What does the "|=" operator mean? (with pipeline and no exclamation)

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I was doing some research and came across the operator in sequence |=. Look at:

mBuilder.getNotification().flags |= Notification.FLAG_AUTO_CANCEL;

There is this operator in JAVA, but I do not know exactly if it follows the same syntax in other language and I was in doubt.

What the operator means |=?

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This applies the operator bitwise or to mBuilder.getNotification().flags and Notification.FLAG_AUTO_CANCEL and attributes the result to mBuilder.getNotification().flags.

Is the equivalent of: 

mBuilder.getNotification().flags = mBuilder.getNotification().flags | Notification.FLAG_AUTO_CANCEL;

Binary operator OR, or binary disjunction returns a bit 1 whenever at least one of the operands is '1'

Example:

int a = 60; //   60 = 0011 1100 
int b = 13; //   13 = 0000 1101 
int r = (a|b) // 61 = 0011 1101

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