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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2002
Jong Hyuk Choi, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Hubertus Franke, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Shailabh Nagar, Croton-on-Hudson, NY (US);
Rajan Ravindran, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Jong Hyuk Choi, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Hubertus Franke, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Shailabh Nagar, Croton-on-Hudson, NY (US);
Rajan Ravindran, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A group messaging system enabling anonymous collective communications in a group which is locally defined in association with a group owner's messaging account, wherein messaging software at the group owner converts a group message into multiple one-to-one group messages destined to each group member in collaboration with the said group membership resolution process. The invention further includes a group message reply process wherein the messaging software at a recipient's side composes a reply message and transmits it to the group owner messaging software which then forwards it to the group members in collaboration with said group membership resolution process, thereby providing a means of designating the identity of a group in the group owner messaging account, sending a group message, and hiding the identities of individual recipients during the lifetime of the group message. The group owner side can additionally perform access control for group communications.