Real-time messaging platform with enhanced privacy

• US 10,873,548 B2
• Filed: 03/26/2020
• Issued: 12/22/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 01/01/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Slamad.Com, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Slamad.Com, Inc.
• Inventors: Brown, Steven Richard, Butterman, Leonard Robert, Pisciotto, Jr., Anthony
• Primary Examiner(s): Elahee, Md S
• Application Number:
  US16/831,129
• Publication Number:
  US 20200228477A1
• Time in Patent Office: 271 Days
• Field of Search: 379 8822- 8828, 709203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/046 Interoperability with other network applications or services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0245 Filtering by information in the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0407 wherein the identity of one or more communicating identities is hidden cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for anonymous credentials or for identity based cryptographic systems H04L9/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]

Abstract

A real-time messaging system platform receives from, a communication application installed on a first user communication device, a first user identifier, an indication that a messaging service message composed by the first user is being directed to a first destination associated with a second user, and an identification of data present in the messaging service message. The identification of the data and a message transmission history of the first user is used to enable selection of a message of a first entity. The selected message of the first entity is caused to be displayed by the communication application within a message framework that frames the first user messaging service message. The first entity message is caused to be included in the messaging service message transmitted to the second user device, wherein the first entity is not provided with access to the identity of the first user or the second user.

Claims

1. A communication system comprising:

a network interface;

at least one computing device;

a non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, if executed by the at least one computing device, cause the at least one computing device to perform operations comprising;

receiving over the network interface from a communication application installed on a first communication device of a first user;

an identifier associated with the first user and/or an identifier associated with the communication application installed on the first communication device;

an indication that a messaging service message composed by the first user is being directed to a first electronic destination address associated with a second user;

an identification of keywords performed by the communication application installed on the first communication device of the first user, present in the messaging service message composed by the first user, wherein the identified keywords present in the messaging service message composed by the first user are associated with respective weightings;

based at least in part on;

the identification of keywords performed by the communication application installed on the first communication device of the first user present in the messaging service message composed by the first user and associated keyword weightings for the identified keywords present in the messaging service message composed by the first user, and

using a message transmission history of the first user;

enabling selection of a message of a first entity;

causing the selected message of the first entity to;

be displayed by the communication application installed on the first communication device of the first user in association with the messaging service message composed by the first user; and

included in the messaging service message when the messaging service message is transmitted from the first user to the first electronic destination address without traversing the communication system to the second user,

wherein the first entity does not receive the identity of the first user or the second user.

2. The communication system as defined in claim 1, wherein the selection of the message of the first entity is performed using a message transmission history of the first user that indicates how many messaging service messages have been transmitted by the first user, wherein the operations further comprise enabling the message of the first entity to be displayed communication application installed on the first communication device of the first user within the message framework that also frames the messaging service message composed by the first user at least partly in response to determining that at least a first threshold number of messaging service messages have been transmitted by the first user using the communication application since a third party message has been included in a messaging service message transmitted by the communication application.

3. The communication system as defined in claim 1, the operations further comprising causing the selected message of the first entity to be displayed by the communication application installed on the first communication device of the first user within a message framework that also frames the messaging service message composed by the first user, the message framework having a shape selected from a plurality of message framework shapes.

4. The communication system as defined in claim 1, the operations further comprising enabling the selected message of the first entity to be displayed by the communication application installed on the first communication device of the first user within a message framework that also frames the messaging service message composed by the first user, wherein the message of the first entity to be displayed within the message framework below the messaging service message composed by the first user, with a visual delimiter contained within the message framework that visually distinguishes the message of the first entity from the messaging service message composed by the first user.

5. The communication system as defined in claim 1, wherein enabling selection of a message of a first entity further comprises the operations of comparing keywords included in the messaging service message with metadata associated with messages of one or more entities and identifying one or more messages of the one or more entities that have metadata that correspond to the keywords included in the messaging service message.

