Patent ID: 9634981
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method of integrating email and chat communications executed on a computer comprising a memory and a processor, which method comprises the following steps: receiving an invitation email; parsing a set of components from the invitation email, which set of components comprises a sender of the invitation email, a set of recipients of the invitation email, an invitation email subject, and an invitation email content; creating a chat room and obtaining a chat room identifier for the chat room; populating the chat room with a chat room subject comprising the invitation email subject and a chat room message comprising the invitation email content; obtaining an account identifier for each participant in a set of participants in the chat room, which set of participants in the chat room comprises a recipient of the invitation email in the set of recipients of the invitation email; creating a unique uniform resource locator comprising an encoded combination of the chat room identifier and the account identifier for each participant in the set of participants in the chat room; including the unique uniform resource locator in a link email; transmitting the link email to the set of participants in the chat room; obtaining a message identifier record value from the transmitted link email and associating the message identifier record value with the chat room; receiving the unique uniform resource locator from a browser; and allowing the browser to access the chat room.