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Social messaging user interface

  • US 9,405,343 B2
  • Filed: 09/30/2011
  • Issued: 08/02/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A data processing device comprising:

  • a display screen for displaying a social interaction hub, the social interaction hub including a collection of records, wherein particular ones of the records are generated from textual posts created by acquaintances of a user of the data processing device to a first social network and are displayed on the display screen in chronological order with particular ones of the records generated from textual posts that are created by other acquaintances of the user of the data processing device to at least one social network, wherein the first social network includes services that receive textual posts from posting members and provide content of the posts to other members who have a relationship with the posting members, the data processing device having access to;

    an initial sender identifier that identifies on a display of the data processing device an initial sender who created a past social interaction event,a mode indicium that identifies a mode by which the past social interaction event with the initial sender occurred, the mode selected from a plurality of modes of communication that include textual posts to a social network that are broadcast to members of the social network, anda collection of mode indicia that each identify a mode by which a future, outgoing social interaction event with the initial sender can occur, wherein the collection of mode indicia is based on a current user status of the initial sender regarding modes of interaction by which a user of the data processing device is determined to be currently capable of communicating with the initial sender independent of the mode by which the past social interaction event occurred, the collection determined by selecting a subset of modes from all possible modes of communication available to the data processing device by way of the social interaction hub and which include communication through the first social network,wherein the counterparty identifier, the mode indicium, and the collection of mode indicia are associated with one another in the records of the social interaction hub.

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