WO2002029582A1 - Systemes et procedes de sessions de bavardage sur internet entre plusieurs utilisateurs se rendant sur un site internet designe - Google Patents

Systemes et procedes de sessions de bavardage sur internet entre plusieurs utilisateurs se rendant sur un site internet designe Download PDF

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WO2002029582A1
WO2002029582A1 PCT/US2001/030708 US0130708W WO0229582A1 WO 2002029582 A1 WO2002029582 A1 WO 2002029582A1 US 0130708 W US0130708 W US 0130708W WO 0229582 A1 WO0229582 A1 WO 0229582A1
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  • the present invention is related to systems and methods of Internet chat sessions among multiple users. More specifically, without limitation, the present invention relates to computer-based systems and methods to allow textual communications among multiple users visiting any designated website.
  • the Internet is a global network of connected computer networks. Over the last several years, the Internet has grown in significant measure. A large number of computers on the Internet provide information in various forms. Teen with a computer connected to the Internet can potentially tap into this vast pool of information.
  • the Web consists of a subset of the computers connected to the Internet; the computers in this subset run Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) servers (Web servers).
  • HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
  • Web servers The information available via the Internet also encompasses information available via other types of information servers such as
  • a URL uniquely specifies the location of a particular piece of information on the Internet.
  • a URL will typically be composed of several components. The first component typically designates the protocol by which the address piece of information is accessed (e.g., HTTP, GOPHER, etc.). This first component is separated from the remainder of the URL by a colon (':'). The remainder of the URL will depend upon the protocol component. Typically, the remainder designates a computer on the Internet by name, or by IP number, as well as a more specific designation of the location of the resource on the designated computer.
  • a typical URL for an HTTP resource might be: http://www.server.com/dirl/dir2/resource.htm where http is the protocol, www.server.com is the designated computer and /dirl/dir2/resouce.htm designates the location of the resource on the designated computer.
  • Web servers host information in the form of Web pages; collectively the server and the information hosted are referred to as a Web site or website.
  • a significant number of Web pages are encoded using the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) although other encodings using the extensible Markup Language (XML) or the Standard Generic Markup Language (SGML) are becoming increasingly more common. The published specifications for these languages are incorporated by reference herein.
  • Web pages in these formatting languages may include links to other Web pages on the same Web site or another.
  • Web pages may be generated dynamically by a server by integrating a variety of elements into a formatted page prior to transmission to a Web client.
  • Web servers, and information servers of other types await requests for the information from Internet clients.
  • the website host may provide, to Internet clients, communications, services, and problem solutions regarding the website.
  • Client software has evolved that allows users of computers connected to the Internet to access this information.
  • Advanced clients such as Netscape's Navigator and Microsoft's Internet Explorer allow users to access software provided via a variety of information servers in a unified client environment.
  • client software is referred to as browser software.
  • browser software is provided as background with respect to Web-based embodiments of the present invention. As such, the present invention is not necessarily limited to such embodiments but may encompass other delivery vehicles/communication channels now known or subsequently discovered as further described below.
  • chat text messages
  • chat rooms have become a popular place for computer users to communicate with other users having similar interests.
  • Many Internet service providers and websites provide chat rooms categorized by subject matter of interest to the participants of the chat. Chat categories drawn to various subjects of broadcast media such as television and radio programming are readily available. The diversity of subject matter available to the public on the Internet has come to far outweigh that available through broadcast media. It is estimated that well over one billion websites are currently available to Internet users.
  • chat rooms associated with a website are typically provided by a host website. Through such chat rooms, participants may communicate ideas regarding data available on the host website. However, few websites actually provide such utility. What is needed then, are systems and methods that allow Internet users to initiate chat environments in any designated website.
  • the present invention is related to systems and methods of Internet chat sessions among multiple users visiting any designated website.
  • a method of administering communications, via the Internet, between at least two users comprising the steps of receiving, from a first user, a first user request for relaying communications concerning a subject website hosted by a subject website server receiving, from a second user, a second user request for relaying communications concerning the subject website hosted by the subject website server and relaying communications between the first user and the second user on a communication server operating independently from the subject website server.
  • the method of administering communications may further comprise the step of receiving a first user message content from the first user, wherein the first user request contains at least an identification of the subject website, and the second user request contains at least the identification of the subject website.
  • the step of relaying the communication may further comprise transmitting a second user response to the second user including at least the first user message content.
