Instant Messaging Server Email Session Creation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current communication technologies require a secondary login process for instant messaging clients to access email information, leading to reduced login efficiency and delayed message delivery.
Innovation Solution
An information exchange method that allows an instant messaging server to create a session using email address information, enabling direct sending of email description messages to sender and receiver instant messaging accounts, thereby eliminating the need for sequential logins and improving exchange efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If an email plug-in is integrated in the instant messaging client and the client logs in to the email server by using the plug-in, then the instant messaging client can obtain email information from the email server, but the client needs to complete two logins (one to instant messaging server and another to email server), which greatly reduces login efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the instant messaging login process with the email server login process into a single unified authentication flow. The instant messaging server acts as an intermediary that handles both authentication requests, allowing users to log in once to access both services without needing separate credentials or sequential login steps.
Solution Approach 2:
The instant messaging server serves as an intermediary between the client and the email server. Instead of the client directly authenticating with the email server, the instant messaging server mediates the authentication process, receiving credentials from the client and forwarding them to the email server, thereby simplifying the client's login burden.
2Reliability
If a verification step performed by using a verification number occurs in the current login process, then security is enhanced, but login efficiency is greatly reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The verification number is pre-generated and stored in the instant messaging server before the actual login attempt. When the client initiates login, the server already has the verification credential ready, eliminating the need for real-time generation or external retrieval during the login process, thus maintaining security while reducing time loss.
3Ease of operation
If the instant messaging client obtains email information from the email server by using the email plug-in after login, then email information can be displayed, but the process requires sequential logins that delay message delivery
Solution Approach 1:
The patent establishes a continuous authentication session where the instant messaging server maintains an active login state that simultaneously grants access to both instant messaging and email services. This continuous authenticated state allows the client to retrieve email information without breaking the login flow or performing sequential logins, thereby maintaining fast message delivery while ensuring ease of operation.
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AI summary
Embodiments of the present invention disclose an information exchange method, a client, and an apparatus. The method may include: obtaining, by an email client, a receiver email address and email description information of a current email; determining, by the email client, whether an instant messaging account bound to the receiver email address satisfies a pre-stored session initiation condition; and if the instant messaging account bound to the receiver email address satisfies the session initiation condition, sending, by the email client, the receiver email address and the email description information to an instant messaging client in to which a sender instant messaging account is logged, so that the instant messaging client requests an instant messaging server to create a session including the sender instant messaging account and a receiver instant messaging account, and the instant messaging client sends, in the session, an instant messaging message including the email description information. By means of the embodiments of the present invention, exchange efficiency of email information can be improved.