Patent Document ID: 9942180
Application ID: 14751538

Base Claim:
1. A method for private text chatting, the method comprising: sending a request to a remote device to establish a private text chat session; receiving, based on the sending, an acceptance from the remote device accepting the request; initiating the private text chat session; closing, in response to initiating the private text chat session or, other text chat sessions; presenting, based on the receiving, a separate user interface to conduct the private text chat session; exchanging private text chat messages in association with the private text chat session based on and subsequent to the receiving and the presenting; and delaying, during the private text chat session, indications of reception of text chat messages associated with other text chat sessions.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising displaying at least some private text chat messages without indicia of a source of the at least some private text chat messages.