Real time communications system
DC CAFCFirst Claim
1. A method of communicating via an Internet network by using a computer system including a controller computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the method including:
- affording some of the information to a first of the participator computers via the Internet network, responsive to an authenticated first user identity; and
affording some of the information to a second of the participator computers via the Internet network, responsive to an authenticated second user identity; and
determining whether the first user identity and the second user identity are able to form a group to send and to receive real-time communications; and
determining whether the first user identity is individually censored from receiving data in the communications, the data presenting at least one of a pointer, video, audio, a graphic, and multimedia by determining whether a respective at least one parameter corresponding to the first user identity has been determined by an other of the user identities;
if the user identities are able to form the group, forming the group and facilitating receiving the communications that are sent and not censored from the second participator computer to the first participator computer, wherein the receiving is in real time and via the Internet network, and wherein, for the communications which are received and which present an Internet URL, facilitating handling the Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and presenting the content at an output device of the first participator computer, andif the first user identity is censored from the receiving of the data, not allowing the data that is censored to be presented from the second participator computer to the output device.
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Abstract
A system and method communicating via an Internet network, the system including: a plurality of computers connected to a computer system such that one of the plurality of computers, corresponding to a first of the user identities, and an other of the plurality of computers, corresponding to a second of the user identities, can send communications, and some of the communications are received in real time via the Internet. There can be a determination as to whether some of the communications are allowed.
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671 Claims
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1. A method of communicating via an Internet network by using a computer system including a controller computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the method including:
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affording some of the information to a first of the participator computers via the Internet network, responsive to an authenticated first user identity; and affording some of the information to a second of the participator computers via the Internet network, responsive to an authenticated second user identity; and determining whether the first user identity and the second user identity are able to form a group to send and to receive real-time communications; and determining whether the first user identity is individually censored from receiving data in the communications, the data presenting at least one of a pointer, video, audio, a graphic, and multimedia by determining whether a respective at least one parameter corresponding to the first user identity has been determined by an other of the user identities; if the user identities are able to form the group, forming the group and facilitating receiving the communications that are sent and not censored from the second participator computer to the first participator computer, wherein the receiving is in real time and via the Internet network, and wherein, for the communications which are received and which present an Internet URL, facilitating handling the Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and presenting the content at an output device of the first participator computer, and if the first user identity is censored from the receiving of the data, not allowing the data that is censored to be presented from the second participator computer to the output device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188)
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189. A method of communicating via an Internet network by using a computer system including a controller computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the method including:
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affording some of the information to a first of the participator computers via the Internet network, responsive to an authenticated first user identity; affording some of the information to a second of the participator computers via the Internet network, responsive to an authenticated second user identity; and determining whether the first user identity and the second user identity are able to form a group to send and to receive real-time communications; and determining whether the first user identity is individually censored from sending data in the communications, the data presenting at least one of a pointer, video, audio, a graphic, and multimedia by determining whether a respective at least one parameter corresponding to the first user identity has been determined by an other of the user identities; and if the user identities are able to form the group, forming the group and facilitating sending the communications that are not censored from the first participator computer to the second participator computer, wherein the sending is in real time and via the Internet network, and wherein, for the communications which are received and which present an Internet URL, facilitating handling the Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and presenting the content at an output device of the second participator computer, and if the first user identity is censored from the sending of the data, not allowing sending the data that is censored from the first participator computer to the second participator computer. - View Dependent Claims (190, 191, 192, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 203, 204, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237, 238, 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260, 261, 262, 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 278, 279, 280, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293, 294, 295, 296, 297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 302, 303, 304, 305, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 311, 312, 313, 314, 315, 316, 317, 318, 319, 320, 321, 322, 323, 324, 325, 326, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331, 332, 333, 334, 335, 336, 337, 338, 339, 340, 341, 342, 343, 344, 345, 346, 347, 348, 349, 350, 351, 352)
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353. A system to communicate over an Internet network, the system including:
a computer system including a controller computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the computer system in communication with a first of the participator computers responsive to a first authenticated user identity and with a second of the participator computers responsive to a second authenticated user identity, wherein the computer system; determines whether the first user identity and the second of the user identity are able to form a group to send and to receive real-time communications; and determines whether the first user identity is individually censored from data in the communications, the data presenting at least one of a pointer, video, audio, a graphic, and multimedia by determining whether a respective at least one parameter corresponding to the first user identity has been determined by an other of the user identities; and if the user identities are determined to be able to form the group, forms the group and facilitates receiving the communications that are sent and not censored from the second participator computer to the first participator computer, wherein the receiving is in real time and via the Internet network, and wherein the computer system facilitates, for the communications which are received and which present an Internet URL, handling the Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and facilitates presenting the content at an output device of the first participator computer; and if the first user identity is censored from the data, does not facilitate the data that is censored to be presented from the second participator computer to the output device. - View Dependent Claims (354, 355, 356, 357, 358, 359, 360, 361, 362, 363, 364, 365, 366, 367, 368, 369, 370, 371, 372, 373, 374, 375, 376, 377, 378, 379, 380, 381, 382, 383, 384, 385, 386, 387, 388, 389, 390, 391, 392, 393, 394, 395, 396, 397, 398, 399, 400, 401, 402, 403, 404, 405, 406, 407, 408, 409, 410, 411, 412, 413, 414, 415, 416, 417, 418, 419, 420, 421, 422, 423, 424, 425, 426, 427, 428, 429, 430, 431, 432, 433, 434, 435, 436, 437, 438, 439, 440, 441, 442, 443, 444, 445, 446, 447, 448, 449, 450, 451, 452, 453, 454, 455, 456, 457, 458, 459, 460, 461, 462, 463, 464)
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465. An Internet network communications system, the system including:
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a computer system including a controller computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the computer system in communication with a first of the participator computers responsive to a first authenticated user identity and with a second of the participator computers responsive to a second authenticated user identity, wherein the computer system determines whether the first user identity and the second of the user identity are able to form a group to send and to receive real-time communications; and determines whether the first user identity, is individually censored from sending data in the communications, the data presenting at least one of a pointer, video, audio, a graphic, and multimedia by determining whether a respective at least one parameter corresponding to the first user identity has been determined by an other of the user identities; and if the user identities are determined to be able to form the group, forms the group and facilitates sending the communications that are not censored from the first participator computer to the second participator computer, wherein the sending is in real time and via the Internet network, and wherein the computer system facilitates, for the communications which are received and which present an Internet URL, handling the Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and facilitates presenting the content at an output device of the second participator computer; and if the first user identity is censored from sending the data, does not facilitate sending the data that is censored from the first participator computer to the second participator computer. - View Dependent Claims (466, 467, 468, 469, 470, 471, 472, 473, 474, 475, 476, 477, 478, 479, 480, 481, 482, 483, 484, 485, 486, 487, 488, 489, 490, 491, 492, 493, 494, 495, 496, 497, 498, 499, 500, 501, 502, 503, 504, 505, 506, 507, 508, 509, 510, 511, 512, 513, 514, 515, 516, 517, 518, 519, 520, 521, 522, 523, 524, 525, 526, 527, 528, 529, 530, 531, 532, 533, 534, 535, 536, 537, 538, 539, 540, 541, 542, 543, 544, 545, 546, 547, 548, 549, 550, 551, 552, 553, 554, 555, 556, 557, 558, 559, 560, 561, 562, 563, 564, 565, 566, 567, 568, 569, 570, 571, 572, 573, 574, 575, 576, 577, 578, 579, 580, 581, 582, 583, 584, 585, 586, 587, 588, 589, 590, 591, 592, 593, 594, 595, 596)
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597. An Internet network communication system, the system including:
a computer system including a controller computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to participator computers that are otherwise independent of each other, in communication with each of the participator computers responsive to a respective authenticated user identity, the computers configured so as to respond to one of the participator computers communicating a pointer in real time and via the Internet, wherein the pointer produces a pointer-triggered message on demand, by determining whether the first user identity is individually censored from content in the pointer-triggered message, by determining whether a parameter corresponding to the first user identity has been determined by an other of the user identities, if the content is censored, disallow the pointer-triggered message from being presented at an output device of the participator computer corresponding to the first user identity, and if the content is not censored, allow the pointer-triggered message to be presented, wherein the computer system facilitates handling an Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and facilitates presenting the pointer-triggered message at the output device. - View Dependent Claims (598, 599, 600, 601, 602, 603, 604, 605)
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606. A method of communicating via an Internet network by using a computer system including a controller computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the method including:
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affording some of the information to a first of the participator computers via the Internet network, responsive to an authenticated first user identity; and affording some of the information to a second of the participator computers via the Internet network, responsive to an authenticated second user identity; responsive to the first of the participator computers communicating a pointer in real time and via the Internet, the pointer producing a pointer-triggered message on demand, determining whether a parameter corresponding to the first user identity has been determined by an other of the user identities so that the first user identity is individually censored from content in the pointer-triggered message; and if the content is censored, disallowing the pointer-triggered message to be presented at an output device of the first of the participator computers, and if the content is not censored, allowing the pointer-triggered message to be presented, wherein the computer system facilitates handling an Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and facilitates presenting the pointer-triggered message at the output device. - View Dependent Claims (607, 608, 609, 610, 611, 612, 613, 614, 615)
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616. A method of communicating via an Internet network by using a computer system including a controller computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the method including:
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affording some of the information to a first of the participator computers via the Internet network, responsive to an authenticated first user identity; and affording some of the information to a second of the participator computers via the Internet network, responsive to an authenticated second user identity; determining whether at least one of the first user identity and the second user identity is individually censored, by determining whether a parameter corresponding to said at least one has been determined by an other of the user identities, from receiving data comprising a pointer in communications that include at least one of text or ascii, the pointer being a pointer that produces a pointer-triggered message on demand; determining whether the first and the second of the user identities are able to form a group; and if the first and the second user identities are able to form the group, then forming the group and facilitating receiving the communications that are sent and not censored from one of the participator computers to another of the participator computers, wherein the computer system facilitates handling an Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and facilitates presenting the content specified by the Internet URL at an output device of the other of the participator computers, and not allowing the data that is censored to be presented at the output device. - View Dependent Claims (617, 618, 619, 620, 621, 622, 623, 624)
