Direct file transfer between subscribers of a communications system
AssigneeFacebook, Inc.
InventorJames Crawford
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Abstract
Systems and techniques for transferring a file from a first client associated with a first subscriber to a communications system to a second client associated with a second subscriber to the communications system by connecting from the first client to a communications system host; sending, through the communications system host, a request to the second client to establish a direct connection to the second client; when the second client accepts the request, establishing a direct connection to the second client that bypasses the communications system host; and transferring a file over the direct connection.
Claims2
(canceled)
A method comprising:
- determining, using at least one processor, that a first user of a communication system is composing a message to a second user of the communications system;
- displaying, by way of a display device, an indication to the second user that the first user of the communications system is currently composing the message to the second user;
- receiving a request to send the message from the first user to the second user;
- and
- sending the first message to the second user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.