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| 20080256460 | COMPUTER-BASED ELECTRONIC INFORMATION ORGANIZER - A computer-implemented method for organizing and presenting electronic information on a client device. The method can include enabling a user to create a plurality of topics by inputting criteria that define each of the topics. A plurality of electronic items are then automatically associated with the topics by applying the criteria to the electronic items. The electronic items can include at least two different electronic items from different electronic sources, such as e-mail accounts, newsgroups, blog websites or web feeds. A user interface is displayed on a client device where the topics are displayed to the user to enable the user to select a topic and display a list of the electronic items that have been automatically associated with the selected topic. The user can select and manipulate an electronic item from the list of electronic items that is associated with the selected topic. | 10-16-2008 |
| 20080276184 | Computerized collaborative work - The method of collaborative work takes place between a first user working on a first object ( | 11-06-2008 |
| 20080295000 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REMOVING RECIPIENTS FROM A MESSAGE THREAD - A system for conveniently removing recipients from a message being added to a message thread that enables a user to filter people from a recipient list of a message being added to a message thread. The system advantageously enables a user to filter out potential recipients based on a) their previous non-participation in the thread, b) their lack of registered interest in a topic of the thread, and/or c) their being listed only as recipients by way of their being contained in a group indicated in the recipient list. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080295001 | SYSTEM FOR REPLYING TO RELATED MESSAGES - A system is provided which utilizes a threading service to offer enhanced features for a document management system including an email system. Various enhanced email features may be provided through one or more of the following components: a delete module, a reply module, a profile module, and a search module. The delete module enables a user to delete a selected message, a set of related messages, or the whole set except for the selected message. The reply module enables a user to send a reply message to all addresses associated and involved with an entire set of related messages. The profile module enables a dynamic interest profile to contain all relevant information from an outgoing message and a set of messages related to the outgoing message. The search module enables search results to include documents which match the user's query as well as documents related to the documents which match the user's query. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080307321 | Method and system for construction document management and distribution - A method for processing an order for construction document printing comprising receiving a first printing request, wherein the request is comprised of one or more documents that must be printed for one or more users; determining an address associated with each of the one or more users; determining a closest printing facility for each of the one or more users; and sending a second printing request to the closest printing facility for printing the one or more documents associated with each of the one or more users. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080307322 | PRESENTING TEXT MESSAGES - In an instant messaging application, a message container (e.g., a stylized text bubble) is provided for indicating that an activity has occurred in a non-foreground chat. The message container can be displayed in the chat where the activity occurred. The message container can contain a portion of the message (e.g., the beginning of the message). The message container can contain a summary of the message. The message container can have an arbitrary shape or appearance. The user can define or select the appearance of the message container. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20080320398 | Method for Providing Notification Service of Electronic Mail Transfer - Provided is a method for providing an electronic document transmission notification service for notifying transmission of the electronic mail That a sender creates and transmits to a receiver. The method is achieved by storing an email address of the receiver with a mobile phone number and a name on a database, simultaneously displaying an email writing window and a text message transmission window on a screen when the sender accesses a mail site and selects writing an e.mail (a first display step), when a receiver's email address is selected from the e.mail writing window, searching for a mobile phone number corresponding to a selected e.mail address and displaying the searched mobile phone number on a receiver's mobile phone number section (a second display step), when the sender writes a title and a content of an e.mail on the email writing window, displaying at least the title of the email in a content section of the text message transmission window (a third display step), and transmitting a message on the text message transmission window in form of a short message according to confirmation of the sender. | 12-25-2008 |
| 20090006980 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING USER REPRESENTATIONS IN REAL-TIME COLLABORATION SESSION PARTICIPANT LISTS REFLECTING EXTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS TOGETHER WITH USER REPRESENTATIONS IN EXTERNAL COMMUNICATION APPLICATIONS INDICATING CURRENT REAL-TIME COLLABORATION SESSION PARTICIPATION - A system for providing user representations in real-time collaboration application participant lists reflecting external communications, together with user representations in external communication applications indicating current real-time collaboration session participation. A participant list in a collaboration session represents other participants with whom the local user has recently or frequently communicated in a visually separate area. User representations associated with messages, entries, or the like, and contained in applications external to the collaboration application are displayed in a way that visually indicates the user's current participation in a collaboration session. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090006981 | APPLICATION BAR BROWSING OF TABBED-VIEW APPLICATIONS - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to tabbed browsing and provide a method, system and computer program product for application bar browsing of tabbed-view applications. In one embodiment of the invention a method for application bar browsing of tabbed-view applications can be provided. The method can include populating a pop-up list for a consolidated application bar entry for multiple different instances of a single application with corresponding entries each for a different one of the multiple different instances of the single application. The method further can include associating at least one of the entries in the pop-up list with an instance of the single application configured for tabbed browsing. The method yet further can include configuring the associated at least one of the entries with a tabbed browser view. | 01-01-2009 |
| 20090044131 | INTEGRATING MESSAGING ATTACHMENTS WITH ONLINE PUBLISHING SYSTEMS - A client publishes rich media content by receiving a message including a representation of imagery content. A publishing control is presented, in association with the message, that enables the user to transmit the imagery content to a publishing host. The user is enabled to interact with the publishing control and the representation of the imagery content to publish the imagery content using the publishing host. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090063992 | System and Method to Utilize Mood Sensors in an Electronic Messaging Environment - A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for determining the behavioral mood of an electronic messaging system user. User input is provided through one or more input receptors of an electronic device. The user input is collected by the mood identification system. The collected input is processed to generate behavioral biometrics, which are in turn correlated to predetermined behavioral moods, each of which has a corresponding behavioral mood indicator. The behavioral mood of the recipient user is indicated by applying text attributes applied to the user's identifier (ID) or by displaying an icon proximate to the user's ID. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090063993 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WORKFLOW TO ALLOW MEETING INVITEES TO SUBSCRIBE AS DEPENDENTS OF OTHER INVITEES - The present invention provides a system and method for managing a meeting notice. The system includes a dependency set module that enables a participant to define at least one dependent participant and optionally specify an automatic response to the meeting invitation based on the targeted participant's response, and a determination module that determines if the person scheduling a meeting will allow a participant to subscribe as a dependent of” at least one other participant of the meeting. The determination module, to prevent mutual dependence between two participants, will not allow the participant to subscribe as a dependent if the targeted participant is indicated as a dependent of the requesting participant. The system includes a delivery module that delivers a dependency notice to the participant and, to the at least one targeted participant if the person scheduling a meeting has chosen to allow dependencies by default, and delivers a FYI notice to the person scheduling the meeting if dependencies are allowed by default and delivers a response to the meeting invite if the dependent participant has specified an automatic response based on the targeted participant's response. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090083638 | Method and System for Providing Access to Electronic Learning and Social Interaction with in a Single Application - A system for managing academic and social life for students includes a central server connected to a wide-area network and storing a repertoire of logic functions for use by students in managing academic activities; and a plurality of computerized appliances associated with individual students, the computerized appliances connectable to the wide-area network. The students may download logic from the central server, and execute the logic to configure and manage activities related to classes and studies in a college or university, and may interact with other students through the central server. In one aspect the system further includes one or more distributed servers connected to the wide-area-network the servers adapted for network-based academic learning and for communication with the central server over the network; and one or more content servers connected to the wide-area-network, the content servers adapted to provide Web-based content and services to students through the central server. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20090094530 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REVIEWING A COMPONENT REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENT AND FOR RECORDING APPROVALS THEREOF - A method and system for reviewing and recording approvals for a component requirements document (CRD). A document link to a CRD and a chart link to a condensed version of the CRD are inserted into a review database table. The CRD describes changes required for a software application component. Prior to a review meeting, reviewers activate the document link to display the CRD. During the review meeting, the reviewers activate the chart link to display the condensed version of the CRD for a review of the required changes. An annotation is inserted into the review database table in response to completing the review. The annotation indicates a readiness for an approval process in which the CRD is approved by approvers. A comment link to a sign off comment is inserted into a sign off database table. The sign off comment indicates an approval of the CRD. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090132930 | E-MAIL COMMUNITY SYSTEM FOR A NETWORK GAME AND PROGRAM THEREFOR - [Problems to be Solved] The object of the present invention is to permit usage of a character name in a network game for safe free communication with each other in cooperation of the e-mail between inside and outside the game without disclosure of the outside-mail address, which is privacy information. To this end, the present invention is characterized by a step of associating a character name with an Internet e-mail address and recording them in the dedicated server, and a step wherein when the terminal equipment of a mail source is connected to the game, an inside-game mail from the mail source using a character name is received and a character name of a destination is acquired, thereafter if the destination is not playing the game at present and the Internet e-mail address has been registered, then an arrival message is transmitted as the Internet e-mail addressed to the Internet e-mail address and thereafter the inside-game mail is converted to a WEB mail format to perform an external e-mail transmission by a WEB mail addressed to the game character name as required by the destination. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090132931 | METHOD, DEVICE AND PROGRAM FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING REFERENCE MARK IN VIRTUAL SHARED SPACE - The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for automatically putting a reference mark on an object to pay attention to. A server device which provides a virtual reality space to multiple client devices connected to the server device via a network detects movement of an avatar related to a client device, the movement indicating an object in the virtual reality space displayed on a screen of the client device, as a trigger for generating a reference mark. In response to detection of the movement of the avatar, the server device generates a reference mark to be put on the object. The server device notifies another client device of the presence of the generated reference mark. Accordingly, the other client device is guided to the object by selecting the notification displayed on the screen. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090132932 | USER INTERFACE AND METHOD FOR VIEWING SHORT MESSAGES ON A WIRELESS DEVICE - A method is performed by an electronic communication device. The method includes storing electronic messages, and storing criteria for determining whether a stored message is related to a current message. A current electronic message is displayed to a user of the communication device, including the current message's outside address and message body. The relevance of each of the stored messages to the current message is assessed based on the previously-stored criteria. Those messages that meet the criteria are selected and displayed along with the current message. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090144636 | Methods for the Creation of Multiple Email Messages from a Singular Email Message - Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to a methodology for dividing a primary email message composition into multiple secondary email messages. As such, a graphic user interface (GUI) is provided with a plurality of message composition windows wherein a user may compose a primary email message and thereafter construct multiple amounts of desired secondary email messages. | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090187831 | Integrated Electronic Mail and Instant Messaging System - Embodiments of a system for integrating electronic mail and instant messaging applications in a comprehensive communication interface are described. The integrated communication interface is embodied as a web-based communication portal that allows users from a single application and log-in session to download all of their e-mail messages and Instant Messaging (IM) messages from different e-mail and IM accounts, as well as access other communication related services. Users can switch between e-mail and IM type communication within the same application depending on their preference, without the need to switch applications on their client computers. Instant message sessions for one of a plurality of different instant message systems can be opened within a single e-mail portal. | 07-23-2009 |
| 20090199110 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING ANIMATION-BASED MESSAGE - Provided are an apparatus and method for transmitting an animation-based message. The apparatus includes a user interface provider which provides a user interface that allows a user to input message information including script-based animation information, a message generator which generates a message based on the input information, and a message transmitter which transmits the generated message. | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090204903 | IDENTIFYING UNIQUE CONTENT IN ELECTRONIC MAIL MESSAGES - Unique content in interrelated email messages is identified and duplicate content filtered out for user friendly display of a flow of exchange within the interrelated messages. Follow-on messages such as replies or forwards are compared to the original message to determine which part of a follow-on message is not present in the original message and is a unique part of the follow-on message. The comparison includes parsing of the messages to extract user viewable parts determination of which extracted part is the last message part containing unique information. Once the unique message part is determined, message body that excludes everything after the unique part including the headers is be displayed. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090210800 | USE INTERFACE FOR READING EMAIL CONVERSATIONS - Emails modeled as conversations are displayed in a user interface that enables users to read and interact with the emails within a conversation intuitively. Conversation breaks, such as those in an in-reply-to relationship between messages, are presented utilizing extra spaces between displayed message parts, excerpts of parent messages displayed above the message following the break, and/or graphical elements like broken connectors. Relationships between a user selected message and its parent within the conversation defined relationship are illustrated using graphical elements or schemes that focus on the selected message to avoid confusion due to information overload. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090241033 | PARTICIPANT RESPONSE AND POLLING SYSTEM - A system and methods for polling a group and automatically gathering and analyzing responses from the group. The system and methods provide an interactive web-based service that allows participants (e.g., students, meeting attendees, conference attendees) to interact with a user (e.g., a teacher, an instructor, a presenter, a lecturer) via a cell phone or other device in order to efficiently and effectively provide feedback to the user. Such feedback enables the user to modify or clarify his/her presentation or instruction in real time to address any misunderstandings of the participants. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090271712 | MESSAGING DEVICE HAVING A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR INITIATING COMMUNICATION TO RECIPIENTS - A messaging device allows a user to initiate communication to recipients via a graphical user interface. In some embodiments, messages are composed by a user via a touchscreen display. Pre-existing messages may also be retrieved by the user via the display. Icons representing potential message recipients are displayed, and the user may deliver a message to a recipient by associating the message with the icon that represents the desired recipient, such as by a drag-and-drop or pop-and-hop motion. In addition, the user may indicate to which of the recipient's various electronic devices or services the message is to be delivered. In some embodiments, the user may deliver the message to a group of recipients. | 10-29-2009 |
| 20090300516 | APPARATUS FOR NAVIGATION AND INTERACTION IN A VIRTUAL MEETING PLACE - An apparatus for providing for virtual communication and collaboration comprises a collaborative virtual environment (CVE) application executing within a distributed data processing system, and a shadow module implemented within the CVE application. The CVE application provides a virtual world represented as a grid of an interconnected set of locations each divided into a set of zones and each having an assigned context through a user interface provided to a plurality of users through one or more client systems. The CVE provides each user with a respective avatar representation for navigating and interacting within the locations of the virtual world. The shadow module provides a first user interface element through which a first user can create and leave a shadow object representation for the first user within a zone of a subset of the set of locations when the avatar representation for the user is currently located in that zone. The shadow object representation persists in the zone after the avatar representation for the first user has navigated away from the zone. The shadow module provides a second user interface element providing a second user with one or more selectable options for corresponding with the first user when the avatar representation for the second user is located in the zone with the shadow object representation. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090300517 | PROVIDING USER CONTROL OF HISTORICAL MESSAGES IN ELECTRONIC MAIL CHAIN TO BE INCLUDED IN FORWARDED OR REPLIED ELECTRONIC MAIL MESSAGE - A method, system and computer program product for controlling which historical messages are to be included in a forwarded or replied email message. The number of email messages in a chain of email messages contained in an email message is determined. A graphical user interface is generated that contains an option for the user to select one or more historical messages, or alternatively, an option to select a number of recent historical messages, in the chain of email messages to be included in the forwarded or replied email message. The selected historical messages in the chain of email messages to be included in the forwarded or received email message is received. The forwarded or replied email message is generated that includes the selected historical messages in the chain of email messages. By using this process, the recipient can save time in identifying the relevant details in the received email message. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090307606 | STORAGE AND EXPEDITED RETRIEVAL OF MESSAGES AND RESPONSES IN MULTI-TASKING ENVIRONMENTS - Tools and techniques are described for storage and expedited retrieval of messages and responses in multi-tasking environments. Methods provided by these tools may establish active communications with a first contact, and then received indications of secondary communications involving a second contact. These methods may then present user interfaces (Uls) that include representations of at least the secondary communications. Through the Uls, the methods may receive a selection of one of the secondary communications for an expedited response, and may receive input from the user that provides the expedited response to the secondary communication, while maintaining the active communication in an active state. These methods may provide the expedited response to the secondary communication, based upon the input received from the user. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090307607 | Digital Notes - Techniques described herein allow for displaying a real-time communication client associated with a first user, the real-time communication client configured to receive an input from the first user and send, in response, a digital note to a second user. The real-time communication client may be configured to send the digital note to a desktop of the second user, a calendar of the second user, a real-time communication client of the second user, and a profile of the second user, potentially among other locations. These tools may also display, on the real-time communication client, one or more digital notes that have been sent by one or more other users and received at the real-time communication client associated with the first user. These notes may be displayed individually or collectively in the form of a notebook. | 12-10-2009 |
