Multiple personalities
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Abstract
A computer implemented method enables perception of multiple online personas in an instant messaging communications session by identifying at least two identities within a communications environment to whom messages may be directed, and by enabling a first persona of a user to be projected to a first of the identities while concurrently enabling a second persona of the same user to be projected to a second of the identities.
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149 Claims
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1-111. -111. (canceled)
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112. A method for enabling projection of multiple personas over an instant messaging platform, the method comprising:
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identifying, using a processor, a single textual identifier for a user, the single textual identifier used to represent the user in an instant messaging communication environment; identifying a plurality of the user'"'"'s buddies, each of the user'"'"'s buddies being configured to communicate with the user through an instant messaging communications session; associating a first persona and a second persona with the single textual identifier of the user; associating an attribute of the first persona with a first functionality; associating an attribute of the second persona with a second functionality, the second functionality differing from the first functionality; rendering an instant messaging application user interface for a first instant messaging communications session involving the single textual identifier and a first user'"'"'s buddy; determining, based a set of criteria, whether to project one or more of the first persona and the second persona in the user interface for the first instant messaging communications session; and based on the determining, projecting the first persona, the second persona, or a combination of the first persona and the second persona, in the user interface for the first instant messaging communications session. - View Dependent Claims (113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127)
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128. A system for enabling projection of multiple personas over an instant messaging platform, the system comprising:
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a storage device that stores a plurality of instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the plurality of instructions to; identify a single textual identifier for a user, the single textual identifier used to represent the user in an instant messaging communication environment; identify a plurality of the user'"'"'s buddies, the user'"'"'s buddies being configured to communicate with the user through an instant messaging communications session; associate a first persona and a second persona with the single textual identifier of the user; associate an attribute of the first persona with a first functionality; associate an attribute of the second persona with a second functionality, the second functionality differing from the first functionality; render an instant messaging application user interface for a first instant messaging communications session involving the single textual identifier and a first user'"'"'s buddy; determine, based a set of criteria, whether to project one or more of the first persona and the second persona in the user interface for the first instant messaging communications session; and based on the determining, projecting the first persona, the second persona, or a combination of the first persona and the second persona in the user interface for the first instant messaging communications session. - View Dependent Claims (129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138)
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139. A non-transitory tangible computer readable storage medium encoded with a plurality of instructions that, when executed on a processor, operate to cause the processor to perform a method comprising:
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identifying a single textual identifier for a user, the single textual identifier used to represent the user in an instant messaging communication environment; identifying a plurality of the user'"'"'s buddies, the user'"'"'s buddies being configured to communicate with the user through an instant messaging communications session;
associating a first persona and a second persona with the single textual identifier of the user;associating an attribute of the first persona with a first functionality; associating an attribute of the second persona with a second functionality, the second functionality differing from the first functionality; rendering an instant messaging application user interface for a first instant messaging communications session involving the single textual identifier and a first user'"'"'s buddy; determining, based a set of criteria, whether to project one or more of the first persona and the second persona in the user interface for the first instant messaging communications session; and based on the determining, projecting the first persona, the second persona, or a combination of the first persona and the second persona in the user interface for the first instant messaging communications session. - View Dependent Claims (140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149)
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