Patent ID: 8326928
Filing Date: 2012-12-04
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of presenting audible messages to participants in an electronic chat session, each participant being either a human user or a software controlled agent associated with the human user, the software controlled agent capable of mimicking human conversation and having distinguishing audible characteristics, the method comprising: (a) a first software controlled agent in a computer receiving a first message generated by a participant in the chat session, the first agent being associated with a first human user; (b) automatically, and without human intervention, determining whether the first message was generated by a second human user or a second software controlled agent in a computer associated with the second human user; and (c) the first agent automatically generating a second message and transmitting the second message to at least one other participant in the chat session if it is determined in step (b) that the first message was generated by the second agent.