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System and method for multiple asynchronous text chat conversations
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Inventors: DeSimone, Antonio; Hohne, Elizabeth A.; Sundar, Rangamani; Thiagarajan, Vishwanathan; Vishwanathan, Kumar K.;
Assignee: AT & T Corp (New York, NY)
Primary Examiner: Vu; Viet D.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Ryan; William
A plurality of users communicate in a plurality of real-time text conversations (e.g., "chat sessions") in a client-server message processing environment using messages including a conversation index, a conversation-initiator ID and a list of message recipients. Each conversation is maintained at client terminals in an individual window. Dropping and controlled adding of conversation participants is attended by message updates to other participants. Alternative peer-to-peer message handling reduces the processing burden on servers while allowing clients to perform control and display functions. Voice or other non-text messages are also communicated using described techniques. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION Terminology It proves useful to introduce a set of terms as a basis for the detailed description given below.
For this purpose the following terms and respective meanings will be applied: Session: all potential participants in on-line conversations.
Thus, in the negotiation example mentioned above, all users on both sides are part of the session.
In other cases the session may include a group of users such as those logged onto an on-line service or similar chat room, or included in a "buddy list" maintained by a user.
Conversation: a string of messages among participants in a session, presented within a window at each participant's display.
Non-participants in a conversation do not receive messages in a conversation, nor can non-participants send messages to participants in the context of the conversation.
A conversation has a history that may be different for different participants.
Message: information generated by a participant that is added to a conversation history.
Also includes control information including conversation id and a list of participants in a conversation.
Initiating Message: the first message in a conversation.
Augmenting Message: a message that indicates a participant has been added to a conversation.
Pruning Message: a message that indicates a participant has been removed from a conversation Illustrative System Overview FIG.
1 shows an illustrative data communications system 150, such as the Internet with attendant access facilities, in which the present invention may be applied.
Of course network 150 may be an on-line service network, or any other real-time message-handling network.
In network 150 a representative plurality of personal computers, workstations, or terminals (collectively "terminals"), 105-i, i=1, 2, .
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, N are shown connected by way of telephone lines or other access paths through a data network (illustratively, the Internet) 100 to a server 110.
N can be any positive integer, subject to transmission and processor capacity limitations
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