Patents by Inventor Matthew Hodgins
Matthew Hodgins has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20240089318Abstract: Various examples of the present disclosure can be directed to programmatically generating and rendering for display a context pane within a group-based communication interface. In some examples, the context pane comprises context pane content representative of channel membership associated with a communication channel identifier with which the group-based communication interface is associated. Group-based communication objects of a group-based communication data corpus can be utilized (e.g., by way of a trained machine learning model and/or work graph data structures) to inform the determination of context pane content.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Matthew Hodgins, Sarah Raines, Christine Lee, Shanan Delp
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Publication number: 20240073262Abstract: Systems and methods initialize distributed client device membership for new client devices joining a group-based communication channel established for content exchange among a plurality of distributed client device members. The systems and methods comprise aspects for executing a content analysis over the content of the one or more group-based communication channels to identify characterizing terms associated with each group-based communication channel. After the content analysis is performed, systems receive search parameters from a potential new member client device for a group-based communication server. Various systems and methods provide selected search results generated based at least in part on a determination that characterizing terms match one or more of the search parameters to the client device. Those selected results comprise a target that is executable by the client device to join the associated group-based communication channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Matthew Hodgins, Michael Montazeri, Kyle Stetz
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Patent number: 11843646Abstract: Systems and methods initialize distributed client device membership for new client devices joining a group-based communication channel established for content exchange among a plurality of distributed client device members. The systems and methods comprise aspects for executing a content analysis over the content of the one or more group-based communication channels to identify characterizing terms associated with each group-based communication channel. After the content analysis is performed, systems receive search parameters from a potential new member client device for a group-based communication server. Various systems and methods provide selected search results generated based at least in part on a determination that characterizing terms match one or more of the search parameters to the client device. Those selected results comprise a target that is executable by the client device to join the associated group-based communication channel.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Hodgins, Michael Montazeri, Kyle Stetz
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Publication number: 20230344787Abstract: Message moderation is described herein. In an example, a message posted to a virtual space of a communication platform can be flagged for review by a reviewer (e.g., an administrator or other user permissioned to review messages). In some examples, such a reviewer can review a flagged message and determine one or more actions to be performed. Such actions can include removing the message from presentation via the communication platform, modifying presentation of the message via a user interface of the communication platform, replying to the message (e.g., to suggest taking the conversation offline or to another virtual space), disabling interaction with the message, and/or the like. Message moderation, as described herein, can streamline resolution of conversations that become out of hand and/or off topic.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Inventors: Siddhi Soman, Corey Baker, Jessica Fain, Stephen Burgess, Matthew Hodgins, Himanshu Sharma, Sri Mahesh Vutukuri, Nicole Fish
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Patent number: 11778022Abstract: Various examples of the present disclosure can be directed to programmatically generating and rendering for display a context pane within a group-based communication interface. In some examples, the context pane comprises context pane content representative of channel membership associated with a communication channel identifier with which the group-based communication interface is associated. Group-based communication objects of a group-based communication data corpus can be utilized (e.g., by way of a trained machine learning model and/or work graph data structures) to inform the determination of context pane content.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Hodgins, Sarah Raines, Shanan Delp, Christine Lee
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Patent number: 11722446Abstract: Message moderation is described herein. In an example, a message posted to a virtual space of a communication platform can be flagged for review by a reviewer (e.g., an administrator or other user permissioned to review messages). In some examples, such a reviewer can review a flagged message and determine one or more actions to be performed. Such actions can include removing the message from presentation via the communication platform, modifying presentation of the message via a user interface of the communication platform, replying to the message (e.g., to suggest taking the conversation offline or to another virtual space), disabling interaction with the message, and/or the like. Message moderation, as described herein, can streamline resolution of conversations that become out of hand and/or off topic.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.Inventors: Siddhi Soman, Corey Baker, Jessica Fain, Stephen Burgess, Matthew Hodgins, Himanshu Sharma, Sri Mahesh Vutukuri, Nicole Fish
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Patent number: 11716289Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a group-based communication apparatus that is configured to enable end-users (e.g., non-admin users) to initiate, by way of client devices, generation of a shareable resource associated with a group-based communication resource identifier to efficiently authorize communication between client devices associated with different organization identifiers in group-based communication interfaces associated with a shared group-based communication resource identifier.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2022Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.Inventors: Michael Montazeri, Shanan Delp, Matthew Hodgins, Elizabeth Clemenson, Andrew Schmidt, Lauren Bosak Wagner, Joan Gamell Farre, Gregg Horton, Yingyu Sun, Anna Kalkanis
