Abstract:
A method and system for capturing missed communications is provided. An enhanced real-time communication system receives a communication from an initiating participant for a receiving participant that is not available. The enhanced real-time communication system detects that the receiving participant missed the received communication from the initiating participant. Upon detecting that the receiving participant missed the communication, the enhanced real-time communication system stores the missed communication for later retrieval by the receiving participant.
Abstract:
A method and system for maintaining real-time conversations over unreliable connections is provided. The reliable messaging system initiates a conversation from a sending participant to a receiving participant by sending an invitation to join the conversation to the receiving participant. Once a connection is established, the reliable messaging system associates the conversation with the connection. If the connection is lost, then the reliable messaging system attempts to restore the connection by sending an invitation to the participant that was disconnected. If the reliable messaging system is able to restore the connection, then the new connection is associated with the previous conversation, and the conversation can continue.
Abstract:
A real-time communication system receives rich application content from a user. The real-time communication system detects that the user wants to send a message containing the application content, and determines the application that produced the content. For example, if the content was pasted using the operating system clipboard, then the pasted content may contain information indicating the application that produced it. Then the real-time communication system creates a real-time communication containing the application content and identifying the application that produced the content. For example, the real-time communication may be structured as XML that contains the application content and an application identifier. Finally, the real-time communication system sends the real-time communication to the receiving participant.
Abstract:
This document describes tools capable of enabling participants in a real-time, text-messaging conference to access text messages that they have missed, whether that be because they joined the conference late, were disconnected, or did not receive a message due to some sort of failure. Assume, for example, that a conference participant on a wireless laptop does not receive a text message because of a wireless connection failure. The tools, in one embodiment, enable the participant's laptop to notice that the text message was not received, ask for the missing text message, and receive the missing text message. The participant's laptop may then display the missing text message thereby allowing the participant to catch up with the conference and so not lose the context of the ongoing text-messaging conversation.
Abstract:
A method and system for capturing missed communications is provided. An enhanced real-time communication system receives a communication from an initiating participant for a receiving participant that is not available. The enhanced real-time communication system detects that the receiving participant missed the received communication from the initiating participant. Upon detecting that the receiving participant missed the communication, the enhanced real-time communication system stores the missed communication for later retrieval by the receiving participant.
Abstract:
A method and system for capturing missed communications is provided. An enhanced real-time communication system receives a communication from an initiating participant for a receiving participant that is not available. The enhanced real-time communication system detects that the receiving participant missed the received communication from the initiating participant. Upon detecting that the receiving participant missed the communication, the enhanced real-time communication system stores the missed communication for later retrieval by the receiving participant.
Abstract:
A method and system for capturing missed communications is provided. An enhanced real-time communication system receives a communication from an initiating participant for a receiving participant that is not available. The enhanced real-time communication system detects that the receiving participant missed the received communication from the initiating participant. Upon detecting that the receiving participant missed the communication, the enhanced real-time communication system stores the missed communication for later retrieval by the receiving participant.
Abstract:
A method and system for maintaining real-time conversations over unreliable connections is provided. The reliable messaging system initiates a conversation from a sending participant to a receiving participant by sending an invitation to join the conversation to the receiving participant. Once a connection is established, the reliable messaging system associates the conversation with the connection. If the connection is lost, then the reliable messaging system attempts to restore the connection by sending an invitation to the participant that was disconnected. If the reliable messaging system is able to restore the connection, then the new connection is associated with the previous conversation, and the conversation can continue.
Abstract:
Users in an enhanced communication system are enabled to tag other users so that the tagging user is notified when both the tagged and tagging users meet a predefined criterion of presence states and/or available modalities to the tagging and the tagged users. The tagging user may then, optionally, initiate a multimodal session with the tagged user utilizing the set of modalities originally specified or another set.
Abstract:
A token authorizing linking to a first social network profile can be received from a first device at a second device. User input can be received at the second device to authorize linking the first social network profile with a second social network profile. In response to the user input, a social network service can be requested to link the first social network profile to the second social network profile on the social network. Also, a token request associated with a first social network profile can be received at a social network service. In response, a first token can be returned. A second token associated with a second profile can also be received. In response, it can be determined whether the second token is a valid match for the first token, and if so, then the first profile can be linked to the second profile on the social network.