| 20090313554 | EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS THAT INCLUDE A THREAD STATUS INDICATOR - A solution for interacting using electronic mail (email) is disclosed. An email thread can be identified, wherein the email thread includes at least a thread initiating email message and at least one response to the thread initiating email message. A thread status indicator can be established for the email thread. The thread status indictor can have a multitude of values. One of the values can reflect that a response has completed the email thread so that additional responses to the thread initiating email message are unnecessary. Another of the values can reflect that no response has completed the email thread so that additional responses to the thread initiating email message are necessary. The thread status indicator can be conveyed to a set of parties participating in the email thread. | 12-17-2009 |
| 20090319911 | SYNCHRONIZED CONVERSATION-CENTRIC MESSAGE LIST AND MESSAGE READING PANE - Technologies are described herein for a user interface uniting two primary components, a list view and a reading pane, within a message reading application. Technologies are also described for synchronizing status and parameters between the two primary user interface components. In particular, a user interface for reading messages can represent all components of a conversation with both a list view for presenting a message map, and a reading pane for presenting a content view. The list view can present a list of messages grouped by conversation. The reading pane window can contain smaller windows or frames. Each of the smaller windows or frames can contain a message within a given conversation. Synchronization provided between the list view and a reading pane can allow message selection in one of the user interface components to cause display and selection of the corresponding message in the other user interface component. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090327920 | Application User Interface with Navigation Bar Showing Current and Prior Application Contexts - A graphical user interface for a portable electronic device includes an application display region that displays a current application context of an application and a navigation bar adjacent to the application display region. The navigation bar includes two horizontally adjacent regions, comprising a current context region for displaying an indicator of the current application context and a prior context region for displaying an indicator of an application context preceding the current application context. The application display region simulates shifting of the application display in a first direction upon detecting user selection of the prior context region, and simulates shifting of the application display in a second direction, opposite the first direction, upon detecting user selection of an application context different from the current application context and the prior application context. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100005399 | Systems and Methods for Processing Attachments Associated with Electronic Messages - Attachments that are received through one or more message transport services are processed. An object identifier is received through an electronic message received through one of a plurality of message transport services. A thumbnail graphic of a portion of the contents of the object associated with the object identifier is generated and displayed in a display window. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100037148 | Social Networking Tool - A social networking tool is described for use with a display. In an embodiment, the display is permanently located in an enterprise office and facilitates social interaction between users some of whom are remote of the display and at least one of whom is physically local to the display. In an embodiment messages comprising content are received from remote users and the content displayed. One display region for each remote user is displayed concurrently and content received from any particular remote user is only displayed in the display region for that remote user. In an embodiment a user local to the display is able to send a message to a remote user by selecting the appropriate display region. In another embodiment a user local to the display is able to change the position of the display regions on the display and may also annotate the display. | 02-11-2010 |
| 20100050091 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FACILITATING MARKETING DIALOGUES - Systems and methods for carrying on marketing dialogues are disclosed. Specifically, embodiments of the systems and methods presented may allow marketing dialogues to be carried on with a set of participants by sending a communication to each of the participants. Another set of participant may be assembled from the initial participants and an action may then be taken with respect to this second set of participants. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100058199 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATICALLY RETAINING USER INPUTTED TEXT VALUES - A method and system are provided for retaining user-inputted text values. The method includes, responsive to a user command to compose an email in an email client, opening a compose window including a first text input field, wherein the compose window includes a programmer-defined behavior for the first text input field to save a first text input field value. The method includes receiving a user input in the first text input field. The method includes, responsive to detecting the programmer-defined behavior, saving the user input from the first text input field into an accessible memory. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100058200 | FACILITATING PRESENTATION BY MOBILE DEVICE OF ADDITIONAL CONTENT FOR A WORD OR PHRASE UPON UTTERANCE THEREOF - A method for presenting additional content for a word that is part of a message, and that is presented by a mobile communication device, includes the steps of: presenting the message, including emphasizing one or more words for which respective additional content is available for presenting by the mobile communication device; receiving an utterance that includes an emphasized word for which additional content is available for presenting by the mobile communication device; and presenting the additional content for the emphasized word included in the utterance received by the mobile communication device. These steps are performed by the mobile communication device. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100070880 | USER INTERFACE FOR IMPROVING THE USE OF NOTES WITH EMAIL MESSAGES THAT PROVIDES A STATIC VISUAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NOTES AND EMAIL MESSAGES AND A NOTE INCORPORATION CAPABILITY - The present invention can include an improved user interface for handling the note functionality of an enhanced note-enabled email system. Such an interface can include an email pane, a note pane, and a user-selectable note incorporation option. The email pane can be configured to execute various email and note commands of the enhanced note-enabled email system. The email pane can be presented within a software application window of the enhanced note-enabled email system. The note pane can be configured to create a static visual relationship between a user-selected email message of the email pane and an associated note of the note pane. The note pane can be presented separately and concurrently with the email pane. The user-selectable note incorporation option can be configured to trigger the incorporation of the note into the user-selected email message. Incorporation can occur prior to transmission of the user-selected email. | 03-18-2010 |
| 20100077317 | Providing Collaboration - Collaboration support for collaboration among groups of people is provided by leveraging e-mail messaging. Content for collaboration messages is created, and is embedded within e-mail messages and sent to recipients (such as member of a collaboration team, managers who are identified for receiving notification of collaborations, and so forth). A template-driven approach may be used for creating the collaboration content. A unique identifier is associated with a particular collaboration and is included in each message pertaining to that collaboration, enabling those related messages to be correlated or aggregated. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100083133 | E-MAIL DELIVERY METHOD, E-MAIL DELIVERY SYSTEM, AND SERVER USED THEREFOR - An e-mail delivery system that makes it possible (1) for the end-user of the client terminal to set up a mailbox with a customized mail theme and to receive only those e-mails that comply with the pre-specified mail theme(s), (2) that enables the end-user to easily generate a new mail theme that is related to e-mail and mailbox, (3) that allows both the mail sender and the mailbox owner to actually edit the e-mail after it reaches the mailbox, and (4) that also allows the mailbox owner to receive advertising banners in which she/he has interest, using the mail theme. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100095224 | METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR NAVIGATING BETWEEN ATTACHMENTS TO ELECTRONIC MAIL MESSAGES - A method and computer-readable medium are provided for navigation between attachments to electronic mail messages. According to the method, a list of e-mail messages is displayed that includes header information associated with each of the messages. When one of the messages in the list is selected, a determination is made as to whether the selected message has attachments. If the selected message has attachments, an identifier is displayed adjacent to the header information for each attachment. The identifier indicates that the attachment is associated with the selected message and may provide other information such as the type and size of the attachment. The identifiers are displayed in a manner to indicate clearly to a user that the attachments are associated with the selected e-mail message. The identifiers may be selected to preview the corresponding attachment. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100107088 | PROVISIONING INSTANT COMMUNICATIONS FOR A COMMUNITY OF USERS - Techniques that enable instant communications services to be provisioned for an online community of users such that the members of the community can interact with each other using instant communications including using instant messaging (IM). In one embodiment, an instant communications facilitator operating from a first domain may provision instant communication services for members of an online community maintained in different domains from the first domain. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100115423 | Mobile Terminal Device - Provided is a mobile terminal device that can improve operability for editing a mail with a simple configuration. A cellular telephone device | 05-06-2010 |
| 20100122183 | Location information in a communications system - A method of communicating location information relating to a first user of a first communication client from a first user terminal over a communications system to a second user terminal, the first user terminal executing the first communication client and the second user terminal executing a second communication client, the method comprising: the second communication client displaying a list of contacts associated with a second user of the second communication client, the list of contacts comprising a first contact representing the first user; the first user terminal determining a location of the first user; the first user terminal storing the determined location in a store of the first user terminal; the first communication client reading the stored location from the store; the first communication client generating a message comprising a visual indication of the location read from the store; transmitting the message from the first user terminal to the second user terminal; and displaying the visual indication of the location on the second user terminal in the contact list in association with the first contact. | 05-13-2010 |
| 20100125798 | TECHNIQUES FOR INFORMATION COLLABORATION - Techniques for information collaboration are presented. Information topics are defined by users within a virtual community. Comments, links to other topics, search terms used in connection with the information topic, and bookmarks are recorded in connection with each of the information topics. Security access is custom designated for: the information topic as a whole, the comments, the links, the search terms, and/or the bookmarks. The security access defines whether other second users of the virtual community are to be given access to each of the information topics and/or to each comment, link, search term and/or bookmark associated with each of those information topics. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100138754 | MESSAGE DISTRIBUTION WARNING INDICATION - An apparatus and method for receiving and sending messages from a communication device is disclosed. Message recipient information is compared to stored information for potential recipients to determine whether a characteristic of the expression of the message on a device display should be changed such that the user perceives an unavoidable visual indication relating to the result of the comparison. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100153855 | Communication Management - A method may include receiving a communication thread and identifying at least some items of interest in the communication thread. The method may also include displaying the communication thread with the identified items of interest being highlighted or displayed in a different manner than other portions of the communication thread. | 06-17-2010 |
| 20100162132 | TECHNIQUES TO MANAGE AND DISPLAY RELATED COMMUNICATIONS - Techniques to manage and display related communications are described. A system may comprise a communication management tool (CMT) operative on a computer, the CMT comprising a threading component operative to associate a plurality of communications from a plurality of communication types with a conversation thread, and a display component operative to display communications in a conversation thread as a conversation view. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100162133 | USER INTERFACE PARADIGM FOR NEXT-GENERATION MOBILE MESSAGING - Systems and methods for enabling people to more efficiently capture, process, and communicate ideas are presented herein. A display component can present multimedia content communicated via a wireless communications device as a sequential list of dialog balloons justified towards a left or right side of a display. Each dialog balloon can correspond to a message of a conversation between a user of the wireless communications device and at least one other person. A multimedia component can enable the user to include text and at least one of a picture, a video, a map, an emoticon, or audio within a dialog balloon corresponding to a message communicated by the user. A message communicated by the user can be justified towards the right side of the display, and a message communicated by the at least one other person can be justified towards the left side of the display. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100162134 | DISPLAY DEVICE CAPABLE OF BEING REMOTELY SET DESKTOP BACKGROUND AND METHOD THEREOF - A method for remotely setting desktop background of a display device, wherein the display device accesses and receives emails from an email account, the method comprising: reading a received email; detecting whether the parameters of the read email are consistent with the predetermined rules; detecting whether properties of the comprised image are consistent with predetermined properties if the parameters of the read email are consistent with the predetermined rules; setting the image as a desktop background of the display device if the properties of the image are consistent with predetermined properties; storing the set desktop background. A display device capable of being remotely set desktop background is also provided. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100205538 | METHOD OF PROVIDING A USER INTERFACE FOR A MOBILE TERMINAL - A method of providing a user interface of a mobile terminal is provided. The method of providing a user interface of a mobile terminal having an instant messenger service capability includes: activating the instant messenger; and outputting a user interface screen including a selection window to which a preset selection menu is linked in order to change an entire or a part of a screen. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100205539 | INSTANT MESSAGING AND TELEPHONY VALUE ADDED SERVICES - A method of communication between an instant messaging user and external applications is disclosed. The instant messaging user can communicate multimedia messages with traditional telephony users, with SMS and MMS users, with email users and with IM users of other instant messaging communities. Likewise, the instant messaging user can post and retrieve entries into and from a message board and into and from his blog space directly from the instant message client. Moreover, the instant messaging user can establish chat sessions with other instant messaging users without need to share one another's presence. Furthermore, the instant messaging user can place queries to a call center directly from the instant message client. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100211888 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING MINIMAL STATUS DISPLAY - A method and apparatus are provided for a user of a mobile wireless communications device to have the option of viewing security status messages in a large or small format depending upon the user's preferences, form factor of the mobile communications device, or the like. In accordance with an exemplary aspect of the invention, a user may opt to display status icons on one row of a display and include an abbreviated text associated with each icon that is displayed when a particular icon is highlighted by the user. If no icon is highlighted by the user, the most important status text (determined based on predetermined criteria) is displayed. The user has the option of switching to a large status display to view additional information relating to the status icons. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100211889 | Conversation Grouping of Electronic Mail Records - Improved conversation grouping methods and systems are provided for electronic mail records. Electronic mail messages that are unread or flagged for follow-up are automatically displayed under an associated conversation grouping heading. If a conversation grouping contains only a single unread or flagged electronic mail message, the single electronic mail message is automatically displayed under the conversation grouping heading for review by a user. For a conversation grouping having no unread or flagged electronic mail messages, the latest electronic mail message in the grouping is automatically displayed under the conversation grouping heading. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100218119 | USER INTERFACE FOR INTEGRATING APPLICATIONS ON A MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A user interface, in accordance with the teachings described herein, is provided for integrating applications on a mobile communication device. An instant messaging user interface may be included for displaying an instant messaging communication that includes an instant messaging contact. An instant messaging user interface menu may be included for displaying a list of commands, one or more of the commands being specific to the displayed instant messaging contact, and the list of commands including a command associated with a calendar application. The user interface may be operable to automatically launch the calendar application in response to a user selecting the command associated with the calendar application. A field in the calendar application may be automatically populated with the instant messaging contact. | 08-26-2010 |
| 20100223561 | METHOD AND DEVICE TO SIMPLIFY MESSAGE COMPOSITION - A method and device to simplify message reply composition on a communications device, using a partially transparent overlay to allow a user to freely scroll and move around to other sections of a message or message chain while still being able to see and edit the reply being composed. When the reply is scrolled such that the composition field is not visible on the display screen, the device displays the overlay when the user enters text or on user request. The user may then type text into the overlay while viewing the underlying portion of the reply message, such as previous messages in the string. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20100229102 | ASSISTIVE COMMUNICATION DEVICE - An assistive communication device of the type on which a user can compose a message to be spoken by the device, using an input device to select items on a display to construct the message, can operate in a mode suitable for visually impaired and/or inexperienced users by aurally stepping through the available choices, explaining to the user the consequences of selecting each choice. The order in which choices are presented in these modes may differ from a mode in which they would be presented to an experienced or fully-sighted user. Even for an experienced user, the order in which choices are highlighted on the display may differ according the user's usage history. The device may be connected to external communications, including a telephone line, a data network for electronic mail, or a caregiver alert device. The caregiver alert device may be portable, or may be a caregivers' station console. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100235758 | Method, System and Apparatus for Sorting Topics within a Group - A method for sorting topics in a user group of instant messaging is disclosed. An instant messaging server receives a user request for creating a topic within a user group, and thereupon creates a corresponding topic group. Upon subsequently receiving from a request for joining the topic, the server adds the requesting user into the corresponding topic group. Upon receiving a message sent from a user of the topic group, the server transmits the message to other users of the same topic group. Using the topic sorting technology in group chatting, the method allows messages to be conveniently categorized for better use by the user, thus reducing the interference from unrelated topics while allowing group discussions. The method helps to improve user experience and maximize the benefit of group chatting, and may also reduce the volume of unnecessary messages sent by the server. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100235759 | UNIFIED MANAGEMENT METHOD OF VARIOUS TYPES OF MESSAGES OF A PERSONAL INFORMATION TERMINAL - The present invention relates to a method of displaying several types of messages all together through a single window and of enabling a user to write and transmit a message with no consideration of message type. This unified message management method displays various types of messages all together along with their respective message types through a single window, converts the type of a written message, if needed, to match it to a protocol determined based on information written in its field distinguishing a message type, and transmits the type-converted message, whereby a user can confirm all types of received messages at a time and user's inconvenience that a message type to write should be distinguished in advance prior to choosing a message input screen can be removed. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100235760 | METHOD FOR CALIBRATING RELATIVE TIME IN CONTENT OF MESSAGE - A method for calibrating a relative time in content of a message is provided. A relative time word is identified in various kinds of transmission information, and the relative time is calibrated to an absolute time according to a sending time of the message. Even a date, a time zone received by the receiver receiving the message is different from that of the sender, the receiver wound not misunderstand due to misinterpretation. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100235761 | CONTACT SIDEBAR TILE - Methods, systems, and computer program products for tracking real-time communication data within a single contact tracking application for diverse communication providers and applications. A global data store is synchronized with real-time communication data, such as presence, status, unread messages, and unread notifications, from each application/provider. Real-time communication data for contacts dynamically determined to be recent contacts is retrieved from the data store, based on properties such as a most recent communication time, a communication count, and the like. Real-time communication data corresponding to contacts identified as pinned contacts for which display of real-time communication data is preferred, also may be retrieved. A user interface is generated for displaying the one or more recent and/or pinned contacts, which may vary in size based on the number of contacts identified as pinned contacts, from which a contact may be selected for real-time conversation or e-mail. | 09-16-2010 |
