Method and system for instant messaging conversation security
AssigneeResearch In Motion Limited
InventorsChris Wormald, Gerhard Dietrich Klassen, Luis Pablo Estable
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Abstract
A method for securing an instant messaging (“IM”) conversation between at least a first and a second user, the first and second users having a first and a second client, respectively, in communication over a network, the method comprising: receiving a command from the first user through an input device and a graphical user interface (“GUI”) presented on a display of the first client to disable copying of the IM conversation; and, transmitting a message to the second client to inform the second client and the second user that copying of the IM conversation has been disabled.
Claims23
A method for securing an instant messaging (“IM”) conversation between at least first and second communication devices communicating over a network, the method comprising:
- receiving a conversation-specific command at the first communication device to disable copying of data representing at least a portion of a specific IM conversation after at least the portion of the specific IM conversation has been communicated between the first and second communication devices;
- and
- transmitting a conversation-specific message to the second communication device to inform a user of the second communication device that copying of the data representing at least the portion of the specific IM conversation has been disabled.
A system for securing an instant messaging (“IM”) conversation between the system and a client, the system and client being in communication over a network, the system comprising:
- a processor coupled to memory and to an interface to the network and adapted for:
- receiving a conversation-specific command through an input device and a graphical user interface (“GUI”) presented on a display of the system to disable copying of data representing at least a portion of a specific IM conversation after at least the portion of the specific IM conversation has been communicated between the client and a second communication device;
- and,
- transmitting a message to the client to inform the client that copying of the data representing at least the portion of the specific IM conversation has been disabled.
A computer program product having a non-transitory computer readable medium tangibly embodying computer executable code for directing a data processing system to secure an instant messaging (“IM”) conversation between at least data processing system and a client, the data processing system and client being in communication over a network, the computer program product comprising:
- code for receiving a conversation-specific command through an input device and a graphical user interface (“GUI”) presented on a display of the data processing system to disable copying of data representing at least a portion of a specific IM conversation after at least the portion of the specific IM conversation has been communicated between the first and second communication devices;
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- code for transmitting a message to the client to inform the second user that copying of the data representing at least the portion of the specific IM conversation has been disabled.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.