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AssigneeCooliris, Inc.
InventorsAustin Shoemaker, Josh Schwarzapel, Kevin Weil, Soujanya Bhumkar
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Multiple contact lists of a user, which individual lists are maintained in varying formats associated with varying internet-based services or computer-based applications, are federated through the use of an intermediate schema used by a federating messenger application. The federating messenger application may be instantiated as a client resident at a computer system and/or as a server-based application accessible via a Web browser or dedicated client application. In one instance, the federated messenger application includes both client-based and server-based components, and on the client-side may be resident as a browser extension or similar application.
A method, comprising:
A system, comprising an intermediate aggregation layer communicatively coupled between multiple instances of a messaging application, each such instance associated with an individual computer system, and multiple internet-based services, each associated with a unique application programming interface (API) and data layer, the aggregation layer providing a common schema for references to content objects with which the messaging applications are conversant and translations between the common schema and disparate schemas for references to content objects hosted in the data layers of the different internet-based services.
A system, comprising a contact list accessible by a messaging application associated with an individual computer system, said contact list federating multiple distinct identities of one or more users of different internet-based services, wherein the federated identities of each such user incorporate contact information for each of the respective user's individual identities.
A communications system, comprising a number of communication portals, each having an instance of a messenger client installed thereon, communicatively coupled to be served by a remote server thereby permitting users utilizing said messenger clients installed on said portals to directly communicate with one another, the communications being facilitated through a user interface that includes windows displayed within the instances of messenger client, the windows representative of communication channels between the various users.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.