| 20100241970 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF MESSAGING MEETING INVITEES - A method of composing an email message at an electronic device and an electronic device operable to carry out the method are provided. The method includes receiving an email command from a user input of the electronic device through a calendar user interface, the email command relating to at least one of a plurality of intended attendees of a calendared meeting, and providing an email composition interface in response to receiving the email command. The email composition interface includes a user-editable portion of an address field. The user-editable portion of the address field is automatically populated with email address information for the at least one of the plurality of intended attendees. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100251136 | MESSAGING WITH INSTRUCTIONS FOR MEDIA PLAYBACK - A content processing device is provided. Media content is selectively provided to the content processing device. A profile is used to determine the media content. A software application is included on the content processing device and is configured to receive a message from a remote computer, receive user inputs in response to the message, and update the profile based on the user inputs. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100251137 | Mobile Device Messaging Application - A social networking mobile software application for particular mobile device which allow end users on their mobile devices to view profiles of themselves that contain images and/or videos while simultaneously hearing and audio description of their ad via wireless connection to the internet and/or cellular provider data network using streaming or intact multimedia file. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100251138 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATING AN ADDRESS BOOK WITH AN INSTANT MESSAGING APPLICATION IN A MOBILE STATION - This relates to a method for operating a mobile station. The method includes grouping two or more member addresses into a group. The group is presented as a group data in a transient data list. A selection of an option to open a messaging session with the group is selected. A messaging session is opened, with the member addresses of the selected group. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100262921 | Originator-Specified Constraints For Message Responses - A mechanism by which the originator of a message can establish one or more mandatory characteristics for a response is disclosed. In the illustrative embodiment, the originator of a message can specify a priority for responses to the message, and all responses will automatically be forced to have that priority. In accordance with the illustrative embodiment, the priority requirement is enforced by automatically setting the appropriate priority level in a graphical user interface (GUI) by which the recipient responds to the message, and making this portion of the GUI inactive so that the priority cannot be changed. The illustrative embodiment also enables the originator to specify other mandatory characteristics for responses, including what telecommunications terminal(s) the response will be directed to (e.g., cell phone, personal computer, etc.), and how the response will be sent (e.g., email, a short message service [SMS] text message, instant messaging [IM], etc.). | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100262922 | Method and System for Processing Electronic Mail - A method and system for processing email messages are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the method includes receiving a first signal input indicative of a request that contents of a selected email message be displayed on a display associated with a client computer device, wherein the contents are stored in a memory device associated with a server computer device and include contents of at least one other email message. The method further includes causing displaying of the contents of the selected email message for reviewing by the user. The method additionally includes making a determination of whether the contents of the at least one other email message have been reviewed by the user during the user's review of the contents of the selected email message, and providing an indication regarding whether or to what extent the at least one other email message has been read based upon the determination. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100262923 | Methods and systems for displaying information on a graphical user interface - Systems and methods, operable on a mobile device for facilitating communication between at least one user and a plurality of participating product or service providers via an intermediary third-party communication management system. Users who respond to solicitations of the plurality of participating product or service providers have the option of remaining anonymous while communicating with the plurality of participating product and service providers by utilizing an internal email service of the third-party communication management system or by other anonymous communication formats. In one embodiment, users are automatically notified of changes and updates to user selected participating product or service provider web sites, via the intermediary third-party communication management system and may communicate with the changed websites anonymously. At any point, the users may elect to communicate in a non-anonymous communication format, thus protecting the user's identity and privacy with the plurality of participating product or service providers. | 10-14-2010 |
| 20100269052 | NOTIFYING OF AN UNSCHEDULED SYSTEM INTERRUPTION REQUIRING MANUAL INTERVENTION AND ADJUSTING INTERRUPTION SPECIFICS REACTIVE TO USER FEEDBACK - A service interruption event for a functional element of a computing system that requires manual intervention on behalf of a human agent can be identified. The manual intervention can result in the functional element being temporarily disabled. A set of subscribers, having previously requested notifications, can be determined as being potentially affected by the unscheduled service interruption event. An interactive electronic message can be conveyed via a notification system to each subscriber of the set. Responses received from the notification system to a portion of the interactive electronic messages can be compiled into a summary. The responses can indicate whether an associated subscriber agrees to the manual intervention occurring at a near future time. The compiled summary can be presented to the human agent. The human agent can then adjust the specifics of the unscheduled service interruption event requiring manual intervention based on the received responses. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100275131 | LATE LOADING RICH MEDIA - Methods for delivering rich media content to a user within an email system via a dedicated media channel. An email system receives an email message associated with rich media content from a registered sender for delivery to a recipient. To improve the recipient's viewing experience, the email system ensures that the rich media content is loaded in a rich media database before delivering the email message to the recipient. When the recipient reads the email message, the email system delivers the rich media content to the recipient from the rich media database via a dedicated media channel efficiently and at a low cost. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100275132 | INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - The present invention includes interactive communication systems that incorporate several beneficial embodiments including an interactive tray system, an electronic presentation messaging system, an interactive podium, and a key drive system. The interactive tray system enables a single, transferable interactive unit to be fastened to a communication medium, turning into a fully interactive medium. The electronic presentation messaging system enables the e-mailing of presentations and notes to and from components of the interactive communication system. The interactive podium increases conventional podium mobility, enabling both the presenter, and podium, to move and be moved about the room without attention to wired connections. The key drive system replaces the conventional Y-connector of the key drive technology by effectively integrating the key drive in the device, thus only having one connector, and eliminating the need to change connectors from the key drive, to the USB connector, upon software driver loading. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100275133 | COMPRESSIBLE DISPLAY OF E-MAIL MESSAGE STRING TO FACILITTE READABILITY - A displayed string of emails is effectively compressed for improved readability by deleting some or all headers and/or by skipping the cursor from one message body to another in response to “hot” key actuation(s) by a user. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20100281397 | Displaying Conversation Views in a Conversation-Based Email System - A method and system of processing messages is described that includes receiving a plurality of messages directed to a user, wherein each message has a unique message identifier. Each of the received messages is associated with a respective conversation to which it belongs. Each conversation includes a respective conversation identifier and a set of one or more messages which share a common set of characteristics that meet certain predefined criteria. A list of conversations to which the various messages belong is displayed in an order determined in accordance with other predefined criteria, such as ordering the conversations by the last date a message was received in a particular conversation. Each conversation is represented as a single item in the list. Other information displayed relating to the conversation includes labels, senders, date/time values, recipients, number of message in a conversation, and whether or not the conversation contains any unread messages. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20100287482 | Method, system, and software for the production of electronic newsletters - An interactive online document construction system that enables a user to assemble email newsletters by selecting content from repositories of information and images. | 11-11-2010 |
| 20100293475 | NOTIFICATION OF ADDITIONAL RECIPIENTS OF EMAIL MESSAGES - An email client software application can include a sending component, a receiving component, a notifier, and a reply-all option. The sending component can be for sending email messages to a set of recipients. The receiving component can be for receiving email messages. The notifier can be for receiving notifications from recipients to whom email messages have been previously sent. The received notifications can indicate that previously sent email messages have been forwarded to others. The reply-all option can be provided such that when triggered it automatically sends a reply message to a subset of recipients associated with an initial one of the email messages and to the others that have been sent the initial one of the email messages. The others included in the subset can be determined from the notifications received and processed by the notifier. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100299613 | Method for the provision of a convergent messaging service for at least one terminal in a mobile radio network system and corresponding working unit - The present invention relates to a method for the provision of a convergent messaging service for at least one terminal in a mobile radio network system wherein at the at least one terminal, a working unit ( | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100299614 | User Interface of a Mobile Device Having a Toolbar for Composing Rich Text Messages - A communication device for communicating electronic messages with a remote device is described. The device comprises a transmitter, a user interface, a processor, and a display. The transmitter sends an electronic message to the remote device, in which the electronic message comprises a message header indicating a recipient's address and a message body including textual content. The user interface generates input signals based on interaction with a user of the communication device. The processor creates the electronic message based on the input signals and provides the electronic message to the transmitter. The display provides an attribute selectable toolbar positioned between the message header and the message body. The attribute selectable toolbar provides a plurality of attributes that are capable of being applied to the textual content of the message body. For certain embodiments, an attribute indicator may be provided to represent all attributes selected by the user interface. | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100299615 | System And Method For Injecting Sensed Presence Into Social Networking Applications - A method for injecting sensed presence into social networking applications includes receiving sensor data associated with a user ( | 11-25-2010 |
| 20100306669 | INSTANT MESSAGING SERVICE WITH MINIMIZED USER INTERFACE - A method is proposed for exchanging messages among users of computers. The method includes the steps on the computer ( | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100318923 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR MANAGING E-MAIL THEREOF - A method for controlling a mobile terminal, and which includes executing, via a controller on the mobile terminal, an e-mail function; displaying, via a display on the mobile terminal, a e-mail account list including at least first and second e-mail accounts, in which the first e-mail account uses a first e-mail service for processing e-mails and the second e-mail account uses a second e-mail service for processing e-mails that is different than the first e-mail account service; providing, via the controller, an e-mail service of the selected first e-mail account, when the first e-mail account on the e-mail account list is selected; receiving, via an input unit, an account changing request for changing from the first e-mail account to the second e-mail account while information within the first e-mail account is currently being displayed; changing, via the controller, from the first e-mail account to the second e-mail account according to the account changing request; and providing, via the controller, the second e-mail service for the second e-mail account. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100318924 | Method and System for Improved Electronic Task Flagging and Management - An improved method and system are provided for creating tasks and for inputting information associated with created tasks according to an electronic task management application or system. Electronic correspondence items may be flagged as tasks. Upon flagging an individual electronic correspondence item, a corresponding task is created for the flagged item, and the created task is then populated into and exposed by one or more applications used for displaying tasks such as a tasks application, calendar application, or electronic to-do list application. Properties such as task start dates and task categories may be applied to the created task, as desired. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20110010637 | TOPIC BASED GUIDANCE FOR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS - Electronic communication systems can be enhanced to allow a sender to indicate a topic and request an amount time for a conversation. The topic and time requested can be displayed to a recipient along with the sender's identification so that the recipient can choose to accept or reject the conversation. If the conversation is accepted, the topic and an amount of time remaining can be displayed to both the sender and the recipient. In addition, the sender and the recipient can be reminded of the topic if the discussions are off-topic. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110010638 | PRESENCE-ENABLED INBOX - A system can include a number of personal and group presence indicators that each correspond to a user or group and a presence-enabled inbox that can display an itemized listing of contents. The presence-enabled inbox can also display personal and/or group presence indicators in connection with a certain content where the corresponding users or groups are currently interacting with the content. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110010639 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AN EXTENDABLE MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE USER INTERFACE - A system and method for an extendable software interface includes a software architecture for use in a mobile device having a processor and a memory device. The software architecture includes a set of first-order controller software instructions configured to interface the application program with a first-order data model, and a first-order data object stored in the memory device in the form of the first-order data model. The first-order data object includes a second-order data object. A second-order set of controller software instructions configured to interact with the second-order data object is also included in the software architecture. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110029891 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING OPERATION OF THE MOBILE TERMINAL - A mobile terminal and an operating method of the mobile terminal are provided. The mobile terminal may be coupled, either wirelessly or by wire, to an external terminal and the mobile terminal may thus receive sync data including information regarding a webpage currently being displayed by the external terminal from the external terminal or a server. The mobile terminal may display the same webpage as is currently being displayed by the external terminal based on the received sync data. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110029892 | System and Method For Integrating Advanced Multimedia Features Within An Instant Messaging Environment - An instant messaging graphical user interface (“GUI”) is described comprising: a text entry region in which a user may enter instant messages; an IM conversation window in which a complete IM conversation between the user and a selected contact appears; a video window for displaying real time video of the user and/or the contact during an IM session; and a plurality of user-selectable personal video recorder (“PVR”) controls for performing a respective plurality of PVR functions on the video displayed within the video window, the PVR functions including record, pause, and rewind for recording, pausing, and rewinding the video, respectively. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110035681 | RELATIONAL PRESENTATION OF COMMUNICATIONS AND APPLICATION FOR TRANSACTION ANALYSIS - The system provides a method of sorting and presenting messages in a way so that the relationship in message threads can be easily observed and related messages can be identified. The system provides a way to view messages and map message threads and inboxes in two and three dimensions so that the content of messages can be easily reviewed and the relationship between messages can be seen and followed. The system is not limited to email messages but can present the relationship between multiple types of communications including emails, instant messages, texts, tweets, bulletin boards, wilds, blogs, voice conversations postings on social networks and other types of communications. In addition, the system allows for the inclusion of transactional information, including financial transactions, physical movement, asset deployment, or other acts or activities that may be related to, or independent of, the communications. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110035682 | INTERNET-PAD OPERATING SYSTEM AND APPLICATIONS AND INTERNET-PAD FOR DIGITAL OUTPUT - An Internet-Pad device and system for receiving and outputting digital content. The Internet-Pad device may be a digital Pad with access to the Internet and the digital Pad may be a wireless mobile information apparatus. The Internet-Pad system may include a touch sensitive screen, a graphical user interface, a document creation or document editing application, an e-mail application, and an Internet browsing application installed or included in the Internet-Pad. The Internet browsing application may provide access to a digital document or digital content. The Internet-Pad may include an operating system providing an object model or an application programming interface to facilitate applications in the Internet-Pad accessing an output service. The Internet-Pad further may include a wireless communication unit that includes a radio frequency controller for establishing radio frequency wireless communication between the Internet-Pad and one or more wireless output devices that are distinct devices from the Internet-Pad, and an output manager for managing output of the digital content to a selected wireless output device. | 02-10-2011 |
| 20110041082 | SYSTEM FOR TARGETING SPECIFIC USERS TO DISCUSSION THREADS - The present invention is directed to provide a method and system for targeting individuals and providing a reference to a discussion in a discussion forum. A method is described herein that allows a user of an integrated discussion forum interface to initiate the generation of a direct, navigable reference to a thread or message in the discussion forum to one or more targeted individuals. By generating a direct, navigable reference to the thread or message, the system may advantageously facilitate the directed solicitation of targeted individuals whilst leveraging the accessibility, reusability, and available knowledge base of a traditional public forum. | 02-17-2011 |
