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Suggesting a time for live communications among a largest possible subset of users based on previous content-consumption behavior

  • US 8,374,984 B2
  • Filed: 05/20/2010
  • Issued: 02/12/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for suggesting a time for live communications among a plurality of users, the method comprising:

  • for at least one of the users, collecting content-consumption-time information for the user;

    for each of the other users of the plurality of users, collecting either content-consumption-time information or communications-availability information for that user;

    based, at least in part, on the collected content-consumption-time information and on the collected communications-availability information, if any, predicting, for each of the plurality of users, a time when that user will be available for communications, the prediction based on more than content;

    attempting to correlate the predicted communications-availability times for the plurality of users; and

    if the correlating produces at least one predicted live-communications-availability time shared among the plurality of users, then presenting to at least one user a predicted live-communications-availability time;

    else if the correlating produces no predicted live-communications-availability time shared among the plurality of users but produces at least one predicted live-communications-availability time shared among a plural but proper subset of the plurality of users, then presenting to at least one user a predicted live-communications-availability time;

    else if the correlating produces no predicted live-communications-availability time shared among a plurality of the users, then informing at least one user of this result;

    wherein if the correlating produces no predicted live-communications-availability time shared among the plurality of users but produces a plurality of predicted live-communications-availability times each shared among a plural but proper subset of the plurality of users, then presenting to at least one user a predicted live-communications-availability time that is shared among a largest subset of the plurality of users.

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