US 11,811,710 B1
Method and system for multi-format messaging
Garin Toren, New York, NY (US)
Filed by Sunbird Messaging Inc, Tenafly, NJ (US)
Filed on Aug. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/887,965.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/356,882, filed on Jun. 29, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/351,788, filed on Jun. 13, 2022.
Int. Cl. H04L 51/04 (2022.01); H04L 51/56 (2022.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); H04L 51/21 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 51/04 (2013.01) [G06F 9/541 (2013.01); H04L 51/21 (2022.05); H04L 51/56 (2022.05)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for transmitting messages between incompatible messaging applications, the method comprising:
executing a first instance of a first messaging application, with a first messaging format, on a virtual machine server;
receiving a user authentication for a first user account associated with the first instance of the first messaging application from a user of a second messaging application with a second messaging format;
linking a second user account associated with the second messaging application to the first user account based on the authentication, the linking comprising:
monitoring a first database associated with the first user account for incoming messages from a second instance of the first messaging application;
storing the incoming messages in a second database associated with the second user account based on an application programming interface (API) to convert the incoming messages from the first messaging format to the second messaging format;
sending a notification of the incoming messages to the second messaging application;
monitoring the second database for outgoing messages from the second messaging application; and
storing the outgoing messages in the first database based on an API to convert the outgoing messages from the second messaging format to the first messaging format.