| 20110047483 | MESSAGING SYSTEM - A messaging system for a wireless communications network, including: a creation component for creating a message; a sending component for transmitting the message as a message service message for a recipient, and for adding to said message instructions for the recipient for providing an acknowledgement; an acknowledgement component for processing response data to determine whether said response data represents said acknowledgement for said message; a database for maintaining status data for said message, said status data being set by one or more of the components; and an interface component for use in displaying a status of said message based on said status data. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110055723 | COLLABORATIVELY INTERACTIVE MICRO-BLOG POSTS - There is provided methods of interactive and collaborative communication within a micro-blogging service. A micro-blog posting may be defined having an interactive type (e.g. “Task”, “Confirm”, etc.). The post may be communicated by the service for collaboration through interactions. The service may maintain a state of the micro-blog post in accordance with the interactions (e.g. received in reply communications). Respective micro-blog posts may be presented (viewed) in accordance with the interactive type and state. For example, a micro-blog post may be presented in a web-based viewing interface with a control defined in response to the interactive type and state for invoking an interaction/reply. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110055724 | INTERFACE FOR VOICE COMMUNICATIONS - There is provided an interface viewable on a display for a communications apparatus used during a session for voice communications between at least two parties. The interface includes at least one edge of the display having a row of objects, each object of the row being for representing each of the at least two parties; and a main portion of the display being for showing the object of the party speaking at a particular point in time, with a plurality of the objects being shown when a plurality of the parties are speaking at the particular point in time. Advantageously, the object of the speaking party is shown on the main portion when the speaking party's voice is detected by the speaking party's communications apparatus, a host server receiving information from the speaking party's communications apparatus to aid in displaying the object of the speaking party at the particular point in time. Alternatively, the object of the speaking party may also undergo a change of state, such as, for example, a blinking effect, a single occurrence resizing effect, a transitional blurring effect, a repeated resizing effect, and any combination of the aforementioned. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110066955 | System and Method for Managing a Written Transaction - A system and method for managing transactions that include numerous documents and written electronic communications between a plurality of participants is disclosed. Communications and documents related to the transaction are obtained and analyzed to determine the relationships between them and the parties authorized to view each. The communications and documents are stored with the relationship data so that a participant may view authorized items in a manner that indicates the particular relationship in which the participant is interested. | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110072363 | PRESENTATION AND SORTING OF EMAIL - The system provides a method and process for displaying and sorting messages in a communication system. The system allows multiple folders of messages to be opened simultaneously. The system also displays sent and received messages in the same display when desired. The system includes automatic and/or custom color coding of messages for ease of identification of message types, sent or received messages, root sender, cc messages, responsive messages, etc. The system also includes a unique navigation system to allow the user to more easily move through related messages, threads, and folders. The navigation system can be used in situations where the prior art would have required a search to be executed. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110072364 | INTERFACE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACCESSING STORED DATA - A modular data and storage management system. The system includes a time variance interface that provides for storage into a storage media of data that is received over time. The time variance interface of the modular data and storage management system provides for retrieval, from the storage media, of an indication of the data corresponding to a user specified date. The retrieved indication of the data provides a user with an option to access specific information relative to the data, such as content of files that are included in the data. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110078586 | Mass-Communication Templates for Communication-Scenarios - A selection of a communication scenario of multiple communication scenarios is received. Availability of content placeholders associated with the selected communication scenario is presented. A selection of a content placeholder from the content placeholders associated with the selected communication scenario is received. Based on the received selection of the content placeholder associated with the communication scenario, a mass-communication template including the content placeholder is generated. The mass-communication template is accessed to generate a first electronic communication. The first electronic communication is sent with first content based on a first state of a communication variable specified by the content placeholder of the mass-communication template. The mass-communication template is accessed to generate a second electronic communication. The second electronic communication is sent with second content based on a second state of the communication variable specified by the content placeholder of the mass-communication template. | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110078587 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EMAIL MESSAGING - A method and system for preventing sending of messages to incorrect email recipients are provided. The method includes determining ( | 03-31-2011 |
| 20110087969 | Systems and Methods to Automatically Generate a Signature Block - Systems and methods for automated signature generation. In one aspect, a method implemented in a computer includes: storing information relating to a plurality of persons on a computer readable medium; and generating a signature block applied to a message composed in a user interface, based on one or more addresses in an address field of the user interface used to compose the message and the information relating to the plurality of persons. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110087970 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, METHODS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIA FOR FACILITATING INTEGRATED MESSAGING, CONTACTS AND SOCIAL MEDIA FOR A SELECTED ENTITY - Systems, apparatus and methods are provided. In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method is provided. The computer-implemented method can include executing, using at least one processor, computer-readable instructions for performing various acts. The acts can include executing at least two applications, wherein at least one of the two applications is for providing social media information. The acts can also include receiving a signal in response to a detected input gesture indicative of a selection of an entity. The selection of the entity can be performed via another one of the two applications. The acts can also include integrating the two applications such that social media information is generated about the entity. The integration can be in response to receiving the signal, and the social media information can include information from one or more social networking websites. The acts can also include displaying the social media information about the entity. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110087971 | Music/video messaging - Device(s) and computer program products for creating custom music/video messages to facilitate and/or improve social interaction. The created music/video messages include at least portions of: music, video, pictures, slideshows, and/or text. The music/video messages enable feelings or emotions to be communicated by the user of the device to one or more recipient device(s). | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110087972 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS, METHODS AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIA FACILITATING HETEROGENEOUS MESSAGING FOR A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - Apparatus, methods and computer-readable storage media for threading calls and messages are provided. A method can include: receiving messaging content; and displaying the messaging content in a single thread, wherein the messaging content is threaded and a thread of the messaging content comprises at least one text message and at least one call. The method can further include threading the messaging content, wherein the threading comprises ordering the messaging content based, at least, on a time at which received ones of the messaging content are received at a communication device. In various embodiments, the messaging content can include one or more of voice information, MMS or SMS text messages, voicemail information, system messages, email messages, instant messages, pictorial information, video information or audio information, data traffic information, user-opted notifications, traffic reports, news alerts, weather information, stock reports, social networking chats, social networking posts or social networking status updates. | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110093792 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IDENTIFYING, ASSESSING AND CLEARING CONFLICTS OF INTEREST - Methods and systems for identifying, assessing and clearing conflicts of interest are described herein. Consistent with some embodiments, a conflicts management system receives a conflict search request, and processes the request utilizing a risk matrix that encompass and represents the risk tolerance or risk profile of a law firm. The risk matrix maps certain request types to different search queries and rules that are to be evaluated for a given request type. Based on the execution of the queries and the rules for the request, a score is assigned to a party, such that the score represents the level of risk that would be undertaken if the party was engaged as a client. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110093793 | METHOD FOR ATTACHING DATA AND MOBILE TERMINAL THEREOF - A method controlling a mobile terminal, and which includes displaying, via a display included on the mobile terminal, a text message input window for creating a text message to be sent to at least one other terminal; receiving, via a controller included on the mobile terminal, a generation signal indicating first and second slides are to be generated for the text message, in which the first slide includes a first portion of the text message and the second slide includes a second portion of the text message; displaying, via the display, the first and second slides on first and second display portions of the display; displaying, via the display, a plurality of data to be attached to the first and second slides on a third display portion; receiving, via the controller, a selection signal indicating a selection of first and second data included in the displayed plurality of data; attaching, via the controller, the selected first and second data to the first and second slides; and transmitting, via a wireless communication unit, the text message including the first and second slides and the attached first and second data to the at least one other terminal. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110093794 | MOBILE ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS DIALOG USING SEQUENCED DIGITAL IMAGES - The present disclosure provides a system and method for electronic communications dialog between a plurality of users using digital images. The user selects a template for entering a plurality of words and associated images that constitute an initial electronic message. The user then enters a plurality of words into the template corresponding to the initial electronic message. A plurality of images is selected having a direct correspondence with the plurality of words entered into the template. Each image is inserted into the template in a sequence corresponding to the initial electronic message. When the initial template is complete, the initial electronic message containing the sequenced images is sent to at least one other user. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110093795 | Methods And Apparatus For Efficiently Managing The Storage Of E-mail Message Information For A Mobile Station - A mobile device receives, via a wireless network, a plurality of messages and stores message information of the messages in memory. Each message includes at least one correspondent address and conversation text with the at least one correspondent address, as well as metadata comprising an identifier for uniquely identifying the message at a server. The mobile device identifies whether a size of the message information has reached a first predetermined limit of the memory. Based on identifying that the size of the message information has reached the first predetermined limit, the mobile device deletes from the memory, automatically without user intervention, at least portions of the conversation text of some of the messages while retaining storage of the correspondent addresses and the metadata thereof. The mobile device also identifies whether the size of the message information has reached a second predetermined limit of the memory, which is greater than the first predetermined limit. Based on identifying that the size of the message information has reached the second predetermined limit, the mobile device deletes from the memory, automatically without user intervention, the correspondent addresses and the metadata associated with the messages having the deleted conversation texts. | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110099484 | INTERNET SESSION INITIATION ON PERSONAL CELLULAR TELECOMMUNICATIONS DEVICES, AND CUSTOMIZATION PROTOCOL THEREFOR - A customizable client application capable of running on all seven classes of Internet-enabled personal cellular telecommunications devices whose Internet browser launching capabilities range from being Class 0 non Internet-enabled to Class 6 automatic Internet browser launching. The client application facilitates minimum subscriber intervention for Internet session initiation from an Internet session option of an interactive display message. | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110113346 | THUMBNAIL IMAGE PREVIEWS - An instant message is received from an instant message sender and a determination is made that the instant message includes a link to a web page that was selected by the instant message sender. In response to determining that the instant message includes the link to the web page, an image corresponding to the web page is fetched and stored, and a thumbnail image preview of the fetched image is generated. In addition, the thumbnail image preview of the fetched portion of the web page is displayed while at least a portion of the instant message is displayed. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110113347 | METHOD FOR EXCHANGING A COURIER TRANSPORT MESSAGE AND DISPATCH SYSTEM FOR CARRYING OUT THE METHOD - There is provided a method for exchanging a courier transport message using an electronic calendar information. An exemplary method comprises providing a first electronic calendar information including a participation status, indicating a work item and capable of updating the status of delivery as an electronic calendar information item compliant to a previously defined set of instructions as a standard. The exemplary method also comprises providing a second electronic calendar information with an additional qualification information additional to the previously defined set of instructions. The exemplary method additionally comprises invoking an additional service if a standard compliant program of a customer allows processing standard compliant electronic calendar information. | 05-12-2011 |
| 20110126126 | ENHANCEMENTS TO UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS AND MESSAGING SYSTEMS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for handling a plurality of communications between parties. In an aspect, the presentation of both real-time and “store and forward” interactions are presented in a way to make it easier for a user of the system to read and understand what is being communicated, by whom, and to whom. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110145726 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NAVIGATING A MEDIA PROGRAM VIA A HISTOGRAM OF POPULAR SEGMENTS - A method and apparatus for navigating a media program is disclosed. Viewing data for segments of the media program are monitored and used to compile statistics that are presented to the user in a histogram, so that popular portions of the media program can be identified and navigated to. One embodiment includes a searchable transcript of the media program that is synchronized with the histogram. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110145727 | Sharing of Information Associated with Events - Techniques are provided that allow users to collaborate in relationship to data views, application displays, applications or events. A user can type in a text view related to a specific view in an application display, and the information is shared with other users that take part in sharing that view. A user that expresses an interest in an event is notified about the event and has the capability to interact, in relation to the event, with other users (e.g. by text). The particular form of interaction (and sharing) can be selectively specified. This interaction is comparable to a dynamic bulletin board where the subject is event driven, and where a user can specify who are allowed to participate. In the case of an event interest(s), users specify their interest (e.g. in other user application events or system events) and the system automatically alerts them to the occurrence of the event. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110154221 | SUBJECT SUGGESTION BASED ON E-MAIL RECIPIENTS - Methods, apparatus and articles for dynamically inserting a subject based on an entered list of recipients. A graphical user interface (GUI) screen comprising a TO field, a carbon copy field, and a BCC field may be provided for entering a list of recipients for the e-mail, as well as a SUBJECT field for entering the subject of the e-mail. The association between the list of recipients and the subject string may then be stored, such that when the user again enters the same list of recipients into a new e-mail, the SUBJECT field may be automatically populated based on previously used subject strings. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20110161832 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING DATA ON A COMPUTING DEVICE - A method and apparatus for a method for processing data on a computing device are provided. The computing device comprises a processing unit interconnected with a memory device and a display device. First message data is stored in the memory device. An indication that first flag data is to be stored in association with the first message data is received. The first flag data is stored in the memory device in association with the first message data. The first message is displayed in association with the first flag data at the display device in a message list view. Second message data is received and automatically associated with the first message data. In response to the automatic associating: the first flag data is removed from the display device; second flag data is stored in association with the second message data in the memory device and the second message data is displayed on the display device in association with the second flag data in the message list view, the second message data flagged on the display device rather than the first message data. | 06-30-2011 |
| 20110173547 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO FACILITATE REAL-TIME COMMUNICATIONS AND CONTENT SHARING AMONG USERS OVER A NETWORK - A system and method to facilitate real-time communications and content sharing among users over a network are described. In one preferred embodiment, multiple links to content information are dynamically generated for a sender user. Responsive to selection of a link by the sender user, the link and associated metadata information are communicated to at least one recipient user engaged in the real-time communications session with the sender user. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110173548 | Mechanism for Implementing Labels and Reminders in a Email System - A mechanism is disclosed for generating a composite email for an email conversation. The composite email includes content automatically extracted from a plurality of the emails in the email conversation, and may be generated in response to a user accessing just one of the emails in the email conversation. A mechanism is also disclosed for discovering and recovering lost emails in an email conversation. A mechanism is further disclosed for automatically moving emails from one container to another after an email has been read. These and other advantageous email generating, manipulation, and organization mechanisms are disclosed herein. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110179362 | INTERACTIVE EMAIL - A system and method are disclosed for providing an extensible email having rich, interactive browser capabilities. The system includes a service provider for receiving extensible emails from a third party platform and presenting the emails to a user's computing device. The extensible email includes URL metadata which allows a mail user agent to fetch and run code from a third party server in order to generate the extensible email. A secure sandbox ensures that the third party code does no damage to the service provider system or the user's computing system. | 07-21-2011 |
| 20110185286 | WEB BROWSER INTERFACE FOR SPATIAL COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENTS - A web browser interface for visualizing realtime network communications in spatial communication environments allows communicants to interact with other communicants in an immersive spatial communication environment without having to install any specialized communication software and without requiring special proxies or firewall additions or exceptions. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110185287 | STATE PERSISTENCE AND BACKGROUND INITIALIZATION FOR POST-BACK WEB APPLICATIONS - A system is disclosed for reducing the time required to generate web pages on post-back of collaborative web applications. Content from web pages of the collaborative web applications may be displayed in respective foreground and background IFRAMES over a display. Upon post-back to load content from a new web page in the foreground IFRAME, the content from the background IFRAME persists, thus saving the round trip otherwise required to update content from the background IFRAME. Initialization and update of the content in the background IFRAME may be performed when interaction with the content in the foreground IFRAME is idle. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110185288 | TECHNIQUES TO RESTORE COMMUNICATIONS SESSIONS FOR APPLICATIONS HAVING CONVERSATION AND MEETING ENVIRONMENTS - Techniques for restoring communications sessions for applications having conversation environment and a meeting embodiment are described. A system may include a meeting component of a communications application for selecting a meeting from multiple meetings, a conversation component of the communications application for managing multiple conversation threads, and a recovery component of the communications application for recovering an active meeting from the multiple meetings or an active conversation thread from the multiple conversation threads. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110191692 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR E-BOOK CONTEXTUAL COMMUNICATION - A computerized system and method for providing a service that processes a user's edit and reading events to determine one or more electronic book, or e-book, contexts for the user is disclosed. In particular, the service calculates a contextual affinity the user has with other users based on e-book contexts for the e-book contexts. The service may automatically establish voice and/or text communication sessions for users identified as having a significant degree of affinity with the user. Once a communication session is established, a user can conveniently collaborate with other users for which commonly determined contexts are relevant. Moreover, the present disclosure also describes how a user can modify incoming text, voice, and notification messages to have an individualized presentation to other users based upon the degree of contextual affinity between various users. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110191693 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGE SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Methods and systems to process computer readable electronic messages, such as electronic mail messages or e-mail. Methods and system include auto-tagging based on one or more of statistical machine learning based clustering techniques, custom parsers, and crowd-sourced message tagging. Methods and systems further include relevancy determination based on combinations of features, user-configurable hybrid web browser/e-mail client rendering, tabbed rendering, plug-in based local computational features, implied social graph based decision making, and automatic detection of account settings. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110191694 | Enhanced Message Display - Informational items are displayed in a scrollable area of a message display. The informational items may be any number of type of items (e.g., RSS feeds, new items, images, application tips, and so on). A user is provided the ability to scroll forward and backward through the informational items. A user may choose the informational item (e.g., by clicking) and more detailed information about the informational item is presented to the user. Depending on the display view of the message application (e.g., InBox, conversation), different informational item types will have different probabilities of display. A user may customize the types of informational items to be displayed. | 08-04-2011 |