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625. A method of communicating via an Internet network by using a computer system including a controller computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the method including:
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affording some of the information to a first of the participator computers via the Internet network, responsive to an authenticated first user identity; and affording some of the information to a second of the participator computers via the Internet network, responsive to an authenticated second user identity; determining whether the first user identity and the second of the user identity are able to form a group to send and to receive real-time communications; determining whether at least one of the first user identity and the second user identity is individually censored, by determining whether a parameter corresponding to said at least one has been determined by an other of the user identities, from sending a pointer in the communications including at least one of text or ascii, the pointer being a pointer that produces a pointer-triggered message on demand; and if the first and the second user identities are able to form the group, then forming the group and facilitating sending the communications that are not censored from one of the participator computers to another of the participator computers in real time over the Internet network, wherein the computer system facilitates handling an Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and facilitates presenting the content at an output device of the other of the participator computers, and not facilitating sending a pointer that is censored. - View Dependent Claims (626, 627, 628, 629, 630, 631, 632)
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633. A system to communicate via an Internet network, the system including:
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a computer system including a controller computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the computer system in communication with a first of the participator computers responsive to a first authenticated user identity and with a second of the participator computers responsive to a second authenticated user identity, wherein the computers are configured to determine whether at least one of the first user identity and the second user identity is individually censored, by determining whether a parameter corresponding to said at least one has been determined by an other of the user identities, from receiving, in communications, data comprising a pointer, the pointer producing a pointer-triggered message on demand, and thereafter allow the participator computers to receive, in real time via the Internet network, and present the communications that are not censored, wherein the computer system facilitates, for the communications which are received and which present an Internet URL, handling the Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and facilitates presenting the content at an output device of one of the participator computers corresponding the user identity which presents the communications, and to not present the data that is censored at an output device corresponding to the user identity that is censored from receiving the data. - View Dependent Claims (634, 635, 636, 637, 638, 639, 640)
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641. A system to communicate via an Internet network, the system including:
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a computer system including a controller computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the computer system in communication with a first of the participator computers responsive to a first authenticated user identity and with a second of the participator computers responsive to a second authenticated user identity, wherein the computers are configured to determine whether at least one of the first user identity and the second user identity is individually censored, by determining whether a parameter corresponding to said at least one has been determined by an other of the user identities, from sending, in communications, a pointer that produces a pointer-triggered message on demand, and thereafter allow the participator computers to receive, in real time via the Internet network, and present the communications that are not censored based on the individual user identity, wherein the computer system facilitates, for the communications which are received and which present an Internet URL, handling the Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and facilitates presenting the content at an output device of one of the participator computers corresponding the user identity which presents the communications, and to not present the communications that are censored at an output device corresponding to the user identity that is censored from the sending. - View Dependent Claims (642, 643, 644, 645, 646, 647, 648)
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649. A method communicating via an Internet network by using a computer system including a controller computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the method including:
affording some of the information to a first of the participator computers via the Internet network, responsive to an authenticated first user identity, and affording some of the information to a second of the participator computers via the Internet network, responsive to an authenticated second user identity; storing a respective particular user'"'"'s access rights corresponding to each said user identity; determining whether the first user identity and the second user identity are able to form a group to send and to receive real-time communications; determining whether at least one of the first user identity and the second user identity is individually censored by the corresponding user'"'"'s stored access rights from receiving data in the communications, the data presenting at least one of a pointer, video, audio, a graphic, and multimedia, by determining whether a respective at least one parameter corresponding to said at least one of the first user identity and the second user identity has been determined by an other of the user identities; and if the first and the second user identities are able to form the group, forming the group and facilitating receiving the communications, including receiving at least some of the communications with the data that is not censored, that are sent from one of the participator computers to another of the participator computers, wherein the receiving is in real time via the Internet network and wherein the computer system facilitates, for the communications which are received and which present an Internet URL, handling the Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and facilitates presenting the content at an output device of the participator computer which is receiving the communications, and not allowing the data that is censored by the corresponding user'"'"'s stored access rights to be presented at an output device of the participator computer corresponding to the user identity that is censored.
