Patent ID: 9076006
Filing Date: 2015-07-07
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method performed by one or more processing devices, comprising: receiving, from a first client device, a request to share an electronic resource of a first user, wherein the first user is associated with the first client device; transmitting, to the first client device, a resource identifier for the electronic resource of the first user, wherein the resource identifier is used in generating a reference code for the shared electronic resource of the first user, wherein the reference code enables the first user to share the electronic resource with another user of another client device, and wherein the reference code includes or encodes verification information to verify that a client device receiving the reference code is authorized to access an electronic resource referenced by the reference code; receiving, from a second client device, (i) a request for access to an electronic resource that is shared with a second user of the second client device, and (ii) reference code information for the requested electronic resource, with the received reference code information including or encoding first verification information to verify whether the second user is authorized to access the requested electronic resource; identifying, based on contents of the received reference code information, that a resource identifier of the requested electronic resource matches the resource identifier of the shared electronic resource; in response to identifying that the second user is requesting access to the shared electronic resource, as a consequence of having determined the correspondence, determining that the second user of the second client device is authorized to access the electronic resource of the first user; and as a consequence of having determined that the second user of the second client device is authorized to access the electronic resource of the first user, enabling the second client device to access the electronic resource of the first user.