Providing Access to Missed Text Messages in a Real-Time Text-Messaging Conference
First Claim
1. One or more computer-readable media having computer-readable instructions therein that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform acts comprising:
- determining that a remote participant of a conference in which textual messages are exchanged in real-time does not have access to at least some of a history of textual messages exchanged in the conference; and
providing said some or all of the history to the remote participant while the remote participant is in the conference.
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Abstract
This document describes tools capable of enabling participants in a real-time, text-messaging conference to access text messages that they have missed, whether that be because they joined the conference late, were disconnected, or did not receive a message due to some sort of failure. Assume, for example, that a conference participant on a wireless laptop does not receive a text message because of a wireless connection failure. The tools, in one embodiment, enable the participant'"'"'s laptop to notice that the text message was not received, ask for the missing text message, and receive the missing text message. The participant'"'"'s laptop may then display the missing text message thereby allowing the participant to catch up with the conference and so not lose the context of the ongoing text-messaging conversation.
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1. One or more computer-readable media having computer-readable instructions therein that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform acts comprising:
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determining that a remote participant of a conference in which textual messages are exchanged in real-time does not have access to at least some of a history of textual messages exchanged in the conference; and providing said some or all of the history to the remote participant while the remote participant is in the conference. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method implemented at least in part by a computing device comprising:
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sending to a remote recipient a unique identifier indicating a textual message last received in real-time by a participant of a conference in which textual messages are exchanged in real-time; and receiving from the remote recipient textual messages that were not previously received by the participant and that are subsequent to said textual message last received by the participant. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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