Patent AU-2012327213-B2 (AU)
Title: Creating and discovering real-time conversations
Inventor: STARENKY VICTOR
IPC: G06F15/16
Filed: 2012-12-14
Granted: 2015-09-17
Abstract: (12) INTERNATIONAL APPLICATION PUBLISHED UNDER THE PATENT COOPERATION TREATY (PCT) (19) World Intellectual Property Organization International Bureau (10) International Publication Number (43) International Publication Date W O 2013/101505 A2 4 July 2013 (04.07.2013) W I PO I P CT (51) International Patent Classification: (74) Agent: GAMBHIR, Ajay; IP Spring, 180 N. Lasalle St. H04L 12/58 (2006.01) Suite 3700, Chicago, IL 60601 (US). (21) International Application Number: (81) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every PCT/US2012/069773 kind of national protection available): AE, AG, AL, AM, .) . AO, AT, AU, AZ, BA, BB, BG, BH, BN, BR, BW, BY, (22) International Filng Date: BZ, CA, CH, CL, CN, CO, CR, CU, CZ, DE, DK, DM, 14 December 2012 (14.12.2012) DO, DZ, EC, EE, EG, ES, Fl, GB, GD, GE, GH, GM, GT, (25) Filing Language: English HN, HR, HU, ID, IL, IN, IS, JP, KE, KG, KM, KN, KP, KR, KZ, LA, LC, LK, LR, LS, LT, LU, LY, MA, MD, (26) Publication Language: English ME, MG, MK, MN, MW, MX, MY, MZ, NA, NG, NI, (30) Priority Data: NO, NZ, OM, PA, PE, PG, PH, PL, PT, QA, RO, RS, RU, 61/582,104 30 December 2011 (30.12.2011) US RW, SC, SD, SE, SG, SK, SL, SM, ST, SV, SY, TH, TJ, 13/692,179 3 December 2012 (03.12.2012) US TM, TN, TR, TT, TZ, UA, UG, US, UZ, VC, VN, ZA, 13/692,224 3 December 2012 (03.12.2012) US ZM, ZW. (71) Applicant (for all designated States except US): (84) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every GOOGLE INC. [US/US]; 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, kind of regional protection available): ARIPO (BW, GH, Mountain View, California 94043 (US). GM, KE, LR, LS, MW, MZ, NA, RW, SD, SL, SZ, TZ, UG, ZM, ZW), Eurasian (AM, AZ, BY, KG, KZ, RU, TJ, (72) Inventors; and TM), European (AL, AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, (71) Applicants (for US only): STARENKY, Victor EE, ES, Fl, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LT, LU, LV, [CA/CA]; 33 Ivan Nelson Drive, Toronto, Ontario M2R MC, MK, MT, NL, NO, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SI, SK, SM, 3P6 (CA). KENNBERG, Aleksandr V. [CA/CA]; 23 TR), OAPI (BF, BJ, CF, CG, CI, CM, GA, GN, GQ, GW, Spring Street W., Waterloo, Ontario N2L 2Z7 (CA). ML, MR, NE, SN, TD, TG). RIDEOUT, Joseph [CA/CA]; B1O-619 Wild Ginger Av enue, Waterloo, Ontario N2V 2X1 (CA). [Continued on next page] (54) Title: CREATING AND DISCOVERING REAL-TIME CONVERSATIONS (57) Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparat us, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for discovering con 122 116 versations related to a location. One method uisto, Create includes receiving, at a server, location inform Conversations Conversation E ation related to a location of a user and determ 1) Party at Duke (4:15pm) - inning a plurality of real-time conversation ob 2)FireonElmSt.(pm) -jects that are associated with locations within 3)ConcertatPark(9:12am) ocation:ELM ST. an area related to the received location of the Smtcomputing device. The location associated with each of the plurality of real-time conver sation objects indicates a location of a user at 112 the time the user requested creation of the real 12 COVERSATON SYSTEM time conversation object. The method also in COVERSATION DATABASE cludes sending, to a computing device of the CVI Duser, information representing the determined real-time conversation objects. 104 COVERSATION OBJECT 118 120 106o NETWORK CONVERSATION INDEXER F __120 FIG. 1 W O 2 0 13 /10 15 0 5 A 2 ||IlIlII|Ill|||lllllllllIIlI|||III||||||||||D||I|I|||||I|D||||I|||||||||||||||||||||I| Published: - without international search report and to be republished upon receipt of that report (Rule 48.2(g))