10 results about "Instant messaging" patented technology

A system and method are provided for switching between conversations in instant messaging applications. The instant messaging application is configured for displaying a list of conversations upon detecting selection of the option within a menu or link within the conversation screen and permit navigation to another conversation. The conversations may be prioritized based first on whether the conversation has any unread messages and within the grouping of those conversations having unread messages, may be prioritized based on when the last activity occurred. In this way, the user has easiest access to conversations with the most recent activity with the ability to scroll down the list of conversations to continue an older conversation if desired.

A computer-readable medium comprising computer-readable program code which, when executed by a computing apparatus associated with a first client of an instant messaging service, causes the computing apparatus to display a screen that persistently conveys client-controlled information regarding a second client identified by the first client, the client-controlled information regarding the second client comprising data related to a data service associated with the second client. This allows a user associated with the first client to become aware of the data in a non-intrusive manner.

The invention discloses a method for displaying multiple personal information in an instant communication system. The instant communication system comprises an instant communication server and a plurality of client terminals; personal records of users are stored in a data management subsystem in the server, the personal record of each person includes or relates to multiple friend grouped records, and each friend grouped record includes or relates to one personal information record, therefore, when a first user looks over the personal information of a second user, the server finds the friend grouped record in which the first user is positioned in the personal record of the second user, extracts the included or related personal information record and sends the included or related personal information record to the first user. Each user has one default personal information record to be included or related to the personal record of the user. When the first user is not in any friend group of the second user, the server sends the default personal information record of the second user. Different friend grouped records can be also included or related to the same personal information record. The invention is beneficial to safely building individuated personal information for users.

The invention provides an instant messaging system and a broadcast message distribution method, related to the technical field of instant messaging. The system comprises a broadcast service node and aplurality of message service nodes connected with the broadcast service node; the broadcast service node is used for receiving a distribution business request of a broadcast message, performing aggregation grouping for user identities, thereby generating a user aggregation task corresponding to each message service node, and sending a broadcast message instruction to each message service node; and the message service node is used for receiving the broadcast message instruction, and sending the broadcast message to the plurality of user identities included in the corresponding user aggregationtask. With the instant messaging system and the broadcast message distribution method provided by the invention, network transmission data size is reduced greatly, network interaction times is reduced greatly, situations of network congestion are avoided effectively, and consequently, efficiency of instant messaging and experience degree of users are improved.

The invention discloses a method and system for transmitting an instant messaging message with pictures. The method comprises the following steps: during message sending, carrying out assembly on the instant messaging message to be sent and sending the assembled instant messaging message to a receiver, wherein the instant messaging message at least comprises one picture; during assembling, judging each input character is a text or a picture; if the each input character is the picture, adding a set character behind the message, and adding a picture description character string of each picture; the receiver analyzing content of each portion of the instant messaging message and displaying the content at the designated place of the received message. The method and system provided in the invention can transmit the instant messaging message with pictures rapidly and effectively.

An enhanced instant messaging processing method is presented to users in an instant messaging communication environment. For a user having two or more communication terminals that have logged into a same instant messaging account of the user, a communication server monitors invitations sent to the instant messaging account. Responsive to one communication terminal responding to the invitation and the type of the response, the communication server generates a response policy for each of other communication terminals of the user, where the response policy optimizes the instant communication performance enhances the user experience. The disclosed embodiments also support simultaneous instant communications among a large number of users connected to multiple data processing servers. The disclosed solution for support simultaneous instant communications balances the load of the data processing servers while keeping multiple communication terminals of a user informed of the status of the instant communication.