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Caching message fragments during real-time messaging conversations

  • US 8,255,473 B2
  • Filed: 04/04/2006
  • Issued: 08/28/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/04/2006
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A programmatic method of caching message fragments during real-time messaging conversations, comprising:

  • caching, in a message cache, an unsent outbound message fragment responding to a particular inbound message that arrives during a real-time messaging conversation, wherein;

    a representation of the cached message fragment is rendered in a sub-window of a graphical user interface (“

    GUI”

    ) of the real-time messaging conversation; and

    the sub-window is generated responsive to the caching and occupies a portion of the GUI that is separate from an active window that renders a representation of each arriving inbound message and each response thereto;

    sending a response message, during the real-time messaging conversation after the caching, that responds to an inbound message that arrives after the particular inbound message; and

    subsequently recalling the cached message fragment from the message cache, responsive to a request, for responding to the particular inbound message during the real-time messaging conversation.

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