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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120130847 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SEARCHING IN AN ELECTRONIC COMMERCE ENVIRONMENT A method of searching an electronic commerce website includes searching a plurality of user profiles based upon a user-supplied search query for an item, establishing an interactive online session between the user and the at least one search facilitator, and providing f... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120110479 | PARTY CHAT SYSTEM, PROGRAM FOR PARTY CHAT SYSTEM AND INFORMATION RECORDING MEDIUM [Task] The present invention aims at providing a chat system capable of suitably displaying text information for which player requires in such a form that operability of the game is not damaged and in a form having reality. [Means for solvi... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120054646 | CONTEXTUAL CHAT MESSAGE GENERATION IN ONLINE ENVIRONMENTS Techniques are disclosed for providing an enhanced contextual chat feature in online environments. The contextual chat feature may be used to present users with a list of expressions that may be sent to other users within an online environment (or to users in other onli... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054645 | CONTEXTUAL CHAT BASED ON BEHAVIOR AND USAGE Techniques are disclosed for providing an enhanced contextual chat feature in online environments. The contextual chat feature may be used to present users with a list of expressions that may be sent to other users within an online environment (or to users in other onli... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120023420 | Graphical User Interface for Messaging System A method, system and graphical user interface for a chat room system is disclosed. One aspect of certain embodiments includes sending messages that originate from a user's current chat room as well as messages that originate from nearby chat rooms to the user. Both type... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023113 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHAT MESSAGE PRIORITIZATION AND HIGHLIGHTING A system and method is provided for chat message prioritization that uses a combination of machine-derived and user-supplied relevancy criteria to present a filtered, annotated, and/or highlighted chat stream.... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120023419 | SLIDER AND HISTORY FIELD FOR SMART CHAT SESSIONS A context sensitive slider content area provides a slide out mechanism that is automatically actuated when additional information is needed during a chat session between an agent and a visitor, e.g. where a pre-chat and/or exit form is to be completed. The context sensi... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120017149 | VIDEO WHISPER SESSIONS DURING ONLINE COLLABORATIVE COMPUTING SESSIONS In one embodiment, a plurality of attendee devices may participate in an online collaborative computing session to receive video and audio content for the online collaborative computing session. A particular attendee device may then either initiate or receive a communic... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120011454 | Method and system for intelligently mining data during communication streams to present context-sensitive advertisements using background substitution The present invention mines or extracts data present during interaction between at least two participants, for example in a chat session, a video session, etc. via the Internet. The data, which can include participant web camera generated video, audio, keyboard typed in... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110320373 | PRODUCT CONVERSATIONS AMONG SOCIAL GROUPS Conversations about products and product areas arise among users who also participate in social networks. These conversations often occur over generalized communications channels, such as email or social network messages, which may be unstructured and ephemeral. Such co... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110307807 | Game Invitations Through Peer-to-Peer Chat A web-server engagement invitation system operates from a computerized internet-connected server having a plurality of clients, and serves content as web pages or presentations to individual ones of the clients through software executing from a machine-readable medium. ... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110296320 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND GROUP CHAT CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF A mobile terminal and group chat controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which a chat content transceived in an performed group chat after a join-impossible state can be received in the course of performing the group chat if impossible to join the group chat. The p... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110276903 | Integrated Multi-Modal Chat Solutions for providing context-driven communications mode determinations. Some such solutions use a communications hub located in a home (e.g., a user supersystem) to facilitate context-driven, multi-modal communications. For example, a tablet system may be used as a g... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110276905 | COLLABORATION SYSTEM A method and controller are provided for use in a communication system including a plurality of user terminals in communication with each other and the controller via a plurality of communication channels. The method includes receiving, by the controller from a sender u... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110276904 | DOODLE-IN-CHAT-CONTEXT Solutions for providing integrated media services, e.g., in the context of communications services offered through a user supersystem configured as an interactive graphical communications hub. For example, interactions with a messaging interface may provide access to me... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110271213 | EVENT BASED SOCIAL NETWORKING APPLICATION A method and apparatus are provided for event-based sharing of audio/video in real-time along with chat text by anyone capturing or viewing the shared video. An IMS-based server acts as a hub for the shared audio/video and chat text, which is then distributed to all par... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110252337 | Messaging and Presence Protocol as a Configuration and Management Bus for Embedded Devices Techniques are provided herein for establishing at a network management server a presence on a network. A presence associated with one or more managed devices on the network is detected. An instant messaging (IM) session is established with the one or more managed devic... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110246910 | CONVERSATIONAL QUESTION AND ANSWER Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for facilitating online conversation. In one aspect, a method includes determining that a user has submitted a question to be viewed by trusted participants of an online c... | 10/06/2011 |
| 20110238815 | INTERRUPTIBILITY AWARENESS SERVICE Interruptibility awareness service enables a requestor to learn whether a requestee is interruptible, for instance, by obtaining current social interaction information of a requestee; determining whether the requestee is interruptible based on the requestee's current so... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110224999 | System and method for providing online fitness instruction The member-accessible internet site acts a hub for gyms from various locations to host their fitness classes live in either a one-way or two-way feed. A member-accessible internet site provides live one-way, and optional two-way, feeds to multiple live exercise classes ... | 09/15/2011 |