  • the method of administering communications may further comprise the steps of receiving a second user message content from the second user, and transmitting a first user response to the first user including the second user message content and transmitting a second user response to the second user including the first user message content.
  • the communications between the first and second users may be accomplished privately to exclude at least a third user.
  • the first user may be an operator of the subject website, in which case, the method of administering communications may further comprise the step of transmitting, to the second user, information regarding the identification of the first user as the subject website host.
  • the method of administering communications may further comprise the steps of receiving a first user message content from the first user, storing at least the first user message content within a database at the communication server, and transmitting the stored first user message content to the second user, wherein the first user request contains an identification of the subject website.
  • the method may further comprise transmitting to the second user the identification of the subject website.
  • a method of administering communications, via the Internet, among a multiplicity of users comprising the step of receiving at least one communications provision request from each of a plurality of users, each request separately indicating a subject website, wherein at least two subject websites are indicated, and relaying communications among a set of users whose requests indicate a common subject website. There may be provided the step of transmitting, to a user, data concerning the number of users within the set of users.
  • the apparatus includes means for receiving, from a first user, a first request for relaying communications concerning a subject website hosted by a subject website server, means for receiving, from a second user, a second user request for relaying communications concerning a subject website on a subject website server, and means for relaying communications between the first user and the second user, wherein the means for relaying communications operates independently from the subject website server.
  • an apparatus for administering communications, via the Internet, among a plurality of users.
  • the apparatus includes means for receiving at least one communications provision request from each of a multiplicity of users, each request separately indicating a subject website, wherein at least two subject websites are indicated, means for receiving messages from each of the plurality of users, and means for relaying communications among a set of users whose requests indicate a common subject website.
  • a method for a first user, of engaging in communication, via the Internet, with a second user.
  • the method includes the steps of transmitting a first user request to a communication server, wherein the first request indicates a subject website hosted by a subject website server, and receiving a second user message content, from the communication server, wherein the second user message content was authored by a second user, and wherein the information content provided by the subject website server, and the second user message content are viewed by simultaneously by the first user.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of architecture for a communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates a web page browser displaying browsing and chatting, according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 3 depicts an exemplary system for providing chat communication according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a method of administering communications, via the Internet, between two users, according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • Fig. 1 depicts architecture for a communication system 100 according to one embodiment of the present invention.
  • Members of the user community 102 using suitable devices, such as personal computers 104 can interact with the communications environment 108 via communications channels 106 such as the Internet.
  • the communications environment 108 may include a cluster 110 of one or more communication servers 112, which may also be called chat servers, and which provide the receipt and processing of user requests and messages and transmit chat and other communications to the users.
  • the communications environment 108 may include, separate from or incorporated within the cluster 110, a data store 114 for storing data associated with user requests, chat communications, archived messages, system usage, and any useful history data.
  • a data store 114 in an exemplary embodiment, may be implemented as a database system using one or more data servers 116 with one or more internal or external data repository 118.
  • the communications environment 108 may also include one or more communication channels 120, such as an Ethernet, supporting communication among components of the communications environment 108.
  • the communications environment 108 may also optionally include one or more load-balancing devices (not shown), typically server systems, for distributing work among the components of the environment 108.
  • Communications between the user and the subject website server 130 may occur through any conventional means 132, such as through the Internet.
  • the user-subject communications occur, through the Internet, separately from, and concurrently with, the communications between the user and the communication servers 110.
  • real time Internet chat communications may be provided among multiple users.
  • a computer user may join the user community by downloading configuration software from the communication servers.
  • An exemplary user computer display is illustrated in Fig. 2.
  • An Internet browser frame 200 is shown with many features conventional and known, such as browser buttons 202, used for typical Internet navigation and actions.
  • An address bar 204 displays, to the user, the URL of the displayed website content 206 of the website selected as indicated in address bar 204.
  • Conventional user actions such as clicking the browser buttons 202, or entering text into address bar 204, will result in conventional browser display responses such as URL navigation and the control or processing of transmitted, received, stored, or displayed data.
  • the displayed website content 206 may be provided by an operator of the subject website.
  • An operator of the subject website may be the administrator of the subject website or those affiliated with the administrator of the subject website.
  • An administrator of the subject website is any individual, institution, or body owning or controlling the subject website.
  • Those affiliated with the administrator of the subject website may include, but are not limited to, the administrator, a webmaster of the subject website, an employee of the administrator, an agent of the administrator, a representative of the administrator, or any individual or institution so designated by the administrator to have authority, business, or communication regarding the subject website.
