
in response to a determination that the identifier is included in the received cluster of identifiers, providing, by the device, a first user interface associated with the identifier.