REQUESTING INSTANT MESSAGING HISTORY BY VALIDATED PARTIES

摘要

Chat transcripts are requested by a requesting device by performing the following steps (not necessarily in the following order): (i) recording, by a first user's device, multiple chat transcripts respectively memorializing a plurality of online chats in which the first user's device participated; (ii) storing the chat transcript in a data storage device; (iii) receiving, by the data storage device through a communication network from a requesting device, a machine readable request for a copy of a set of chat transcript(s) from among the multiple chat transcripts; and (iv) responsive to receipt of the machine readable request for a copy, sending, by the data storage device, through the communication network to the requesting device, a copy of the chat transcript(s) corresponding to the requested set of chat transcript(s). The sending of the copy is performed automatically by machine logic and without substantial human intervention.

主权项

1. A method of communicating a chat transcript generated and saved in connection through a chat account having an associated chat account holder and an associated chat services provider entity, the method comprising:
determining a set of valid request rule(s); receiving, from a requesting party's device and over a communication network, a request for a first chat transcript; determining whether the request meets any applicable valid request rules of the set of valid request rules; and responsive to a determination that the request meets any applicable valid request rules of the set of valid request rules, sending the chat transcript, over the communication network, to the requesting party's device; wherein: the requesting party is not either of the following: (i) the chat account holder, and (ii) a representative of the chat services provider entity; and the determination of whether the request meets any applicable valid request rules is performed automatically and without substantial human intervention on the part of either of the following: (i) the chat account holder, and (ii) a representative of the chat services provider entity.