  • the displayed website content 206 may include any display preferred or provided by an operator of the subject website.
  • the content displayed may include, but is not limited to, introductions, slogans, trademarks, promotional advertising, information for the user, any text, figures, communications, website functions, website navigational buttons, website action buttons, or visually presented data of any kind.
  • Exemplary displayed website content 206 is provided for example only and is shown, in Fig. 2, to include introductory text 208, above website action buttons 210, 212, and 214.
  • Conventional user actions such as clicking the website action buttons 210, 212, or 214, will result in any responses provided for by an operator of the subject website.
  • Responses may include but are not limited to display responses such as URL navigation within or beyond the website.
  • chat session capabilities are provided to users, as described below, regarding any Internet website without requiring the participation of a subject website operator or subject website host resources, such as processing time of the subject website server.
  • the chat session subwindow 216 includes a chat text display area 218 for the display of chat text message items 220.
  • a directory and navigation subarea 224 includes a directory or list 226 of active chat session links, each associated with a particular website, and labeled to indicate such. The user may direct the web browser to an active chat session website by simply clicking, using the movable mouse and screen cursor, any link included in the directory or list 226. Additionally, statistical data may be provided within the chat session subwindow 216 regarding the current usage of active chat sessions so that the user may find and join a populated chat room. The user may choose to participate in an active chat session or initiate a new chat session.
  • the chat session subwindow 216 may include a chat session entry button 228 provided for the synchronization of the web browser and chat text display area 218.
  • the user may click the chat session entry button 228 to direct the chat text display area 218 to the chat room appropriate to the website indicated in the address bar 204.
  • the chat room data may be provided to the user by the communication server(s) 112 as show in Fig. 1. Chat communications among users are received and distributed by communication server(s) 112.
  • User names 230 may be provided within the chat text display area 218, and associated with chat text message items 220. The user names may tentatively, or permanently, be provided or preferred by the chat session participants or the system administrator of the communications environment 108 of Fig. 1.
  • the chat text message items 220 may be labeled or indexed by the user names 230 to indicate authorship, endorsement, or provision of the chat text items 220. Each user name so featured, becomes the chat session identity of each user to other users.
  • a system 300 for providing chat communications according to an embodiment of the present invention is shown in Fig. 3.
  • a first user 302, user 1 visits a subject website at a subject URL by receiving (and/or sending) data 304 from (and/or to) the web server 306 of the subject website.
  • User 1 sends a request 308 to the chat server 310.
  • the chat server opens a chat room according to the subject URL indicated in the request 308.
  • a second user 312, user 2 visits the subject website at the subject URL by receiving (and/or sending) data 314 from (and/or to) the web server 306 of the subject website.
  • User 2 sends a request 316, to the chat server 310, to join the chat room according to the subject URL indicated in both of the requests 308 and 316.
  • the chat server 310 puts user 2 in the open chat room with user 1. Chatting occurs with the exchange of messages between user 1 and user 2. The exchanged messages are routed through chat server 310. User 1 transmits and receives messages 318 to and from, respectively, user 2 through the chat server 310. User 2 transmits and receives messages 320 to and from, respectively, user 1 through the chat server 310. More users can join the chat room and communicate with each other in a like manner.
  • a chat server receives 402, from a first user, a first user request for relaying communications regarding a subject website hosted by a subject website server.
  • the chat server receives 404, from a second user, a second user request for relaying communications regarding the subject website hosted by the subject website server.
  • the chat server relays 406 communications between the first user and second user.
  • private chat sessions may be provided among groups or pairs of users.
  • a user may prepare, submit, or join a buddy list and receive notification when list members are also connected to the communication server.
  • chat messages are stored for retrieval some time after the chat participants have left the chat room.
  • the archived chat message data may be stored in the data store 114 of Fig. 1. They may be stored within a database available and searchable to future users.
  • the searchable parameters of the database may include, but are not limited to, subject websites, user names, dates, buddy lists, or chat text item content text in whole or in part.
  • chat session capabilities may be provided to the subject website.
  • the subject website operator may be a user and may prefer or provide a user name to so distinguish, to other users, the subject website operator as the subject website host.
  • Communications among the subject website operator and other users may be received and distributed by communication server(s) 112 of Fig.1, as between any two or more users.
  • customer service and communications between a business and customers of the business may be provided.
  • the customers of the business may be individual consumers or other businesses.
  • This embodiment provides for public or private communications between the subject website operator and any individuals or entities.
