Source: http://www.google.ca/patents/US9729476
Timestamp: 2018-01-21 20:58:57
Document Index: 428417237

Matched Legal Cases: ['application No. 60', 'Application No. 01954931', 'Application No. 03731244', 'Application No. 03731244', 'Application No. 2002', 'Application No. 2']

Patent US9729476 - Personalization of recent contacts list - Google Patents
Personalizing communications for a first communication platform includes accessing status information for communication sessions by a communication identity that leverage a first communication platform other than an instant messaging platform. A participant list associated with the communication identity...http://www.google.ca/patents/US9729476?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US9729476 - Personalization of recent contacts list
Publication number US9729476 B2
Application number US 13/618,683
Also published as CA2462037A1, CA2462037C, CN1578952A, CN1578952B, CN101815039A, CN101815039B, EP1430411A1, EP1430411A4, US7512652, US9083661, US20090248816, US20130080551, US20170339079, US20170339080, WO2003030003A1, WO2003030003A8
Publication number 13618683, 618683, US 9729476 B2, US 9729476B2, US-B2-9729476, US9729476 B2, US9729476B2
Inventors Barry Appelman, James A. Roskind
Patent Citations (333), Non-Patent Citations (264), Classifications (11), Legal Events (1)
US 9729476 B2
accessing information for communications sessions by a user of a communication system and a plurality of other users of the communication system;
generating, based on one or more interactions between the user and the plurality of other users, a recent contact group having a fixed size and comprising a subset of the plurality of other users who have had recent interactions with the user;
providing the recent contact group for display to the user;
detecting, after generating the recent contact group, one or more additional interactions between the user and a first co-user from the plurality of other users who is not in the recent contact group;
identifying, upon detecting the one or more additional interactions between the user and the first co-user, a second co-user from among the subset of the plurality of other users who have had recent interactions with the user and having had the least recent interactions with the user from among the subset of the plurality of other users;
modifying, based on the one or more additional interactions between the user and the first co-user, the recent contact group by adding the first co-user to the recent contact group and removing the second co-user from the recent contact group; and
providing the modified recent contact group for display to the user.
2. The method of claim 1, further comprising persistently maintaining the recent contact group associated with the user at the communication system.
3. The method of claim 1, further comprising monitoring a communication availability of the subset of other users corresponding to an offline status or online status of the subset of other users relative to the communication system; and
organizing the subset of other users within the recent contact group based on the communication availability of the subset of other users.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein modifying the recent contact group further comprises reordering the subset of other users in the recent contact group.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein reordering the subset of other users in the recent contact group comprises listing the users within the subset of other users based on recency of communication.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein modifying the recent contact group further comprises decreasing the fixed size of the recent contact group and removing a user from the recent contact group.
7. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving, as a user preference, a predetermined number of users to include within the recent contact group.
8. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing the recent contact group at a communication server of the communication system together with a user profile associated with the user.
9. The method of claim 1, further comprising maintaining information associated with the user of the communication system.
10. The method of claim 9, wherein the information associated with the user of the communication system comprises a buddy list, the buddy list comprising a second subset of other users from the plurality of other users, wherein the buddy list is configured to allow the user to monitor a communication availability of the second subset of other users and initiate one or more communications with the second subset of other users.
detecting an interaction between the user and a co-user from the second subset of other users; and
preserving the co-user from the second subset of others users in the recent contact group based on the interaction between the user and the co-user from the second subset of other users.
generating, based on one or more interactions between a user and a plurality of other users, a recent contact group having a fixed size and comprising a subset of other users from the plurality of other users, the subset of other users having had recent interactions with the user;
detecting, by at least one processor and after generating the recent contact group, one or more additional interactions between the user and one or more co-users from the plurality of other users who were not in the recent contact group;
identifying, upon detecting the one or more additional interactions between the user and the one or more co-users, a first co-user from the one or more co-users from the plurality of other users who were not in the recent contact group and having had the most recent interactions with the user; and
identifying, upon detecting the one or more additional interactions between the user and one or more co-users, a second co-user from among the subset of the plurality of other users who have had recent interactions with the user and having had the least recent interactions with the user from among the subset of the plurality of other users;
modifying the recent contact group based on the one or more additional interactions between the user and the one or more co-users by adding the first co-user to the subset of other users of the recent contact group and removing the second co-user from the recent contact group; and
13. The method of claim 12, wherein modifying the recent contact group further comprises rearranging an order of the recent contact group.
14. The method of claim 13, wherein rearranging the order of the recent contact group comprises rearranging the order based on a recency of communications.
15. The method of claim 12, further comprising maintaining information associated with the user that comprises a buddy list, the buddy list comprising a second subset of other users from the plurality of users, wherein the buddy list is configured to allow the user to monitor a communication availability of the second subset of other users and initiate one or more communications with the second subset of other users.
