Patent ID: 7725553

Claim:
A computer-readable medium whose contents cause a computer to: initiate an instant messaging (IM) connectivity for an IM conversation initially in page mode IM, the IM conversation being between an originating user and a remote user, the remote user being logged into multiple endpoints; receive a reply to the IM conversation in page mode IM from the remote user, the reply including an identifier of an endpoint used by the remote user to reply to the IM conversation; discover an identity of the endpoint used by the remote user to reply to the IM conversation, the identity of the endpoint being discovered based on the identifier received from the remote user; and convert the IM conversation from page mode IM to session based IM upon discovering the identity of the endpoint, the IM conversation being converted by: transmitting to the endpoint used by the remote user a request to establish a session based IM, and transmitting to the remote user a message in page mode IM, wherein the message indicates that all previous messages transmitted in page mode IM are idle, wherein the message does not specify a particular endpoint of the remote user, and wherein the message is transmitted to each of the multiple endpoints at which the remote user is logged in.