Patent ID: 8195747
Filing Date: 2012-06-05
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of managing communications over a network, comprising: receiving from a first user a request to monitor user participation within a chat session, wherein the request specifies a second user selected from a contact list of the first user and at least one session identifier correlating to at least one chat session on the network, and the first user is not logged into the chat session nor viewing the chat session; responsive to the request, monitoring each chat session correlated with the at least one session identifier for a chat posted by the second user; responsive to the second user posting a chat in a selected chat session correlated to a session identifier in the request and while the first user is not logged into, nor viewing, the selected chat session, determining whether the first user is granted access to a data repository on which the posted chat resides and alerting the first user via a client communicatively linked to the network that the second user has posted the chat within the selected chat session only if the first user has access to the data repository; and automatically updating the contact list of the first user with names from each chat session correlated with the at least one session identifier.