  • An environment includes a system data store, one or more data storage processors, one or more communication servers, and a link to a communication channel, such as the Internet, allowing communication with one or more user output devices, such as user personal computers.
  • the system data store stores data needed to provide the desired system functionality.
  • the stored data may include user identification information, active chat session data indicating the chat session websites, chat session active user lists, and archived chat session data.
  • the system data store may include multiple physical and/or logical data stores for storing the various types of information. Data storage and retrieval functionality may be provided by either the communication server or one or more data storage servers associated with the data store.
  • the communication server is in communication with the system data store via any suitable communication channel(s), and in communication with the link via the same, or differing, communication channel(s).
  • the communication server may include one or more processing elements that provide access, monitoring, updating, tracking, reporting and/or other functionality.
  • a method of administering Internet chat sessions typically includes a variety of steps that may, in certain embodiments, be executed by the typical environment summarized above and more fully described below or be stored as computer executable instructions in and or on any suitable combination of computer- readable media.
  • the communication server(s) 112 of communications environment 108 may use Java application programs to communicate with a user or users and the data store 114.
  • the configuration software downloaded by the user may comprise a COM component and a Java applet.
  • the COM component is installed and embedded in the browser of the user and may create an explorer bar in the browser to display an icons and communicate with the main browser.
  • the Java applet is downloaded after a user successfully logs in to the communication server 112.
  • the Java applet presents the interface to the user and communicates with the communication server 112 for sending and receiving messages and/or conducting other types of communication.
  • the communication server 112 includes a Java application that may listen to the requests from a user. When the communication server 112 accepts a user, it may assign a connection identification ("ID") to the user, so that the server can always identify a specific user.
  • ID connection identification
  • the user installs only a small component in the browser the first time the user uses the service of the communication server 112. Other software as needed is downloaded each time the user logs in.
  • This thin-client technology utilized renders convenient the complicated process of downloading and installing software.
  • User access to the communications environment 108 of Fig. 1, by a plurality of users 104, may be via any suitable communication channels 106, which in an exemplary embodiment may be a computer network such as the Internet and/or
  • access may be via other forms of computer network, direct dial-up connection, dedicated connection, direct or indirect connection such as via a bus connection, parallel or serial connection, null modem connection or wireless connection utilizing an appropriate communication protocol such as BLUETOOTH, IRDA, 802.1 lb or other suitable channel as would be known to those skilled in the art.
  • Some embodiments may use a combination of communication vehicles, such as those previously described, to serve as the communication channel.
  • the access channel may provide security features, either session-based and/or layer- based, for instance, a secure socket layer (SSL) may be used with respect to an embodiment using the Internet as the access communication channel.
  • the one or more servers of the server cluster 110 may include or connect to a data store 114.
  • the conveyance of information to and from the user and the communications environment occurs via a link, or interface, to or with a suitable communication channel for conveying the information.
  • the link will depend upon the environment implementation and the communication channel, or the first portion thereof where the communication channel is composed of several portions of potentially varying types. Depending upon the characteristic of the link, the link may allow selective communication with one or more user computers.
  • the environment communicates information to the user through a processor such as a computer, which may, in certain embodiments, provide server functionality, and be part of a server cluster, where the source of the communication is a processor, the link may be a wired or wireless modem, a serial or parallel interface, a network interface, a bus interface or combinations thereof where communication may occur via multiple communication channels or where differing types of communication occur through potentially different channels.
  • the communication channel usually consists of one or more of the following types of channels: computer network, direct serial or parallel connection, dial-up connection, dedicated line connection, wireless connection, bus connection and combinations thereof.
  • the communication channel may further consist of a variety of computer network types including an Ethernet, a token ring network, the Internet and/or combinations thereof.
  • Communication may use any suitable protocol; however, in most instances, the protocol selected will depend upon the communication channel.
  • the protocol may be one or more of the following protocols alone, or in combination where multiple types of channels form portions of the communication channel: HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, FTP, GOPHER, and WAIS as layer 3 protocols and/or TCP/IP, IPX, NETBEUI, 802.1 lb, BLUETOOTH as layer 2 protocols and/or interprocess communication such as RPC, DCE, HOP, COM, etc.
  • the various components of the communications environment 108 of Fig. 1, may communicate with each other through any suitable communication architecture including, but not limited to, a computer network such as an Ethernet, token ring network or the Internet, a direct connection such as a bus connection, parallel or serial connection, null modem connection, dedicated line or wireless connection utilizing an appropriate communication protocol such as BLUETOOTH, a dial-up connection, and appropriate combinations thereof.