| 20110197145 | DATA MANAGEMENT METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR HANDHELD DEVICES - Data management methods and systems for handheld devices are provided. First, a plurality of email messages are displayed in a first display area of a touch-sensitive display unit, and at least one tab icon is displayed in a second display area of the touch-sensitive display unit, wherein the tab icon records at least one condition, and the condition is used to determine whether the respective email message has a flag or has a meeting invitation format. A contact corresponding to the tab icon on the touch-sensitive display unit is detected, and in response to the contact, at least one candidate email message having the flag or having the meeting invitation format is filtered from the email messages according to the condition corresponding to the tab icon, and the candidate email message is displayed in the first display area of the touch-sensitive display unit. | 08-11-2011 |
| 20110214069 | Presenting messages through a channel of a non-communication productivity application interface - A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: providing at least to one or more associated end users from a group of associated end users a non-communication (NC) productivity application interface including a channel for accessing messages; and presenting to the one or more associated end users, via the channel, at least a first one or more messages and a second one or more messages, the first one or more messages being associated with the group of associated end users and the second one or more messages being independent of the group of associated end users. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110214070 | Providing access to one or more messages in response to detecting one or more patterns of usage of one or more non-communication productivity applications - A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: detecting one or more occurrences of one or more specific patterns of usage of one or more non-communication (NC) productivity applications by one or more end users; and providing to the one or more end users, in response to said detecting, access to one or more particular messages through one or more channels of one or more NC productivity application interfaces, the one or more NC productivity application interfaces for accessing the one or more NC productivity applications by the one or more end users. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110219315 | System And Method For Flexibly Taking Actions In Response To Detected Activities - A computer-implemented system and method for flexibly taking actions in response to detected activities is provided. A trigger in a computing environment is defined and includes at least one of specifying one or more documents, persons, key words, times, and projects associable with the activities of at least one user, and defining one or more actions associable with the activities of at least one such user. At least one of activities, events, and stimuli occurring within the computing environment is monitored in relation to the documents, persons, key words, times, and projects, and to the activities. Action is taken within the computing environment upon activation of the trigger by the at least one activity, event, and stimuli. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110219316 | METHOD, SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM FOR TRANSMITTING MESSAGE - A method, a system, an apparatus, and a computer-readable medium suitable for a terminal device to transmit a message through a mobile communication device are provided. In the present method, a message editing interface is displayed, and a message comprising at least one contact and message content, edited on the message editing interface by a user, is received. The edited message is then synchronized to the mobile communication device and the message is transmitted to each of the at least one contact in the message by the mobile communication device. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110219317 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE DURING ADDRESS INPUT - Systems and methods to provide assistance for completion during address input. In one embodiment, a method includes automatically generating profiles for persons identified in messages, such as incoming and outgoing emails. Based on how the addresses of the persons are used in incoming and outgoing messages, the relevancy scores of the addresses are determined. When a user is typing an address, the profiles and the relevancy scores are used to identify and sort suggestions for the completion of the address input. | 09-08-2011 |
| 20110239132 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR WEBPAGE CREATION AND UPDATING - A method is closed for providing a private website for communications among a group of users. The method includes hosting a private website by one or more computer server, providing a user interface accessible to a first user who is the owner of the private website, allowing the first user to assign a second user the role of an author, allowing the first user to assign the third user the role of a reader, and prohibiting at least one person outside the group of users to view or post content at the private website. | 09-29-2011 |
| 20110246908 | INTERACTIVE AND SHARED VIEWING EXPERIENCE - A shared environment is provided for electronic media devices such as game consoles which have Internet connectivity for receiving streaming video content. The shared environment is a virtual world which includes the video content as well as avatars which represent a group of users who have agreed to watch the content together, and scene elements which provide a realistic and eye-catching appearance. The users can enter commands to cause their avatars to emote, such as by cheering. The users can also explore the shared environment from different camera angles. A voice and/or video chat channel can also be enabled to allow the users to speak to and see one another. The video content is synchronized among the electronic media devices of the users so that the users' interactions are more meaningful as they can react to the same portion of the video content in real time. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110258558 | AUDIT ACTION ANALYZER - Audit reporting applications provide audit users the ability to perform reviews of compliance procedures used throughout a business that require supervisors to take actions on the communication between personnel. The action analyzer tool compiles, filters, and sorts message and action information, allows more advance analytics about the information, and answers complex questions that are not easily available by looking at the raw message and action information. The action analyzer tool breaks down the actions taken in order to determine if the supervisors are trying to take credit for an action that they did not actually perform or otherwise violating the accepted procedures for proper supervision and compliance. The message and action information can be sorted into number of actions taken within a specific time frame, the number of actions performed after a specified date, and/or the number of actions taken without the message being reviewed, to name a few. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110258559 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND MESSAGE LIST DISPLAYING METHOD THEREIN - A mobile terminal and message list displaying method therein are disclosed, by which a message item of a counterpart terminal (or an unchecked message) having sent an unchecked message may be displayed at a specific point on a message list regardless of an arrangement reference of message items. This may include receiving at least one message from each counterpart terminal, generating the message list including at least one message item corresponding to each counterpart terminal, determining whether an unchecked message exists in the received at least one message, and when the unchecked message exists as a result of the determining, displaying the generated message list by displaying the message item corresponding to the counterpart terminal having transmitted the unchecked message at a specific position in the message list regardless of an arrangement reference of the message item. | 10-20-2011 |
| 20110265012 | Method and System for Sending Individual Email Messages - Method and system of present invention provide a web-based graphical user interface for sending electronic messages to a remote user, where the interface comprises an element for selecting an option for sending individual electronic messages to multiple recipients in visible fields, obtain an electronic message information, comprising a list of two or more recipients in visible fields, and generate and transmit individual electronic messages. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110265013 | Method and System for Declining Outgoing Email Messages - Method and system of present invention provide a web-based graphical user interface for sending electronic messages to a remote user, where the interface comprises an element for selecting an option for sending individual electronic messages to multiple recipients in visible fields, obtain an electronic message information, comprising a list of two or more recipients in visible fields, and if a spam index of the message to be sent is outside a predetermined interval, transmission of the message is declined. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110265014 | Tools for Sending Individual Email Messages - Computer-readable media comprising instructions, an application programming interface comprising computer-readable code, and an article of manufacture having computer-readable code cause a server to provide a web-based graphical user interface for sending electronic messages to a remote user, where the interface comprises an element for selecting an option for sending individual electronic messages to multiple recipients in visible fields, obtain an electronic message information, comprising a list of two or more recipients in visible fields, and generate and transmit individual electronic messages. Alternatively, if a spam index of the message to be sent is outside a predetermined interval, transmission of the message is declined. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110265015 | Method and System for a User Sending Individual Email Messages via a Web-Based Graphical User Interface - Method and system of present invention allow for a user to access a web-based graphical user interface for sending electronic messages, where the interface comprises an element for selecting an option for sending individual electronic messages to multiple recipients in visible fields (“to” and/or “cc”) and provide to a server computer a set of data, comprising a list of two or more recipients in visible fields via the interface. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110265016 | Embedding Variable Fields in Individual Email Messages Sent via a Web-Based Graphical User Interface - Method and system of present invention provide a web-based graphical user interface to a remote user for sending electronic messages, where the interface comprises an element for selecting an option for sending individual electronic messages to multiple recipients in visible fields (“to” and “cc”), obtain a set of data, comprising a list of two or more recipients in visible fields, a message subject and/or a message body, where the message subject and/or the message body contain a markup indicating variable field, and generate and transmit individual electronic messages. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110265017 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR POSTING DATA TO A PLURALITY OF ACCOUNTS - The present specification provides a method, system and apparatus for posting data to a plurality of accounts at a plurality of remote servers. A display is controlled to generate a message region for receiving message data to be posted to at least a subset of the plurality of accounts. The display is controlled to generate icons, associated with the plurality of accounts, in a one-to-one relationship, the icons provided adjacent to the message region, each icon comprising: a first respective indicator of a respective account; a second respective indicator of a service associated with the account; and a respective picture. Icons are selected and the display is controlled to provide an indicator of selection at each of the selected icons. Message data is transmitted to each of the plurality of accounts associated with each of the icons which are selected via the communication subsystem. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110271202 | NOTIFICATIONS FOR MULTIPLE POINTS OF PRESENCE - A server application for an instant messaging service opens a first connection with a first client application executing on a device, after receiving a login from the first client application. Next the server application opens a second connection with a second client application, after receiving the same login from the second client application. Then the server application receives an instant message associated with the login and determines whether the first client application is in a network idle state following a period of idle time. If the first client application is in the network idle state, the server application causes a notification as to the receipt of the instant message to be displayed on a user interface for the second client application. The displayed notification might also be accompanied by an aural notification or a haptic alert. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110271203 | COLLEGE ADMISSIONS MESSAGING - A college admission messaging system and method are provided. Students and counselors can enter information and receive custom messages related to a particular student's college application process. Students can receive incentives as they complete critical steps in the application process. Students can invite a school counselor (e.g., one or more mentors) to monitor their application progress. School counselors can have access to a computer user interface (e.g., dashboard) to track student participation and progress in the college admission process. Counselors can have the ability to customize the dashboard and messages sent to the students. The counselors can utilize the dashboard to assist students in completing their college admissions tasks. Colleges can used the messaging system to assist newly enrolled students succeed by providing orientation information and performance based updates. | 11-03-2011 |
| 20110276897 | STREAMLINED COLLABORATION ON DOCUMENT - Collaborating on documents by e-mail may be streamlined into a unified process. In one example, a user creates a document in an online document service, and sends the document to collaborators by mailing a link to the document. The document may have permissions set so that the creator of the document, and any user on the e-mail distribution list, can read and edit the document. When a user receives the e-mail, that user may open and edit the document. Upon closing the editing application, the user may be presented with an appropriate interface to create a reply e-mail. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110276898 | Integrated Messaging Interface - Solutions for providing an integrated, interactive graphical messaging interface, e.g., through a user supersystem as a communications hub. For example, interactions with the messaging interface may provide access to many different types of messaging functionality and multiple communications channels. Some solutions may intuitively list all the different types of messaging communications in a single integrated listing format with intuitive interaction design. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110276899 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REALIZING MESSAGE INTERACTIONS IN A MULTI-TABS APPLICATION - A method is disclosed for performing message interactions in a multi-tab application program. The method includes creating one or more page windows corresponding to respective tabs in the multi-tab application program as one or more top-level windows and receiving an input message corresponding to a user operation with respect to a particular tab. The method also includes sending the input message to one of the page windows corresponding to the particular tab by a main frame window of the multi-tab application program in a non-blocking message sending mode, without sending any associated system message to the page windows. Further, the method includes continuing to handle messages for other page windows by the main frame window regardless whether the one of the page windows is hung. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110283202 | USER INTERFACE PROXY METHOD AND SYSTEM - A user interface proxy method and system. The method includes presenting by a computer processor, an application user interface request from a client computing system. The application user interface request includes parameters associated with an application user interface. The computer processor enables a proxy user interface instance within a first cloud instance associated with the parameters. The computer processor transmits the application user interface request to the proxy user interface instance. The computer processor transmits results associated with the application user interface request to the client computing system. The computer processor receives messages associated with interactions between the client computing system and a user. The computer processor transmits the messages to the proxy user interface instance. The computer processor transmits feedback data associated with the messages to the client computing system. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110289428 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CUSTOMIZING AND EMBEDDING WIDGETS IN INSTANT MESSAGES - An enhanced instant messaging environment is provided where end user can choose from a list of customizable widgets, personalize and embed the widgets within messages in minimal steps. By allowing the embedment of widgets in messages, the environment empowers users with new means for online communication with new level of widget intelligence that takes into account multi-dimensional criteria, including but not limited to the screen-estate of its presentation and role of viewer for information presentation and operation options. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110289429 | Conversation Persistence in Real-time Collaboration System - Previously conducted conversations in real-time collaboration messages are persistently stored, either by client or a server, and then are associated with conversational items presented to a user (e.g. contact names, topics, etc.). An icon is provided near each listed item, which when selected, displays to the user summaries or titles of all transcripts to which the selected item pertains or relates. The user may select one or more summaries or titles for which the conversation is to be resumed, causing the system to retrieve the stored transcript and resume appending new conversational entries to it, so that the user recovers conversational context effortlessly and accurately. Enhanced versions of the invention include sharing of transcripts so that all participants receive the context of the conversation, and server-side or client-side implementations. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20110296316 | MANAGING AN ELECTRONIC MAIL IN A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A method, a system and a computer program product for managing an electronic mail in a communication network is disclosed. A plurality of recursive parameters in a command list of a communication protocol associated with the electronic mail is provided. At least one of the recursive parameters is a DATA parameter specifying information of the electronic mail. The command list is partitioned into a plurality of command sub-lists using the plurality of recursive parameters. At least one property corresponding to each of the command sub-lists is preserved. An interface for selecting each of the command sub-lists is provided and at least one of the command sub-lists is selected. At least one property corresponding to each of the command sub-lists is identified. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110302505 | SHARING OF CONTENT ASSOCIATED WITH EVENTS - Techniques are provided that allow users to collaborate in relationship to data views, application displays, applications or events. A user can type in a text view related to a specific view in an application display, and the information is shared with other users that take part in sharing that view. A user that expresses an interest in an event is notified about the event and has the capability to interact, in relation to the event, with other users (e.g. by text). The particular form of interaction (and sharing) can be selectively specified. This interaction is comparable to a dynamic bulletin board where the subject is event driven, and where a user can specify who are allowed to participate. In the case of an event interest(s), users specify their interest (e.g. in other user application events or system events) and the system automatically alerts them to the occurrence of the event. | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110307804 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD - Embodiments of the invention relate to the creation of electronic message handling rules and to the creation of groups of electronic message recipient addresses. An automatic creation of electronic message rules or filters is dynamically based upon routine user actions or inputs that can have purposes other than only for the creation of rules. According to an embodiment, upon the movement of an email from one directory to any one of a plurality of other directories, a user is provided with one or more options for creating rules that will automatically move other emails to that same directory if they meet the selected criteria. With respect to the creation of groups, embodiments include the creation of groups that can occur as an electronic message is being composed. | 12-15-2011 |