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650. A method communicating via an Internet network by using a computer system including a controller computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the method including:
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affording some of the information to a first of the participator computers via the Internet network, responsive to an authenticated first user identity, and affording some of the information to a second of the participator computers via the Internet network, responsive to an authenticated second user identity; determining whether the first user identity and the second user identity are able to form a group to send and to receive data in communications in real time by determining whether at least one of the first user identity and the second user identity is individually censored from receiving the data in the communications, the data presenting at least one of a pointer, video, audio, a graphic, and multimedia, by determining whether a respective at least one parameter corresponding to said at least one of the first user identity and the second user identity has been determined by an other of the user identities; and if the first and the second user identities are determined to be able to form the group, forming the group and facilitating receiving the communications, including receiving at least some of the communications with the data that is not censored, that are sent from one of the participator computers to another of the participator computers, in real time via the Internet network and wherein the computer system facilitates, for the communications which are received and which present an Internet URL, handling the Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and facilitates presenting the content at an output device of the other of the participator computers; and if the first and the second user identities are determined to not be able to form the group with respect to receiving the data that is censored, not forming the group.
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651. A method communicating via an Internet network by using a computer system including a controller computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the method including:
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affording some of the information to a first of the participator computers via the Internet network, responsive to an authenticated first user identity, and affording some of the information to a second of the participator computers via the Internet network, responsive to an authenticated second user identity; storing a respective particular user'"'"'s access rights corresponding to each said user identity; determining whether the first user identity and the second user identity are able to form a group to send and to receive real-time communications; determining whether at least one of the first user identity and the second user identity is individually censored by the corresponding user'"'"'s stored access rights from sending data in the communications, the data presenting at least one of a pointer, video, audio, a graphic, and multimedia by determining whether a respective at least one parameter corresponding to said at least one of the first user identity and the second user identity has been determined by an other of the user identities; and if the first and the second user identities are able to form the group, forming the group and facilitating sending the communications, including sending at least some of the communications with the data that is not censored, from one of the participator computers to another of the participator computers, wherein the sending is in real time via the Internet network and wherein the computer system facilitates, for the communications which are received and which present an Internet URL, handling the Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and facilitates presenting the content at an output device of the other of the participator computers, and not allowing sending the data that is censored by the corresponding user'"'"'s stored access rights.
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652. A method communicating via an Internet network by using a computer system including a controller computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the method including:
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affording some of the information to a first of the participator computers via the Internet network, responsive to an authenticated first user identity, and affording some of the information to a second of the participator computers via the Internet network, responsive to an authenticated second user identity; determining whether a first of the user identities and a second of the user identities are able to form a group to send and to receive communications in real time by determining whether at least one of the first user identity and the second user identity is individually censored from sending data in the communications, the data presenting at least one of a pointer, video, audio, a graphic, and multimedia, by determining whether a respective at least one parameter corresponding to said at least one of the first user identity and the second user identity has been determined by an other of the user identities; and if the first and the second user identities are determined to be able to form the group, forming the group and facilitating sending the communications, including sending at least some of the communications with the data that is not censored, from one of the participator computers to another of the participator computers in real time via the Internet network and wherein the computer system facilitates, for the communications which are received and which present an Internet URL, handling the Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and facilitates presenting the content at an output device of the other of the participator computers; and if the first and the second user identities are determined to not be able to form the group with respect to sending the data that is censored, not forming the group.
