Patents by Inventor Eric Vierhaus

Eric Vierhaus 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).

  • METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR AUTHORIZING AND AUTHENTICATING USER COMMUNICATION WITHIN AN ENTERPRISE GROUP-BASED COMMUNICATION PLATFORM
    Publication number: 20230410051
    Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to an enterprise group-based communication system. Group-based communication channels may be created and access by client devices associated with users within the enterprise group-based communication system that have various identifiers associated therewith.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Ilan Frank, Daniel Stewart Butterfield, Callum Henderson-Begg, April Underwood, Leah Jones, Myles Grant, Todd Wirth, Eric Vierhaus, Samantha Stoller, Gregory Pelly, Yongxing Deng, Matthew Mullen
  • Method, apparatus, and computer program product for authorizing and authenticating user communication within an enterprise group-based communication platform
    Patent number: 11810072
    Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to an enterprise group-based communication system. Group-based communication channels may be created and access by client devices associated with users within the enterprise group-based communication system that have various identifiers associated therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Slack Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ilan Frank, Daniel Stewart Butterfield, Callum Henderson-Begg, April Underwood, Leah Jones, Myles Grant, Todd Wirth, Eric Vierhaus, Samantha Stoller, Gregory Pelly, Yongxing Deng, Matthew Mullen
  • DATA STORAGE ARCHITECTURE FOR AN ENTERPRISE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20220147644
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to group-based data storage systems configured for maintaining data exchanged between client devices within channel-specific shards each corresponding with one or more group-identifiers to provide group-based access to those channel-specific shards and for applying group-specific policies for data stored within those channel-specific shards. Membership of particular users within particular groups and within particular channels may be monitored such that access to particular channel shards may be controlled based on group-memberships of the users, and access to data stored within particular channel shards may be controlled based on channel-memberships of the users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Leah Jones, Keith Adams, Samantha Stoller, Maude Lemaire, Eric Vierhaus, Ilan Frank
  • Data storage architecture for an enterprise communication system
    Patent number: 11269833
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to group-based data storage systems configured for maintaining data exchanged between client devices within channel-specific shards each corresponding with one or more group-identifiers to provide group-based access to those channel-specific shards and for applying group-specific policies for data stored within those channel-specific shards. Membership of particular users within particular groups and within particular channels may be monitored such that access to particular channel shards may be controlled based on group-memberships of the users, and access to data stored within particular channel shards may be controlled based on channel-memberships of the users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Slack Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Leah Jones, Keith Adams, Samantha Stoller, Maude Lemaire, Eric Vierhaus, Ilan Frank
  • METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR AUTHORIZING AND AUTHENTICATING USER COMMUNICATION WITHIN AN ENTERPRISE GROUP-BASED COMMUNICATION PLATFORM
    Publication number: 20210264368
    Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to an enterprise group-based communication system. Group-based communication channels may be created and access by client devices associated with users within the enterprise group-based communication system that have various identifiers associated therewith.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Ilan Frank, Daniel Stewart Butterfield, Callum Henderson-Begg, April Underwood, Leah Jones, Myles Grant, Todd Wirth, Eric Vierhaus, Samantha Stoller, Gregory Pelly, Yongxing Deng, Matthew Mullen
  • Method, apparatus, and computer program product for authorizing and authenticating user communication within an enterprise group-based communication platform
    Patent number: 10997557
    Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to an enterprise group-based communication system. Group-based communication channels may be created and access by client devices associated with users within the enterprise group-based communication system that have various identifiers associated therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Slack Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ilan Frank, Daniel Stewart Butterfield, Callum Henderson-Begg, April Underwood, Leah Jones, Myles Grant, Todd Wirth, Eric Vierhaus, Samantha Stoller, Gregory Pelly, Yongxing Deng, Matthew Mullen
  • DATA STORAGE ARCHITECTURE FOR AN ENTERPRISE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20200174982
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to group-based data storage systems configured for maintaining data exchanged between client devices within channel-specific shards each corresponding with one or more group-identifiers to provide group-based access to those channel-specific shards and for applying group-specific policies for data stored within those channel-specific shards. Membership of particular users within particular groups and within particular channels may be monitored such that access to particular channel shards may be controlled based on group-memberships of the users, and access to data stored within particular channel shards may be controlled based on channel-memberships of the users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Leah Jones, Keith Adams, Samantha Stoller, Maude Lemaire, Eric Vierhaus, Ilan Frank
  • Data storage architecture for an enterprise communication system
    Patent number: 10346378
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to group-based data storage systems configured for maintaining data exchanged between client devices within channel-specific shards each corresponding with one or more group-identifiers to provide group-based access to those channel-specific shards and for applying group-specific policies for data stored within those channel-specific shards. Membership of particular users within particular groups and within particular channels may be monitored such that access to particular channel shards may be controlled based on group-memberships of the users, and access to data stored within particular channel shards may be controlled based on channel-memberships of the users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: SLACK TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Leah Jones, Keith Adams, Samantha Stoller, Maude Lemaire, Eric Vierhaus, Ilan Frank
  • METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR AUTHORIZING AND AUTHENTICATING USER COMMUNICATION WITHIN AN ENTERPRISE GROUP-BASED COMMUNICATION PLATFORM
    Publication number: 20180197144
    Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to an enterprise group-based communication system. Group-based communication channels may be created and access by client devices associated with users within the enterprise group-based communication system that have various identifiers associated therewith.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Ilan Frank, Daniel Stewart Butterfield, Callum Henderson-Begg, April Underwood, Leah Jones, Myles Grant, Todd Wirth, Eric Vierhaus, Samantha Stoller, Gregory Pelly, Yongxing Deng, Matthew Mullen