Collaborative communication platforms
First Claim
1. A system for providing a collaborative communication platform, the system comprising:
- a server executing a server module stored in memory, 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”
) going through the server, the message recording mechanism activated to archive messages exchanged in the live chatting and in the i-mail, wherein the all types of communications happen only among users registered with the server; 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 displays a first section showing all of the users registered with the server, the all types of communications happen only among the users via the server, any data in the live chatting and the i-mail being transported by the server between the first client machine and the second client machine, wherein composition of an i-mail message requires no email addresses of a sender and a recipient of the i-mail message, the i-mail message is delivered to the recipient based on a Push-and-Push or Push-and-Pull process within the collaborative communication platform; 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 a second section listing some of the users online.
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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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56 Claims
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1. A system for providing a collaborative communication platform, the system comprising:
a server executing a server module stored in memory, 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”
) going through the server, the message recording mechanism activated to archive messages exchanged in the live chatting and in the i-mail, wherein the all types of communications happen only among users registered with the server; andat least a first client machine and a second client machine, each of the client machines displaying a user interface, wherein the user interface displays a first section showing all of the users registered with the server, the all types of communications happen only among the users via the server, any data in the live chatting and the i-mail being transported by the server between the first client machine and the second client machine, wherein composition of an i-mail message requires no email addresses of a sender and a recipient of the i-mail message, the i-mail message is delivered to the recipient based on a Push-and-Push or Push-and-Pull process within the collaborative communication platform; 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 a second section listing some of the users online. - 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)
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28. A system for providing a collaborative communication platform, the system comprising:
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a server executing a server module stored in memory, coupled to a network and configured to manage all types of communications in the collaborative communication platform that only supports registered users with the server, each of the registered users being identified by a unique identifier, wherein any of the all types of communications are conducted among the registered users based on the identifier of each of the registered users; a plurality of client machines, respectively coupled to the server, 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 one of the registered users 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”
) and instant messaging, any data in the i-mail and the instant messaging is transported by the server, and wherein composition of an i-mail message requires no email addresses of a sender and a recipient of the i-mail message, the i-mail message is delivered to the recipient based on a Push-and-Push or Push-and-Pull process. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41)
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42. 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, and a file list to indicate what files are available for downloading; communicating with each of the registered users by internal email (hereinafter “
i-mail”
) and instant messaging, each of the users being uniquely identified with an identifier that is not used by other than the registered users to send email messages from outside the collaborative communication platform to any of the registered users, wherein any data in the i-mail and the instant messaging is transported by server administrating the collaborative communication platform, and composition of an i-mail message requires no email addresses of a sender and a recipient of the i-mail message, the i-mail message is delivered to the recipient based on a Push-and-Push or Push-and-Pull process; andsharing a file deposited on the server 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 (43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56)
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