US 8,751,594 B2Granted

Messaging system

AssigneeLaVoult.com, LLC

InventorFausto Aceves

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Abstract

Disclosed herein is a communication method between two or more users which involves using a single software application to switch between a first mode of electronic messaging and a second mode of electronic messaging. Both the first mode of electronic messaging and the second mode of electronic messaging are between a first electronic device associated with a first user and a second electronic device associated with a second user. In the first mode of messaging, inputs are received from the first user for composing a regular message which is then sent to the second user in data transmitted through a server and saved in a memory. In the second mode of messaging, inputs are received from the first user for composing a confidential message which is then sent to the second user in data transmitted through the server, and the data is irretrievable at a later time.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A communication method between two or more users, comprising the steps of:

switching between a first mode of electronic messaging and a second mode of electronic messaging while using a single software application, both the first mode of electronic messaging and the second mode of electronic messaging being between a first electronic device associated with a first user and a second electronic device associated with a second user;
receiving inputs from the first user for composing a regular message while in the first mode of messaging;
sending the regular message to the second user while in the first mode of messaging;
receiving inputs from the first user for composing a confidential message while in the second mode of messaging;
sending the confidential message to the second user while in the second mode of messaging;
and
automatically and without user intervention, deleting a history of the confidential message on the first electronic device and on the second electronic device based on at least one of the first user and the second user exiting the second mode of messaging,
wherein the confidential message is only displayable before the history of the confidential message is deleted;
wherein while in the first mode of messaging, a regular message is sent to the second user in data transmitted through a server and saved in a memory;
and
wherein while in the second mode of messaging, the confidential message is sent to the second user in data transmitted through the server, the data being displayed until at least one of the first user and the second user exits the second mode of messaging.

8 more elements

A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program that when executed by a processor performs a method, comprising the steps of:

switching between a first mode of electronic messaging and a second mode of electronic messaging while using a single software application, both the first mode of electronic messaging and the second mode of electronic messaging being between a first electronic device associated with a first user and a second electronic device associated with a second user;
receiving inputs from the first user for composing a regular message while in the first mode of messaging;
sending the regular message to the second user while in the first mode of messaging;
receiving inputs from the first user for composing a confidential message while in the second mode of messaging;
sending the confidential message to the second user while in the second mode of messaging;
and
automatically and without user intervention, deleting a history of the confidential message on the first electronic device and on the second electronic device based on at least one of the first user and the second user exiting the second mode of messaging,
wherein the confidential message is only displayable before the history of the confidential message is deleted;
wherein while in the first mode of messaging, a regular message is sent to the second user in data transmitted through a server and saved in memory;
and
wherein while in the second mode of messaging, the confidential message is sent to the second user in data transmitted through the server, the data being displayed until at least one of the first user and the second user exits the second mode of messaging.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/668,233Filed 3 Nov 2012 · us provisional application
Priority: 7 Nov 2011
Published: US 2013/0117392 A19 May 2013
Granted: 10 Jun 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

G06Q 10/107
Office automation; Time management: computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
H04L 51/23
Monitoring or handling of messages: reliability checks, e.g. acknowledgments or fault reporting
H04L 51/42
User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail:…
G06Q
Information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial

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Application61/556,787Us provisional application · filed 7 Nov 2011
US 2013/0117392 A1Pre-grant publication · published 9 May 2013
US 8,751,594 B2This patent

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