Layering destination-dependent content handling guidance

• US 8,065,404 B2
• Filed: 08/31/2007
• Issued: 11/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: The Invention Science Fund I, L.L.C. (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Mangione-Smith, William Henry, Lord, Robert W., Levien, Royce A., Jung, Edward K. Y., Malamud, Mark A., Rinaldo, John D. Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): DONAGHUE, LARRY D
• Application Number:
  US11/897,988
• Publication Number:
  US 20090313332A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,544 Days
• Field of Search: 709/223, 709/206
• US Class Current: 709/223
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

A system, method, computer program product, and carrier are described for obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance and presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

means for obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance, in which the means for obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance comprises at least one of

(a) means for prompting at least one user for the one or more potential recipient identifiers at least partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance,

(b) means for causing at least one user prompt to relate to the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance at least partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers,

(c) means for receiving at least one of the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance as a state transition indication relating to one or more graphical cues of the first content generation guidance, or

(d) means for generating the first content generation guidance at least partly by applying one or more quantitative criteria to message content; and

means for presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance.

2. The system of claim 1 in which the means for obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance comprises:

means for receiving at least one of the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance as a state transition indication relating to one or more graphical cues of the first content generation guidance.

3. The system of claim 1 in which the means for obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance comprises:

(a) means for prompting at least one user for the one or more potential recipient identifiers at least partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance.

4. The system of claim 1 in which the means for obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance comprises:

(b) means for causing at least one user prompt to relate to the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance at least partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers.

5. The system of claim 1 in which the means for obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance comprises:

(d) means for generating the first content generation guidance at least partly by applying one or more quantitative criteria to message content.

6. The system of claim 1 in which the means for presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance comprises:

(1) means for presenting the second content generation guidance and at least a portion of the first content generation guidance in a common image.

7. The system of claim 1 in which the means for presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance comprises:

(2) means for configuring the second content generation guidance to include at least one linguistic expression.

8. The system of claim 1 in which the means for presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance comprises:

(3) means for signaling whether any of the one or more potential recipient identifiers correspond with one or more criteria violated by tentative message content.

9. The system of claim 1 in which the means for presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance comprises:

(4) means for obtaining one or more content evaluation parameters at least partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers.

10. A system comprising:

circuitry for obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance; and

circuitry for presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance, in which the circuitry for presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance comprises at least one of

(1) circuitry for presenting the second content generation guidance and at least a portion of the first content generation guidance in a common image,

(2) circuitry for configuring the second content generation guidance to include at least one linguistic expression,

(3) circuitry for signaling whether any of the one or more potential recipient identifiers correspond with one or more criteria violated by tentative message content, or

(4) circuitry for obtaining one or more content evaluation parameters at least partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers.

11. The system of claim 10 in which the circuitry for obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance comprises:

circuitry for prompting at least one user for the one or more potential recipient identifiers at least partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance.

12. The system of claim 10 in which the circuitry for obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance comprises:

circuitry for causing at least one user prompt to relate to the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance at least partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers.

13. The system of claim 10 in which the circuitry for presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance comprises:

circuitry for configuring the second content generation guidance at least partly based on one or more local session attributes.

14. The system of claim 10 in which the circuitry for presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance comprises:

circuitry for configuring the second content generation guidance at least partly by applying one or more quantitative criteria to a message content indicator.

15. The system of claim 10 in which the circuitry for presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance comprises:

circuitry for presenting the second content generation guidance and at least a portion of the first content generation guidance in a common image.

16. The system of claim 10 in which the circuitry for presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance comprises:

circuitry for configuring the second content generation guidance to include at least one linguistic expression.

17. The system of claim 10 in which the circuitry for obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance comprises:

circuitry for configuring the one or more potential recipient identifiers to include one or more of a distribution list, a logical identifier, or more than one physical coordinate.

18. The system of claim 10 in which the circuitry for obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance comprises:

circuitry for receiving at least one of the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance as a state transition indication relating to one or more graphical cues of the first content generation guidance.

19. The system of claim 10 in which the circuitry for obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance comprises:

circuitry for generating the first content generation guidance at least partly by applying one or more quantitative criteria to message content.

