I hope. If the lights favor me, i will get to work on time.

I have an example of prior art here. There was a company called Trivida in southern California whose software did EXACTLY what this patent is claiming. It was bought by a company called Be Free and they renamed the product BSELECT. It was in use for a time between 1999-2004 by a number of medium sized web sites. Eventually, it was shelved because of lack of demand.

You can look at a press release about version 3.0 of this product (from 2002) here.

Tell them we don't need a Mac / Linux port. Trillian isn't great. I've used it several times and keep going back to Gaim. Gaim has a far better interface. It FEELS like it belongs running in the OS, Trillian (and other skinnable apps) don't.

-- SirG3

I must say, good job sir. What are the odds...