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Patent number: 11671392Abstract: Message moderation is described herein. In an example, a message posted to a virtual space of a communication platform can be flagged for review by a reviewer (e.g., an administrator or other user permissioned to review messages). In some examples, such a reviewer can review a flagged message and determine one or more actions to be performed. Such actions can include removing the message from presentation via the communication platform, modifying presentation of the message via a user interface of the communication platform, replying to the message (e.g., to suggest taking the conversation offline or to another virtual space), disabling interaction with the message, and/or the like. Message moderation, as described herein, can streamline resolution of conversations that become out of hand and/or off topic.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.Inventors: Siddhi Soman, Jessica Fain, Ugochukwu Douglas Chukwu, Nicole Fish, Sri Mahesh Vutukuri, Beau Carlborg, Matthew Hodgins, Zach Forrest y Salazar, Corey Baker
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Patent number: 11620598Abstract: A board associated with a communication platform and/or one or more channels associated therewith is described. In an example, the board can be associated with editable text and one or more objects capable of being at least one of reordered, added, deleted, or edited. In an example, the one or more objects can be associated with one or more sections. In an example, a communication platform can perform a modification to the board, based at least in part on receiving a request associated with the modification, and can cause the board to be presented via a user interface associated with a member of at least one communication channel with which the board is associated. In an example, the board can be sharable with users associated with different communication channels, workspaces, organizations, or the like.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2020Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Stewart Butterfield, Matthew Hodgins, Michael Hahn, Neil Kamireddy, Paul Duan, Zach Forrest y Salazar, James Colgan, Siddhi Soman
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Publication number: 20220394066Abstract: Systems and methods initialize distributed client device membership for new client devices joining a group-based communication channel established for content exchange among a plurality of distributed client device members. The systems and methods comprise aspects for executing a content analysis over the content of the one or more group-based communication channels to identify characterizing terms associated with each group-based communication channel. After the content analysis is performed, systems receive search parameters from a potential new member client device for a group-based communication server. Various systems and methods provide selected search results generated based at least in part on a determination that characterizing terms match one or more of the search parameters to the client device. Those selected results comprise a target that is executable by the client device to join the associated group-based communication channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Inventors: Matthew Hodgins, Michael Montazeri, Kyle Stetz
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Publication number: 20220368657Abstract: Message moderation is described herein. In an example, a message posted to a virtual space of a communication platform can be flagged for review by a reviewer (e.g., an administrator or other user permissioned to review messages). In some examples, such a reviewer can review a flagged message and determine one or more actions to be performed. Such actions can include removing the message from presentation via the communication platform, modifying presentation of the message via a user interface of the communication platform, replying to the message (e.g., to suggest taking the conversation offline or to another virtual space), disabling interaction with the message, and/or the like. Message moderation, as described herein, can streamline resolution of conversations that become out of hand and/or off topic.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2021Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Siddhi Soman, Corey Baker, Jessica Fain, Stephen Burgess, Matthew Hodgins, Himanshu Sharma, Sri Mahesh Vutukuri, Nicole Fish
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Publication number: 20220368658Abstract: Message moderation is described herein. In an example, a message posted to a virtual space of a communication platform can be flagged for review by a reviewer (e.g., an administrator or other user permissioned to review messages). In some examples, such a reviewer can review a flagged message and determine one or more actions to be performed. Such actions can include removing the message from presentation via the communication platform, modifying presentation of the message via a user interface of the communication platform, replying to the message (e.g., to suggest taking the conversation offline or to another virtual space), disabling interaction with the message, and/or the like. Message moderation, as described herein, can streamline resolution of conversations that become out of hand and/or off topic.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2021Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Siddhi Soman, Jessica Fain, Ugochukwu Douglas Chukwu, Nicole Fish, Sri Mahesh Vutukuri, Beau Carlborg, Matthew Hodgins, Zach Forrest y Salazar, Corey Baker
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Publication number: 20220286411Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a group-based communication apparatus that is configured to enable end-users (e.g., non-admin users) to initiate, by way of client devices, generation of a shareable resource associated with a group-based communication resource identifier to efficiently authorize communication between client devices associated with different organization identifiers in group-based communication interfaces associated with a shared group-based communication resource identifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Michael Montazeri, Shanan Delp, Matthew Hodgins, Elizabeth Clemenson, Andrew Schmidt, Lauren Bosak Wagner, Joan Gamell Farre, Gregg Horton, Yingyu Sun, Anna Kalkanis
