Automated participants for hosted conversations

A server system stores a hosted conversation having a special-purpose automated participant and a standard participant. The server system receives a request to modify the conversation from a first participant, determines a set of edits that update the conversation to an updated state in accordance w...

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Main Authors OSINGA DOUWE M, PRASETYA MARCEL ADI, BYTTOW DAVID MARK
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 13.08.2013
Subjects
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COMPUTING
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ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
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Summary:A server system stores a hosted conversation having a special-purpose automated participant and a standard participant. The server system receives a request to modify the conversation from a first participant, determines a set of edits that update the conversation to an updated state in accordance with the request to modify the conversation; and sends, the set of edits to a second participant. When the first participant is a standard participant: the request includes an indication of preliminary edits; the conversation is updated in accordance with the preliminary edits; and the set of edits include concurrency-resolved edits. When the first participant is a special-purpose automated participant: the request includes an operation to be performed on the conversation; the operation is performed on the conversation at the server system; and the set of edits updates the conversation, in accordance with the operation.
Bibliography:Application Number: US201113109923