Patent ID: 8566412

Claim:
A group messaging method occurring at a server executing a group messaging application, the method comprising: receiving, at the server through a communication network, a file in a markup language, wherein the server comprises one or more servers; storing the file in a database at the server; sending, from the server, notifications to a subset of members of a group indicating that the file has been received at the server, wherein each notification is sent through an XMPP connection established between the server and each of the subset of members of the group; receiving, at the server, requests for the file from each of one or more members of the subset of members of the group, wherein each request is received through a stateless connection between the server and each of the subset of members of the group; sending, from the server, at least a portion of the file to each of one or more members of the subset of members of the group, wherein each of the at least a portion of the file is sent through each stateless connection between the server and each of the one or more members of the subset of members of the group; and closing each of the stateless connections in response to sending at least a portion of the message to each of one or more members of the subset of members of the group.