  • a computer network such as an Ethernet, token ring network or the Internet
  • a direct connection such as a bus connection, parallel or serial connection, null modem connection, dedicated line or wireless connection utilizing an appropriate communication protocol such as BLUETOOTH, a dial-up connection, and appropriate combinations thereof.
  • the communication may occur via bus connections, inter-process communication, shared files or some combination of these methods or other commonly used single-computer communication mechanisms.
  • the communication system 100 uses the Internet as communication channels 106 allowing access to the environment by a plurality of members of the user community 102.
  • the communications environment uses a computer network such as an Ethernet to allow communication among the components of the environment; a router (not shown) may be included in the environment to manage such communication within the internal network as well as managing the interface between the internal network and the Internet.
  • the functionality of the environment may be spread among a communication server cluster 110, a data store 114 and, in some embodiments, a load-balancing device (not shown). Where a load-balancing device is present, the device may be responsible for allocating and managing distribution of access among various elements within the server cluster 110 and/or the data store 114. Users may access the environment through standard Web browser software or via specialized access software adapted for interfacing with the communications environment 108.
  • the server cluster 110 provides the desired functionality of the environment 108.
  • the server cluster 110 may be divided into access servers and application servers where the access servers provide electronic access functionality such as by electronic mail server(s) and/or Web server(s) and the application servers provide the desired curriculum functionality.
  • the one or more servers 112 in the server cluster 110 may be supported via Intel-compatible hardware platforms preferably using at least a PENTIUM III (Intel Corp., Santa Clara, CA) or UltraSPARC (Sun Microsystems, Palo Alto, CA) class processor.
  • curriculum and/or access functionality as further described below, may be distributed across multiple processing elements.
  • processing element may be a process running on a particular piece, or across particular pieces, of hardware, a particular piece of hardware or either as the context allows.
  • the hardware platform would have an appropriate operating system such as WINDOWS/NT, WINDOWS 2000 or WINDOWS/XP Server (Microsoft, Redmond, WA), Solaris (Sun Microsystems, Palo Alto, CA), or LINUX (or other UNIX variant).
  • server software may be included to support the desired application, email and Web server functionality.
  • Web server functionality may be provided via an Internet Information Server (Microsoft, Redmond, WA), an Apache HTTP Server (Apache Software Foundation, Forest Hill, MD), an iPlanet Web Server (iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions - A Sun - Netscape Alliance, Mountain View, CA) or other suitable Web server platform.
  • the email services may be supported via an Exchange Server (Microsoft, Redmond, WA), sendmail or other suitable email server.
  • Some embodiments may include one or more automated voice response (AVR) systems that are in addition to, or instead of, the aforementioned access servers.
  • AVR automated voice response
  • Such an AVR system could support a purely voice/telephone driven interface to the environment with hard copy output delivered electronically to suitable hard copy output device (e.g., printer, facsimile, and the like), and forward as necessary through regular mail, courier, inter-office mail, facsimile or other suitable forwarding approaches.
  • suitable hard copy output device e.g., printer, facsimile, and the like
  • Application servers in some embodiments may be iPlanet Application Servers (iPlanet E-Commerce Solutions - A Sun - Netscape Alliance, Mountain View, CA), WebSphere Servers (International Business Machines, Armonk, NY), Tomcat Java Servlet/JSP Engine (Apache Software Foundation, Forest Hill, MD), or WebLogic Application Server (BEA Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA).
  • the application services may be provided through programmed pages on the Web server; such pages may use ASP (Microsoft, Redmond, WA), ColdFusion (Macromedia, San Francisco, CA), Java Servlet (Sun Microsystems, Palo Alto, CA) or other suitable technologies to provide server side logic and may use ActiveX (Microsoft, Redmond, WA), VBScript (Microsoft, Redmond, WA), JavaScript/ECMAScript (ECMA, Geneva, Switzerland) or other suitable technologies to support client side logic.
  • ASP Microsoft, Redmond, WA
  • ColdFusion Micromedia, San Francisco, CA
  • Java Servlet Sun Microsystems, Palo Alto, CA
  • ActiveX Microsoft, Redmond, WA
  • VBScript JavaScript/ECMAScript
  • ECMA Geneva, Switzerland
  • the data store 114 provides for the storage and, potentially, the management of the data required by the environment.
  • a typical data store 114 may include one or more storage devices 118, and in some embodiments, may include one or more data storage servers 116 to receive and service data requests.
