Overlaid Display of Messages in the User Interface of Instant Messaging and Other Digital Communication Services
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1. A computer implemented method, comprising the steps of:
- providing an instant messaging client application user interface for an instant messaging communications session involving at least one instant message recipient and an instant message sender;
said at least one instant message recipient receiving a communication that comprises a message to be displayed to said at least one instant message recipient; and
said message comprising at least one presentational parameter that is selected by said instant message sender;
wherein the selection of said at least one presentational parameter of said message is effected by said sender by means of a sequence of text of at least one character comprised in the user input for said message and said sequence of text being visible to said sender but not presented to said recipient.
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Abstract
The invention relates to instant messaging communications, and more particularly to overlaid messages, e.g. texts, graphics, images, animations, movies, or any combination of them, with or without sounds, that are delivered from a sender'"'"'s instant message client to at least one recipient'"'"'s instant message client. Typically, such overlaid messages are displayed for a brief period of time and often overlaid on the session window, or on any chosen area of the client system screen, and may be displayed for longer time in the transcript of the communications usually small-sized or, for example, otherwise transformed, represented, or indicated.
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8 Claims
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1. A computer implemented method, comprising the steps of:
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providing an instant messaging client application user interface for an instant messaging communications session involving at least one instant message recipient and an instant message sender; said at least one instant message recipient receiving a communication that comprises a message to be displayed to said at least one instant message recipient; and said message comprising at least one presentational parameter that is selected by said instant message sender; wherein the selection of said at least one presentational parameter of said message is effected by said sender by means of a sequence of text of at least one character comprised in the user input for said message and said sequence of text being visible to said sender but not presented to said recipient. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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