Multiple personalities
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1. A method for enabling projection of multiple personas over an instant messaging platform, the method comprising:
- identifying, using a processor, a single textual identifier for a user, the single textual identifier used to represent the user in an instant messaging communication environment;
identifying a plurality of the user'"'"'s buddies, wherein the instant messaging communications environment is configured to allow communication between the user and the user'"'"'s buddies through one or more instant messaging communications sessions;
associating a first persona and a second persona with the single textual identifier of the user;
associating an attribute of the first persona with a first functionality;
associating an attribute of the second persona with a second functionality, the second functionality differing from the first functionality;
determining, based a set of criteria, whether to project one or more of the first persona and the second persona in a first instant messaging communications session; and
based on the determining, projecting, to at least one of the user'"'"'s buddies, the single textual identifier and one of the group consisting of the first persona, the second persona, and a combination of the first persona and the second persona, in the first instant messaging communications session.
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Abstract
A computer implemented method enables perception of multiple online personas in an instant messaging communications session by identifying at least two identities within a communications environment to whom messages may be directed, and by enabling a first persona of a user to be projected to a first of the identities while concurrently enabling a second persona of the same user to be projected to a second of the identities.
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1. A method for enabling projection of multiple personas over an instant messaging platform, the method comprising:
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identifying, using a processor, a single textual identifier for a user, the single textual identifier used to represent the user in an instant messaging communication environment; identifying a plurality of the user'"'"'s buddies, wherein the instant messaging communications environment is configured to allow communication between the user and the user'"'"'s buddies through one or more instant messaging communications sessions; associating a first persona and a second persona with the single textual identifier of the user; associating an attribute of the first persona with a first functionality; associating an attribute of the second persona with a second functionality, the second functionality differing from the first functionality; determining, based a set of criteria, whether to project one or more of the first persona and the second persona in a first instant messaging communications session; and based on the determining, projecting, to at least one of the user'"'"'s buddies, the single textual identifier and one of the group consisting of the first persona, the second persona, and a combination of the first persona and the second persona, in the first instant messaging communications session. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A system for enabling projection of multiple personas over an instant messaging platform, the system comprising:
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a storage device that stores a plurality of instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the plurality of instructions to; identify a single textual identifier for a user, the single textual identifier used to represent the user in an instant messaging communication environment; identify a plurality of the user'"'"'s buddies, wherein the instant messaging communications environment is configured to allow communication between the user and the user'"'"'s buddies through one or more instant messaging communications sessions; associate a first persona and a second persona with the single textual identifier of the user; associate an attribute of the first persona with a first functionality; associate an attribute of the second persona with a second functionality, the second functionality differing from the first functionality; determine, based a set of criteria, whether to project one or more of the first persona and the second persona in a first instant messaging communications session; and based on the determining, project, to at least one of the user'"'"'s buddies, the single textual identifier and one of the group consisting of the first persona, the second persona, and a combination of the first persona and the second persona, in the first instant messaging communications session. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. A nontransitory computer readable storage device encoded with a plurality of instructions that, when executed on a processor, operate to cause the processor to perform a method comprising:
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identifying a single textual identifier for a user, the single textual identifier used to represent the user in an instant messaging communication environment; identifying a plurality of the user'"'"'s buddies, wherein the instant messaging communications environment is configured to allow communication between the user and the user'"'"'s buddies through one or more instant messaging communications sessions; associating a first persona and a second persona with the single textual identifier of the user; associating an attribute of the first persona with a first functionality; associating an attribute of the second persona with a second functionality, the second functionality differing from the first functionality; determining, based a set of criteria, whether to project one or more of the first persona and the second persona in a first instant messaging communications session; and based on the determining, projecting, to at least one of the user'"'"'s buddies, the single textual identifier and one of the group consisting of the first persona, the second persona, and a combination of the first persona and the second persona in the first instant messaging communications session. - View Dependent Claims (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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