Patent ID: 8037150
Filing Date: 2011-10-11
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A user interface on a display device that enables perception of communications that leverage an instant messaging platform, the user interface on the display device comprising: a module, being executed on a processor of the display device, for identifying at least two identities within an instant messaging communications environment to whom messages may be directed; a module for associating a first persona, a second persona, and a third persona with a single textual identifier of a user, the single textual identifier used to represent the user in the instant messaging communications environment; a module for associating an attribute of said first persona of the single textual identifier with a first functionality; a module for associating an attribute of said second persona of the single textual identifier with a second functionality, the second functionality differing from the first functionality; a module for associating an attribute of said third persona of the single textual identifier with a third functionality, the third functionality differing from the first functionality and the second functionality; a module for rendering an instant messaging application user interface for a first instant messaging communications session involving the single textual identifier of the user and a first identity and a second instant messaging communications session involving the single textual identifier of the user and a second identity, the user interface being presented at a system display presented to the user; a module for associating the first persona of the single textual identifier with the first identity; a module for associating the second persona and the third persona of the single textual identifier with the second identity; a module for identifying a conflict between the attribute of the second persona and the attribute of the third persona; a module for resolving the identified conflict between the attribute of the second persona and the attribute of the third persona, and for generating a resolved attribute based on the resolution of the conflict between the attribute of the second persona and the attribute of the third persona; and a module for projecting the first persona of the user to the first identity while concurrently projecting the resolved attribute to the second identity.