  • the data store depicted in FIG. 1 uses a data storage processor 116 and several external data repositories 118. These depictions are representative only, and consequently, other data store architectures may have single, multiple and/or varied processors and storage elements.
  • the system data store may use internal storage devices connected to one or more of the servers 112 of the server cluster 110.
  • a local hard disk drive may serve as the system data store, and a disk operating system executing on the single processor acting as a data server may support receive and service data requests.
  • Information concerning different users of the user community 102 and records tracking environment usage may be stored in the data store 114.
  • the various types of content discussed above may be available in any suitable format such as HTML, XML, SGML, PDF (Adobe Systems Inc., San Jose, CA), VRML, PostScript, Encapsulated Postscript, text, TIFF, GIF, CFM (Cold Fusion), ASP (Active Server Pages), etc. and may include other embedded active components such as HTML forms, JavaScript routines, Java applets, etc.
  • system data store may be logically or physically segregated within a single system data store, and/or multiple related data stores accessible through a unified management system, which together serve as the system data store, or multiple independent data stores individually accessible through disparate management systems, which may in some embodiments be collectively viewed as the system data store.
  • the various storage elements that comprise the physical architecture of the system data store may be centrally located, or distributed across a variety of diverse locations.
  • the architecture of the data store 114 may vary significantly in different embodiments.
  • database(s) are used to store and manipulate the data; in some such embodiments, one or more relational database management systems, such as DB2 (IBM, White Plains, NY), SQL Server (Microsoft, Redmond, WA), ACCESS (Microsoft, Redmond, WA), ORACLE 8i (Oracle Corp., Redwood Shores, CA), Ingres (Computer Associates, Islandia, NY), or Adaptive Server Enterprise (Sybase Inc., Emeryville, CA), in connection with a variety of storage devices/file servers that may include, in some embodiments, a tape library such as Exabyte X80 (Exabyte Corporation, Boulder, CO), a storage attached network (SAN) solution such as available from (EMC, Inc., Hopkinton, MA), a network attached storage (NAS) solution such as a NetApp Filer 740 (Network Appliances, Sunnyvale, CA), or combinations thereof.
  • relational database management systems such as DB2 (IBM, White Plains, NY), SQL Server (Micro
  • the data store may use database systems with other architectures such as object-oriented, spatial, object-relational or hierarchical or may use other storage implementations such as hash tables or flat files or combinations of such architectures.
  • Such alternative approaches may use data servers other than database management systems such as a hash table look-up server, procedure and/or process and/or a flat file retrieval server, procedure and/or process.
  • processors within architectures of the environments as described above may execute the steps in such methods and provide such functionality.
  • the functionality may spread across multiple processing elements; in certain embodiments, these processing elements may logically and/or physically be divided into access, and data storage processing elements where functionality is allocated appropriately among such processing elements.
  • any suitable computer readable storage device including primary storage such as RAM, ROM, cache memory, etc.
  • secondary storage such as magnetic media including fixed and removable disks and tapes, optical media including fixed and removable disks whether read-only or read-write, paper media including punch cards and paper tape, or other secondary storage as would be known to those skilled in the art, may store instruction that upon execution by one or more processors causes the one or more processors to execute the steps in such methods and to provide such functionality.

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Abstract

L"invention concerne des systèmes et des procédés de sessions de bavardage sur Internet entre plusieurs utilisateurs (104) se rendant sur un site Internet désigné (130). Selon l"un des modes de réalisation, un procédé d"administration de communication via Internet, entre au moins deux utilisateurs (104) comporte les étapes suivantes : réception de la part d"un premier utilisateur, demande du premier utilisateur de relayer la communication concernant un site Internet sujet hébergé par un serveur de site Internet sujet (130), réception de la part d"un second utilisateur, d"une demande de ce second utilisateur de relayer la communication concernant ce site Internet sujet hébergé par le serveur du site Internet sujet (130) et de relayer la communication entre le premier et le second utilisateur sur un serveur de communication (110) fonctionnant indépendamment du serveur de site Internet sujet (130). Ce procédé peut également comprendre une phase de réception d"un contenu de message provenant du premier utilisateur, dans lequel la demande du premier utilisateur contient au moins une identification du site Internet sujet (130) et la demande du second utilisateur contenant au moins l"identification du site Internet sujet (130). De plus, le procédé peut également comprendre une phase de transmission de la réponse du second utilisateur au second utilisateur comportant au moins le contenu de message du premier utilisateur.
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