Patent Document ID: 8694586
Application ID: 12494582

Base Claim:
1. A method for maintaining corresponding relationships between at least one chat transcript and related chat content in an instant messaging system, comprising: establishing a chat session in the instant messaging system; displaying corresponding chat content synchronously according to a changed address of the chat content, wherein the changed address of the chat content includes a unique uniform resource locator (URL) identifying a discrete portion of the chat content; inserting the URL into a chat transcript as a separator, and segmenting the chat transcript into at least two segments to create a segmented chat transcript, each segment relating to a corresponding single respective address; and storing the segmented chat transcript and corresponding relationship between the URL and corresponding chat transcript segments.

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Claim 2:
2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the changed address of the chat content is at least one of a Web URL or an address of a local file.