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- Patent Title: Techniques for invite enforcement and domain capture
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Application No.: US15056829Application Date: 2016-02-29
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Publication No.: US10079817B2Publication Date: 2018-09-18
- Inventor: George O'Brien , Emil Ibrishimov , Ken Park , David Stafford , Heinrich Koutcherouk
- Applicant: Dropbox, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Francisco
- Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Dropbox, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Francisco
- Agency: Hickman Palermo Becker Bingham LLP
- Agent Adam C. Stone
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; H04L29/08 ; H04L12/58 ; G06F17/30 ; G06F21/62 ; H04L29/12

Abstract:
Techniques for invite enforcement and domain capture. In one embodiment, for example, a method performed in an online service computing environment comprises the operations of: storing, in a database, an association between a team of one or more user accounts and a domain name service domain; receiving a request to invite an e-mail address belonging to the domain name service domain to join the team; creating, in a database, a placeholder user account that is a member of the team; associating, in a database, the e-mail address with the placeholder user account; and after an invitation for the e-mail address to join the team is accepted, converting, in a database, the individual user account to a team account that is (a) a member of the team and (b) associated with the e-mail address.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170250969A1 TECHNIQUES FOR INVITE ENFORCEMENT AND DOMAIN CAPTURE Public/Granted day:2017-08-31
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