Patent ID: 8171087
Filing Date: 2012-05-01
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A system, comprising: a conversation manager to provide access to one or more communication applications including a synchronous online real-time communication application, and to provide lifecycle management for a conversation carried on, at least in part, over the synchronous online real-time communication application, the lifecycle management including pausing the conversation and resuming the conversation; and a thread manager to organize in thread-based storage one or more conversation elements belonging to the conversation; where the conversation manager is configured to resume the conversation with a different communication application than the synchronous online real-time communication application; and where the conversation manager includes executable instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium that when executed cause at least a processor to navigate the one or more conversation elements including metadata from the paused conversation to determine a set of participants to include in the resumed conversation which include one or more participants that are different from participants of the paused conversation.