Patent ID: 8160549
Filing Date: 2012-04-17
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A computer processor-based method for social interacting, comprising: (i) enabling, by a computer processor controlled portable messaging device, a user to designate, from time to time, a plurality of friends-to-notify, comprising, for each of a first plurality of friends: (ii) enabling, by the portable messaging device, the user to designate, from time to time, a plurality of friends-to-monitor, comprising, for each of a second plurality of friends, (iii) enabling, by the portable messaging device, the user to select a mood; (iv) sending, by the portable messaging device, one or more representations of the selected mood to each of the friends-to-notify; (v) enabling, by the portable messaging device, the user to further select an updated mood; (vi) further sending, by the portable messaging device, one or more representations of the updated mood to each of the friends-to-notify, to supersede the previously sent one or more representations of the mood; (vii) displaying, by the portable messaging device, one or more representations of a friend's mood for at least one of the friends-to-monitor; (viii) receiving, by the portable messaging device, one or more incoming messages with updated representations of a friend's mood, when one of the friends-to-monitor updates his mood; and (ix) automatically updating, by the portable messaging device, said displaying according to the received updated representations, in response to said automatically receiving the one or more incoming messages.