Integrating Communications

摘要

A method of accessing a first communication system of a first communication provider via a packet-based network, the first communication system maintaining a first list of contacts being users of the first communication system. The method comprises establishing a contact-sharing channel with a second communication system of a second, partner communication provider, wherein the second communication system is accessible via an independently executable web-browser and the packet-based network, and wherein the second communication system maintains second group of contacts being users of the second communication system. The contact-sharing channel is used to fetch contact information of one or more of the second contacts, so as to display at least part of the fetched contact information in the client application and establish a communication based on at least part of the fetched contact information.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
a user terminal installed with a client application for accessing a first communication system, and further installed with a web-browser for accessing a second communication system, the first communication system configured to maintain a first group of first contacts comprising users of the first communication system, and the second communication system configured to maintain a second group of second contacts comprising users of the second communication system, the first communication system different than the second communication system; the client application configured to:
establish a contact-sharing channel with the second communication system;fetch, using the contact-sharing channel, contact information of one or more of the second contacts and an activity feed providing information on recent activity performed by the one or more of the second contacts;display at least part of the activity feed within a user interface of the client application, the at least part of the activity feed comprising at least two recent activities performed by at least two different second contacts; anddisplay a control proximate each of the at least two recent activities of the activity feed, each control configured to initiate a communication with a respective one of the at least two different second contacts associated with the recent activity of the activity feed that is proximate to the control.