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Method and apparatus for real time network communication

  • US 6,862,625 B1
  • Filed: 04/15/1998
  • Issued: 03/01/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/27/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for real-time network communication, comprising:

  • forming real-time communications protocol connections between chat clients and a chat server over network communications connections;

    one of the chat clients embedding a markup language instruction in a chat-session message;

    the one chat client sending the chat-session message on one of the real-time communications protocol connections to the chat server;

    in response to receiving the sent chat-session message, the chat server sending the chat-session message on one of the real-time communications protocol connections to another of the chat clients; and

    in response to receiving the sent chat-session message, the other chat client marking up the received chat-session message according to the embedded instruction and displaying the marked-up chat-session message.

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