Patent ID: 9742720
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A system of identifying recipients to receive a new communication based on content selection, comprising: a processor; a user interface module operable to run on the processor and further operable to receive an indication of content selected by a user, the content being part of group communication posted on a social network web page wall that is communicated among users via an online communication application, the processor operable to identify the content and an author of the content, the processor further operable to apply one or more criteria to the content to determine the recipients of the new communication, and the processor further operable to transmit the new communication as a single message to the recipients simultaneously, the user interface module allowing the user to select the content among a plurality of messages posted by different users, wherein the user interface allows the user to draw a geometric shape around the content to indicate the selected content, the user interface further allowing the user to drag and drop the geometric shape onto another geometric shape around another content to form an adhoc group of recipients that include a percentage of intersecting recipients of the content and said another content, the percentage indicated by amount of overlapping of the geometric shape and said another geometric shape, wherein the user interface displays a percentage scale labeled on the geometric shape the user is dragging and dropping onto said another geometric shape.