Patent ID: 9571431
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method of operating a communications device, the method comprising: monitoring an activity level of an instant messaging conversation; determining, based on the monitoring, that the activity level of the instant messaging conversation is below an activity threshold; in response to the activity level being below the activity threshold, archiving the instant messaging conversation to a first memory location in the communications device associated with an instant messaging application, the archiving removing the instant messaging conversation from a set of active instant messaging conversations and providing the instant messaging conversation in a set of non-active instant messaging conversations maintained at the first memory location; detecting selection of the instant messaging conversation from a list of one or more archived instant messaging conversations for saving at least a portion of the instant messaging conversation from the first memory location to a second memory location in the communications device prior to the instant messaging conversation being deleted from the first memory location; and saving the at least a portion of the instant messaging conversation from the first memory location to the second memory location in the communications device, the at least a portion of the instant messaging conversation being subsequently accessible to at least one other application on the communications device from the second memory location.