A telecommunication and multimedia management apparatus and method that supports voice and other media communications and that enables users to: (i) participate in multiple conversation modes, including live phone calls, conference calls, instant voice messaging or tactical communications; (ii) review the messages of conversations in either a live mode or a time-shifted mode and to seamlessly transition back and forth between the two modes; (iii) participate in multiple conversations either concurrently or simultaneously; (iv) archive the messages of conversations for later review or processing; and (v) persistently store media either created or received on the communication devices of users. The latter feature enables users to generate or review media when either disconnected from the network or network conditions are poor and to optimize the delivery of media over the network based on network conditions and the intention of the users participating in conversations.

A system and method for sending and receiving messages with a ‘subject’ in a structured messaging application; thereby achieving the objective of presenting the messages within the message folders for the users to easily classify the messages based on the ‘subject’. The ‘message subject module’ configured in association with a structured messaging application for searching the existing ‘subject’s in an alphabetically arranged database or allowing the user to use the existing ‘subject’ or create a new ‘subject’ while sending a new message. The ‘message subject module’ enables a user to send a message with a ‘subject’ to another individual user or group. It enables the receivers to get the message with a ‘subject’. It also gives options for the group members to initiate a conversation under the single ‘subject’ for everyone to understand the topic of discussion without any confusion.

Provided is a bootstrap method for registering a charging station (CS), which was in an offline state, to an electric vehicle charging station management system (CSMS) and operating same. The bootstrap method comprises the steps of: storing at least partial bootstrap information in a CS so as to configure bootstrap information; connecting the CS to a CSMS by setting a security channel between the CS and the CSMS for maintaining registration information about the CS; and registering the CS to the CSMS.

A transient virtual chatroom is implemented by which unknown drivers can temporarily engage in conversation while driving. The chatrooms are dynamically generated among two or more drivers based on a variety of factors, including the distance between the drivers, the direction in which cars are driving, the roads on which the cars are on, the speed of vehicles, and typical scenarios that indicate a desire for two or more drivers to engage in conversation. Such transient chatrooms can increase safety by enabling drivers to understand other drivers' intentions. For example, drivers can directly tell someone who can go first at a stop sign, which direction the driver is trying to go in, whether there is an emergency (e.g., personal or with their vehicle), whether a driver is changing lanes, notify a user of merging from an on-ramp, etc.

A system and method for integrating a text messaging notification system with an electronic medical record (EMR) system. A messaging notification system that provides for secure text messaging to a mobile phone is integrated with an EMR system wherein the text messages are stored as medical records in the EMR system. No data is saved on the message notification system but stored directly in the EMR system. The EMR system is integrated with the mobile device operating system to support acknowledgement of read and delivery receipts.

A system includes an information processing apparatus that provides a chat service and an image processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives a reading setting based on an instruction from a user and a transmission unit that transmits the received reading setting to the image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus includes a reading unit that reads an image of a document and generates image data, a reception unit that receives the transmitted reading setting, a registration unit that registers an object associated with the received reading setting, a display unit that displays the registered object, and a control unit that, based on satisfaction of a predetermined condition without the instruction from the user, controls the display unit not to display the object.

Systems for intelligent sorting of time series data for improved contextual messaging are included herein. An intelligent sorting server may receive time series data comprising a plurality of chat messages. The intelligent sorting server may determine a first order of the plurality of chat messages based on a chronologic order. The intelligent sorting server may use one or more machine learning classifiers to identify candidates for reordering the chat messages. The intelligent sorting server may generate a second order of the chat messages based on the identified candidates for reordering. Accordingly, the intelligent sorting server may present, to a client device, a transcript of the chat messages associated with the second order and an indication that at least one chat message has been repositioned.

A method for sharing content performed by at least one processor of a first user terminal includes initiating, through a first external device, a call between a first user account associated with the first user terminal and a second user account associated with a second user terminal included in a chat room of an instant messaging application, transmitting a co-view request associated with a content to share to the first external device, where the content to share is one of a plurality of contents shared within the chat room, and displaying the content to share with a call screen on a display of the first user terminal.

A method for sharing content performed by at least one processor of a first user terminal includes initiating, through a first external device, a call between a first user account associated with the first user terminal and a second user account associated with a second user terminal included in a chat room of an instant messaging application, transmitting a co-view request associated with a content to share to the first external device, where the content to share is one of a plurality of contents shared within the chat room, and displaying the content to share with a call screen on a display of the first user terminal.

Improvements to existing technologies associated with point-of-sale transactions and merchant ecosystems to, among other things, reduce in-person contact and, in some examples, improve the efficiency at which point-of-sale transactions are completed (i.e., reduce friction) are described. In some examples, such reduced in-person contact and/or improved efficiencies can limit transmission of infectious diseases. As such, techniques described are directed to modifying aspects of point-of-sale transactions such that they occur on different computing devices (e.g., customer computing devices instead of merchant computing devices), are automated, and/or occur at different times than with conventional point-of-sale transactions. Furthermore, in at least one example, techniques described can leverage a distributed, network-based merchant ecosystem—comprising multiple merchant computing devices and/or customer computing devices that are specially configured to communicate with a service provider—to facilitate social distancing, which can reduce in-person contact and, in some examples, improve the efficiency at which point-of-sale transactions are completed.