Maintaining instant messaging conversations when a recipient is not at their primary workstation

• US 9,037,655 B2
• Filed: 05/12/2010
• Issued: 05/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Snap, Inc.
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: O'Doherty, Simon P., Cross, Alastair G. R., O'Leary, Cormac
• Primary Examiner(s): SISON, JUNE Y
• Application Number:
  US12/778,728
• Publication Number:
  US 20100293239A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,833 Days
• Field of Search: 709/206
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/043 using or handling presence information

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