| 20110314390 | TECHNIQUES TO DYNAMICALLY MODIFY THEMES BASED ON MESSAGING - Techniques to dynamically modify themes based on messaging. An apparatus may comprise a processor and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor. The memory may store a theme manager component and a user interface component. The theme manager component, when executed by the processor, may be operative to receive a message from a message author and select a theme based on message content of the message. The user interface component, when executed by the processor, may be operative to dynamically display a user interface view with the selected theme. In this manner, a theme associated with a user may be dynamically and automatically modified based on personalized information about a user. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110314391 | Method, System, and Graphical User Interface for Dynamically Updating Transmission Characteristics in a Web Mail Reply - A method, system and graphical user interface for dynamically updating transmission characteristics in a web mail reply are described. In one embodiment of the invention, a graphical user interface includes a web mail reply form that includes: one or more address fields; an input area for inputting a reply message; and a plurality of response options selectable by a user. In response to selection of a response option by a user, one or more of the address fields in the reply form are changed while maintaining the reply message in the input area. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20110320959 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REAL TIME INSPECTION INFORMATION RECORDING AND REPORTING - A method and system for delivery and display of a completed inspection report to a recipient listed in a recipient list, the recipient associated with a recipient address, the recipient list associated with a respective inspection template, the respective one inspection template selectable from a plurality of inspection templates accessible at the computing device. The method comprises invoking, for display at a user interface display screen of the computing device, a current inspection template, the current inspection template including a plurality of data fields reflecting a current status of an inspection job; populating at least one data field of the plurality of data fields of the current inspection template to create a completed inspection report; encapsulating the completed inspection report into a message, the message configured according to a pre-specified message communication format; and dispatching the message to the at least one recipient address of the recipient list. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20110320960 | FLEXIBLE AUTOMATIC REPLY FEATURES FOR TEXT MESSAGING - Systems and methods are disclosed for providing automatic reply features that send a personalized reply message to a sender of a text message. In one embodiment, a system includes a network interface that receives information on a text message sent to a recipient that has activated an automatic reply feature. The system further includes a control system that processes the text message information to identify a sender of the text message, selects a reply message predefined by the recipient based on the sender of the text message, and sends the selected reply message to the sender of the text message through the network interface. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120011448 | Building Email conversations by applying an Atomicity Dissection Method to extract atomic elements embedded in Emails and showing the constructed conversation without loss of conveyed meaning while transmitting conversations in separated units - The Email Atomicity Dissection Method disclosed herein suggests an alternate and significantly more advanced view of a collection of Emails. Advancing the basic concept and usage of chronologically ordered emails, this method allows the emails in a multi-dimensional manner. There are two stages in applying this method of building conversations. The first is analyzing the existing emails to build a database of candidates for email conversations and recording the attributes of each email for future matching. The next stage is the ability to analyze incoming emails in real-time. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011449 | MESSAGING SYSTEM - A method for communication includes steps for (a) connecting to a network-connected server by a subscriber operating a computerized appliance, (b) accessing by the subscriber an interactive interface provided by software executing on the server, (c) selecting by the subscriber in the interactive interface provided by the server, a quick-response format, a recipient or a destination for a recipient, (d) entering by the subscriber a message body and triggering sending of the message, (e) transmitting by the sever the message to the recipient's computerized appliance, the message including interactive code that provides an interactive interface on a display of the recipient's computerized appliance of at least the message body and one or more quick-response interactive soft keys dictated by the format selected by the subscriber in preparing the message, such that the recipient may select one of the soft keys to send a response back to the subscriber. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120011450 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR GENERATING AND SHARING AN INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL MEETING SPACE - Embodiments of the invention provide a computer-implemented methods and systems for interactive communication in a network. The method includes creating, by a first user of a first device, an electronic greeting card comprising at least one interactive object. The electronic greeting card provides a virtual meeting space for a plurality of users. Further, the method includes sending, by the first user, the electronic greeting card to one or more of the plurality of users. The one or more of the plurality of users modify the electronic greeting card. The method further includes sending, by the first user, the modified electronic greeting card to a receiver of the plurality of users. Furthermore, the method includes displaying, at a receiving device of the receiver, the modified electronic greeting card. The plurality of the first users and the receiver can interactively communicate through the virtual meeting space. | 01-12-2012 |
| 20120017158 | System and Method for an Extendable Mobile Communications Device User Interface - A system and method for an extendable software interface includes software architecture for use in a mobile device having a processor and a memory device. The software architecture includes a set of first-order controller software instructions configured to interface the application program with a first-order data model, and a first-order data object stored in the memory device in the form of the first-order data model. The first-order data object includes a second-order data object. A second-order set of controller software instructions configured to interact with the second-order data object is also included in the software architecture. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120023414 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING E-MAIL - A method of processing a reply to a received e-mail is provided. When a plurality of messages are contained in a received e-mail, the plurality of messages are divided into a plurality of groups, and the plurality of messages are output according to the groups. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023415 | TOOLBAR DOCUMENT CONTENT SHARING - A system may provide a toolbar in a browser at a client, where the toolbar permits user selection from multiple different services for sharing document content. The system may receive a selection of a first one of the multiple different services from a user via the toolbar and may receive a selection of content of a first document browsed by the user. The system may post the selected content in a second document associated with the first one of the multiple different services. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120023416 | ENHANCEMENT OF E-MAIL CLIENT USER INTERFACES AND E-MAIL MESSAGE FORMATS - An enhancement to e-mail user interfaces and message formats includes a dynamic preview window to view and retrieve attachments and summaries of e-mail messages directly in the e-mail list view or inbox view without opening an e-mail message. The efficient viewing mechanism further allows previews without cluttering the listing of the e-mails in the inbox by allowing the client to detect special preview instructions within an e-mail and run executables within the preview window. The enhancement is applicable to standalone e-mail clients (POP or IMAP based) and to web-based e-mail systems. | 01-26-2012 |
| 20120030588 | PROVIDING SOCIAL LIKENESS WITHIN A MESSAGING CONTEXT - Embodiments are directed towards providing a likeness application that may be integrated into one or more different messaging applications to provide a user with an indication of how much the user may be liked by their messaging contacts. Such application is directed towards providing a level of fun to a first user through a dynamically calculated social networking indicator. In one embodiment, the first user may communicate with one or more other users over a network using the messaging application modified with the likeness application. The other users may also communicate with each other over the network using the modified messaging application. Then, at various times or conditions, the likeness application may display to the first user a relative percentage indicating how much the first user is being ‘liked’ by one or more other users. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20120036454 | SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT SYSTEM CONSOLE - A social media engagement system is configured for aggregating a plurality of messages originating from a plurality of social media networks, routing each of the plurality of messages based on predetermined workflow rules into a plurality of queues wherein the queues are categorized based at least in part on types of messages, providing the queues for further processing, thereby resulting in one or more responses, and outputting the one or more responses to one or more of the plurality of social media networks. In some embodiments, the system is further configured for reviewing the data to determine whether any of the data indicates an engagement opportunity and associating some or all the data with a contact record and/or an existing case and/or a new case. In some embodiments, the system tracks influence, and in some embodiments, a console provides vision into various information provided by the system. | 02-09-2012 |
| 20120047447 | Emotion based messaging system and statistical research tool - A system that allows users to convey their emotional state of mind by means of selecting their mood from a toolbar when using applications such as instant messaging, SMS, MMS, emails, blogs, commenting etc. Different moods appear as different icons or in a drop-down box as text. Emotion intensity can be changed by a sliding bar present on the toolbar. The sender will have the option to display their mood for that certain message as an emotion label displayed with the message and also by message text formatting: font face and color are emotion dependant whereas font size and tone (lighter/darker shades for the same color) are intensity dependant. This messaging technique allows the recipient to gauge better the sender mood, it can also be used to dynamically determine population mood and extract and plot statistical data on mood/emotion distribution maps, charts or graphs for analysis, interpretation, research and marketing. | 02-23-2012 |
| 20120060102 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VISUAL COMMUNICATION BETWEEN BUYERS AND SELLERS - A visual communications (VC) tool enables visual communication over a data communications network. An email is sent to a recipient containing a link to a first visual arrangement generated by a sender. The first visual arrangement may include images of various products. The first visual arrangement is displayed via a web browser in a first display area of the VC tool in response to actuation of the link in the email message. The recipient then selects a first image in the first display area. The selection may include dragging and dropping the first image into a second display area of the VC tool. The selection triggers the generating of a second visual arrangement which includes a copy of the first image. The copy of the first image is displayed in a second display area concurrently with the display of the first image in the first display area. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120060103 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO SUPPORT REAL-TIME INTEGRATED MOBILE COMMUNICATION FOR SOCIAL APPLICATIONS - The invention provides for systems and methods for displaying integrated communication regions on a mobile device. The integrated communication regions can be persistent across screens within an application and across multiple applications. The persistent integrated communication regions can display announcements, messages, and broadcasts on a plurality of devices. The persistent nature of the communication regions can increase the impressions of the announcement, message, or broadcast. | 03-08-2012 |
| 20120066615 | GRAPHICALLY INDICATING RELEVANCY OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - Methods and systems for determining a relevancy of an electronic message, and for graphically indicating the relevancy to a user are disclosed. A method may include receiving an electronic message, such as an email, at an electronic messaging system. The method may also include determining a relevance level of the electronic message to a user based on one or both of a number of primary addressees and a number of secondary addressees identified in the electronic message. Further, the method may include displaying graphical indicia based on the relevance level. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120066616 | MESSAGE QUEUE MANAGEMENT - Various embodiments provide message queue management techniques designed to reduce the likelihood of multi-component applications becoming nonresponsive and enable recovery options for individual components if they do become nonresponsive. In at least some embodiments, a message queue manager detects when a component of an application interface becomes nonresponsive and detaches the component from a shared message queue. The shared message queue can continue to process messages for other responsive components while messaging for the nonresponsive component is managed via a separate queue. The message queue manager can also notify a user regarding the nonresponsive component and provide the user with options to facilitate recovery of the nonresponsive component. Further, in at least some embodiments, the message queue manager can monitor a detached component and reattach the detached component when it becomes responsive again. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120066617 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLER PILOT DATA LINK COMMUNICATION (CPDLC) MESSAGE PROCESSING USING DYNAMIC ON-DEMAND SCREEN GENERATION FOR MESSAGE RESPONSE AND COMPOSITION - Systems and methods for CPDLC message processing using dynamic on-demand screen generation for message response and composition are provided. In one embodiment, a method for processing received CPDLC messages comprises: receiving a CPDLC message having a plurality of message elements; extracting the plurality of message elements from the CPDLC message; generating a first display screen at a user display interface for a first extracted message element, wherein the first display screen includes a user response field corresponding to a message-type attribute associated with the first extracted message element; generating a second display screen at the user display interface for a second extracted message element, wherein the second display screen includes a user response field corresponding to a message-type attribute associated with the second extracted message element; composing a response CPDLC message from a first user responses received via the first and second display screens; and sending the response CPDLC message. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120072855 | Web-Based User Interface Tool for Social Network Group Collaboration - Members of a social networking system group are provided multiple interfaces to communicate within the group. A first communication interface allows a user to upload a first content item; in response to this, the first content item is transmitted via a first communication channel to online members of the group. A second communication interface allows a user to upload a second content item; in response to this, the second content item is transmitted via a second communication channel to online and offline members of the group. Transmission via a first communication channel may comprise sending an instant message containing the first content item. Transmission via a second communication channel may comprise displaying the second content item on a group message board. Both interfaces may be contained within the group's web page or may be contained within another web page within the social networking system or outside of it. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120072856 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING AN INTEGRATED MESSAGE USING PORTABLE DEVICE - A method of sending an integrated message using a portable device according includes executing an integrated message application supporting a plurality of channels including at least two channels having different messaging schemes. An input window permits entry of a message, and the message is displayed on a message display window. In response to a user selection for displaying icons of a hidden state that corresponds to the plurality of respective channels, displaying the icons corresponding to the plurality of respective channels in response to the user choice, and sending the message using at least one activated channel of the plurality of channels. | 03-22-2012 |
| 20120079398 | AUTOMATIC PRESENTATION OF A "WHEN CAN WE..." MESSAGE COMPOSITION SCREEN RESPONSIVE TO A NEGATIVE RESPONSE MESSAGE - A system to reduce head-down time for a flight crew member is provided. The system includes a functional module that includes a set of screens used to receive and send controller pilot data link communications (CPDLC) messages between an aircraft and a ground-based system; a message composition screen communicatively coupled to the functional module; and a shortcut interface communicatively coupled to the functional module, wherein a shortcut prompt is displayed when one of a response timer expires or a negative uplink response message is received responsive to a previously-sent downlink request message, wherein an implementation of the shortcut interface generates a “when can we expect . . . ” message related to the previously-sent downlink request message. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120084668 | MESSAGING - A mechanism enabling a user whose user device has received a notification on messages waiting delivery, messages being deferred or waiting for another reason, to convey message-specific, possibly different handling instructions in one go to a network entity responsible for handling of the waiting messages. | 04-05-2012 |
| 20120089924 | Multiple personalities - A computer implemented method enables perception of multiple online personas in an instant messaging communications session by identifying at least two identities within a communications environment to whom messages may be directed, and by enabling a first persona of a user to be projected to a first of the identities while concurrently enabling a second persona of the same user to be projected to a second of the identities. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120089925 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREDICTING TEXT - An electronic messager with a predictive text editor, including a storage unit for storing a data structure associating, for each one of a plurality of a user's contacts, usage data for the user's history of usage of words in communications with the user contact, a data manager coupled with the storage unit for generating the data structure in the storage unit, and for updating the data structure as additional communications with each user contact are performed and additional usage data is obtained therefrom, and a text predictor coupled with the storage unit, for receiving as input a character string and a designated user contact, and for generating as output an ordered list of predicted. A method is also described and claimed. | 04-12-2012 |
| 20120124483 | Multi Mode Message Reply Interface - A messaging system that organizes and presents messages to users of the messaging system. The messaging system includes a mailbox module that receives messages and generates conversation threads from the messages. Messages received from different electronic message channels may be aggregated into a common conversation thread. The conversation threads are also organized in a message interface and then presented to a user of the messaging system. The messaging system may include a social networking system that stores social information about users, which can be used to organize the conversation threads. Other features include a multi mode message interface, and a method for adding contextual information to messages. | 05-17-2012 |
| 20120131474 | Switching of Emails in a Conversation Thread - A method is disclosed for rendering messages in an email application on a client computer. A plurality of email messages is received from a server computer, including a first email message, a second email message and a third email message. The first email message is rendered on the client computer with a first conversation icon that identifies the first email message as being part of an email conversation thread. When the first conversation icon is selected on the first email message, a view is rendered showing one or more email messages in the conversation thread. When the second email message is selected, the second email message is rendered on the client computer with a second conversation icon. When the second conversation icon is selected on the second email message, the view showing the one or more email messages in the conversation thread is rendered. | 05-24-2012 |
