METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED PRIVATE MESSAGING

• US 20150096042A1
• Filed: 10/02/2013
• Published: 04/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Criptext, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Innovative Venture SA
• Inventors: Mizrachi, Mayer
• Application Number:
  US14/044,833
• Publication Number:
  US 20150096042A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/26
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/234 for tracking messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0421 Anonymous communication, i.e. the party's identifiers are hidden from the other party or parties, e.g. using an anonymizer

Abstract

An improved method and apparatus for private messaging is disclosed. In one embodiment, a first device transmits a message to a second device via a server. The message is displayed on the second device without any identification of the sender, and the message disappears after a predetermined time period and is permanently deleted from the first device, second device, and server. In another embodiment, the second device sends communications to the server indicating that the second device received the message, opened the message, and deleted the message, and the server sends those communications to the first device.

Claims

1. A device for receiving and displaying data, comprising:

a device configured to receive a message over a network, to display the message on a screen without identifying the sender of the message, and to delete the message from the device after a predetermined time period.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the device is further configured to display the amount of time remaining in the predetermined time period.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the device is further configured to transmit a confirmation communication of receiving the message.

4. The device of claim 1, wherein the device is further configured to transmit a confirmation communication of opening the message.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the device is further configured to transmit a confirmation communication of deleting the message.

6. The device of claim 2, wherein the device is further configured to transmit a confirmation communication of receiving the message.

7. The device of claim 2, wherein the device is further configured to transmit a confirmation communication of opening the message.

8. The device of claim 2, wherein the device is further configured to transmit a confirmation communication of deleting the message.

9. The device of claim 3, wherein the device is further configured to transmit a confirmation communication of opening the message.

10. The device of claim 9, wherein the device is further configured to transmit a confirmation communication of deleting the message.

11. A method for receiving and displaying a message, comprising:

receiving, by a device, a message over a network;

displaying the message on a screen of the device without identifying a sender of the message; and

,

deleting the message from the device after a predetermined time period.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising displaying the amount of time remaining in the predetermined time period.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising transmitting a confirmation communication of receiving the message.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising transmitting a confirmation communication of opening the message.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising transmitting a confirmation communication of deleting the message.

16. The method of claim 12, further comprising transmitting a confirmation communication of receiving the message.

17. The method of claim 12, further comprising transmitting a confirmation communication of opening the message.

18. The method of claim 12, further comprising transmitting a confirmation communication of deleting the message.

19. The method of claim 13, further comprising transmitting a confirmation communication of opening the message.

20. The method of claim 19, further comprising transmitting a confirmation communication of deleting the message.