US 2015/0319232 A1 · PEER-TO-PEER MESSAGING SYSTEM

Abstract

A messaging system is provided. The messaging system may include a plurality of computers with a user interface, at least one program products and a message manager having an album menu adapted to bundle and embed at least one data set into a single peer-to-peer message or an album. The messaging system may be performed by a computer acting as a sending peer and at least one computer acting as the recipient peer. The sending peer may open the album menu on the user interface, wherein the sending peer selects at least one intended recipient peer and the at least one data set to form at least one album. Next the sending peer transmits a single or multicast album, which may be received at one or more recipient peer, so that the at least one recipient peer may open, view and save the subject matter of the messaged album.

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Dependent claims

A system for transmitting a plurality of data in one message in a peer-to-peer platform, comprising:

a plurality of computers, each having a user interface;
and
a program product comprising machine-readable program code for causing, when executed, the plurality of computers to perform the following process steps:
participating with at least one other program product to form a peer-to-peer platform comprising peer-to-peer protocols for communicating with each other so as to share a plurality of data sets in the peer-to-peer platform;
producing on at least one user interface an electronic representation of a plurality of data sets formatted for sharing in the peer-to-peer platform;
prompting a user to select at least one data set for sharing in the peer-to-peer platform;
prompting a user to select at least one receiving peer to communicate with in the peer-to-peer platform;
forming at least one album from the selected at least one data set;
and
transmitting the at least one album in the peer-to-peer platform to the at least one receiving peer.

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Peer-to-peer messaging system

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