Patent ID: 9479469
Filing Date: 2016-10-25
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a server, a request from a first client of a creating user to create a collaborative draft of a message, the request including an identifier of a message recipient, an identifier of a collaborating user, and message content; storing, by the server, a draft message in association with an author list identifying a plurality of authors for the message, the authors including the creating user and the collaborating user, the draft message including the received message content; generating and sending, by the server, an invitation to the collaborating user at a second client; in response to the collaborating user accepting the invitation, adding, by the server, the draft message to a drafts folder maintained by the server for the collaborating user; receiving, by the server, one or more updates to the draft message from one or more of the authors; storing, by the server, an updated draft message based on the received one or more updates; propagating, by the server, the updated draft message to at least one of the authors; and in response to a send instruction from one or more of the authors, sending the updated draft message as a message to the message recipient, the message including an author-identifying field that identifies each of the authors.