| 20120151379 | SHARED ATTACHMENTS - When an outgoing communication sent to one or more recipients contains a supported attachment type, a shared workspace that contains a shared version of the original attachment is provisioned. A modified version of the original outgoing communication is delivered to internal recipients including both a link to the shared document and the original attachment. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120151380 | INTELLIGENT MESSAGE PROCESSING - Systems, methods, and devices for intelligent message processing are presented. With regard to a message, an intelligent message processor component (IMPC) can intelligently identify a desired file folder and archive the message in the folder in response to as little as one user interface (UI) control manipulation (e.g., click), when the intelligent message processor UI (IMPUI) is activated. When the IMPUI is activated, the IMPC automatically parses the message and identifies, or allows the user to identify, a keyword/phrase in the message. The IMPC automatically identifies the desired folder based on the identified keyword/phrase, and the user can click on the identified keyword/phrase to store the message in the identified file folder. The IMPUI also can comprise other UI controls that can, e.g., forward a message to another user, archive the message or related attachment in a remote storage destination, perform a customized message process, etc. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120151381 | DEFINING ACTIONS FOR DATA STREAMS VIA ICONS - Embodiments provide visual programming constructs including icons representing conditions and actions for processing incoming data streams. A user selects icons corresponding to at least one of the conditions and at least one of the actions to define a rule. The selected condition relates to at least one element possibly present in the incoming data stream. Without compilation of the rule, at least one incoming data stream is analyzed based on the condition to detect a presence of the element within the incoming data stream. The action is performed based on the analysis. In some embodiments, formatting of the incoming data streams is altered according to the conditions and actions to personalize the incoming data stream. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120151382 | GENERATING AND MANAGING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTATION - Some implementations provide a user interface for generating an electronic document. An external component may be launched within the user interface for accessing external data, and context data of the current document may be provided to the external component. The external data that corresponds to the context data for the document may be displayed within the user interface, such as for enabling a user to interact with the data and/or include a portion of the data in the document. | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120159349 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR ESTABLISHING AND MONITORING SESSIONS WITH CLIENTS OVER A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Systems and methods provide real-time communication between website operators and website visitors including monitoring, gathering, managing and sharing of information. The features include: simultaneous chatting with system's website visitor while responding/submitting tickets/emails and searching through company knowledge base; operator communicating message to another operator directly in active chat session, while message remains hidden to visitors/customers; displaying advertising messages to visitors/customers within chat window during active chat sessions; growing knowledge base by adding information into knowledge base during chat session; providing real-time access to system's website visitor information by seeing the content of visitor's shopping cart or by passing information from system's server into visitor's information located in operator's panel; creating and branding multiple chat windows and selectively linking all or some to the account; tagging and grouping each chat sessions; parent-child ticketing for project management; lead scoring; and mobile live chatting. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120166968 | Method of transmitting and displaying messages and portable electronic devices thereof - A method of transmitting and displaying messages applied to portable electronic devices includes the following steps: providing a handwriting interface for a sender to compose a plurality of sent-messages on a touch screen; receiving a plurality of received-messages from a receiver; providing a dialog window wherein the dialog window is adapted for placing the sent-messages and the received-messages. Moreover, each sent-message and received-message is displayed in accordance with the time of creation of each message. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120173993 | POINT OF INTEREST PREVIEW FOR ELECTRONIC MAIL - One or more interactions of a user are monitored. Information associated with the one or more interactions is indexed. A point of interested is determined within an electronic mail message based upon, at least in part, the indexed information. An indicator of the point of interest is provided within a preview pane associated with the electronic mail message. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120173994 | AUTOMATIC NOTIFICATION - A method may include displaying a document including a first item, receiving a first user input selecting the first item and receiving a second user input providing a target value associated with the first item. The method may also include accessing a site associated with the document, monitoring a value associated with the first item and determining whether the value associated with the first item meets the target value. The method may further include generating a notification when the value associated with the first item meets the target value. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120179978 | PREVIEWING A NEW EVENT ON A SMALL SCREEN DEVICE - Method and apparatus for previewing new events in a computing device having a plurality of applications for managing respective events are described. Individual applications are each represented by an application icon on a screen of a graphical user interface for the device. In response to a new event of a one of the applications, the application's icon is visually modified to notify of the new event. A visual modification may be determined in response to the new event, for example, to preview a content of the event. The visual modification may include a count of all new events that remain to be disposed. On a selection of the visually modified icon, additional previewing may be provided. Activation of the application having a visually modified application icon may be configured to automatically initiate the application at the new event. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120179979 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATING THE TRANSFER OF DATA FROM A WEB INTERFACE TO ANOTHER - A script-based scenario designer application for automating the data transfer from one web interface to another. The script-based scenario designer receives sender and receiver web interface addresses from a user, displays the sender web interface to the user; monitors user interactions with the sender web interface, such as the entering of credentials; and receives from the user a data field mapping comprising a correlation of at least one sender web interface data field to at least one receiver web interface data field. The script-based scenario designer stores the sender web interface data field mapping and the user interactions as a scenario and allows the user to validate the scenario by retrieving a data field from the sender web interface, formatting the retrieved data field in accordance with instructions optionally stored in the scenario, and transmitting the formatted data field to the receiver web interface in accordance with the scenario. | 07-12-2012 |
| 20120185780 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATING MENU OPTIONS OF MESSAGE APPLICATIONS OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE - In a method for integrating menu options of message applications of an electronic device, a user interface (UI) that includes an icon displaying area and an option displaying area are created. An icon is created for each of the message applications, and all of the created icons are placed into the icon displaying area. The UI is displayed on a display screen of the electronic device when the UI is activated, and operating options of a message application are displayed in the option displaying area when one of the created icons corresponding to the message application is selected. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120185781 | EMAIL USER INTERFACE - Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems receive a reply or forward command for a selected email message in an email user interface and display a composition window in response to the command, wherein the displaying includes a sequence of images to create the illusion of the composition window popping out of the selected email message, the sequence of images including an initial image that is a copy of the selected email message, a final image of the composition window including an editable body, and at least one image between the initial image and the final image that has characteristics of both the initial and final images. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120192085 | EFFICIENTLY SHARING USER SELECTED INFORMATION WITH A SET OF DETERMINED RECIPIENTS - Information concerning a set of recipients of previously conveyed messages from a sender can be collected. Patterns between content of the previously conveyed messages and each of the set of recipients can be determined and stored. Information can be selected within a user interface to share with others. The selected information can be analyzed and matched against the stored patterns. A subset of the recipients can be automatically determined. The subset can be those recipients likely to be interested in the selected information based on results of the analyzing and the matching. The information can be conveyed within at least one message from a sender device of the sender to one or more remotely located devices. Each of the one or more remotely located devices can be devices associated with at least a portion of the subset of the recipients. | 07-26-2012 |
| 20120198355 | INTEGRATING MESSAGING WITH COLLABORATION TOOLS - Embodiments of the invention relate to integrating a messaging system with at least one collaboration tool. According to one embodiment of the invention, in response to a user creating a message in a messaging system, information from the message is compared with data sets associated with the user. Each of the data sets correspond to a collaboration topic of the user for the at least one collaboration tool. At least one of the data sets is selected based on the comparison, and information indicating the one or more collaboration topics of the user that correspond to the at least one data set that is selected is presented to the user via a user interface, with the information suggesting to the user to post the message to the one or more corresponding collaboration topics of the user. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120198356 | MANAGING EMAILS AT AN ELECTRONIC MAIL CLIENT - A plurality of emails having a same subject are identified. An inclusion relationship among the plurality of emails is determined. A user interface at an email client end is provided. The method includes on the user interface the plurality of emails and the inclusion relationship among the plurality of emails is graphically displayed, wherein the graphically displaying of the inclusion relationship comprises identifying content that is duplicated across at least two emails within the plurality of emails. | 08-02-2012 |
| 20120210248 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT PROBLEM INITIATIVE SYSTEM - A system and method manages information relating to a problem definition initiative in order to communicate some or all the information users. The method includes providing an interface users at workstations accessible by one or more of the users, receiving information comprising a plurality of messages from users communicating via the workstations during a problem definition initiative session, initiating display of at least one of the plurality of messages to the users via the interface, logging event data related to a plurality of events associated with the problem definition initiative session, and initiating display of at least some of the event data to the users via the interface. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120210249 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT CHANGE DEPLOYMENT SYSTEM - A method for managing information relating to a change deployment in order to communicate some or all the information to a plurality of users includes providing an interface to users at workstations accessible by the users, receiving information comprising a plurality of messages from users communicating via the workstations during a change deployment session, initiating display of at least one of the messages to the users via the interface, initiating display of task data to the users via the interface, the task data corresponding to at least one task necessary for completing the change deployment, logging event data related to a plurality of events associated with the change deployment conference session, the event data comprising task status data indicating the status of the at least one task necessary for completing the change deployment, and initiating display of at least some of the event data to the users via the interface. | 08-16-2012 |
| 20120216127 | STICKY MESSAGES - Described herein are techniques related to sticky messaging, which enable the use of the content of text and/or multimedia messages outside the context of the messaging inbox of a telecommunications device, such as a mobile phone. An implementation described herein includes posting of the content (e.g., text, image, audio, and video) of a message onto a home screen of the telecommunications device. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120216128 | MANAGING EMAILS AT AN ELECTRONIC MAIL CLIENT - Some example embodiments include a method for managing emails. The method includes identifying a plurality of emails having a same subject. The method also includes determining an inclusion relationship among the plurality of emails. The method includes providing a user interface at an email client end. The method includes graphically displaying on the user interface the plurality of emails and the inclusion relationship among the plurality of emails, wherein the graphically displaying of the inclusion relationship comprises identifying content that is duplicated across at least two emails within the plurality of emails. | 08-23-2012 |
| 20120221961 | ADDRESSEE BASED MESSAGE PRIORITIZATION - Addressee based message prioritization is disclosed. In some implementations, messages received by an electronic messaging user (e.g., recipient) can be displayed in a user interface of an electronic messaging application. In some implementations, received messages can be prioritized based on how the messages are addressed to the user. In some implementations, received message can be displayed and highlighted based on the priority of each message. In some implementations, messages can be grouped and/or sorted based on the priority of each message. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120221962 | SOCIAL MESSAGING HUB SYSTEM - A social messaging hub provides communication services for a data enabled device having Internet network access capabilities such as a portable media player, personal digital assistant, a Wi-Fi mobile platform, a tablet computer, portable e-Reader, a personal computer, a laptop and a netbook computer. The social messaging hub communicates with the data enabled device over the Internet or cellular data networks, and interfaces with a message infrastructure including mobile carriers, message aggregators, message exchanges and various specialized social messaging services. Messages may originate in or be delivered to other users' mobile telephones or in similarly equipped and provisioned IP data enabled devices. The social messaging hub can provide a predetermined auto-reply response and retain messages for a timed duration in a message retention queue when requested by a user. Messages may be viewed with a data enabled device application at various zoom levels. | 08-30-2012 |
| 20120233556 | Selecting Viewports in a Messaging Application with Multiple Viewports for Presenting Messages in Different Orders - In a method for displaying messages, a system displays messages from a single user account in multiple viewports. Each viewport orders messages based on an importance score that is calculated based on the user's prior interactions with messages in his user account through that viewport. Each viewport associated with the user account orders messages using a distinct message importance model. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120240054 | EMAIL CLIENT DISPLAY TRANSITION - Methods and devices for selectively presenting a user interface for an email application are provided. More particularly, a change in the operating mode of a multiple screen device from a multiple screen operating mode to a single screen operating mode, or from a single screen operating mode to a multiple screen operating mode, can be determined. Moreover, a change in the operating mode can effect a change in a presentation of a user interface associated with an email application. More particularly, a presentation of a user interface can be retained, where the number of screens of the device in view of the user is changed, provided a user interface for the email application remains in view of the user after the change in operating mode. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120240055 | EMAIL CLIENT DISPLAY TRANSITIONS BETWEEN PORTRAIT AND LANDSCAPE - Methods and devices for selectively presenting a user interface for an email application are provided. More particularly, a change in the operating mode of a multiple screen device from a multiple screen operating mode in portrait orientation to a multiple screen operating mode in a landscape orientation, or vice versa, can be determined. Moreover, a change in the operating mode can effect a change in a presentation of a user interface associated with an email application. More particularly, a presentation of a user interface can be retained, where the number of screens of the device in view of the user is changed, provided a user interface for the email application remains in view of the user after the change in operating mode. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120240056 | EMAIL CLIENT MODE TRANSITIONS IN A SMARTPAD DEVICE - Methods and devices for selectively presenting a user interface for an email application are provided. More particularly, a change in the operating mode of a multiple virtual display smartpad device from a multiple virtual display operating mode to a single virtual display operating mode, or from a single virtual display operating mode to a multiple virtual display operating mode, can be determined. Moreover, a change in the operating mode can effect a change in a presentation of a user interface associated with an email application. More particularly, a presentation of a user interface can be retained, where the number of virtual displays of the device in view of the user is changed, provided a user interface for the email application remains in view of the user after the change in operating mode. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120240057 | Instant Messaging with Browser Collaboration - The invention enables collaboration between first and second users at first and second workstations having first and second browsers, respectively. A page is loaded into the first browser. An instant messaging connection is established between the first workstation and the second workstation. Then an address of the page loaded at the first browser is sent to the second browser via the instant messaging connection. At the second browser the page is loaded in response to receipt of the page address. A network connection is then established between the first browser and the second browser. Thereafter, messages are sent from the first browser to the second browser via the network connection responsive to screen events by a user at the first workstation to control screen events at the second workstation. | 09-20-2012 |
| 20120246577 | PREVIEWING A NEW EVENT ON A SMALL SCREEN DEVICE - Method and apparatus for previewing new events in a computing device having a plurality of applications for managing respective events are described. Individual applications are each represented by an application icon on a screen of a graphical user interface for the device. In response to a new event of a one of the applications, the application's icon is visually modified to notify of the new event. A visual modification may be determined in response to the new event, for example, to preview a content of the event. The visual modification may include a count of all new events that remain to be disposed. On a selection of the visually modified icon, additional previewing may be provided. Activation of the application having a visually modified application icon may be configured to automatically initiate the application at the new event. | 09-27-2012 |
| 20120254770 | MESSAGING INTERFACE - A message from a contact is received by a client and displayed in a message window for an amount of time. Additional messages from the same contact received are also displayed in the message window, and the size of the message window is adjusted to display additional messages with previous messages. After the amount of time expires, the message is removed from the message window and the size of the message window is adjusted again. To view the removed message, the user may select the message window, and the previously removed messages are displayed in a full message window. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120254771 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING INFORMATION OF EMAIL - The invention relates to the technical field of email sending and receiving and discloses a method and device for displaying the information of an email. The method includes obtaining email display information through an email agent; invoking a text display interface; displaying the obtained display information to a user in a coded format of Unicode when the user selects the email. In the device, email display information is obtained through an email agent; a text display interface is invoked; the obtained display information is displayed to the user in a coded format of Unicode when the user selects the email. As Unicode is an important universal character coding standard for interaction and display, great convenience may be brought to email senders and receivers in different languages, as well as other users. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120254772 | CONTACT SIDEBAR TILE - Methods, systems, and computer program products for tracking real-time communication data within a single contact tracking application for diverse communication providers and applications. A global data store is synchronized with real-time communication data, such as presence, status, unread messages, and unread notifications, from each application/provider. Real-time communication data for contacts dynamically determined to be recent contacts is retrieved from the data store, based on properties such as a most recent communication time, a communication count, and the like. Real-time communication data corresponding to contacts identified as pinned contacts for which display of real-time communication data is preferred, also may be retrieved. A user interface is generated for displaying the one or more recent and/or pinned contacts, which may vary in size based on the number of contacts identified as pinned contacts, from which a contact may be selected for real-time conversation or e-mail. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20120260193 | Scheduled Message Cleanup - Scheduled message cleanup techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a method implemented by one or more computing devices includes detecting that a message has been received from a sender for delivery via a user account. Responsive to a determination that an option has been selected for the sender in association with the user account, a previous message from the sender that is to be delivered via the user account is removed and the detected message is kept for delivery via the user account. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120260194 | USER CONFIGURABLE UNIVERSAL INTERFACE FOR MANAGING UTILITY SERVICES - Managing utility services comprises a user interface that is linked to user configurable utility accounts, said interface further comprising a linking application for entering utility account information for linked utility accounts; account management features accessible from the user interface further comprising a bill payment utility, an account information system, a utility directory database, a service control system, and an informational system; an interface screen providing a link for displaying account information, menu options for configuring utility usage, a settings menu for configuring the interface of the system, and a messaging system providing messages associated with utility services; and a module for managing emergency notifications and consumer messages that provides for reporting of utility interruption, dangers situations, and informational content for managing the effects of utility interruption. | 10-11-2012 |
| 20120266082 | EMAIL CLIENT LANDSCAPE DISPLAY TRANSITION - Methods and devices for selectively presenting a user interface for an email application are provided. More particularly, a change in the operating mode of a multiple screen device from a multiple screen operating mode to a single screen operating mode, or from a single screen operating mode to a multiple screen operating mode, can be determined. Moreover, a change in the operating mode can effect a change in a presentation of a user interface associated with an email application. More particularly, a presentation of a user interface can be retained, where the number of screens of the device in view of the user is changed, provided a user interface for the email application remains in view of the user after the change in operating mode. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120266083 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE, DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a graphical user interface that displays information on a plurality of different types of content on a single screen. The graphical user interface includes an overview display area and a detail display area. The overview display area displays an overview of the information on the content in chronological order, based on time information for the plurality of the different types of content. The detail display area displays, in greater detail, the information on the content that corresponds to the time information that is selected in the overview display area. Scrolling the information that is displayed in the overview display area causes the information on the content that is displayed in the detail display area to be scrolled. | 10-18-2012 |
