Patent ID: 9712466
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A system comprising: a memory to store a plurality of chat messages for a chat message session; and a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory, to: determine state information of the chat message session associated with a plurality of participants; responsive to receiving input from one of the plurality of participants, identify an email session associated with the one of the plurality of participants; associate a time period with the email session indicating that the chat message session is active to receive data, via a network connection, from the email session during the time period; and link the email session to the chat message session, the link to comprise updating the state information associated with the chat message session in accordance with the received data from the email session, wherein the chat message session comprises one or more unique identifiers associated with one or more email addresses of the email session and a set of rules to apply to each of the unique identifiers for accepting or rejecting incoming data to the chat message session from the email session, and at least one of the set of rules comprises accepting a first response of incoming data into the chat message session from the one or more unique identifiers associated with the one or more email addresses.