PREDICTING AVAILABILITY OF INSTANT MESSAGING USERS
First Claim
1. A probabilistic prediction method for instant messaging, the method comprising:
- collecting statistics for when different collaborators in an instant messaging system become available and unavailable;
selecting a particular one of the different collaborators;
computing a probabilistic likelihood that the particular one of the collaborators will become available by a specified time; and
,rendering the computed probabilistic likelihood in association with the particular one of the different collaborators.
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to instant messaging and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for probabilistic prediction of availability in an instant messaging system. In one embodiment of the invention, a probabilistic prediction method for instant messaging can be provided. The method can include collecting statistics for when different collaborators in an instant messaging system become available and unavailable. Thereafter, a particular one of the different collaborators can be selected and a probabilistic likelihood can be computed that the particular one of the collaborators will become available by a specified time. Finally, the computed probabilistic likelihood can be rendered in association with the particular one of the different collaborators.
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17 Claims
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1. A probabilistic prediction method for instant messaging, the method comprising:
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collecting statistics for when different collaborators in an instant messaging system become available and unavailable; selecting a particular one of the different collaborators; computing a probabilistic likelihood that the particular one of the collaborators will become available by a specified time; and
,rendering the computed probabilistic likelihood in association with the particular one of the different collaborators. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. An instant messaging data processing system, comprising:
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an instant messaging server configured for communicative coupling to a plurality of instant messaging clients over a computer communications network; a data store of instant messaging statistics indicating when different collaborators in the instant messaging system become available and unavailable; and
,probabilistic prediction logic coupled to each of the instant messaging server and the data store, the logic comprising program code enabled to select a particular one of the different collaborators, to compute a probabilistic likelihood that the particular one of the collaborators will become available by a specified time, and to render in a probabilistic pop-up the computed probabilistic likelihood in association with the particular one of the different collaborators. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10)
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11. A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium embodying computer usable program code for probabilistic prediction for instant messaging, the computer program product comprising:
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computer usable program code for collecting statistics for when different collaborators in an instant messaging system become available and unavailable; computer usable program code for selecting a particular one of the different collaborators; computer usable program code for computing a probabilistic likelihood that the particular one of the collaborators will become available by a specified time; and
,computer usable program code for rendering the computed probabilistic likelihood in association with the particular one of the different collaborators. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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