Patent Document ID: 9990108
Application ID: 15083340

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving data including chat room data from a chat room server; receiving input data from at least one input device; preparing a user interface screen for output to a display device, the user interface screen including a chat room list including a plurality of chat room panels, each one chat room panel of the plurality of chat room panels including information about a different chat room from a plurality of chat rooms; and a chat room icon of the different chat room, wherein a first chat room panel of the plurality of chat room panels includes an indication of how many chat room members of a first chat room from the plurality of chat rooms have read a first message posted in the first chat room.

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Claim 2:
2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising: interpreting the input data to include selecting entry to, and posting the first message in, the first chat room; and sending the first message to the chat room server.