Slack Technologies has a total of 48 patents globally, out of which 4 have been granted. Of these 48 patents, more than 50% patents are active. USA is where Slack Technologies has filed the maximum number of patents, followed by Australia and Germany, it has generated an annual revenue of $0.97 billion in the year 2021. Parallelly, the USA seems to be the main focused R&D center of Slack Technologies.
Slack Technologies was founded in the year 2009 by Stewart Butterfield, Eric Costello, Cal Henderson and Serguei Mourachov. Slack Technologies is an international software firm based in Vancouver, British Columbia and is best known for its proprietary communication platform Slack. As of April 2022, Slack Technologies has a market cap of $26.51 Billion.
Do read about some of the most popular patents of Slack Technologies which have been covered by us in this article and also you can find Slack Technologies patents information, the worldwide patent filing activity and its patent filing trend over the years, and many other stats over Slack Technologies patent portfolio.
How many patents does the founder and the CEO of Slack Technologies have?
The co-founder and CEO, Stewart Butterfield, has 35 patents. The other co-founders, Eric Costello, Cal Henderson and Serguei Mourachov, have 13, 15 and 47 patents respectively.
How many patents does Slack Technologies have?
Slack Technologies has a total of 48 patents globally. These patents belong to 41 unique patent families. Out of 48 patents, 24 patents are active.
How Many Patents did Slack Technologies File Every Year?
Are you wondering why there is a drop in patent filing for the last two years? It is because a patent application can take up to 18 months to get published. Certainly, it doesn’t suggest a decrease in the patent filing.
| Year of Patents Filing or Grant | Slack Technologies Applications Filed | Slack Technologies Patents Granted |
| 2011 | – | – |
| 2012 | – | 1 |
| 2013 | – | – |
| 2014 | – | – |
| 2015 | – | – |
| 2016 | 1 | – |
| 2017 | 1 | – |
| 2018 | 6 | – |
| 2019 | 10 | – |
| 2020 | 10 | – |
| 2021 | 16 | 2 |
| 2022 | – | – |
How many Slack Technologies patents are Alive/Dead?
How Many Patents did Slack Technologies File in Different Countries?
Where are Research Centres of Slack Technologies Patents Located?
Of the 41 R&D centres, all of them are located in the United States of America.
10 Best Slack Technologies Patents
US20090024452A1 is the most popular patent in the Slack Technologies portfolio. It has received 94 citations so far from companies like Yahoo!, Sony, and Nokia.
Below is the list of 10 most cited patents of Slack Technologies:
| Publication Number | Citation Count |
| US20090024452A1 | 94 |
| US20050283276A1 | 57 |
| US7051119B2 | 50 |
| US20170024761A1 | 6 |
| US20190334845A1 | 2 |
| US20200336472A1 | 1 |
| WO2021096645A1 | 1 |
| WO2020040922A1 | 1 |
| WO2019018767A1 | 1 |
| AU2020104253A4 | 1 |
When a technology succeeds in displacing the technology that previously dominated the market, it is referred to as disruptive. Take, for example, the messaging network Slack, which has over 12 million users globally and has radically altered the practises of many businesses. Emails for direct messaging and even Skype for videoconferencing have been replaced by this business communication tool.
Slack is a cloud-based team communication service created in 2013 by Stewart Butterfield, a Canadian entrepreneur and current CEO. It was created as an internal communication tool at Butterfield’s small company Tiny Speck. By 2015, it had become a tech and media favourite, thanks to its ease of use and exciting in-app features.
Later in 2018 it released Actions, which converts conversations into tasks. Users can take action on a dialogue that is linked to apps installed on their workstation. Slack also improved its search functionality, which now has better predictive capabilities and is faster.
