Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Techniques for domain capture
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Application No.: US16138362Application Date: 2018-09-21
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Publication No.: US10326751B2Publication Date: 2019-06-18
- Inventor: George O'Brien , Emil Ibrishimov , Jung 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 ; G06F21/62 ; G06F16/31 ; G06F16/335 ; G06F21/45 ; H04L29/12

Abstract:
Techniques for domain capture. In one embodiment, for example, a method comprises detecting an attempt to create a personal user account with an online service that uses an electronic mail address that belongs to an owner of a particular domain name service domain. Based on the detecting, the online service prompts a user associated with the attempt to create a team account with the online service that is under management of the owner of the particular domain name service domain. Also based on the detecting the online service offers the user an option of creating a personal user account with the online service using an unowned electronic mail address.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190028450A1 TECHNIQUES FOR DOMAIN CAPTURE Public/Granted day:2019-01-24
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