| 20110214073 | Providing a modified Non-Communication application interface for presenting a message A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: determining which of a plurality of end users are to be presented with a message, the plurality of end users having access to one or more non-communication applications through one or more non-communi... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110214074 | TEMPLATING AND PROVISIONING OF COLLABORATIVE FACILITIES FOR A DATA-AGNOSTIC COLLABORATION SERVICE Various embodiments herein include one or more of systems, methods, software, and/or data structures to create collaboration enabled client applications. In some embodiments, web services are provided on one or more servers that may be called by processes within client ... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110208664 | Employment portal enabling interactive mobile contact and feedback The present invention relates to an enabled real time interaction between an employer and a job seeker. The job seeker submits resume information on a job portal and may enable a chat session option should an employer request one. The job seeker may download a chat clie... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110191696 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLABORATIVE BROWSING ON THE TELECOM WEB Embodiments of the invention broadly contemplate systems, methods, apparatuses and program products providing collaborative browsing on the World Wide Telecom Web (WWTW) via a collaborative WWTW browser. According to embodiments of the invention, collaborative usage of ... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110191697 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISCOVERY OF LOCAL ACTIVITIES BASED ON AUTONOMOUS SUGGESTION FOR DISCOVERY OF LOCAL ACTIVITIES A computer-implemented method and system for autonomously suggesting an activity to a user of a locality platform application, based on a range of locality factors. The method comprises accessing a locality platform application at the user interface of the client device... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110166941 | System And Method For Hosting A Social Networking Website Having A Theme Of Achievement A social networking website is themed toward achievements and/or accomplishments of users. As such, the social network may provide users with a unitary platform over which users can share a variety of different accomplishments of a variety of different accomplishment ty... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110167359 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROVIDING ONLINE CHAT The present disclosure relates generally to digital conferencing. A chat server causes a chat user interface to appear as a popup window hovering over a web page. In response to a first event, the chat server causes the chat user interface to appear as part of the web p... | 07/07/2011 |
| 20110161839 | INTERCOM AND CHAT FOR HOME MEDIA NETWORK A media client presents a menu interface for a media client intercom and receives, via the menu interface, a signal from a user to initiate an intercom message. The media client receives a message input from the user, where the message input is provided through the huma... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110154224 | Methods, Systems and Platform Devices for Aggregating Together Users of a TVand/or an Interconnected Network Described herein are methods, systems, and devices comprising or utilizing a digital processing device comprising an operating system that is configured to read executable instructions for creating at least one contextual-based chatroom that is focused on a topic of int... | 06/23/2011 |
| 20110145334 | System and Method Enabling Future Messaging Directives Based on Past Participation via a History Monitor A system and method for controlling the flow of documents by associating Globally Unique Identifiers with each original document, each reply document, each copy document and each forwarded document, such as email messages. Historical analysis is performed on a locally s... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110126258 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SOCIAL NETWORK CHAT VIA A SET-TOP BOX A system and method for chatting between a set-top box and one or more social networks. One or more social networks is associated with a set-top box. User preferences are set for communications with one or more contacts included in the one or more social networks. A cha... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110125852 | KEYWORD FILTERED ALERTS FOR GROUP CHATS A method and apparatus for processing messages. In one illustrative embodiment, a processor unit determines whether a predetermined number of keywords or a predetermined number of combinations of keywords associated with a recipient of a message is present in the messag... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110126132 | SYSTEM AND METHODS OF GENERATING SOCIAL NETWORKS IN VIRTUAL SPACE A system and method of generating social networks within a virtual space, wherein the virtual space may be defined by the geographic location of the user or a metric based on a user attribute. The present invention permits a user to establish the outermost geographic bo... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110119264 | RANKING EXPERT RESPONSES AND FINDING EXPERTS BASED ON RANK In a computerized social network, expert and user chat sessions are stored and rated probabilistically. Later user requests for information are met with an expert ranking, based on a balance of similarities between expert profile and questions; similarity between expert... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110119599 | IM Conversation Management A method and apparatus for managing IM conversations is provided. In response to idle time and, preferably, read message status, particular current conversations are removed from a list of current conversations. The removed conversations may be moved to an archive which... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110119595 | Apparatus and Method for Browser Based Integration of Broadcast Television and Internet Content A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to adapt live broadcast content for display within a browser. The live broadcast content is displayed within the browser. Internet content related to the live broadcast is also supplied within the brows... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110061004 | Use of Communicator Application to Establish Communication with Experts A system is provided for using a communicator application to identify experts and to establish communication with experts. A computing device in the system causes a display device to display a graphical user interface (GUI) of the communicator application to a first use... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110052001 | AUTOMATIC ERROR DETECTION FOR INVENTORY TRACKING AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS USED AT A SHIPPING CONTAINER YARD A method automatically detects errors in a container inventory database associated with a container inventory tracking system of a container storage facility. A processor in the inventory tracking system performs a method that: obtains a first data record, identifies an... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110055735 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INITIATING AND MANAGING CHAT SESSIONS Method and apparatus for initiating and managing a chat session are described herein. According to one embodiment, user activities with respect to the data processing system are monitored, including user activities that are unrelated to chat services. In response to a r... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110047487 | TELEVISION CHAT SYSTEM A television chat system is provided that allows television viewers to engage in real-time communications in chat groups with other television viewers while watching television. Users of the television chat system may engage in real-time communications with other users ... | 02/24/2011 |
