ENDORSABLE ENTITY PRESENTATION BASED UPON PARSED INSTANT MESSAGES

• US 20100235235A1
• Filed: 03/10/2009
• Published: 09/16/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Hosseini, S. Farid, Jones, Katherine, Parker, Christopher
• Application Number:
  US12/400,989
• Publication Number:
  US 20100235235A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.490
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements

Abstract

During an instant message conversation, instant message users may be presented with advertisements, news headlines, hyperlinks to web pages, and other additional information. It may be advantageous to provide targeted information that may be relevant to the current conversation between the instant message users. As provided herein, an endorsable entity may be presented to an instant message user based upon parsing an instant message from an instant message conversation. An instant message may be parsed for a proper noun (e.g., a word or grouping of words within the instant message text). The proper noun (e.g., a retail product) may be compared to an index to determine a topic of interest (e.g., a manufacturer of the particular retail product). The topic of interest may be used to determined an endorsable entity (e.g., an advertisement of the manufacturer), which may be presented to instant message users engaged in the instant message conversation.

Claims

1. A method for presenting an endorsable entity based upon a parsed instant message comprising:

parsing an instant message (IM) for a proper noun;

comparing the proper noun to an index to determine a topic of interest; and

presenting an endorsable entity to an IM user based upon the topic of interest.

2. The method of claim 1, the comparing comprising determining if a variation of the proper noun is present in the index.

3. The method of claim 2, the variation comprising at least one of:

an expansion of the proper noun;

a contraction of the proper noun; and

an acronym of the proper noun.

4. The method of claim 1, the parsing comprising monitoring real-time data of an IM session between one or more users.

5. The method of claim 1, the endorsable entity comprising at least one of:

an advertisement corresponding to the topic of interest;

a hyperlink linking to a web page corresponding to the topic of interest;

a user interface (UI) element corresponding to the topic of interest; and

a subscription request corresponding to the topic of interest.

6. The method of claim 1, comprising:

creating a feed item within a social network based upon a user invoking the endorsable entity.

7. The method of claim 1, comprising:

creating an intelligent suggestion based upon a proper noun parsed at a frequency exceeding a predetermined threshold, wherein the proper noun is not within the index.

8. The method of claim 1, comprising:

determining the endorsable entity based upon querying an endorsement engine with the topic of interest.

9. The method of claim 1, the presenting comprising:

encoding the endorsable entity within IM metadata associated with the IM;

delivering the IM and the IM metadata to an IM recipient; and

presenting the endorsable entity to the IM recipient.

10. The method of claim 1, the presenting comprising:

encoding the endorsable entity within IM metadata;

sending the IM metadata to an IM sender; and

presenting the endorsable entity to the IM sender.

11. A system for presenting an endorsable entity based upon a parsed instant message comprising:

a parsing component configured to parse an instant message (IM) for a proper noun;

a lookup component configured to compare the proper noun to an index to determine a topic of interest; and

a presentation component configured to present an endorsable entity to an UI user based upon the topic of interest.

12. The system of claim 11, comprising:

an endorsement component configured to determine the endorsable entity by querying an endorsement engine with the topic of interest.

13. The system of claim 11, the parsing component configured to monitor real-time data of an IM session between one or more users.

14. The system of claim 11, the endorsable entity comprising at least one:

an advertisement corresponding to the topic of interest;

a hyperlink linking to a web page corresponding to the topic of interest;

a user interface (UI) element corresponding to the topic of interest; and

a subscription request corresponding to the topic of interest.

15. The system of claim 11, the presentation component configured to create a feed item within a social network based upon a user invoking the endorsable entity.

16. The system of claim 11, the lookup component configured to create an intelligent suggestion based upon a proper noun parsed at a frequency exceeding a predetermined threshold, wherein the proper noun is not within the index.

17. The system of claim 11, the lookup component configured to determine if a variation of the proper noun is present in the index.

18. The system of claim 11, the presentation component configured to:

encode the endorsable entity within IM metadata associated with the IM;

deliver the IM and the IM metadata to an IM recipient; and

present the endorsable entity to the IM recipient.

19. The system of claim 11, the presentation component configured to:

encode the endorsable entity within IM metadata;

deliver the IM metadata to an IM sender; and

present the endorsable entity to the IM sender as a hyperlink within a conversation history.

20. A method for presenting an endorsable entity based upon a parsed instant message comprising:

receiving an instant message (IM) from a IM sender;

parsing the instant message (IM) for a proper noun;

comparing the proper noun to an index to determine a topic of interest;

determining an endorsable entity based upon the topic of interest;

encoding the endorsable entity within a first IM metadata and a second IM metadata;

sending the first IM metadata to the IM sender and the second IM metadata to an IM recipient; and

presenting the endorsable entity within the first IM metadata to the IM sender and the endorsable entity within the second IM metadata to the IM recipient.