Method and system for enhancing communication with instant messenger/chat computer software applications
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorSandeep Ramesh Patil
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Abstract
An invention is disclosed for providing instant messaging (IM)/chat computer software applications with an automatic secondary “pop-up window” feature that is optionally enabled by a communicating user to cause a separate dialog box window (i.e., a “child window”) to appear for every query or question asked (or other user input received) in a “question and answer” or other IM/chat communication session, in order to individually display each question (or other user input) along with a text entry area for providing an answer or other response.
Claims16
A computer system for conducting instant message or chat communications between two or more users and comprised of at least the following software program components:
- (a). a primary user interface located at a sending and receiving user for displaying a user input combined with one or more corresponding response(s);
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- (b). an optionally enabled secondary user interface that automatically appears for creating a separate response to each user input sent and received in a communication session by individually displaying a user input along with an area for entering the response;
- wherein each user input is paired with a matching response for display together in a desired format during an instant message or chat system communication session.
A method of using a computer system for conducting instant message or chat communications between two or more users and comprised of at least the following steps carried out by the following software program components:
- (a). using a primary user interface located at a sending and receiving user for displaying a user input combined with one or more corresponding response(s);
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- (b). optionally enabling a secondary user interface that automatically appears for creating a separate response to each user input sent and received in a communication session by individually displaying a user input along with an area for entering the response;
- wherein each user input is paired with a matching response for display together in a desired format during an instant message or chat system communication session.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.