List of Slack Technologies Patents
| Slack Technologies Patents | Title |
| US20220103502A1 | Group-based communication interface with subsidiary channel-based thread communications |
| US20220060562A1 | Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for managing organization connections in a group-based communication system |
| US20220046070A1 | Reservation management for polling requests in a communication system |
| US20220027175A1 | Systems And Methods For Rendering And Retaining Application Data Associated With A Plurality Of Applications Within A Group-Based Communication System |
| US11206231B2 | Group-based communication interface with subsidiary channel-based thread communications |
| US20210359873A1 | Channeling messaging communications in a selected group-based communication interface |
| US20200336472A1 | Encryption key management for international data residency |
| US20190334845A1 | Messaging interface configured to a render graphical sentiment and progression indicator |
| US20190327220A1 | Method, apparatus, and computer program product for secure direct remote server communication of encrypted group-based communication data with security controls |
| US20180158110A1 | Systems and Method for Managing Emails |
| US20170024761A1 | Quality scoring system for advertisements and content in an online system |
| US20090024452A1 | Methods, systems and apparatus for delivery of media |
| US7051119B2 | Method and system for enabling a script on a first computer to communicate and exchange data with a script on a second computer over a network |
| US20050283276A1 | Real time subsea monitoring and control system for pipelines |
| WO2022076011A1 | Ambient, ad hoc, multimedia collaboration in a group-based communication system |
| WO2022051114A1 | Encryption key management for channels with multiple organizations |
| WO2022040438A1 | Inter-application data interchange via a group-based communication system that triggers user intervention |
| WO2021262486A1 | Hosted communication channels on communication platform |
| WO2021188157A8 | Methods and apparatuses for managing external approval provisioning and external messaging communication requests in a group-based communication system |
| WO2021211615A1 | Direct messaging instance generation |
| WO2021167765A1 | Methods, apparatuses and computer program product for updating group-based communication interface |
| WO2021167766A1 | Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for managing organization connections in a group-based communication system |
| WO2021154608A1 | Communication apparatus configured to manage user identification queries and render user identification interfaces within a group-based communication system |
| WO2021154604A1 | Apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for data retention in a common group-based communication channel |
| WO2021154650A1 | Dynamic profile reconciliation in group-based communication systems |
| WO2021154364A1 | Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for implementing communication barriers in a group-based communication system |
| WO2021154651A1 | Dynamic channel conversion in group-based communication systems |
| WO2021096645A1 | Authorizations associated with externally shared communication resources |
| WO2020222937A1 | Systems and methods for initiating processing actions utilizing automatically generated data of a group-based communication system |
| WO2020123752A3 | Improved developer tools for a communication platform background |
| WO2020160297A1 | Methods, systems, and apparatuses for improved multi-factor authentication in a multi-app communication system |
| WO2020160320A1 | Methods and apparatuses for managing limited engagement by external email resource entity within a group-based communication system |
| WO2020113162A1 | Method, apparatus and computer program product for generating externally shared communication channels |
| WO2020096856A1 | Maintaining minimum interface functionality in an absence of a push-based communications connection in a group-based communication system |
| WO2020092294A1 | Method, apparatus, and computer program product for group-based communication interface with email channeling |
| WO2020040922A1 | Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for a group-based communication system interacting with remote resources for remote data objects |
| WO2019236905A1 | Method, apparatus, and computer program product for encryption key management within a group-based communication system |
| WO2019226350A1 | System, method, and apparatus for maintaining and updating a common message user interface in a group based communication system |
| WO2019226360A1 | Systems and methods for initiating external actions via a group-based communication system |
| WO2019217510A1 | System, method, and apparatus for building and rendering a message user interface in a group-based communication system |
| WO2019155447A3 | Method, apparatus, and computer program product for selectively granting permissions to group-based objects in a group-based communication system |
| WO2019118867A1 | Method, apparatus and computer program product for improving data indexing in a group-based communication platform |
| WO2019018767A1 | Digital content auditing and retention in a group based repository |
| WO2019018772A1 | Method, apparatus and computer program product for generating externally shared communication channels |
| AU2021107603A4 | Encryption key management for international data residency |
| AU2020103430B4 | Method, apparatus, and computer program product for encryption key management within a group-based communication system |
| AU2020104253A4 | Encryption key management for international data residency |
| DE602007027491T2 | Platform For Management Of Mobile Domains And Keyword Enabled Applications |
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