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653. A system to communicate via an Internet network, the system including:
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a computer system including a controller computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the computer system in communication with a first of the participator computers responsive to a first authenticated user identity and with a second of the participator computers responsive to a second authenticated user identity, wherein the computers are arranged so as to store a respective particular user'"'"'s access rights corresponding to each said user identity, determine whether the first user identity and the second user identity are able to form a group to send and to receive real-time communications, determine whether at least one of the first user identity and the second user identity is individually censored by the corresponding user'"'"'s stored access rights from receiving data in the communications, the data presenting at least one of a pointer, video, audio, a graphic, and multimedia, by determining whether a respective at least one parameter corresponding to said at least one of the first user identity and the second user identity has been determined by an other of the user identities, and if the first and the second user identities are able to form the group, form the group and facilitate receiving the communications that are sent and not censored from one of the participator computers to another of the participator computers, wherein the receiving is in real time via the Internet network and wherein the computer system facilitates, for the communications which are received and which present an Internet URL, handling the Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and facilitates presenting the content at an output device of the other of the participator computers, and not allow the data that is censored by the corresponding user'"'"'s stored access rights to be presented at an output device of the participator computer corresponding to the user identity that is censored.
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654. A system to communicate via an Internet network, the system including:
a computer system including a controller computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the computer system in communication with a first of the participator computers responsive to a first authenticated user identity and with a second of the participator computers responsive to a second authenticated user identity, wherein the computers are arranged so as to determine whether the first user identity and the second user identity are able to form a group to send and to receive real-time communications by determining whether at least one of the first user identity and the second user identity is individually censored from receiving data in the communications, the data presenting at least one of a pointer, video, audio, a graphic, and multimedia, by determining whether a respective at least one parameter corresponding to said at least one of the first user identity and the second user identity has been determined by an other of the user identities, and if the first and the second user identities are determined to be able to form the group, form the group and facilitate receiving the communications from one of the participator computers to an other of the participator computers, in real time via the Internet network and wherein the computer system facilitates, for the communications which are received and which present an Internet URL, handling the Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and facilitates presenting the content at an output device of the other of the participator computers, and if the first and the second user identities are determined to not be able to form the group with respect to receiving the data that is censored, not form the group.
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655. A system to communicate via an Internet network, the system including:
a computer system including a controller computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the computer system in communication with a first of the participator computers responsive to a first authenticated user identity and with a second of the participator computers responsive to a second authenticated user identity, wherein the computers are arranged so as to store a respective particular user'"'"'s access rights corresponding to each said user identity, determine whether the first user identity and the second user identity are able to form a group to send and to receive real-time communications, determine whether at least one of the first user identity and the second user identity is individually censored by the corresponding user'"'"'s stored access rights from sending data in the communications, the data including at least one of a pointer, video, audio, a graphic, and multimedia, by determining whether a respective at least one parameter corresponding to said at least one of the first user identity and the second user identity has been determined by an other of the user identities, and if the first and the second user identities are able to form the group, and facilitate sending the communications that are not censored from one of the participator computers to another of the participator computers, wherein the sending is in real time via the Internet network and wherein the computer system facilitates, for the communications which are received and which present an Internet URL, handling the Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and facilitates presenting the content at an output device of the other of the participator computers, and not allow sending the data that is censored by the corresponding user'"'"'s stored access rights.
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656. A system to communicate via an Internet network, the system including:
a computer system including a controller computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the controller computer system in communication with a first of the participator computers responsive to a first authenticated user identity and with a second of the participator computers responsive to a second authenticated user identity, wherein the computers are arranged so as to determine whether a first of the user identities and a second of the user identities are able to form a group to send and to receive communications in real time by determining whether at least one of the first user identity and the second user identity is individually censored from sending data in the communications, the data presenting at least one of a pointer, video, audio, a graphic, and multimedia, by determining whether a respective at least one parameter corresponding to said at least one of the first user identity and the second user identity has been determined by an other of the user identities, and if the first and the second user identities are determined to be able to form the group, form the group and facilitate sending the communications from one of the participator computers to another of the participator computers, wherein the sending is in real time via the Internet network and wherein the computer system facilitates, for the communications which are received and which present an Internet URL, handling the Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and facilitates presenting the content at an output device of the other of the participator computers, and if the first and the second user identities are determined to not be able to form the group with respect to sending the data that is censored, not form the group.
