SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTELLIGENT MULTI-PERSON CHAT HISTORY INJECTION

• US 20100077029A1
• Filed: 09/24/2008
• Published: 03/25/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Shook, Aaron K., Burckart, Erik J., Ivory, Andrew
• Granted Patent: US 8,055,710 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission
• 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 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]

Abstract

A method, system, and program is provided for automatically searching and injecting a multi-person chat history into a chat session, and allowing users to inject a multi-person chat history into a new chat session.

Claims

1. A method of managing chat history injection, comprising:

storing all communications amongst participants during a chat session in a chat log to create a chat history;

creating, subsequently, a new chat session;

comparing new chat session participants with chat history participants stored in the chat log within a predetermined temporal window to determine a number of similar participants after the new chat session is created; and

performing one of;

injecting the chat history into the chat session automatically when the number of similar participants is at least as great as a first predetermined threshold;

prompting a user response to inject the chat history into the chat session when the number of similar participants is at least as great as a second threshold, where the chat history is injected into the chat session when the user responds affirmatively to the prompt; and

outputting the communications among participants in the chat session.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the automatic threshold is equal to the number of participants in the chat history.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the prompted threshold is greater than half the number of participants in the chat history.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the user is the chat leader.

5. A storage medium, readable by a machine and tangibly embodying a program of instructions executable by the machine to perform a method for managing chat history injection, said method comprising:

storing all communications amongst participants during a chat session in a chat log to create a chat history;

creating, subsequently, a new chat session;

comparing new chat session participants with chat history participants stored in the chat log within a predetermined temporal window to determine a number of similar participants after the new chat session is created; and

performing one of;

injecting the chat history into the chat session automatically when the number of similar participants is at least as great as a first pre-determined threshold;

prompting a user response to inject the chat history into the chat session when the number of similar participants is at least as great as a prompted threshold, where the chat history is injected into the chat session when the user responds affirmatively to the prompt; and

outputting the communications among participants in the chat session.

6. A system for managing chat history injection, comprising:

a communications device for receiving and forwarding messages in a chat room between a chat sender application and a chat recipient application;

a storage device, storing all communications amongst participants during a chat session in a chat log;

means for subsequently creating a new chat session;

means for comparing new chat session participants with chat history participants stored in the chat log within a predetermined temporal window to determine a number of similar participants after the new chat session is created; and

means for performing one of;

injecting the chat history into the chat session automatically when the number of similar participants is at least as great as a first pre-determined threshold;

displaying a prompt for a user response on said communications device to inject the chat history into the chat session when the number of similar participants is at least as great as a second threshold, where the chat history is injected into the chat session when the user answers affirmatively to the prompt; and

displaying the communications among participants in the chat session.