System, method and apparatus for communicating via instant messaging
First Claim
1. A method for communicating via instant messages, the method comprising:
- receiving a message from a message sender designated for at least one message recipient;
determining when the message is received by the at least one message recipient, wherein a determination that the message is received is confirmed by a message acknowledgement; and
providing a status update for the message sender, the status update comprising a visual representation of the message having a first appearance when the message is pending and a second appearance when the message is received by the at least one message recipient.
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Abstract
A system, method and apparatus for facilitating communication among a number of distributed clients in a distributed network is disclosed. A user, such as through a personal digital assistant device, may select one or more instant messages for transmission to one or more other users in the network. The instant messages may be sound instant message and/or text instant messages. During messaging, message status indicators provide users with the status of their respective messages. In one embodiment, the messages may be deemed to be either pending or received as distinguished by a pending status indicator and a received status indicator.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for communicating via instant messages, the method comprising:
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receiving a message from a message sender designated for at least one message recipient;
determining when the message is received by the at least one message recipient, wherein a determination that the message is received is confirmed by a message acknowledgement; and
providing a status update for the message sender, the status update comprising a visual representation of the message having a first appearance when the message is pending and a second appearance when the message is received by the at least one message recipient. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method for establishing instant messaging communications between a message originator and one or more message receivers, the method comprising:
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receiving an instant message from the message originator;
providing the instant message from the message originator to the one or more message receivers specified by the message originator; and
providing an update of a local message display of the message originator once the message originator'"'"'s instant message is received by the one or more message receivers, wherein the local message display is provided in a pending configuration before the message is received by the one or more message receivers and the local display is provided in a received configuration once the message is received by the one or more message receivers, the receipt of the message being acknowledged by a message acknowledgement sent by the one or more message receivers. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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16. A computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon for executing the steps comprising:
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creating a message listing of one or more pending messages;
providing a message indicator in a first appearance for the one more pending messages;
updating the message listing based on the receipt of message acknowledgements; and
providing the message indicator in a second appearance for the one or more pending messages as the pending messages are deemed to be received.
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