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657. A method communicating via an Internet network by using a computer system including a controller computer that is an Internet service provider computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the method including:
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affording some of the information to a first of the participator computers via the Internet network, responsive to an authenticated first user identity, and affording some of the information to a second of the participator computers via the Internet network, responsive to an authenticated second user identity; and storing a respective particular user'"'"'s access rights corresponding to each said user identity; determining whether the first user identity and the second user identity are able to form a group to send and to receive real-time communications; and determining, based on the access rights of the first user identity by determining whether a parameter corresponding to the first user identity has been determined by an other of the user identities, whether the first user identity is individually censored from receiving content in the communications; if the user identities are determined to be able to form the group, forming the group and facilitating receiving the communications that are sent and not censored from the second participator computer to the first participator computer, wherein the receiving is in real time and via the Internet network and wherein the computer system facilitates, for the communications which are received and which present an Internet URL, handling the Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and facilitates presenting the content at an output device of the other of the participator computers, and if the first user identity is censored, not allowing the content that is censored to be presented from the second participator computer to a user of the first participator computer.
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658. A method communicating via an Internet network by using a computer system including a controller computer that is an Internet service provider computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the method including:
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affording some of the information to a first of the participator computers via the Internet network, responsive to an authenticated first user identity, and affording some of the information to a second of the participator computers via the Internet network, responsive to an authenticated second user identity; and storing a respective particular user'"'"'s access rights corresponding to each said user identity; determining whether the first user identity and the second user identity are able to form a group to send and to receive real-time communications; and determining, based on the access rights of the first user identity by determining whether a parameter corresponding to the first user identity has been determined by an other of the user identities, whether the first user identity is individually censored from sending content in the communications; if the user identities are determined to be able to form the group, forming the group and facilitating sending the communications that are not censored from the first participator computer to the second participator computer, wherein the sending is in real time and via the Internet network and wherein the computer system facilitates, for the communications which are received and which present an Internet URL, handling the Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and facilitates presenting the content at an output device of the second participator computer, and if the first user identity is censored, not allowing the content that is censored to be sent from the first participator computer the second participator computer.
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659. A method communicating via an Internet network by using a computer system including a controller computer that is an Internet service provider computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the method including:
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affording some of the information to a first of the participator computers via the Internet network, responsive to an authenticated first user identity, and affording some of the information to a second of the participator computers via the Internet network, responsive to an authenticated second user identity; and determining whether the first user identity and the second user identity are able to form a group to send and to receive real-time communications; and determining whether the first user identity is individually censored from data in the communications, the data presenting at least one of an Internet URL, video, audio, a graphic, and multimedia, by determining whether a respective at least one parameter corresponding to said at least one of the first user identity and the second user identity has been determined by an other of the user identities; and if the user identities are determined to be able to form the group, forming the group and facilitating receiving the communications that are sent and not censored from the second participator computer to the first participator computer, wherein the receiving is in real time and via the Internet network and wherein the computer system facilitates, for the communications which are received and which present the Internet URL, handling the Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and facilitates presenting the content at an output device of the first participator computer, and if the first user identity is censored, not allowing the data that is censored to be presented from the second participator computer to a user of the first participator computer.
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660. A method communicating via an Internet network by using a computer system including a controller computer that is an Internet service provider computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the method including:
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affording some of the information to a first of the participator computers via the Internet network, responsive to an authenticated first user identity, and affording some of the information to a second of the participator computers via the Internet network, responsive to an authenticated second user identity; and determining whether the first user identity and the second user identity are able to form a group to send and to receive real-time communications; and determining whether the first user identity is individually censored from sending data in the communications, the data presenting at least one of an Internet URL, video, audio, a graphic, and multimedia, by determining whether a respective parameter corresponding to the first user identity has been determined by an other of the user identities; and if the user identities are determined to be able to form the group, forming the group and facilitating sending the communications that are not censored from the first participator computer to the second participator computer, wherein the sending is in real time and via the Internet network and wherein the computer system facilitates, for the communications which are received and which present the Internet URL, handling the Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and facilitates presenting the content at an output device of the second participator computer, and if the first user identity is censored, not allowing sending the data that is censored from the first participator computer to the second participator computer.
