Patent ID: 9215095
Filing Date: 2015-12-15
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for enabling projection of multiple personas over an instant messaging platform, the method comprising: identifying, using a processor, a single textual identifier for a user, the single textual identifier used to represent the user in an instant messaging communication environment; identifying a plurality of the user's buddies, wherein the instant messaging communications environment is configured to allow communication between the user and the user's buddies through one or more instant messaging communications sessions; associating a first persona and a second persona with the single textual identifier of the user; associating an attribute of the first persona with a first functionality; associating an attribute of the second persona with a second functionality, the second functionality differing from the first functionality; determining, based a set of criteria, whether to project one or more of the first persona and the second persona in a first instant messaging communications session; and based on the determining, projecting, to at least one of the user's buddies, the single textual identifier and one of the group consisting of the first persona, the second persona, and a combination of the first persona and the second persona, in the first instant messaging communications session.