US 11,902,224 B2 · Bulk message deletion

Abstract

Systems and methods are provided for deleting messages. The systems and methods include operations for: establishing, by a computing device, a communication session between a plurality of users; receiving a plurality of messages in the communication session; determining that a first message of the plurality of messages has been read by a first user of the plurality of users at a read time; in response to determining that the first message has been read by the first user at the read time, automatically associating the read time with a second of the plurality of messages that precedes the first message in the communication session; and automatically deleting the first and second messages in response to determining that an elapsed time measured from the read time associated with the first and second messages corresponds to a threshold time period.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

determining a receive time indicating when an individual message was received in a communication session;
automatically deleting the individual message after a first threshold time period from when the individual message was read by a recipient in the communication session based on a read time associated with the individual message;
automatically associating the read time with a second message that precedes the individual message in the communication session;
and
automatically deleting the individual message after a second threshold time period from the receive time when the individual message was received by the recipient in the communication session.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Bulk message deletion

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Bulk message deletion

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Abstract

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