16. The method of claim 15, wherein the subset of other users within the recent contact group do not overlap the second subset of other users within the buddy list.
generate, based on one or more interactions between a user and a plurality of other users, a recent contact group having a fixed size and comprising a subset of other users from the plurality of other users;
provide the recent contact group for display to the user;
detect, after generating the recent contact group, one or more additional interactions between the user and a first co-user from the plurality of other users who is not in the recent contact group;
identify, upon detecting the one or more additional interactions between the user and the first co-user, a second co-user from among the subset of the plurality of other users who have had recent interactions with the user and having had the least recent interactions with the user from among the subset of the plurality of other users;
modify, based on the one or more additional interactions between the user and the co-user from the plurality of other users by adding the first co-user to the recent contact group and removing the second co-user from the recent contact group; and
provide the modified recent contact group for display to the user.
18. The system of claim 17, further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to, based on one or more further interactions, reorder the subset of other users within the recent contact group; remove a user from the recent contact group; and add a user to the recent contact group.
19. The system of claim 17, further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to maintain the fixed size of the recent contact group as a predetermined number of users within the recent contact group set according to preferences of the user.
20. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing, within the recent contact group, an indication of a communication platform associated with each co-user in the recent contact group, wherein the indication of the communication platform indicates one or more of a plurality of communication platforms through which communication with each co-user is available.
receiving, from the user, a selection of a co-user from the recent contact group; and
initiating, in response to the received selection, a communication session between the user and the co-user via a communication platform corresponding to an indication of a communication platform associated with the co-user.
22. The method of claim 10, wherein providing the recent contact group for display to the user consists of enabling presentation of the recent contact group within the buddy list.
The present application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 12/336,880, filed Dec. 17, 2008, which is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/184,002, filed Jun. 28, 2002, which is now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 7,512,652, which is a continuation in part of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/134,437, filed Apr. 30, 2002, which is now issued as U.S. Pat. No. 7,765,484, which claims the benefit of and priority to U.S. provisional application No. 60/325,084, filed Sep. 28, 2001.
In one implementation, a participant identity may be added to the participant list only when a communication session with the participant identity is closed. Additionally or alternatively, a participant identity may be added to the participant list only when a communication session with the participant identity is closed and the participant identity is not already included in the participant list. The participant identity may be listed as the most recently closed on the list.
FIGS. 13a, 13b , and 14 are user interfaces that may be displayed by the communications system of FIGS. 1-5.
The client device 220 typically includes a general-purpose computer 270 having an internal or external storage 272 for storing data and programs such as an operating system 274 (e.g., DOS, Windows™, Windows 95™, Windows 95™, Windows 2000™, Windows Me™, Windows XP™, Windows NT™, OS/2, or Linux) and one or more application programs. Examples of application programs include authoring applications 276 (e.g., word processing programs, database programs, spreadsheet programs, or graphics programs) capable of generating documents or other electronic content; client applications 278 (e.g., AOL client, CompuServe client, AIM client, AOL TV client, or ISP client) capable of communicating with other computer users, accessing various computer resources, and viewing, creating, or otherwise manipulating electronic content; and browser applications 280 (e.g., Netscape's Navigator or Microsoft's Internet Explorer) capable of rendering standard Internet content.
Moderating the IM session also may include updating an IM log (step 636). In general, an IM log includes a chronological record of IM activity (e.g., the existence or status of separate and/or successful IM sessions, the opening or closing of an IM session, the communication of instant messages during each separate and/or successful IM session, the request or receipt of alerts, or the connection or disconnection with the host). The IM log may be stored and maintained on the host 604 (e.g., by database 5914 of IM host 590), the sender 602 a (e.g., by memory 272 of the client device), and/or the recipient 602 b (e.g., by memory 272 of the client device). Entries in the IM log may be ordered, deleted, edited, and/or otherwise managed by the host 604, the sender 602 a, and/or the recipient 602 b. For example, the host 604 may queue, order, and arrange entries in the IM log based on time, subscribers (e.g., screen names), topic, relevance, and/or any other ranking criteria.
After a list of N different screen names is compiled, a user profile is accessed (step 640). In general, a user profile corresponds to a particular subscriber and may include, for example, the subscriber's buddy list, alert preferences, identified interests, geographic location, and user contact information (e.g., phone numbers, e-mail addresses, screen names, and mailing address). The user profile of a subscriber may be stored and maintained on the host 604 (e.g., IM host 590, database 5914), the sender 602 a (e.g., client device, memory 272), and/or the recipient 602 b (e.g., client device, memory 272). In one implementation, portions of the user profile may be stored and maintained in several remote locations. Typically, a subscriber actively enters, edits and/or deletes the content of the user profile, for example, by using an installed IM client application to fill out an electronic form. In this case, however, access of the user profile may occur transparently to the subscriber. That is, the user profile is accessed without requiring any user action (e.g., selection or configuration by the subscriber). In one implementation, the host 604 (e.g., profile server 5912, IM server 5902) accesses the user profile. In other implementations, an installed IM client application is configured to transparently access a local user profile.
