Personalization of recent contacts list

• US 9,729,476 B2
• Filed: 09/14/2012
• Issued: 08/08/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Appelman, Barry, Roskind, James A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Dailey, Thomas
• Application Number:
  US13/618,683
• Publication Number:
  US 20130080551A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,789 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/54 Presence management, e.g. monitoring or registration for receipt of user log-on information, or the connection status of the users
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

Personalizing communications for a first communication platform includes accessing status information for communication sessions by a communication identity that leverage a first communication platform other than an instant messaging platform. A participant list associated with the communication identity and the first communication platform is passively configured to persistently reflect a list of participant identities from communication sessions in which the communication identity recently participated using the communication platform.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

accessing information for communications sessions by a user of a communication system and a plurality of other users of the communication system;

generating, based on one or more interactions between the user and the plurality of other users, a recent contact group having a fixed size and comprising a subset of the plurality of other users who have had recent interactions with the user;

providing the recent contact group for display to the user;

detecting, after generating the recent contact group, one or more additional interactions between the user and a first co-user from the plurality of other users who is not in the recent contact group;

identifying, upon detecting the one or more additional interactions between the user and the first co-user, a second co-user from among the subset of the plurality of other users who have had recent interactions with the user and having had the least recent interactions with the user from among the subset of the plurality of other users;

modifying, based on the one or more additional interactions between the user and the first co-user, the recent contact group by adding the first co-user to the recent contact group and removing the second co-user from the recent contact group; and

providing the modified recent contact group for display to the user.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising persistently maintaining the recent contact group associated with the user at the communication system.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising monitoring a communication availability of the subset of other users corresponding to an offline status or online status of the subset of other users relative to the communication system;

and

organizing the subset of other users within the recent contact group based on the communication availability of the subset of other users.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein modifying the recent contact group further comprises reordering the subset of other users in the recent contact group.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein reordering the subset of other users in the recent contact group comprises listing the users within the subset of other users based on recency of communication.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein modifying the recent contact group further comprises decreasing the fixed size of the recent contact group and removing a user from the recent contact group.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving, as a user preference, a predetermined number of users to include within the recent contact group.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing the recent contact group at a communication server of the communication system together with a user profile associated with the user.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising maintaining information associated with the user of the communication system.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the information associated with the user of the communication system comprises a buddy list, the buddy list comprising a second subset of other users from the plurality of other users, wherein the buddy list is configured to allow the user to monitor a communication availability of the second subset of other users and initiate one or more communications with the second subset of other users.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

detecting an interaction between the user and a co-user from the second subset of other users; and

preserving the co-user from the second subset of others users in the recent contact group based on the interaction between the user and the co-user from the second subset of other users.

20. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing, within the recent contact group, an indication of a communication platform associated with each co-user in the recent contact group, wherein the indication of the communication platform indicates one or more of a plurality of communication platforms through which communication with each co-user is available.

21. The method of claim 20, further comprising:

receiving, from the user, a selection of a co-user from the recent contact group; and

initiating, in response to the received selection, a communication session between the user and the co-user via a communication platform corresponding to an indication of a communication platform associated with the co-user.

22. The method of claim 10, wherein providing the recent contact group for display to the user consists of enabling presentation of the recent contact group within the buddy list.

12. A method, comprising:

generating, based on one or more interactions between a user and a plurality of other users, a recent contact group having a fixed size and comprising a subset of other users from the plurality of other users, the subset of other users having had recent interactions with the user;

providing the recent contact group for display to the user;

detecting, by at least one processor and after generating the recent contact group, one or more additional interactions between the user and one or more co-users from the plurality of other users who were not in the recent contact group;

identifying, upon detecting the one or more additional interactions between the user and the one or more co-users, a first co-user from the one or more co-users from the plurality of other users who were not in the recent contact group and having had the most recent interactions with the user; and

identifying, upon detecting the one or more additional interactions between the user and one or more co-users, a second co-user from among the subset of the plurality of other users who have had recent interactions with the user and having had the least recent interactions with the user from among the subset of the plurality of other users;

modifying the recent contact group based on the one or more additional interactions between the user and the one or more co-users by adding the first co-user to the subset of other users of the recent contact group and removing the second co-user from the recent contact group; and

providing the modified recent contact group for display to the user.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein modifying the recent contact group further comprises rearranging an order of the recent contact group.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein rearranging the order of the recent contact group comprises rearranging the order based on a recency of communications.

15. The method of claim 12, further comprising maintaining information associated with the user that comprises a buddy list, the buddy list comprising a second subset of other users from the plurality of users, wherein the buddy list is configured to allow the user to monitor a communication availability of the second subset of other users and initiate one or more communications with the second subset of other users.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the subset of other users within the recent contact group do not overlap the second subset of other users within the buddy list.

17. A system comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to;

generate, based on one or more interactions between a user and a plurality of other users, a recent contact group having a fixed size and comprising a subset of other users from the plurality of other users;

provide the recent contact group for display to the user;

detect, after generating the recent contact group, one or more additional interactions between the user and a first co-user from the plurality of other users who is not in the recent contact group;

identify, upon detecting the one or more additional interactions between the user and the first co-user, a second co-user from among the subset of the plurality of other users who have had recent interactions with the user and having had the least recent interactions with the user from among the subset of the plurality of other users;

modify, based on the one or more additional interactions between the user and the co-user from the plurality of other users by adding the first co-user to the recent contact group and removing the second co-user from the recent contact group; and

provide the modified recent contact group for display to the user.

18. The system of claim 17, further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to, based on one or more further interactions, reorder the subset of other users within the recent contact group;

remove a user from the recent contact group; and

add a user to the recent contact group.

19. The system of claim 17, further comprising instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to maintain the fixed size of the recent contact group as a predetermined number of users within the recent contact group set according to preferences of the user.