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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020

Filed:

Apr. 30, 2018
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Stefan Alexander, Schkeuditz, DE;

Alexander Neef, Reutlingen, DE;

Matthias Seul, San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/16 (2013.01); H04L 51/30 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to one embodiment, a method for message-thread management with a messaging client is provided. The method may include receiving a message-thread containing a signature and a body, with the signature including a composite identifier which may include a thread identifier, a tangent identifier, a sender identifier, a depth-level identifier, and a unique message identifier, determining that message-thread content is missing from the message-thread, sending a broadcast message using a peer-to-peer protocol requesting the missing message-thread content, and receiving the missing message-thread content via the peer-to-peer protocol. The message client may include a peer-to-peer communication protocol manager for handling the peer-to-peer protocol.


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