6. The communication system as defined in claim 1, the operations further comprising:

receiving over the network interface from a communication application installed on a communication device of a third user;

an identifier associated with the third user and/or an identifier associated with the communication application installed on the communication device of the third device;

an indication that a messaging service message composed by the third user is being directed to an electronic destination associated with a fourth user;

an identification of keywords present in the messaging service message composed by the third user;

an identification of the fourth user;

determining, using the identification of the fourth user, that the fourth user has the communication application installed on a communication device associated with the further;

accessing a record associated with the third user using the identifier associated with the third user and/or the identifier associated with the communication application installed on the third user communication device;

accessing a record associated with the fourth user using the identification of the fourth user, the record associated with the fourth user comprising demographic and/or preference data;

based at least in part on the identification of keywords present in the messaging service message composed by the third user and on a message transmission history of the third user, enabling selection of a message of a second entity;

based at least in part on the identification of keywords present in the messaging service message composed by the third user and data included in the record associated with the fourth user, enabling selection of a message of a third entity

causing the selected message of the second entity to;

be displayed by the communication application installed on the communication device of the third user within a message framework that also frames the messaging service message composed by the third user;

causing the selected message of the third entity to;

be displayed by the communication application installed on the communication device of the fourth user within a message framework that also frames the messaging service message composed by the third user.

7. The communication system as defined in claim 1, wherein the record associated with the first user further comprises location data, the operations further comprising:

selecting the message of the first entity based in part on the location data.

8. The communication system as defined in claim 1, wherein the communication system is inhibited from receiving proper names, addresses, and phone numbers included in the messaging service message.

9. The communication system as defined in claim 1, the operations further comprising:

updating a keyword dictionary stored on the first communication device is out of date with a set of keywords stored remote from the first communication device.

10. The communication system as defined in claim 1, wherein the selected message of the first entity comprises a photographic image, graphic content, and/or video content.

11. The communication system as defined in claim 1, wherein the selected message of the first entity comprises visual content associated with a network resource locator, wherein selection of the visual content by the first user or the second user, causes a resource to be accessed using the network resource locator.

12. A computer implemented method of modifying a messaging service message, comprising:

receiving at a mobile device of a first user, via an instantiation of a first application installed on the mobile device of the first user, content provided by a content provider;

detecting that the first user has instructed the first application installed on the mobile device of the first user to transmit a first messaging service message to a device of a second user associated with corresponding second user identification information, the first messaging service message including a message comprising text entered by the first user,

wherein the message comprising text entered by the first user does not include the content from the content provider;

at least partly based on an identification of keywords present in the first messaging service message, the identification of keywords performed using the first application installed on the mobile device of the first user, and associated keyword weightings for the identified keywords present in the first messaging service message composed by the first user, and

a message transmission history of the first user;

causing, at least in part, the first messaging service message to automatically include the content from the content provider with the message entered by the first user; and

causing at least in part, the content from the content provider to be displayed in association with the message entered by the first user when displayed on the device of the second user without providing the content provider with the corresponding second user identification information.

13. The computer implemented method as defined in claim 12, wherein the first messaging service message is an SMS message or MMS message.

14. The computer implemented method as defined in claim 12, the method further comprising causing the content provided by the content provider to be displayed on the device of the second user within a message framework that also frames the message entered by the first user.

15. The computer implemented method as defined in claim 12, the method further comprising:

tracking a number of items of content provided by one or more content providers that are transmitted via messaging service messages from the mobile device of the first user; and

generating a report indicating the number of items of content provided by one or more content providers that are transmitted via messaging service messages from the mobile device of the first user.

16. The computer implemented method as defined in claim 12, the method further comprising:

tracking a number of items of content provided by one or more content providers that are transmitted via messaging service messages from the mobile device of the first user within a first period of time;

determining whether the number of items of content provided by one or more content providers that are transmitted via messaging service messages from the mobile device of the first user within the first period of time at least meets a first threshold; and

at least partly in response to determining that the number of items of content provided by one or more content providers that are transmitted via messaging service messages from the mobile device of the first user within the first period of time at least meets a first threshold, inhibiting content from one or more content providers from being included in messaging service messages from the mobile device of the first user for a second period of time.

17. The computer implemented method as defined in claim 12, the method further comprising, causing the content from the content provider to be displayed on the device of the second user adjacent to, and below the message entered by the first user.

18. The computer implemented method as defined in claim 12, the method further comprising, causing, at least in part, a graphic separator to be displayed visually separating the content from the content provider from the message entered by the first user when displayed on the device of the second user.