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661. A system to communicate via an Internet network, the system including:
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a computer system including a controller computer that is an Internet service provider computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the computer system in communication with a first of the participator computers responsive to a first authenticated user identity and with a second of the participator computers responsive to a second authenticated user identity, wherein the computers are arranged so as to determine whether the first user identity is individually censored from receiving content in the communications, by determining whether a parameter corresponding to the first user identity has been determined by an other of the user identities, if the user identities are determined to be able to form the group, form the group and facilitate receiving the communications that are sent and not censored from the second participator computer to the first participator computer, wherein the receiving is in real time and via the Internet network and wherein the computer system facilitates, for the communications which are received and which present an Internet URL, handling the Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and facilitates presenting the content at an output device of the other of the participator computers at an output device of the first participator computer, and if the first user identity is censored, not allow the content that is censored to be presented from the second participator computer at the first participator computer.
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662. A system to communicate via an Internet network, the system including:
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a computer system including a controller computer that is an Internet service provider computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the computer system in communication with a first of the participator computers responsive to a first authenticated user identity and with a second of the participator computers responsive to a second authenticated user identity, wherein the computers are arranged so as to determine whether the first user identity and the second user identity are able to form a group to send and to receive real-time communications, and determine whether the first user identity is individually censored from sending content in the communications, by determining whether a parameter corresponding to the first user identity has been determined by an other of the user identities, if the user identities are determined to be able to form the group, form the group and facilitate sending the communications that are not censored from the first participator computer to the second participator computer, wherein the sending is in real time and via the Internet network and wherein the computer system facilitates, for the communications which are received and which present an Internet URL, handling the Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and facilitates presenting the content at an output device of the other of the participator computers at an output device of the second participator computer, and if the first user identity is censored, not allow the content that is censored to be sent from the first participator computer the second participator computer.
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663. A system to communicate via an Internet network, the system including:
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a computer system including a controller computer that is an Internet service provider computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the computer system in communication with a first of the participator computers responsive to a first authenticated user identity and with a second of the participator computers responsive to a second authenticated user identity, wherein the computers are arranged so as to determine whether the first user identity and the second user identity are able to form a group to send and to receive real-time communications, and determine whether the first user identity is individually censored from sending content in the communications, by determining whether a parameter corresponding to the first user identity has been determined by an other of the user identities, if the user identities are determined to be able to form the group, form the group and facilitate sending the communications that are not censored from the first participator computer to the second participator computer, wherein the sending is in real time and via the Internet network and wherein the computer system facilitates, for the communications which are received and which present an Internet URL, handling the Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and facilitates presenting the content at an output device of the other of the participator computers, and if the first user identity is censored, not allow the content that is censored to be sent from the first participator computer the second participator computer. - View Dependent Claims (664, 665)
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666. A system to communicate via an Internet network, the system including:
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a computer system including a controller computer that is an Internet service provider computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the computer system in communication with a first of the participator computers responsive to a first authenticated user identity and with a second of the participator computers responsive to a second authenticated user identity, wherein the computers are arranged so as to determine whether a first of the user identities and a second of the user identities are able to form a group to send and to receive communications in real time by determining whether at least one of the first user identity and the second user identity is individually censored from data in the communications, the data presenting at least one of a pointer, video, audio, graphic, and multimedia, by determining whether a respective at least one parameter corresponding to said at least one of the first user identity and the second user identity has been determined by an other of the user identities, and if the first and the second user identities are determined to be able to form the group, form the group and facilitate receiving the communications that are sent and include said data that is not censored from one of the participator computers to another of the participator computers, wherein the receiving is in real time via the Internet network and wherein the computer system facilitates, for the communications which are received and which present an Internet URL, handling the Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and facilitates presenting the content at an output device of the other of the participator computers at an output device of the other of the participator computers, and if the first and the second user identities are determined to not be able to form the group, not form the group.
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667. A system to communicate via an Internet network, the system including:
a computer system including a controller computer that is an Internet service provider computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the computer system in communication with a first of the participator computers responsive to a first authenticated user identity and with a second of the participator computers responsive to a second authenticated user identity, wherein the computers are configured so as to allow the first user identity and the second user identity to send communications and to receive communications sent by another user identity on at least one of a plurality of channels, wherein at least some of the communications are received in real time via the Internet network, except that if at least one of the user identities is individually censored, from data in one of the channels, the data presenting at least one of a pointer, video, audio, graphic, or multimedia, and multimedia, by a determination of whether a respective at least one parameter corresponding to said at least one of the first user identity and the second user identity has been determined by an other of the user identities, the data that is censored is not presented by the participator computer corresponding to the user identity that is censored from the data, and otherwise allow the data to be presented at an output device corresponding to the participator computer which receives the data, wherein the computer system facilitates, for the communications which are received and which present an Internet URL, handling the Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and facilitates presenting the content at the output device.
