Instant messaging interoperability between disparate service providers
First Claim
1. An apparatus for facilitating instant messaging communications between clients of different instant messaging service provider networks, the system comprising:
- interface logic for receiving a communication related to an instant messaging service of an external instant messaging service provider network; and
translation logic for translating the received communication from a secondary protocol to a primary protocol, the primary protocol native to a receiving service provider network.
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Abstract
An apparatus for facilitating instant messaging communications between clients of different instant messaging service provider networks is provided. The apparatus includes translation logic for translating received communications related to an instant messaging service, the received communications associated with an external instant messaging service provider network and formatted according to a secondary protocol. The translation logic translates the received communication from the secondary protocol to a primary protocol, the primary protocol native to a receiving service provider network. The communication may then be routed to a client of the primary network according to the native, primary protocol.
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30 Claims
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1. An apparatus for facilitating instant messaging communications between clients of different instant messaging service provider networks, the system comprising:
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interface logic for receiving a communication related to an instant messaging service of an external instant messaging service provider network; and
translation logic for translating the received communication from a secondary protocol to a primary protocol, the primary protocol native to a receiving service provider network. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. An apparatus for facilitating instant messaging communications between clients of different instant messaging service provider networks, the system comprising:
translation logic for translating a received instant messaging communication to a primary protocol associated with a primary instant messaging service provider network, wherein the received communication is related to an external instant messaging service provider network. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14)
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15. A method for facilitating instant messaging communications between clients of different instant messaging service provider networks, the method comprising the acts of:
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receiving a communication related to an instant messaging service from an external instant messaging service provider network, wherein the received communication is formatted according to a secondary protocol; and
translating the received communication from the secondary protocol to a primary protocol. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A computer-readable medium comprising instructions for facilitating instant messaging communications over different service provider networks, the instructions for causing the performance of the method comprising:
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translating a communication related to an instant messaging service and directed to a primary instant messaging service provider network, the received communication associated with an external instant messaging service provider network, wherein;
the communication is translated from a received secondary protocol to a primary protocol, the primary protocol native to the primary instant messaging service provider network. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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