Passive Personalization of Buddy Lists

• US 20090248816A1
• Filed: 12/17/2008
• Published: 10/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AOL LLC (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Roskind, James A., Appelman, Barry
• Granted Patent: US 9,083,661 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• 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 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

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 and the first communication platform is passively configured to persistently reflect a list of participant identities from communication sessions in which the communication identity recently participated using the communication platform.

Claims

1. A method of personalizing communications for a first communication platform, the method comprising:

accessing status information for communication sessions by a communication identity that leverage a first communication platform other than an instant messaging platform; and

passively configuring a participant list associated with the communication identity and the first communication platform to persistently reflect a list of participant identities from communication sessions in which the communication identity recently participated using the communication platform.