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668. A system to communicate via an Internet network, the system including:
a computer system including a controller computer that is an Internet service provider computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the computer system in communication with a first of the participator computers responsive to a first authenticated user identity and with a second of the participator computers responsive to a second authenticated user identity, wherein the computers are configured so as to censor communications based on; whether the first user identity and the second of the user identity are able to form a group to send and to receive real-time communications, and whether the first user identity, is individually censored from sending data in the communications, the data presenting at least one of a pointer, video, audio, a graphic, and multimedia, by determining whether a respective at least one parameter corresponding to the first user identity has been determined by an other of the user identities; and if the user identities are able to form the group, form the group and facilitate receiving the communications that are sent and not censored from the first participator computer to the second participator computer, wherein the sending is in real time and via the Internet network and wherein the computer system facilitates handling an Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and facilitates presenting the content at an output device of the second participator computer; if the first user identity is censored, not allowing the data that is censored to be sent from the first participator computer to the second participator computer.
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669. A system to communicate via an Internet network, the system including:
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a computer system including a controller computer that is an Internet service provider computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the computer system in communication with a first of the participator computers responsive to a first authenticated user identity and with a second of the participator computers responsive to a second authenticated user identity, wherein the computers are configured so as to censor communications based on; whether the first user identity and the second of the user identity are able to form a group to send and to receive real-time communications, and whether the first user identity, is individually censored from receiving data in the communications, the data presenting at least one of a pointer, video, audio, a graphic, and multimedia, by determining whether a respective at least one parameter corresponding to the first user identity has been determined by an other of the user identities; and if the user identities are able to form the group, form the group and facilitate receiving the communications that are sent and not censored from the second participator computer to the first participator computer, wherein the receiving is in real time and via the Internet network and wherein the computer system facilitates, for the communications which are received and which present an Internet URL, handling the Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and facilitates presenting the content at an output device of the first participator computer; if the first user identity is censored, not allowing the data that is censored to be presented from the second participator computer at the output device.
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670. A system to communicate via an Internet network, the system including:
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a computer system including a controller computer that is an Internet service provider computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the computer system in communication with a first of the participator computers responsive to a first authenticated user identity and with a second of the participator computers responsive to a second authenticated user identity, wherein the computers are configured so as to store a respective particular user'"'"'s access rights corresponding to each said user identity, and determine whether the first user identity and the second of the user identity are able to form a group to send and to receive real-time communications, and determine whether the first user identity, is individually censored from sending data in the communications, the data presenting at least one of a pointer, video, audio, a graphic, and multimedia, by determining whether a respective at least one parameter corresponding to the first user identity has been determined by an other of the user identities, such that if the user identities are determined to be able to form the group, form the group and facilitate receiving the communications that are sent and not censored from the first participator computer to the second participator computer, wherein the sending is in real time and via the Internet network and wherein the computer system facilitates, for the communications which are received and which present an Internet URL, handling the Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and facilitates presenting the content at an output device of the second participator computer, and if the first user identity is censored, not send of the data that is censored from the first participator computer to the second participator computer.
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671. A system to communicate via an Internet network, the system including:
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a computer system including a controller computer that is an Internet service provider computer and a database which serves as a repository of tokens for other programs to access, thereby affording information to each of a plurality of participator computers which are otherwise independent of each other, the computer system in communication with a first of the participator computers responsive to a first authenticated user identity and with a second of the participator computers responsive to a second authenticated user identity, wherein the computers are configured so as to store a respective particular user'"'"'s access rights corresponding to each said user identity, and determine whether the first user identity and the second user identity are able to form a group to send and to receive real-time communications, and determine whether the first user identity is individually censored from sending data in the communications, the data presenting at least one of an Internet URL, video, audio, a graphic, multimedia, by determining whether a respective at least one parameter corresponding to the first user identity has been determined by an other of the user identities, such that if the user identities are determined to be able to form the group, forming the group and facilitating sending the communications that are not censored from the first participator computer to the second participator computer, wherein the sending is in real time and via the Internet network and wherein the computer system facilitates, for the communications which are received and which present an Internet URL, handling the Internet URL via the computer system so as to find content specified by the Internet URL and facilitates presenting the content at an output device of the second participator computer, and if the first user identity is censored, not allowing sending the data that is censored from the first participator computer to the second participator computer.
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