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Patent number: 11431769Abstract: Systems and methods initialize distributed client device membership for new client devices joining a group-based communication channel established for content exchange among a plurality of distributed client device members. The systems and methods comprise aspects for executing a content analysis over the content of the one or more group-based communication channels to identify characterizing terms associated with each group-based communication channel. After the content analysis is performed, systems receive search parameters from a potential new member client device for a group-based communication server. Various systems and methods provide selected search results generated based at least in part on a determination that characterizing terms match one or more of the search parameters to the client device. Those selected results comprise a target that is executable by the client device to join the associated group-based communication channel.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2018Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Slack Technologies, LLCInventors: Matthew Hodgins, Michael Montazeri, Kyle Stetz
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Patent number: 11283728Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a group-based communication apparatus that is configured to enable end-users (e.g., non-admin users) to initiate, by way of client devices, generation of a shareable resource associated with a group-based communication resource identifier to efficiently authorize communication between client devices associated with different organization identifiers in group-based communication interfaces associated with a shared group-based communication resource identifier.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Slack Technologies, LLCInventors: Michael Montazeri, Shanan Delp, Matthew Hodgins, Elizabeth Clemenson, Andrew Schmidt, Lauren Bosak Wagner, Joan Gamell Farre, Gregg Horton, Yingyu Sun, Anna Kalkanis
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Publication number: 20220051169Abstract: A board associated with a communication platform and/or one or more channels associated therewith is described. In an example, the board can be associated with editable text and one or more objects capable of being at least one of reordered, added, deleted, or edited. In an example, the one or more objects can be associated with one or more sections. In an example, a communication platform can perform a modification to the board, based at least in part on receiving a request associated with the modification, and can cause the board to be presented via a user interface associated with a member of at least one communication channel with which the board is associated. In an example, the board can be sharable with users associated with different communication channels, workspaces, organizations, or the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2020Publication date: February 17, 2022Inventors: Daniel Stewart Butterfield, Matthew Hodgins, Michael Hahn, Neil Kamireddy, Paul Duan, Zach Forrest y Salazar, James Colgan, Siddhi Soman
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Patent number: 11184400Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a group-based communication apparatus that is configured to enable end-users (e.g., non-admin users) to initiate, by way of client devices, generation of a shareable resource associated with a group-based communication resource identifier to efficiently authorize communication between client devices associated with different organization identifiers in group-based communication interfaces associated with a shared group-based communication resource identifier.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Slack Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Michael Montazeri, Shanan Delp, Matthew Hodgins, Elizabeth Clemenson, Andrew Schmidt, Lauren Bosak Wagner, Joan Gamell Farre, Gregg Horton, Yingyu Sun, Anna Kalkanis
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Publication number: 20210311620Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to an improved group-based communication apparatus that is configured to efficiently manage group-based communication interfaces associated with one or more group-based communication workspaces. The group-based communication apparatus is configured to create and assign labels in association with one or more of a plurality of group-based communication channels that are associated with two or more groups or organizations. The labels corresponding to the communication channels associated with the two or more groups or organizations may be displayed to a sidebar label focus interface component of a sidebar pane of the group-based communication interfaces. The labels may be combined with other data of the groups or organizations, such as group-based communication workspaces, to assemble one or more work graph data structures.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Michael Montazeri, Kyle Stetz, Matthew Hodgins
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Patent number: 11099726Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to an improved group-based communication apparatus that is configured to efficiently manage group-based communication interfaces associated with one or more group-based communication workspaces. The group-based communication apparatus is configured to create and assign user-defined channel labels in association with one or more of a plurality of group-based communication channels. The user-defined channel labels may be displayed to a sidebar label focus interface component of a sidebar pane of the group-based communication interfaces. The user-defined channel labels may be combined with other data of the group-based communication workspaces to assemble one or more work graph data structures.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Slack Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Michael Montazeri, Kyle Stetz, Matthew Hodgins
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Publication number: 20210226900Abstract: Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a group-based communication apparatus that is configured to enable end-users (e.g., non-admin users) to initiate, by way of client devices, generation of a shareable resource associated with a group-based communication resource identifier to efficiently authorize communication between client devices associated with different organization identifiers in group-based communication interfaces associated with a shared group-based communication resource identifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: Michael Montazeri, Shanan Delp, Matthew Hodgins, Elizabeth Clemenson, Andrew Schmidt, Lauren Bosak Wagner, Joan Gamell Farre, Gregg Horton, Yingyu Sun, Anna Kalkanis