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Method and system for managing identity overload and private/public availability of an instant messaging address

  • US 20060036766A1
  • Filed: 07/21/2005
  • Published: 02/16/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/21/2004
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. Method for managing identity overload and the private/public availability of an instant messaging internal address linked to a local area network, wherein, for any internal address of said local area network, the method consists in:

  • declaring a generic internal instant messaging address in a list of contact addresses and for every internal address group separate from this local area network having the same declared generic address and forming a group, following the transmission, by an external client, of a request to said declared generic instant internal address, transmitting said request to each internal instant messaging address belonging to the group, on said local area network, and upon reply to said request to said client with said external address by one of the internal instant messaging addresses belonging to the group, transmitting to the other internal addresses of the group members, separate from the internal address of the author of the reply, a reply notification which allows said other internal addresses to be available for any new request addressed by an external client to the declared generic internal address.

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