METHOD FOR AN INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEM AND INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEM

• US 20130103772A1
• Filed: 10/24/2012
• Published: 04/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2011
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: LEE, WAI MAN, LAU, MING TUNG
• Application Number:
  US13/659,472
• Publication Number:
  US 20130103772A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]

Abstract

Processing for an Instant Messaging IM system includes obtaining contents of an IM session, identifying participants of the IM session, extracting, using a central processing unit, keywords of the IM session from the contents, and associating the keywords of the IM session, the participants of the IM session with the corresponding IM session.

Claims

1. A method for an Instant Messaging IM system, comprising:

obtaining contents of an IM session;

identifying participants of the IM session;

extracting, using a central processing unit, keywords of the IM session from the contents; and

associating the keywords of the IM session, the participants of the IM session with the corresponding IM session.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

obtaining access permissions of the IM session; and

associating the access permissions of the IM session with the corresponding IM session.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

clustering IM sessions, wherein each IM session cluster comprises at least one IM session and the contents of the at least one IM session have a related topic.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein for at least one IM session cluster:

extracting keywords of the IM session cluster;

taking the participants of at least one IM session included in the IM session cluster as participants of the IM session cluster.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein extracting keywords of the IM session cluster comprises:

taking the keywords of at least one IM session included in the IM session cluster as keywords of the IM session cluster.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein for at least one IM session cluster:

associating the keywords of the IM session cluster, the participants of the IM session cluster with the IM session cluster.

7. The method of claim 3, wherein for at least one IM session cluster:

obtaining access permissions of the IM session cluster;

associating the access permissions of the IM session cluster with the IM session cluster.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

visually outputting the association between the keywords of the IM session, the participants of the IM session and the corresponding IM session.

9. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

visually outputting the association between the keywords of the IM session cluster, the participants of the IM session cluster and the corresponding IM session cluster.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the participants of the IM session come from a social network.

11. A system for an Instant Messaging (IM) system, comprising:

a central processing unit programmed to initiate executable operations comprising;

obtaining contents of an IM session;

identifying participants of the IM session;

extracting keywords of the IM session from the contents; and

associating the keywords of the IM session, the participants of the IM session with the corresponding IM session.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the central processing unit is further programmed to initiate executable operations comprising:

obtaining access permissions of the IM session; and

associating the access permissions of the IM session with the corresponding IM session.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the central processing unit is further programmed to initiate executable operations comprising:

clustering IM sessions, wherein each IM session cluster comprises at least one IM session and the contents of the at least one IM session have a related topic.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein for at least one IM session cluster the central processing unit is further programmed to initiate executable operations comprising:

extracting keywords of the IM session cluster;

taking the participants of at least one IM session included in the IM session cluster as participants of the IM session cluster.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein extracting keywords of the IM session cluster comprises:

taking the keywords of at least one IM session included in the IM session cluster as keywords of the IM session cluster.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein for at least one IM session cluster the central processing unit is further programmed to initiate executable operations comprising:

associating the keywords of the IM session cluster, the participants of the IM session cluster with the IM session cluster.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein for at least one IM session cluster the central processing unit is further programmed to initiate executable operations comprising:

obtaining access permissions of the IM session cluster;

associating the access permissions of the IM session cluster with the IM session cluster.

18. The system of claim 11, wherein the central processing unit is further programmed to initiate executable operations comprising:

visually outputting the association between the keywords of the IM session, the participants of the IM session and the corresponding IM session.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the central processing unit is further programmed to initiate executable operations comprising:

visually outputting the association between the keywords of the IM session cluster, the participants of the IM session cluster and the corresponding IM session cluster.

20. The system of claim 11, wherein:

the participants of the IM session come from a social network.

21. A computer program product for an Instant Messaging (IM) system, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program code stored thereon, the program code executable by a central processing unit to perform a method comprising:

obtaining contents of an IM session;

identifying participants of the IM session;

extracting keywords of the IM session from the contents; and

associating the keywords of the IM session, the participants of the IM session with the corresponding IM session.

22. The computer program product of claim 21, wherein the method further comprises:

obtaining access permissions of the IM session; and

associating the access permissions of the IM session with the corresponding IM session.

23. The computer program product of claim 21, wherein the method further comprises:

clustering IM sessions, wherein each IM session cluster comprises at least one IM session and the contents of the at least one IM session have a related topic.

24. The computer program product of claim 23, wherein for at least one IM session cluster the method further comprises:

extracting keywords of the IM session cluster;

taking the participants of at least one IM session included in the IM session cluster as participants of the IM session cluster.

25. The computer program product of claim 24, wherein extracting keywords of the IM session cluster comprises:

taking the keywords of at least one IM session included in the IM session cluster as keywords of the IM session cluster.