Method and system for providing live real-time communication via text between mobile user devices

• US 9,565,262 B2
• Filed: 10/01/2012
• Issued: 02/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Scomm Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Scomm Incorporated
• Inventors: Curry, Jason R., Lane, David C., McAllister, David J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Wasel, Mohamed
• Application Number:
  US13/632,312
• Publication Number:
  US 20130268605A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,590 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/141 Setup of application sessions admission control or resource allocation in data switching networks H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services

Abstract

A method and system for providing real-time communication via text between multiple user devices, the method including receiving, at an application server, a conversation request from a first user device, wherein the conversation request is based upon a selection of a second user device from a contact list that is stored on the first user device, sending the conversation request from the application server to a push server, receiving, at the application server, a conversation session ID from the second user device, if the conversation request is accepted by the second user device, sending the conversation session ID from the application server to the push server, receiving, at the application server, a first datagram message from the first user device, sending the first datagram message from the application server to the second user device, receiving, at the application server, a second datagram message from the second user device, and sending the second datagram message from the application server to the first user device.

Claims

1. A method for providing real-time communication via text between multiple user devices, the method comprising:

receiving, at an application server, a communication request from a first user device, wherein the communication request is based upon a selection of a second user device from a contact list that is stored on the first user device;

sending the communication request from the application server to the second user device;

if the communication request is accepted by the second user device, sending a first at least one datagram message to be received by the second user device, from the first user device to the application server, wherein the first at least one datagram message comprises a first at least one transmitted text;

receiving, at the first user device, a second at least one datagram message sent by the second user device from the application server, wherein the second at least one datagram message comprises a second at least one transmitted text;

displaying the first at least one transmitted text sent from the first user device on the second user device in a real-time, character-by-character manner as being typed by the first user; and

displaying the second at least one transmitted text sent from the second user device on the first user device in a real-time, character-by-character manner as being typed by the second user.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising simultaneously displaying the at least one second transmitted text in a first section of the second user device while displaying the at least one first transmitted text sent from the first user device in a second section of the second user device.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising simultaneously displaying the at least one first transmitted text in a first section of the first user device while displaying the at least one second transmitted text sent from the second user device in a second section of the first user device.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

selecting the second user device from a contact list that is stored on the first user device;

sending a conversation request with the second user device from the first user device to an application server; and

receiving, at the first user device, a conversation session ID from the application server, if the conversation request is accepted by the second user device.

5. A computer system for providing real-time communication via text between multiple user devices, comprising:

one or more processors and memory to store one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions for;

receiving, at an application server, a communication request from a first user device, wherein the communication request is based upon a selection of a second user device from a contact list that is stored on the first user device;

sending the communication request from the application server to the second user device;

if the communication request is accepted by the second user device, sending a first at least one datagram message to be received by the second user device, from the first user device to the application server, wherein the first at least one datagram message comprises a first at least one transmitted text;

receiving, at the first user device, a second at least one datagram message sent by the second user device from the application server, wherein the second at least one datagram message comprises a second at least one transmitted text;

displaying the first at least one transmitted text sent from the first user device on the second user device in a real-time, character-by-character manner as being typed by the first user; and

displaying the second at least one transmitted text sent from the second user device on the first user device in a real-time, character-by-character manner as being typed by the second user.

6. The computer system according to claim 5, further comprising simultaneously displaying the at least one second transmitted text in a first section of the second user device while displaying the at least one first transmitted text sent from the first user device in a second section of the second user device.

7. The computer system according to claim 5, further comprising simultaneously displaying the at least one first transmitted text in a first section of the first user device while displaying the at least one second transmitted text sent from the second user device in a second section of the first user device.

8. The computer system according to claim 5, further comprising:

selecting the second user device from a contact list that is stored on the first user device;

sending a conversation request with the second user device from the first user device to an application server; and

receiving, at the first user device, a conversation session ID from the application server, if the conversation request is accepted by the second user device.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs for providing real-time communication via text between multiple user devices, the one or more programs for execution by one or more processors of a computer system, the one or more programs comprising instructions for:

receiving, at an application server, a communication request from a first user device, wherein the communication request is based upon a selection of a second user device from a contact list that is stored on the first user device;

sending the communication request from the application server to the second user device;

if the communication request is accepted by the second user device, sending a first at least one datagram message to be received by a second user device, from the first user device to the application server, wherein the first at least one datagram message comprises a first at least one transmitted text;

receiving, at the first user device, a second at least one datagram message sent by the second user device from the application server, wherein the second at least one datagram message comprises a second at least one transmitted text;

displaying the first at least one transmitted text sent from the first user device on the second user device in a real-time, character-by-character manner as being typed by the first user; and

displaying the second at least one transmitted text sent from the second user device on the first user device in a real-time, character-by-character manner as being typed by the second user.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 9, further comprising simultaneously displaying the at least one second transmitted text in a first section of the second user device while displaying the at least one first transmitted text sent from the first user device in a second section of the second user device.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 9, further comprising simultaneously displaying the at least one first transmitted text in a first section of the first user device while displaying the at least one second transmitted text sent from the second user device in a second section of the first user device.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 9, further comprising:

selecting the second user device from a contact list that is stored on the first user device;

sending a conversation request with the second user device from the first user device to an application server; and

receiving, at the first user device, a conversation session ID from the application server, if the conversation request is accepted by the second user device.