Bilateral chat for instant messaging
AssigneeThomson Reuters Global Resources
InventorsAlan Carino, Allen Grambling Harvey, JR., Lesli Veronica Fairchild, Damien John Patrick Corr, Suresh Radhakrishnan
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Abstract
Systems and technologies for providing an electronic bilateral chat room are disclosed. Users of the system may be screened against a database of organizations having hierarchal information relating to parent organization for which the user is associated, including parent subsidiaries, joint ventures and affiliates. While a bilateral chat room is limited to users in only two organizations, the present disclosure also allows other users that are associated with the structure of the parent organization to be included in the chat room.
Claims30
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- receiving an electronic request to establish an electronic bilateral chat room for communication between a first entity and a set of second entities;
- identifying a first top level organizational identifier associated with the first entity using an organizational database;
- identifying a set of second top level organization identifiers, each member of the set of second top level organization identifiers corresponding to one member of the set of second entities using the organizational database;
- instantiating automatically the electronic bilateral chat room;
- adding automatically the first entity to the electronic bilateral chat room;
- selecting one member of the set of second top level organization identifiers to form a selected top level organization identifier;
- adding automatically at least one member of the set of second entities to the electronic bilateral chat room if the member of the set of second top level organization identifiers corresponding to the at least one member of the set of second entities matches the selected top level organization identifier.
A system comprising:
- a server including a processor and memory storing instructions that, in response to receiving a request for access to a service, cause the processor to:
- identify a first top level organizational identifier associated with the first entity using an organizational database in response to receiving an electronic request to establish an electronic bilateral chat room for communication between a first entity and a set of second entities;
- identify a set of second top level organization identifiers, each member of the set of second top level organization identifiers corresponding to one member of the set of second entities using the organizational database in response to receiving an electronic request to establish an electronic bilateral chat room for communication between a first entity and a set of second entities;;
- instantiate automatically the electronic bilateral chat room;
- add automatically the first entity to the electronic bilateral chat room;
- select one member of the set of second top level organization identifiers to form a selected top level organization identifier;
- add automatically at least one member of the set of second entities to the electronic bilateral chat room if the member of the set of second top level organization identifiers corresponding to the at least one member of the set of second entities matches the selected top level organization identifier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.