AD HOC MESSAGE SHARING BETWEEN EMAIL AND SOCIAL NETWORKS

• US 20150319127A1
• Filed: 02/12/2015
• Published: 11/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/05/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Allen, Corville O., Helgeson, Lee N., Li, Jenny S., Sanders, Philip J.
• Granted Patent: US 9,929,999 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/42 Mailbox-related aspects, e.g. synchronisation of mailboxes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/56 Unified messaging, e.g. interactions between e-mail, instant messaging or converged IP messaging [CPM]

Abstract

There are provided a system, a method and a computer program product for sharing messages between an email client and a social network. The system prepares, based on an input from a sender, an email message by using the email client. The system identifies a portion of the email message to be shared with one or more users in the social network. The system tags the portion of the email message with identities of the one or more users in the social network. The system accesses the social network with credential of the sender. The system posts the portion of the email message on social network pages of the one or more users under a name of the sender.

Claims

1. A method for sharing messages between an email client and a social network, the method comprising:

preparing, based on an input from a sender, an email message by using the email client;

identifying a portion of the email message to be shared with one or more users in the social network;

tagging the portion of the email message with identities of the one or more users in the social network;

accessing the social network with credential of the sender; and

posting the portion of the email message on social network pages of the one or more users under a name of the sender,

wherein a processor connected to a memory device is configured to perform the preparing, the identifying, the tagging, the accessing and the posting.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein recipients of the email message and the one or more users are different.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the tagging includes one or more of:

a name of the tagging which represents a predefined set of social network users;

a type of the social network;

a key phrase of the portion; and

a title of the portion.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

storing, in a server device, the portion of the email message with the tagging.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

accessing an instant messenger with credential of the sender;

determining whether the one or more users are currently logged in the instant messenger; and

sending, by using the instant messenger, an instant message that includes the portion of the email message to the one or more users.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the posting on the social network pages includes one or more of:

a status message, a private message, an event or activity message, which represent the portion of the email message.

7. The method according to claim 2, further comprising:

sending the email message to the recipients; and

posting the portion of the email message on the social network pages,

wherein the sending the email message and the posting occur concurrently.

8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

converting the portion of the email message to the posting on the social network pages.