| US 7,478,334 B2 | ||
| Folding text in side conversations | ||
| Yen Fu Chen, Austin, Tex. (US); John H. Handy-Bosma, Cedar Park, Tex. (US); Mei Y. Selvage, Austin, Tex. (US); and Keith R. Walker, Austin, Tex. (US) | ||
| Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, N.Y. (US) | ||
| Filed on Jan. 20, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/39,532. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0161851 A1, Jul. 20, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/048 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 715—759 [715/751; 715/753; 715/756] | 11 Claims |
| 1. A method of real-time, or near-real-time, communication in a network environment, said method comprising:
receiving, during an instant messaging session of an instant messaging application having a plurality of participants in the
instant messaging session, a signal for sending an instant message in a side conversation to at least one participant in the
plurality of participants;
in response to said signal for sending, sending a first message portion, in the side conversation, wherein said first message
portion is a new message portion that has not been part of the instant messaging session, and wherein said first message portion
is not revealed to at least one other participant in the plurality of participants;
displaying a clue about said first message portion to the at least one other participant in the plurality of participants
to which the first message portion is not revealed, in a textual representation of the instant messaging session on a computing
device associated with the at least one participant;
generating, for each of the participants in the plurality of participants, a transcript of the instant messaging session,
wherein a transcript for the at least one other participant to which the first message portion is not revealed is a redacted
transcript that does not include the side conversation in the redacted transcript;
storing, in a central server, a common transcript of the instant messaging session that includes the side conversation, wherein
the clue comprises an identification of a participant in the side conversation, wherein the first message portion is sent
to the at least one participant in the plurality of participants as a folded message in which a content of the folded message
is not revealed to one or more participants in the plurality of participants, and wherein the first message portion is sent
to one of a participant in the plurality of participants as an unfolded message;
receiving specifications of access limits, wherein the access limits specify operations that each participant in the plurality
of participants may perform with regard to the side conversation, and wherein at least two participants in the plurality of
participants have access limits that permit the at least two participants to view the side conversation but one of the at
least two participants has access rights that limit other operations that may be performed by the participant with regard
to the side conversation; and
setting access limits, in said side conversation.
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