Systems and methods for searching multiple instant messages

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8949359-B2
Application number	US-201314108090-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 16, 2013
Priority date	Mar 23, 2009
Publication date	Feb 3, 2015
Grant date	Feb 3, 2015

Abstract

Systems and methods of hosting electronic conversations are provided in which a plurality of conversations, each having an identified set of participants, is maintained. Responsive to a search query from a first participant of a first conversation in the plurality of conversations, a second conversation in the plurality of conversations is identified as relevant to the search query. All or a portion of the second conversation is formatted for display to the first participant. Each conversation in the plurality of conversations, including the second conversation, is an instant messaging conversation. Participants in each conversation in the plurality of conversations are instant messaging participants.

First claim

We claim:

1. A method of hosting electronic conversations, comprising:
at a computer system having one or more processors and memory storing programs for execution by the one or more processors,
maintaining a plurality of conversations, each having an identified set of participants;
maintaining for each respective participant in one or more of the conversations, a respective participant-specific inverse index of terms in conversations for which the respective participant is an…

Assignees

• Google Inc

Inventors

• Rasmussen Jens Eilstrup
• Rasmussen Lars Eilstrup

Classifications

• H04L12/1831

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L12/1813

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L51/046

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06Q10/107 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L12/1822

  Electricity · mapped topic