Method for dynamically targeted instant messaging

• US 7,660,846 B2
• Filed: 12/01/2003
• Issued: 02/09/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Feigenbaum, Lee D., Albornoz, Jordi
• Primary Examiner(s): Walsh; John B.
• Application Number:
  US10/724,969
• Publication Number:
  US 20050120077A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,262 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]

Abstract

A network communication system for instant messaging comprising: a client-server network system with a server in communication with a client and a server and a network for communication therebetween, each of the server and the client operating as at least one of a sender and a recipient of a combined message; wherein the combined message includes a code and a communications message; and wherein the sender transmits at least one of the code and the combined message to the recipient. A method for instant messaging in a network communication system comprising: formulating a combined message to a recipient, the combined message including a code and a communications message; and transmitting at least one of the code and the combined message to a recipient.

Claims

1. A method for instant messaging in a network communication system including a sending computing device and a receiving computing device comprising:

formulating at the sending computing device a combined message to a recipient, said combined message including a predictive code and a communications message;

establishing a state variable associated with said recipient, the state variable including one or more parameters, wherein said state variable includes a function configured to select code operating at the recipient computing device and the state variable is updated by the selected code, the state variable being stored at the recipient computing device;

transmitting said predictive code and said communications message to the recipient computing device at the same time;

executing the predictive code at the recipient computing system; and

delivering the communications message to the recipient computing system if the predictive code returns a first value and discarding the communications if the predictive code returns a second value.

2. The method of claim 1 further including:

transmitting a modifying code to the recipient that causes a persistent state associated with the recipient to be modified.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein said state variable corresponds to one or more aspects of a state of said recipient.

4. The method of claim 1 further including storing the state variable on a server separate from a recipient.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein said code evaluates a state of said recipient.

6. The method of claim 5 wherein said a state of said recipient includes whether a messages has been previously received.

7. The method of claim 1 further including establishing a security mechanism at a recipient to ensure that code transmitted to, and executed at, a recipient is noninvasive.