REGISTERING CLIENT COMPUTING DEVICES FOR ONLINE COMMUNICATION SESSIONS
First Claim
1. A method for registering a client computing device for online communication sessions, comprising:
- receiving a message, having a push token that is unique to the client computing device and a phone number of that client computing device, from an SMS (short message service) transit device that received an SMS message having the push token from the client computing device and that determined the phone number of the client computing device;
associating the push token and the phone number; and
storing the association.
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Abstract
Registering a client computing device for online communication sessions. A registration server receives a message that has a push token that is unique to the client computing device and a phone number of the client computing device from an SMS (Short Message Service) transit device, which received an SMS message having the push token from the client computing device and determined the phone number of the client computing device from that SMS message. The registration server associates the push token and the phone number and stores it in a registration data store, which is used for inviting users for online communication sessions.
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21 Claims
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1. A method for registering a client computing device for online communication sessions, comprising:
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receiving a message, having a push token that is unique to the client computing device and a phone number of that client computing device, from an SMS (short message service) transit device that received an SMS message having the push token from the client computing device and that determined the phone number of the client computing device; associating the push token and the phone number; and storing the association. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A registration server to register client computing devices for online communication sessions, comprising:
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an SMS (short message service) transit interface to receive registration request messages from an SMS transit device that receives SMS messages from client computing devices, each registration request message including a push token that is unique to a client computing device and a phone number of that computing device determined by the SMS transit device; and an association module to associate push tokens and phone numbers and store the associated push tokens and phone numbers in an online communication session registration data store. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10)
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11. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium that provides instructions that, when executed by a processor, will cause said processor to perform operations for registering a client computing device for online communication sessions, the operations comprising:
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receiving a message, having a push token that is unique to the client computing device and a phone number of that client computing device, from an SMS (short message service) transit device that received an SMS message having the push token from the client computing device and that determined the phone number of the client computing device; associating the push token and the phone number; and storing the association. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. An online communication session registration system, comprising:
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an SMS (short message service) transit device that receives SMS messages from client computing devices having push tokens of the client computing devices and determines phone numbers of the client computing devices from the SMS messages, the SMS transit device further transmits push token and phone number pairs to a registration server; and the registration server associates push token and phone number pairs and stores the associated push tokens and phone numbers in an online communication session registration data store. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21)
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