Information processing apparatus implementing editing message

• US 8,364,768 B2
• Filed: 03/10/2010
• Issued: 01/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/11/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Akama, Katsuaki, Matsuda, Takeshi, Takeda, Shinichi, Sakai, Kyouta, Nagasawa, Atsushi, Kosaka, Jun'ichi
• Primary Examiner(s): VU, VIET DUY
• Application Number:
  US12/721,449
• Publication Number:
  US 20100235455A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,056 Days
• Field of Search: 709/204, 709/206, 709/217, 709/219, 709/223, 709/224, 709/225
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives messages, and a control unit that sends an editing message indicating that a reply message responding to a received message received by the receiving unit is being edited, to a sending source of the received message.

Claims

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:

a memory that stores a program; and

a processor that executes the program, execution of the program including;

receiving messages, and

sending an editing message indicating that a reply message responding to a received message is being edited, to a sending source of the received message.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the execution further includes:

periodically sending the editing message to the sending source while the reply message is being edited.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the sending source includes another processor that executes a procedure, the procedure includes:

notifying that the reply message is being edited based on the editing message when the editing message is received.

4. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a memory that stores a program; and

a processor that executes the program, execution of the program including;

sending messages to a destination terminal, and

notifying that the destination terminal is editing a reply message based on receiving an editing message from the destination terminal that is received after sending the messages to the destination terminal.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the execution further includes:

periodically receiving the editing message from the destination terminal.