20. The system of claim 10 in which the circuitry for presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance comprises:

circuitry for signaling whether any of the one or more potential recipient identifiers correspond with one or more criteria violated by tentative message content.

21. The system of claim 10 in which the circuitry for obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance comprises:

circuitry for causing at least one user prompt to relate to the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance at least partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers;

circuitry for configuring the one or more potential recipient identifiers to include one or more of a distribution list, a logical identifier, or more than one physical coordinate;

circuitry for receiving at least one of the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance as a state transition indication relating to one or more graphical cues of the first content generation guidance; and

circuitry for generating the first content generation guidance at least partly by applying one or more quantitative criteria to message content.

22. The system of claim 10 in which the circuitry for presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance comprises:

circuitry for obtaining one or more content evaluation parameters at least partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers;

circuitry for obtaining the second content generation guidance by using at least one of the one or more potential recipient identifiers;

circuitry for configuring the second content generation guidance partly based on one or more local session attributes and partly by applying one or more quantitative criteria to a message content indicator;

circuitry for presenting the second content generation guidance and at least a portion of the first content generation guidance in a common image; and

circuitry for signaling whether any of the one or more potential recipient identifiers correspond with one or more criteria violated by tentative message content.

23. The system of claim 11 in which the circuitry for presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifier and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance comprises:

(3) circuitry for signaling whether any of the one or more potential recipient identifiers correspond with one or more criteria violated by tentative message content.

24. The system of claim 15 in which the circuitry for obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance comprises:

(a) circuitry for prompting at least one user for the one or more potential recipient identifiers at least partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance.

25. The system of claim 16 in which the circuitry for obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance comprises:

(b) circuitry for causing at least one user prompt to relate to the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance at least partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers.

26. The system of claim 18 in which the circuitry for presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance comprises:

(2) circuitry for configuring the second content generation guidance to include at least one linguistic expression.

27. The system of claim 19 in which the circuitry for presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance comprises:

(4) circuitry for obtaining one or more content evaluation parameters at least partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers.

28. The system of claim 20 in which the circuitry for obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance comprises:

(c) circuitry for receiving at least one of the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance as a state transition indication relating to one or more graphical cues of the first content generation guidance.

29. The system of claim 20 in which the circuitry for obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance comprises:

(d) circuitry for generating the first content generation guidance at least partly by applying one or more quantitative criteria to message content.

56. The system of claim 10 in which the circuitry for presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance comprises:

circuitry for obtaining the second content generation guidance by using at least one of the one or more potential recipient identifiers.

30. A system comprising:

circuitry for obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance in which the circuitry for obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance comprises at least one of

(a) circuitry for prompting at least one user for the one or more potential recipient identifiers at least partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance,

(b) circuitry for causing at least one user prompt to relate to the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance at least partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers,

(c) circuitry for receiving at least one of the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance as a state transition indication relating to one or more graphical cues of the first content generation guidance, or

(d) circuitry for generating the first content generation guidance at least partly by applying one or more quantitative criteria to message content; and

circuitry for presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance.

31. The system of claim 30 in which the circuitry for obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance comprises:

(a) circuitry for prompting at least one user for the one or more potential recipient identifiers at least partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance.

32. The system of claim 30 in which the circuitry for obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance comprises:

(b) circuitry for causing at least one user prompt to relate to the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance at least partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers.

33. The system of claim 30 in which the circuitry for presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance comprises:

(6) circuitry for configuring the second content generation guidance at least partly based on one or more local session attributes.

34. The system of claim 30 in which the circuitry for presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance comprises:

(5) circuitry for configuring the second content generation guidance at least partly by applying one or more quantitative criteria to a message content indicator.

35. The system of claim 30 in which the circuitry for presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance comprises:

(1) circuitry for presenting the second content generation guidance and at least a portion of the first content generation guidance in a common image.

36. The system of claim 30 in which the circuitry for presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance comprises:

(2) circuitry for configuring the second content generation guidance to include at least one linguistic expression.

37. The system of claim 30 in which the circuitry for obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance comprises:

(e) circuitry for configuring the one or more potential recipient identifiers to include one or more of a distribution list, a logical identifier, or more than one physical coordinate.

