Patent ID: 7185285
Filing Date: 2007-02-27
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04M

Abstract:
1. In a computerized communication environment that allows a plurality of users to communicate with each other in real time, a method of real time communication that provides a sending system enhanced flexibility with respect to the type of content that may be included in a real time message and enhanced control over the presentation of the real time message at a receiving system, the method comprising acts of: at the sending system, receiving content to be included in a real time message from a first user; formatting the received content at the sending system in accordance with a markup language that either influences the presentation of the received content at the receiving system, or allows some level of flexibility for the type of content allowed in the received content, or both, wherein formatting the received content comprises the sending system automatically applying a default format which visually distinguishes the content received from the first user from other content provided by a second user at the receiving system; and sending to the receiving system, the real time message, including the received content which has been formatted in accordance with the markup language.