Active e-mails

• US 9,553,835 B2
• Filed: 11/26/2013
• Issued: 01/24/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/08/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Jackson, Todd, Perlow, Jonathan D., Ho, Edward S., Bunner, Andrew A., Wong, Henry Y., Cohen, David M., DiBello, Bruce J., Pongsajapan, John, Kowitz, Braden F., Barry, Patrick A., Leggett, Michael H.
• Primary Examiner(s): BURGESS, BARBARA N
• Application Number:
  US14/090,126
• Publication Number:
  US 20140089435A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,155 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1831 Tracking arrangements for later retrieval, e.g. recording contents, participants activities or behavior, network status
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/066 Format adaptation, e.g. format conversion or compression
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/18 Commands or executable codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services

Abstract

A computer-implemented method can include accessing a micro-blog to retrieve a real-time copy of the micro-blog thread and delivering the real-time copy of the micro-blog thread for display in an e-mail message.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of delivering content from a micro-blog to an e-mail message in a user'"'"'s e-mail, the method comprising:

receiving, by a computing system and from a client device, a user request that the client device display an e-mail message, wherein the e-mail message includes a reference to a micro-blog thread;

accessing, by the computing system, the reference to the micro-blog thread in the e-mail message;

requesting, by the computing system, in response to the computing system having received the user request that the client device display the e-mail message and the computing system having accessed the reference to the micro-blog thread in the e-mail, that a social networking computing system provide the computing system with a real-time copy of the micro-blog thread;

receiving, by the computing system and from the social networking computing system, the real-time copy of the micro-blog thread;

delivering, by the computing system and for receipt by the client device, the real-time copy of the micro-blog thread for display in the e-mail message at the client device;

providing, by the computing system, a link in the e-mail message delivered to the client device, the link being configured to enable a user at the client device to provide a ‘

like’

indication by user selection at the client device of the link in the e-mail message;

receiving a ‘

like’

indication due to user selection of the link in the e-mail message; and

posting, as a result of having received the ‘

like’

indication due to the user selection of the link at the client device, the ‘

like’

indication to the micro-blog thread.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the e-mail message includes an embedded dynamic object associated with the micro-blog thread; and

requesting that the social networking computing system provide the computing system with the real-time copy of the micro-blog thread comprises accessing the micro-blog thread based on the embedded dynamic object.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising updating, in real time, micro-blog entries rendered in the e-mail based on updates to the micro-blog thread.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing a text entry box associated with the e-mail message;

receiving a user input from the text entry box; and

in response to the received user input from the text entry box, posting the received user input from the text entry box to the micro-blog.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying images associated with the micro-blog thread inline with the e-mail message.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising, in response to a user selection of an image, displaying an increased size view of the image.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising filtering micro-blog entries to determine a subset of entries to deliver as e-mail messages to a particular user.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

storing a static copy of the micro-blog thread;

receiving a search request from a user and searching the stored static copy of the micro-blog thread based on the received search.

9. An electronic system for delivering content from a micro-blog to an e-mail message in a user'"'"'s e-mail, comprising:

a memory; and

a processor configured to;

receiving, by a computing system and from a client device, a user request that the client device display an e-mail message, wherein the e-mail message includes a reference to a micro-blog thread;

accessing, by the computing system, the reference to the micro-blog thread in the e-mail message;

requesting, by the computing system, in response to the computing system having received the user request that the client device display the e-mail message and the computing system having accessed the reference to the micro-blog thread in the e-mail, that a social networking computing system provide the computing system with a real-time copy of the micro-blog thread;

receiving, by the computing system and from the social networking computing system, the real-time copy of the micro-blog thread;

delivering, by the computing system and for receipt by the client device, the real-time copy of the micro-blog thread for display in the e-mail message at the client device;

providing, by the computing system, a link in the e-mail message delivered to the client device, the link being configured to enable a user at the client device to provide a ‘

like’

indication by user selection of the link in the e-mail message;

receiving a ‘

like’

indication due to user selection at the client device of the link in the e-mail message; and

posting, as a result of having received the ‘

like’

indication due to the user selection of the link at the client device, the ‘

like’

indication to the micro-blog thread.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein:

the e-mail message includes an embedded dynamic object associated with the micro-blog thread; and

requesting that the social networking computing system provide the computing system with the real-time copy of the micro-blog thread comprises accessing the micro-blog thread based on the embedded dynamic object.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to:

provide a text entry box associated with the e-mail message;

receive a user input from the text entry box; and

in response to the received user input from the text entry box, post the received user input from the text entry box to the micro-blog.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the processor is configured to store a static copy of the micro-blog thread and access the stored copy of the micro-blog thread in response to a search request.

13. A computer-implemented method of delivering content from a micro-blog to an e-mail message in a user'"'"'s e-mail, the method comprising:

receiving, by a computing system and from a client device, a user request that the client device display an e-mail message, wherein the e-mail message includes a reference to a micro-blog thread;

accessing, by the computing system, the reference to the micro-blog thread in the e-mail message;

requesting, by the computing system, in response to the computing system having received the user request that the client device display the e-mail message and the computing system having accessed the reference to the micro-blog thread in the e-mail, that a social networking computing system provide the computing system with a real-time copy of the micro-blog thread;

receiving, by the computing system and from the social networking computing system, the real-time copy of the micro-blog thread;

delivering, by the computing system and for receipt by the client device, the real-time copy of the micro-blog thread for display in the e-mail message at the client device;

providing, by the computing system, a text entry box associated with the e-mail message;

receiving a user input from the text entry box due to user input at the client device that types text into the text entry box of the e-mail message; and

posting, as a result of having received the user input from the text entry box at the client device, the received user input to the micro-blog.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein:

the e-mail message includes an embedded dynamic object associated with the micro-blog thread; and

requesting that the social networking computing system provide the computing system with the real-time copy of the micro-blog thread comprises accessing the micro-blog thread based on the embedded dynamic object.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

displaying images associated with the micro-blog thread inline with the e-mail message; and

in response to a user selection of an image, displaying an increased size view of the image.

16. The method of claim 13, further comprising filtering micro-blog entries to determine a subset of entries to deliver as e-mail messages to a particular user.

17. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

storing a static copy of the micro-blog thread;

receiving a search request from a user and searching the stored static copy of the micro-blog thread based on the received search.