38. The system of claim 30 in which the circuitry for obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance comprises:

(c) circuitry for receiving at least one of the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance as a state transition indication relating to one or more graphical cues of the first content generation guidance.

39. The system of claim 30 in which the circuitry for obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance comprises:

(d) circuitry for generating the first content generation guidance at least partly by applying one or more quantitative criteria to message content.

40. The system of claim 30 in which the circuitry for presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance comprises:

(3) circuitry for signaling whether any of the one or more potential recipient identifiers correspond with one or more criteria violated by tentative message content.

41. The system of claim 30 in which the circuitry for presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance comprises:

(4) circuitry for obtaining one or more content evaluation parameters at least partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers.

42. A system comprising:

circuitry for obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance; and

circuitry for presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance, in which the circuitry for presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance comprises;

circuitry for obtaining one or more content evaluation parameters at least partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers.

43. The system of claim 42 in which the circuitry for presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance comprises:

(2) circuitry for configuring the second content generation guidance to include at least one linguistic expression.

44. The system of claim 42 in which the circuitry for presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance comprises:

(3) circuitry for signaling whether any of the one or more potential recipient identifiers correspond with one or more criteria violated by tentative message content.

45. The system of claim 42 in which the circuitry for obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance comprises:

(a) circuitry for prompting at least one user for the one or more potential recipient identifiers at least partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance.

46. The system of claim 42 in which the circuitry for obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance comprises:

(b) circuitry for causing at least one user prompt to relate to the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance at least partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers.

47. The system of claim 42 in which the circuitry for obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance comprises:

(c) circuitry for receiving at least one of the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance as a state transition indication relating to one or more graphical cues of the first content generation guidance.

48. The system of claim 42 in which the circuitry for obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance comprises:

(d) circuitry for generating the first content generation guidance at least partly by applying one or more quantitative criteria to message content.

49. An apparatus comprising:

one or more physical media bearing a device-detectable output indicating an occurrence of

obtaining one or more potential recipient identifiers and one or more user indications of first content generation guidance; and

presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance in which the presenting second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance comprises at least one of

(1) presenting the second content generation guidance and at least a portion of the first content generation guidance in a common image,

(2) configuring the second content generation guidance to include at least one linguistic expression,

(3) signaling whether any of the one or more potential recipient identifiers correspond with one or more criteria violated by tentative message content, or

(4) obtaining one or more content evaluation parameters at least partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers.

50. The apparatus of claim 49 comprising:

the one or more physical media bearing the device-detectable output indicating an occurrence of the presenting the second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance in which the presenting the second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance comprises (2) configuring the second content generation guidance to include at least one linguistic expression.

51. The apparatus of claim 49 comprising:

the one or more physical media bearing the device-detectable output indicating an occurrence of the presenting the second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance in which the presenting the second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance comprises (3) signaling whether any of the one or more potential recipient identifiers correspond with one or more criteria violated by tentative message content.

52. The apparatus of claim 49 comprising:

the one or more physical media bearing the device-detectable output indicating an occurrence of the presenting the second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance in which the presenting the second content generation guidance partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers and partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance comprises (4) obtaining one or more content evaluation parameters at least partly based on the one or more potential recipient identifiers.

53. The apparatus of claim 49 comprising:

the one or more physical media bearing the device-detectable output indicating an occurrence of the obtaining the one or more potential recipient identifiers and the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance in which the obtaining the one or more potential recipient identifiers and the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance comprises at least one of (a) prompting at least one user for the one or more potential recipient identifiers at least partly based on the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance.

54. The apparatus of claim 49 comprising:

the one or more physical media bearing the device-detectable output indicating an occurrence of the obtaining the one or more potential recipient identifiers and the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance in which the obtaining the one or more potential recipient identifiers and the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance comprises at least one of (c) receiving at least one of the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance as a state transition indication relating to one or more graphical cues of the first content generation guidance.

55. The apparatus of claim 49 comprising:

the one or more physical media bearing the device-detectable output indicating an occurrence of the obtaining the one or more potential recipient identifiers and the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance in which the obtaining the one or more potential recipient identifiers and the one or more user indications of the first content generation guidance comprises at least one of (d) generating the first content generation guidance at least partly by applying one or more quantitative criteria to message content.