19. A system comprising:

a network interface;

at least one computing device;

a non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon that, if executed by the at least one computing device, cause the at least one computing device to perform operations comprising;

receiving over the network interface from a communication application installed on a first communication device of a first user;

a first identifier;

an indication that the first user has activated a message transmit control to cause a messaging service message composed by the first user to be transmitted to a first electronic destination associated with a second user associated with corresponding second user identification information;

an identification of keywords performed by the communication application installed on a first communication device of a first user present in the messaging service message composed by the first user;

based at least in part on the identification of keywords present by the communication application installed on a first communication device of a first user in the messaging service message composed by the first user and associated keyword weightings for the identified keywords present in the first messaging service message composed by the first user enabling selection of a message of a first entity and on a message transmission history of the first user;

enabling the selected message of the first entity to;

be displayed by the communication application installed on the first communication device of the first user together with the messaging service message composed by the first user, and

be included in the messaging service message when the messaging service message is transmitted to the second user without providing the first entity with the corresponding second user identification information.

20. The system as defined in claim 19, wherein the record associated with the first user indicates how many messaging service messages have been transmitted by the first user using the communication application since a third party message has been included in a messaging service message transmitted by the communication application, wherein the operations further comprise enabling the message of the first entity to be displayed communication application installed on the first communication device of the first user within a message framework that also frames the messaging service message composed by the first user at least partly in response to determining that at least a first threshold number of messaging service messages have been transmitted by the first user using the communication application since a third party message has been included in a messaging service message transmitted by the communication application.

21. The system as defined in claim 19, the operations further comprising:

causing the selected message of the first entity to be displayed by the communication application installed on the first communication device of the first user within a graphic message framework together with the messaging service message composed by the first user.

22. The system as defined in claim 19, the operations further comprising enabling the message of the first entity to be displayed within a message framework together with and below the messaging service message composed by the first user, with a visual delimiter contained within the message framework that visually distinguishes the message of the first entity from the messaging service message composed by the first user.

23. The system as defined in claim 19, wherein enabling selection of a message of a first entity further comprises the operations of comparing keywords included in the messaging service message with metadata associated with messages of one or more entities and identifying one or more messages of the one or more entities that have metadata that correspond to the keywords included in the messaging service message.

24. The system as defined in claim 19, the operations further comprising:

receiving over the network interface from a communication application installed on a communication device of a third user;

an identifier associated with the third user and/or an identifier associated with the communication application installed on the communication device of the third device;

an indication that a messaging service message composed by the third user is being directed to an electronic destination associated with a fourth user;

an identification of keywords present in the messaging service message composed by the third user;

an identification of the fourth user;

determining, using the identification of the fourth user, that the fourth user has the communication application installed on a communication device associated with the further;

accessing a record associated with the third user using the identifier associated with the third user and/or the identifier associated with the communication application installed on the third user communication device;

accessing a record associated with the fourth user using the identification of the fourth user, the record associated with the fourth user comprising demographic and/or preference data;

based at least in part on the identification of keywords present in the messaging service message composed by the third user and on a message transmission history of the third user, enabling selection of a message of a second entity;

based at least in part on the identification of keywords present in the messaging service message composed by the third user and data included in the record associated with the fourth user, enabling selection of a message of a third entity

causing the selected message of the second entity to;

be displayed by the communication application installed on the communication device of the third user within a message framework that also frames the messaging service message composed by the third user;

causing the selected message of the third entity to;

be displayed by the communication application installed on the communication device of the fourth user within a message framework that also frames the messaging service message composed by the third user.

25. The system as defined in claim 19, wherein the record associated with the first user further comprises location data, the operations further comprising:

selecting the message of the first entity based in part on the location data.

26. The system as defined in claim 19, wherein the system is inhibited from receiving proper names, addresses, and phone numbers included in the messaging service message.

27. The system as defined in claim 19, the operations further comprising:

detecting that a keyword dictionary stored on the first communication device is out of date; and

based at least in part on detecting that a keyword dictionary stored on the first communication device is out of date, synchronizing the keyword dictionary stored on the first communication device is out of date with a set of keywords stored on the system.

28. The system as defined in claim 19, wherein the selected message of the first entity comprises a photographic image, graphic content, and/or video content.

29. The system as defined in claim 19, wherein the selected message of the first entity comprises visual content associated with a network resource locator, wherein selection of the visual content by the first user or the second user, causes a resource to be accessed using the network resource locator.