Patent ID: 7328242
Filing Date: 2008-02-05
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method in a client computing device for maintaining multiple simultaneous interactive threads of communication for a user of the client computing device, the method comprising: creating multiple persistent threads of communication for the user of the client computing device, each thread having a distinct group of multiple participants that includes the user and multiple other users and each having a distinct associated topic such that the communications for a thread each have contents related to the topic for that thread, the creating of each of the multiple threads occurring before receiving any communications for the thread and including, simultaneously displaying the multiple threads of communication to the user of the client computing device in such a manner that, for each of the multiple threads, communications of the thread are displayed together in a uniform manner and are displayed separately from communications of the other threads, the displaying of each thread of communication including, so that the user of the client computing device can send communications to each of multiple simultaneous threads whether or not the client computing device is actively communicating with other computing devices and can see a display with all of the contents of all of the communications for a thread shown in a uniform manner.