Abstract: A system and method for providing persistent communications between users is disclosed whereby users can communicate in a real time fashion and/or in an offline or asynchronous manner within a persistent communications session without having to initiate a new session each time a user logs off or onto the communications session.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 26, 2008
Date of Patent:
October 29, 2013
Assignee:
Tao Technologies, LLC
Inventors:
Steven L. Greenspan, Bonnie A. Nardi, Stephen Whittaker
Abstract: Customer services are provided by storing predetermined trigger information in association with predetermined content. A real-time text chat established over a network between at least one agent device and at least one customer device is monitoring for the predetermined trigger information using a monitoring computer. The predetermined content is automatically forwarded to the at least one customer device when the predetermined trigger information is detected in the monitoring.