Enhanced buddy list interface

• US 20040172456A1
• Filed: 11/18/2003
• Published: 09/02/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Inventors: Green, Mitchell Chapin, Chickering, Roger, Gang, David
• Application Number:
  US10/715,207
• Publication Number:
  US 20040172456A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/207
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/224 providing notification on incoming messages, e.g. pushed notifications of received messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4594 Address books, i.e. directories containing contact information about correspondents telephone directories in user terminals H04M1/27453
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2203/45 related to voicemail messaging
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/533 Voice mail systems

Abstract

A graphical user interface between a client system used by a user to access a computer service and a host system of the computer service includes a list of other users of the computer service selected by the user as significant to the user, a list of computer resources stored on the host system by the user, and a list of links to data content, that have been selected by the user.

Claims

1. A graphical user interface between a client system used by a user to access a computer service and a host system of the computer service, the graphical user interface comprising:

a list of other users of the computer service selected by the user as significant to the user, and

a list of computer resources stored on the host system by the user.

2. The graphical user interface of claim 1, wherein the computer service includes an instant messaging computer service and the list of other users includes presence information for each of the other users.

3. The graphical user interface of claim 1, further comprising a supplemental interface related to a computer resource in the list of computer resources, wherein the supplemental interface enables the user to grant access to the computer resource to another user of the computer service.

4. The graphical user interface of claim 1, further comprising a list of other users to whom the user has granted access to one of the computer resources stored on the host system by the user.

5. The graphical user interface of claim 1, further comprising a list of other users to whom the user has granted the ability to access and modify one of the computer resources stored on the host system by the user.

6. The graphical user interface of claim 1, wherein a computer resource is represented by an icon within the graphical user interface.

7. The graphical user interface of claim 6, wherein the icon, when selected by the user, activates an application to open the computer resource for the user.

8. The graphical user interface of claim 1, wherein at least one computer resource in the list of computer resources is a data file containing text that can be accessed and modified by the user.

9. The graphical user interface of claim 8, wherein the at least one computer resource is a data file containing text that can be accessed and modified by another user to whom permission to access and modify the data file has been granted by the user.

10. The graphical user interface of claim 1, further comprising a list of links to data content, wherein the links are selected by the user.

11. A method comprising:

providing a computer service to a user; and

displaying a graphical user interface between a client system used by the user to access the computer service and a host system of the computer service, wherein the graphical user interface comprises;

a list of other users of the computer service selected by the user as significant to the user, and

a list of computer resources stored on the host system by the user.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

receiving an instruction from the user to grant access to another user of the computer service to a computer resource stored on the host system by the user; and

granting access to the other user.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising displaying a list of other users who can access a computer resource stored on the host system by the user.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

displaying a supplemental interface related to one of the computer resources in the list of computer resources; and

in the supplemental interface, displaying a list of other users who have been granted access by the user to the one of the computer resources.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein the list of other users includes a list of other users who can access and modify a computer resource stored on the host system by the user.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

displaying a supplemental interface related to one of the other users in the list of other users; and

in the supplemental interface, displaying a list of computer resources to which the one of the other users has been granted access by the user.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein a computer resource is represented by an icon within the graphical user interface.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising activating an application to open the computer resource for the user when the icon is selected by the user.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein a computer resource in the list of computer resources is a data file containing text that can be modified by the user.

20. The method of claim 11, wherein a computer resource in the list of computer resources is a data file containing text that can be accessed and modified by another user to whom permission has been granted by the user to access and modify the data file.

21. The method of claim 11, wherein the graphical user interface further comprises a list of links to data content, wherein the links are selected by the user.

22. A graphical user interface between a client system used by a user to access a computer service and a host system of the computer service, the graphical user interface comprising:

a list of other users of the computer service selected by the user as significant to the user; and

a list of links to data content that have been selected by the user.

23. The graphical user interface of claim 22, wherein the computer service includes an instant messaging computer service and the list of other users includes presence information for each of the other users.

24. The graphical user interface of claim 22, further comprising a list of other users with whom a link has been shared.

25. The graphical user interface of claim 22, wherein a database storing the list of links is stored on the host system.

26. The graphical user interface of claim 22, wherein a link is represented by an icon within the graphical user interface.

27. The graphical user interface of claim 26, wherein the icon, when selected by the user, activates an application to open the link for the user.

28. A method comprising:

providing a computer service to a user; and

displaying a graphical user interface between a client system used by the user to access the computer service and a host system of the computer service, wherein the graphical user interface comprises;

a list of other users of the computer service selected by the user as significant to the user, and

a list of links to data content, wherein the links are selected by the user.

29. The method of claim 28, further comprising:

receiving an instruction from the user to inform another user of the computer service about a link within the list of links, wherein the instruction is sent by the user from within the graphical user interface; and

informing the other user of the link.

30. The method of claim 28, further comprising displaying a list of other users who have been informed about a link within the list of links.

31. The method of claim 28, further comprising:

displaying a supplemental interface related to one of the links in the list of links; and

in the supplemental interface, displaying a list of other users who have been informed about a link within the list of links.

32. The method of claim 28, further comprising:

displaying a supplemental interface related to one of the other users in the list of other users; and

in the supplemental interface, displaying a list of links about which the one of the other users has been informed.

33. The method of claim 28, wherein a link is represented by an icon within the graphical user interface.

34. The method of claim 33, further comprising activating an application to open the link for the user when the icon is selected by the user.