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US 2001/0013050 A1Published application
Buddy list aggregation
OwnerNiraj A. Shahinventor
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Abstract
A personal desktop portal brings together in a single view a user's PDP contacts, MSN messenger contacts, Outlook contacts, Outlook Express contacts, and other messaging and user contacts. A user is able to communicate with any of these users using a single program using different communication features such as instant
Claims1
A client-based messaging method, comprising:
- providing destination information for a plurality of recipients to a messaging client;
- said destination gathered from a plurality of aggregated buddy lists;
- and
- sending a message to each recipient based on said destination information without regard to the type of recipient messaging device.
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