Apple patents linking group chats to shared documents with hidden IDs
Apple describes a system that connects a group chat to a shared document by creating unique, hidden codes for each participant. When a link to the document is sent in the chat, these codes automatically register the users with the collaborative app.
In the filing’s own words
Aspects of the subject technology provide for integration between a messaging system and a collaborative application. A messaging system may receive, via user input, an instruction to create a message thread with a plurality of user accounts. The message thread may include a document link associated with a collaborative application. The messaging system may generate, for each of the user accounts, an obfuscated identifier associated with that user account and a document link. The messaging system may provide the obfuscated identifiers to the collaborative application. An initial message exchanged between the plurality of user accounts with the document link in the message thread may establish, for the collaborative application, the obfuscated identifiers that will be associated with the document link.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1 - 13. (canceled)
Facts
- Company
- Apple (Apple Inc.)
- Official title
- INTEGRATION BETWEEN MESSAGING SYSTEMS AND COLLABORATIVE APPLICATIONS
- Publication number
- US20260310826A1
- Application number
- 19706583
- Filed
- Jun 12, 2026
- Published
- Oct 8, 2026
- Inventors
- 17
- Claims
- 27
Classified under
G06F 21/6254 Physics & computingG06F 21/602 Physics & computingMore from Apple in AI & software
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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