Collaborative communication platforms
First Claim
1. A system for providing a collaborative communication platform, the system comprising:
- a server, configured to manage all types of communications in the collaborative communication platform, including a message recording mechanism, the all types of communications including at least live chatting by instant messaging, and internal electronic mail (hereinafter “
i-mail”
), the message recording mechanism activated to record messages exchanged in the live chatting so that anyone who has missed the live chatting can replay the recorded messages to catch up what may have been missed; and
at least a first client machine and a second client machine, each of the client machines displaying a user interface, wherein the user interface, facilitating the live chatting and the i-mail, displays a first section showing all users registered with the server, and wherein a first user of the first client machine sends an i-mail message to one of the registered users, the i-mail message is a formatted electronic message including a subject and a message body;
or wherein a first user of the first client machine communicates with a second user of the second client machine by the live chatting, and wherein both of the first and second users are listed in the first section.
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Abstract
A collaborative communication system is disclosed. The collaborative communication system integrates a number of electronic. communication tools to meet the collaborative communication needs for an enterprise, family members or friends. All communications are within the system. According to one aspect of the collaborative communication system, registered users in the system are provided public, group and private arenas or domains. Depending on the privacy, communications with others may be conducted in any one of these domains. According to another aspect of the collaborative communication system, communications with others can be conducted through electronic internal mail (herein “i-mail”), instant messaging and file sharing. In particular, the i-mail operates on identifiers pertaining to registered users, thus eliminating the possibility of the registered users receiving unwanted email from other users outside the system.
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1. A system for providing a collaborative communication platform, the system comprising:
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a server, configured to manage all types of communications in the collaborative communication platform, including a message recording mechanism, the all types of communications including at least live chatting by instant messaging, and internal electronic mail (hereinafter “
i-mail”
), the message recording mechanism activated to record messages exchanged in the live chatting so that anyone who has missed the live chatting can replay the recorded messages to catch up what may have been missed; and
at least a first client machine and a second client machine, each of the client machines displaying a user interface, wherein the user interface, facilitating the live chatting and the i-mail, displays a first section showing all users registered with the server, and wherein a first user of the first client machine sends an i-mail message to one of the registered users, the i-mail message is a formatted electronic message including a subject and a message body;
orwherein a first user of the first client machine communicates with a second user of the second client machine by the live chatting, and wherein both of the first and second users are listed in the first section. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. A system for providing a collaborative communication platform, the system comprising:
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a server, coupled to a network and configured to manage all types of communications in the collaborative communication platform and privileges for all registered users of the collaborative communication platform, each of the registered users being identified by a unique identifier, wherein any of the all types of communications can only be conducted among the registered users based on the identifier of each of the registered users, wherein none of the registered users can be contacted based on the identifier by other than the registered users;
a plurality of client machines, respectively coupled to the network, each executing a client module to display a user interface, the user interface showing at least a public domain, a group domain, and a private domain, wherein the public domain is open to all registered users, the group domain is open to only those of the registered users invited, and the private domain is accessible exclusively by a registered user who has logged onto the server, wherein each of the three domains maintains at least a chat room section hosting chat rooms, if any, and a file list to indicate that a file is available for access upon uploading the file by the registered user to the file list thereof, and wherein each of the registered users communicates with each of the other registered users by internal email (hereinafter “
i-mail”
) that is configured to operate only on the identifier. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43)
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44. A method providing a collaborative communication platform, the method comprising:
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displaying a user interface including a list of representations of users registered with the collaborative communication platform, a group domain and a private domain, each of the domains including at least a chat room section hosting chat rooms, if any, and a file list to indicate what files are available for downloading;
if desired, communicating with each of the other registered users by internal email (hereinafter “
i-mail”
), each of the users being uniquely identified with an identifier that can not be used by other than the registered users to send email messages from outside the collaborative communication platform to any of the registered users; and
sharing a file with one or more of the registered users, wherein the file is listed in the file list that is accessible by the one or more of the registered users, and upon uploading the file to a store interfaced with the file list, the one or more of the registered users receiving an alerting message. - View Dependent Claims (45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58)
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