Instant message awareness and migration allowing for multiple simultaneous client logins
First Claim
1. A method for creating instant message awareness in a communications network for a plurality of a user'"'"'s on-line client devices, the method comprising:
- identifying an instant message session between two or more users;
determining which client devices for each said user is active; and
delivering text of the instant message session to one or more active client devices for the two or more users.
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Abstract
An instant message awareness system and method is provided. The invention provides a centralized model in which a server manages and stores the text transcripts of all instant message sessions and routes all instant message transcripts to all client devices for all the users involved in the session. Also provided is a decentralized model in which the server acts as a router and distributes the instant message transcripts to all active user client devices without actually storing and managing the actual transcripts. In the decentralized model, the invention further provides a migration process that migrates or merges the instant messaging sessions from one on-line computing device for a particular user to another on-line computing device, depending upon which device is deemed “active”. Therefore, the method and system of the present invention allows an on-line user to be able to have access to all of the user'"'"'s current instant message sessions regardless of which on-line computing device the user is currently logged into and which device the instant message was sent to.
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1. A method for creating instant message awareness in a communications network for a plurality of a user'"'"'s on-line client devices, the method comprising:
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identifying an instant message session between two or more users;
determining which client devices for each said user is active; and
delivering text of the instant message session to one or more active client devices for the two or more users. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A computer readable storage medium storing a computer program which when executed defines a method for creating instant message awareness for all of a user '"'"'s on-line client devices, the computer program performing a method comprising:
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identifying an instant message session between two or more users;
determining which client device for each said user is active; and
delivering text of the instant message session to the active client devices for the two or more users. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A system for creating instant message awareness for all of user client devices in a communications network, the system comprising:
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a database for storing text of instant message sessions; and
a server coupled to the database and to one or more network users, the server containing a processor for identifying an instant message session between the users and determining which client device for each said user is active, the server delivering text of the instant message session to the active client devices for the two or more users. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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