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Notification and disposition of multiple concurrent instant messaging sessions involving a single online identity

  • US 7,818,379 B1
  • Filed: 12/23/2004
  • Issued: 10/19/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2004
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for notifying a user that an instant messaging online identity assigned to the user is logged on to an instant messaging system from different devices concurrently, the method comprising:

  • receiving, from a first instant messaging controller on a first device, a first request for an instant messaging online identity assigned to a user to be logged on to an instant messaging system at a first instant messaging controller on a first device;

    logging the instant messaging online identity on to the instant messaging system at the first instant messaging controller on the first device in response to the first request;

    while the instant messaging online identity remains logged on to the instant messaging system from the first instant messaging controller on the first device;

    receiving, from a second instant messaging controller on a second device, a second request for the same instant messaging online identity assigned to the same user to be logged on to the instant messaging system at a second instant messaging controller on a second device, wherein the second instant messaging controller differs from the first instant messaging controller and the second device differs from the first device;

    logging the instant messaging online identity on to the instant messaging system at the second instant messaging controller on the second device in response to the second request;

    determining that the same instant messaging online identity is logged on to the instant messaging system from the first instant messaging controller on the first device while concurrently being logged on to the instant messaging system from the second instant messaging controller on the second device; and

    communicating a notification to at least one of the first instant messaging controller on the first device and the second instant messaging controller on the second device indicating that the instant messaging online identity is logged on to the instant messaging system from the second instant messaging controller on the second device while concurrently being logged on to the instant messaging system from the first instant messaging controller on the first device in response to determining that the instant messaging online identity is logged on to the instant messaging system from the first instant messaging controller on the first device while concurrently being logged on to the instant messaging system from the second instant messaging controller on the second device.

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