Messaging software offline agent

• US 20020152329A1
• Filed: 04/10/2001
• Published: 10/17/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Chong, Yih Yeong, Loh, Thiam Wah
• Granted Patent: US 6,745,225 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 719/317
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]

Abstract

A method for user processes, each having a unique user identification code, to intercommunicate within a communication management system even if one of the user processes is unavailable, comprises the following steps: associating an agent process with a particular user identification code in order to correspond to a user process having the particular user identification code; determining whether the user process is available in the communication management system; causing the agent process to log into the communication management system with the particular user identification code when the user process is unavailable; and enabling the agent process to intercommunicate with user processes within the communication management system instead of the unavailable user process by using the particular user identification code of the unavailable user process.

Claims

1. A method for user processes, each having a unique user identification code, to intercommunicate within a communication management system even if one of the user processes is unavailable, comprising the following steps:

associating an agent process with a particular user identification code in order to correspond to a user process having the particular user identification code;

determining whether the user process is available in the communication management system;

causing the agent process to log into the communication management system with the particular user identification code when the user process is unavailable; and

enabling the agent process to intercommunicate with user processes within the communication management system instead of the unavailable user process by using the particular user identification code of the unavailable user process.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the intercommunication step of the agent process comprises receiving a message from an available user process.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the intercommunication step of the agent process further comprises intercommunicating with a database with respect to the received message from the available user process.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the intercommunication step of the agent process further comprises intercommunicating with the available user process with respect to information stored in the database.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the intercommunication step of the agent process comprises storing a message from an available user process if the message is not processable by the agent process.

6. A computer device for user processes, each having a unique user identification code, to intercommunicate within a communication management system even if one of the user processes is unavailable, comprising:

a processing unit being programmed such that it can perform the following steps;

associating an agent process with a particular user identification code in order to correspond to a user process having the particular user identification code;

determining whether the user process is available in the communication management system;

causing the agent process to log into the communication management system with the particular user identification code when the user process is unavailable; and

enabling the agent process to intercommunicate with user processes within the communication management system instead of the unavailable user process by using the particular user identification code of the unavailable user process.

7. The computer device according to claim 6, further comprising a database for enabling the agent process to intercommunicate with the available user process with respect to information stored in the database.

8. The computer device according to claim 6, further comprising a memory for storing a message of an available user process if the message can not be processed by the agent process with respect to information stored in the database.