Still further, the order of screen names within the Recent Contacts group 812 may be rearranged based on the relative time of session closure or disconnection. For instance, assume that a first IM session with Employee X is opened and closed, a second IM session with Employee Y is subsequently opened and closed, and a third IM session with Employee X is later opened and closed. In this case, before the third IM session is initiated, the Recent Contacts group 812 may order Employee Y ahead of Employee X since the second IM session opened and/or closed before the first IM session. However, after the third IM session, their order may be reversed to reflect the opening and/or closing of an IM session (the third) with Employee X, which occurred more recently than with Employee Y.
Examples of each element of FIG. 12 are broadly described with respect to FIGS. 1-5 above. In particular, the sender 1202 a and the recipient 1202 b may have attributes comparable to those described above with respect to client devices 120, 220, 320, 420, and 520 and/or client controllers 125, 225, 325, 425, and 525. The host 1204 may have attributes comparable to those described above with respect to host devices 135, 235, 335, 435, and 535 and/or host controllers 140, 240, 340, 440, and 540. The sender 1202 a, the recipient 1202 b, and/or the host 1204 may be directly or indirectly interconnected through a known or described delivery network, such as delivery networks 160, 260, 360, 460, and 560.
A list of screen names for the most recent communications including communications other than instant messages may be derived from the communication log automatically (step 1222). The sender 1202 a, the recipient 1202 b, and/or the host 1204 may be configured to derive such a list, which may be limited by various preselection criteria such as a number (N) of communications of a selected type or of all types collectively aggregated, or a proximity in the time of the communication to the time of the display. For example, at any time, the last N different screen names with whom a particular subscriber has had a communication session may be determined from an updated communication log. The number N may be any predetermined number set according to preferences of the sender 1202 a, the recipient 1202 b, and/or the host 1204, or it may be user-selectable. The manner for storing and ordering the communication log may be as described above with respect to the IM log of FIG. 6.
As described above with respect to UI 800 of FIG. 8 and UI 900 of FIG. 9, the user interfaces may be passively configured to include a Recent Contacts group for communication sessions. The Recent Contacts group may reflect communication sessions having a type other than an IM session. For instance, a Recent Contacts group for communication sessions other than IM sessions may be included as an integrated and/or distinct subset of the Recent Contacts group that also includes recent contacts from IM sessions, it may be a separate group unto itself, or it may be further split into one or more groups based on the type of communication session with which the recent contact occurred. For example, there may be a Recent Contacts E-mail group, a Recent Contacts Phone group, and/or a Recent Contacts for Voice Over IP group, which may be displayed as subsets of or which may be substituted for the Recent Contacts group shown by FIGS. 8 and 9.
FIG. 13a illustrates a UI 1300 that may be passively configured and includes a Buddy List Window 1305 having a List Setup box 1310. The List Setup box 1310 includes one or more IM groups, for example, a Recent Contacts group 1312. In this example, the Recent Contacts group 1312 includes subset groups of Recent Contacts groups such as, for example, a Recent IM Contacts group 1314, a Recent E-mail Contacts group 1316, a Recent Voice Over IP Contacts group 1318, and a Recent Phone Contacts group 1320. UI 1300 also may be displayed using the Online box tab.
FIG. 13b illustrates a UI 1350 that may be passively configured and includes a Buddy List window 1355 having a List Setup box 1360. The List Setup box 1360 includes one or more IM groups, for example, a Recent IM Contacts group 1362, a Recent E-mail Contacts group 1364, a Recent Voice Over IP Contacts group 1366, and a Recent Phone Contacts group 1368. In this example, the IM groups are independent of a parent Recent Contacts group and instead are separate IM groups. UI 1350 also may be displayed using the Online box tab.
Additionally, UI 1300 of FIG. 13a and UI 1350 of FIG. 13b may be configured (e.g., passively configured) to display other types of information to a user in addition to or in substitution of that described above. In one implementation, for example, UI 1300 and UI 1350 may include information for group members other than or in addition to the screen names for group members, such as, for example, contact information (e.g., phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and mailing addresses). The contact information may be obtained from a user profile that may be stored and maintained on the host 604 of FIG. 6 (e.g., IM host 590, database 5914), the sender 602 a of FIG. 6 (e.g., client device, memory 272), and/or the recipient 602 b of FIG. 6 (e.g., client device, memory 272).
As a result, a subscriber may participate in an e-mail session with an e-mail contact using a personal computer. An identifier and/or e-mail address of the recent e-mail contact may be passively added to the subscriber Recent E-mail Contacts group. Concurrently, an identifier and/or e-mail address for that recent e-mail contact also may be reflected within the subscriber's Recent Contact group (e.g., Recent E-mail Contacts group) presented on another device (e.g., a PDA). The subscriber may select the identifier and/or e-mail address to initiate a communication session (e.g., an e-mail session or an IM session) with the recent e-mail contact from either device. Similarly, other recent contacts from all of the communication types may be presented to the user across multiple devices to enable different types of communication sessions to be initiated from one or more of the devices.
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