| 20120272160 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANALYZING MESSAGES IN A NETWORK OR ACROSS NETWORKS - Systems and methods for analyzing messages in a network or across networks are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, for detecting trends from a set of messages in a network or across networks, identifying, from the set of messages in the network or across networks, commonly or frequently occurring topics, computing statistical attributes for the commonly or frequently occurring topics in the set of messages that indicate respective levels of trendiness, and/or presenting, the commonly or frequently occurring topics as indicators in a user interface, the indicators being actionable to access additional information relating to a selected topic via the action. The messages include messages interacted with by humans or machines and interactions can include, posted a message, shared a message, liked a message, commented on a message, replied to a message, viewed a message, saved or bookmarked a message. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120272161 | Caching Message Fragments during Real-Time Messaging Conversations - Creating and managing an editable cache of unsent message fragments during conversations using real-time messaging systems (such as instant messaging, text messaging, chat sessions, and so forth). Using this cache, a user participating in a real-time messaging conversation can cache at least one message fragment, and can then recall selected fragments for review and/or editing (as desired by the particular user) before sending to other conversation participants. Preferably, any unsent message fragment from the cache can be sent, upon request of the user, through a mouse click or keystroke. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20120278732 | Enhanced Message Handling - Methods, computer readable media, and apparatuses for enhanced message handling are presented. A first message may be sent to a first identity. Thereafter, a second message may be sent to a second identity. Alternatively, a first message may be received from a first identity, and a second message may be received from a second identity. In either case, in response to determining, based on local address book data, that the first identity and the second identity are both associated with a first person, the first message and the second message may be displayed in a single conversation window. Subsequently sent and/or received messages may be similarly aggregated into the conversation window based on such messages being to and/or from one or more identities of the same person. Additionally, these subsequently aggregated messages may be sent and/or received via different communication services, such as email, SMS, and/or social networking services. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278733 | CUSTOMIZABLE CONSTITUENT COMMUNICATION METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - Systems and methods are described that facilitate users communicating information. The disclosed subject matter enables users to disseminate information to others, allows the recipients to incorporate significant amounts of custom information with minimal input, and send this personalized information to additional recipients easily via a mobile device. The disclosed subject matter also enables Organizations to target their members more accurately and easily engage in meaningful dialog. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120278734 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, SCREEN CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING SCREEN CONTROL PROGRAM - According to an aspect, an electronic device includes a display unit, a detecting unit, and a control unit, and composes a mail that includes an image and a text. The display unit displays a first screen and a second screen in such a manner that the first screen and the second screen do not overlap each other. The first screen displays an overview of the mail, and the second screen edits an image or a text as an element to be added to the mail. The detecting unit detects an operation. When an operation made on the second screen is detected by the detecting unit, the control unit updates the overview of the mail that is displayed on the first screen in accordance with the operation. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20120284639 | SIMULTANEOUS EMAIL AND ATTACHMENT VIEWING - Systems, methods and computer program products for facilitating the simultaneous (e.g., side-by-side or via a “sliding” animation) displaying and viewing of email messages and any attachments to such email messages are disclosed. Such systems, methods and computer program products allow a user of a computing system to simultaneously view the textual portion of an email along with the contents of any attachments within one application, and without the need to switch between at least two software applications—the email reader application and the native (productivity) application used to create such attachment (e.g., a word processing software application, a spreadsheet application, a presentation application, a database application, a portable document format reader, a Web browser and/or the like). | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120290944 | Visual communications tool - A visual communications (VC) tool creating visual arrangements and presenting the visual arrangements to others for feedback and comment in an efficient and secure manner. An author uses the VC tool to generate a folio, storyboard, or presentation, and publishes the generated arrangement to desired recipients. The published arrangement is uploaded to a server once, and a recipient equipped with a copy of the VC tool downloads the arrangement in response to a notification from the server. Thereafter, only changes to the visual arrangement are uploaded to the server and forwarded to the recipient. The recipient may transmit a comment on the visual arrangement back to the author's VC tool. The author's VC tool tracks and automatically correlates all received comments to their respective arrangements, allowing them to be concurrently displayed on a single screen. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120290945 | EXTENSIBILITY FEATURES FOR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS - An extensibility model is used to provide active and interactive functionality in communication items, but the embodiments are not so limited. A computer system of an embodiment includes components configured to identify one or more activation triggers that operate to activate gadget code using an isolated code execution environment as part of injecting content into an email communication. A method of one embodiment provides an extensibility framework for using defined gadget triggers and associated gadget functionality as part of automatically injecting content inline with a mail message. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120290946 | MULTI-SCREEN EMAIL CLIENT - An email client having multiple screens that may be displayed in different corresponding ones of a plurality of different display portions of a handheld electronic device. The screens of the email client may be related by way of a dependency relationship and/or may provide for control between the various screens. In one embodiment, the email client includes a folder management screen, a message listing screen, a message detail screen, and an attachment screen. Additionally, the email client may be responsive to received gesture inputs to navigate with respect to the screens and/or perform actions with respect to one or more elements (e.g., messages) of the various screens. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120290947 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO FILTER AND DISPLAY ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - Methods and systems to present a relatively small combinational set of user-selectable filter and display criteria, through a relatively small number of visually-intuitive controls of an electronic message (EM) graphical user interface (GUI), and to translate a combination of user-selected criteria to a more-complex set of configuration parameters. Methods and systems disclosed herein may be implemented to provide filter and/or display configurations on-par or greater than conventional EM clients, in quantity and/or complexity, with less user-effort, knowledge, and navigational skill. | 11-15-2012 |
| 20120297316 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR HANDLING OUTGOING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES IN A USER TERMINAL - A method and User Terminal (UT) for handling an outgoing electronic message. The UT receives a “send” command from a user, where the “send” command is associated with the outgoing electronic message. The outgoing electronic message is buffered in a time delay buffer for a predetermined time period. During that time period, the user is displayed, using a Graphical User Interface (GUI), an indication of the remaining time before the predetermined time period has elapsed. The message is sent without any further user input from the user if no abort command is received from the user. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120297317 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SPEEDING UP DATA INPUT TO A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - User equipment and/or devices equipped to engage in textual communication sessions also interface to a server. The server maintains a thesaurus bank that includes a variety of different thesauri. When engaging in a textual communication or editing session, the user or the user equipment can request or may automatically receive a relevant thesaurus. As the user enters characters to create a textual entry, the selected thesaurus is searched to identify candidate completions. The user can then select one of several displayed candidate completions. In addition, the user input can also be delivered to the server and used to update the content of the thesauri. | 11-22-2012 |
| 20120304074 | DEVICE USER INTERFACE TO INPUT EMOJI AND OTHER SYMBOLS - An integrated symbols user interface (UI) provides a collection of different symbols for inputting symbols into messages, such as email message, IM messages, and SMS text messages. The integrated symbols UI may group symbols in a number of different category panes. Additionally, the integrated symbols UI may provide a history pane with previously used symbols. Only a portion of the integrated symbols UI may be displayed on a display screen of device at a time. A user may seamlessly pan over the integrated symbols UI to move between the panes. In some embodiments, the integrated symbols UI may also include a category list pane that allows a user to navigate directly to a particular category pane or the history pane. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20120311460 | Computer-Based Methods for Arranging Meetings and Systems for Performing the Same - Methods and systems for assisting individuals arrange meetings such as networking meetings with other individuals at a specified time (or within a specified time range) and at a specified place (or within a specified geographic region). More specifically, methods and systems for allowing individuals to post an invitation to for a meeting on an on-line network. | 12-06-2012 |
| 20120317498 | ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING ICONS - An electronic communication device includes an input interface for receiving input, a display for displaying output, and a processor. The processor is in communication with the input interface and the display. When the processor determines that a new notification event for an application has occurred, the processor causes an icon for activating the application to be displayed on the display. When the processor determines that the new notification event has not occurred, the processor does not display the icon. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120317499 | INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEM THAT FACILITATES BETTER KNOWLEDGE AND TASK MANAGEMENT - This invention discloses a novel system that is tuned for people to exchange information effectively and manage the domain knowledge and tasks productively. With a WYSIWYG-like user interface, message encapsulation into individual objects, and multithreading message flow handling, this new system is able to bring forth revolutionary features that break the limitations of traditional IM systems by knitting traditionally separated functions into an integrated business information and management platform, and hence enable new ways in building knowledge base, reading industrial specific news, and assigning and managing tasks. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20120324370 | APPARATUS, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD, FOR LOCATING A MESSAGE USING GRAPHICAL INTERFACE - An apparatus, and an associated method, facilitates searching for a message of interest from amongst a plurality of stored messages, such as email messages received at, or sent by, a wireless device and for organizing the stored messages. A plot is generated and displayed. The plot is a representation of the messages, plotted as a function of alphanumeric identifiers of an address associated with each of the messages. Selection is made to zoom in on a portion of the plot to display portions or sub-portions of the plot. Selection of which portions to view is made to locate the message of interest. The message of interest is located by zooming in to the message through successive input commands, such as touch commands input at an interactive screen display. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120324371 | Methods And Apparatus For Efficiently Managing The Storage Of E-Mail Message Information For A Mobile Station - A mobile device stores message information for a plurality of messages in memory. Each message includes at least one correspondent address and conversation text with the at least one correspondent address, as well as metadata comprising an identifier for uniquely identifying the message at a server. When a size of the message information has reached a first predetermined limit, the mobile device deletes at least portions of the conversation text of some of the messages while retaining storage of the correspondent addresses and the metadata thereof. When the size of the message information has reached a second predetermined limit which is greater than the first predetermined limit, the mobile device deletes the correspondent addresses and the metadata associated with the messages having the deleted conversation texts. | 12-20-2012 |
| 20120331398 | MECHANISM FOR INDICATING UNREAD EMAILS IN A CONTAINER - A mechanism is disclosed for generating a composite email for an email conversation. The composite email includes content automatically extracted from a plurality of the emails in the email conversation, and may be generated in response to a user accessing just one of the emails in the email conversation. A mechanism is also disclosed for discovering and recovering lost emails in an email conversation. A mechanism is further disclosed for automatically moving emails from one container to another after an email has been read. These and other advantageous email generating, manipulation, and organization mechanisms are disclosed herein. | 12-27-2012 |
| 20130007633 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCING MESSAGE LIST FUNCTIONALITY - Systems, methods, computer program products, and networks for enhancing message list functionality. In some embodiments, a method includes: after a message in a message list has been indicated by a user performing a gesture on an input module manipulating a graphical user interface whose content included the message list so as to enable data, which relates to content of the message, and which was not visible when the user performed the gesture, to be displayed to the user. | 01-03-2013 |
| 20130014024 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - The information processing apparatus generates email information (or display contents) to be displayed on a display apparatus and outputs the generated email information to the display apparatus that is a 3D image display apparatus for displaying a 3D image observable by an observer on the basis of binocular parallax. The information processing apparatus updates the display contents to be displayed on the display apparatus in accordance with an operation input. The information processing apparatus outputs email information display (a first display state) or email information display (a second display state) from a display output block to the display apparatus. On the basis of an input operation, the information processing apparatus switches, through a switching block, a display state of the email information to be displayed on the display apparatus from the email information display (the first display state) to the email information display (the second display state). | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130014025 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An information processing apparatus and method which allow a user to readily select, upon transmission of an electronic mail or upon uploading of image data, image data of a plurality of images to be attached to the electronic mail or image data to be transmitted. The user uses a cross key and a determination button of an inputting section of a camcorder: to operate an anchor on an image selection screen, to operate a page backward feeding button and to operate a page feeding button to select a thumbnail image displayed. In response to an operation by the user, the anchor is positioned on the side of the number of the thumbnail image designated by the user, and image data of the thumbnail image at which the anchor is positioned are selected. | 01-10-2013 |
| 20130019185 | Method, Devices and a System for CommunicationAANM Zhang; NingAACI BeijingAACO CNAAGP Zhang; Ning Beijing CN - The invention relates to methods, devices, services and systems for composing a message, where forming the message utilizes information of a planned encounter and related location information. The user may choose one or more people, and give encounter information for example by indicating the type of a location where the encounter is planned. The message is then composed at least partly automatically by using this information on people and the encounter, and a location may be chosen and a route to the location may be formed so that the encounter can be arranged. This information is inserted into the message being composed. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130024779 | MESSAGE NOTIFICATION SYSTEM - A method and system may for notifying a user of an incoming message may include a message server configured to apply a filter to a message header of a received message. A message program may be configured to filter the message based on at least one filter, the filter being established via a filter interface and including a plurality of filter options. The message program may be configured to display at least one message indicator in a message interface in response to applying the filter options of the filter to the message. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130024780 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY APPLYING MESSAGE ACTIONS - An electronic device and method are provided for automatically identifying a message in a message thread to which a selected single-message action is to be applied, without requiring display of individual messages in a separate listing. Each single-message action is associated with one or more message attributes. When a single-message action is selected, a message in the thread having matching attributes is selected. While the selected message may be the most recent message in the thread having those attributes, but may not be the most recently received or most recently sent message in the thread. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130024781 | Multi-Modal and Updating Interface for Messaging - An electronic device designed for electronic messaging is configured to provide multiple options for including content into an electrical communication. For example, the device can provide content including one or combinations of letters, numbers, audio, video, graphics such as pictures, icons, or emoticons. The user of such an electronic communication device can select certain input options on a user interface to select from among various types of content to include in an electronic communication. The content from which the user may choose can be updated and changed on a periodic basis through communication between the user's electronic communication device and a central computing device. The central computing device can be controlled by a manufacturer of the computing device, a communication service provider, the user, or other third party to periodically change the messaging content options for a user. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130024782 | PROVIDING AUTO-SORTING OF COLLABORATIVE PARTNERS OR COMPONENTS BASED ON FREQUENCY OF COMMUNICATION AND/OR ACCESS IN A COLLABORATION SYSTEM USER INTERFACE - A system for auto-sorting of lists based on most frequent component access or partner collaboration. The elements in the lists may represent collaboration partners (e.g. instant messaging contacts), and/or collaboration components such as Web addresses, events, collaborative documents, activity objects, and/or desktop applications. The system monitors component accesses and/or partner collaborations over a configurable time period to determine the frequency of collaborations with specific collaboration partners, and/or the frequency of accesses to collaboration components. The disclosed system then determines a set of collaboration partners and/or components that are most frequently collaborated with and/or accessed, and moves the list elements representing those collaboration partners and/or components into a top-located sub-list within a list of elements representing a larger number of collaboration partners and/or components in a user interface provided to a local user. | 01-24-2013 |
| 20130031488 | PROVIDING A MODIFIED NON-COMMUNICATION APPLICATION INTERFACE FOR PRESENTING A MESSAGE - A computationally implemented method includes, but is not limited to: determining which of a plurality of end users are to be presented with a message, the plurality of end users having access to one or more non-communication applications through one or more non-communication application interfaces; and providing a modified non-communication application interface for accessing at least one of the one or more non-communication applications to one or more end users who have been determined to be presented with the message, the modified non-communication application interface including at least a channel to access the message. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 01-31-2013 |
| 20130042185 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device includes a communication unit, a storage unit, a display unit, and a processing unit. The communication unit receives messages. The storage unit stores the messages, a label table, and a preference table. The processing unit reads the messages, parses data structure of the messages to obtain content type label of the messages in the message, identifies the content type according to the label table, determines whether there is a desired message according to the preference table and displays the message if the message is a desired message. A communication management method is also provided. | 02-14-2013 |
| 20130055105 | Electronic Message Management System and Method - Embodiments of the invention relate to the creation of electronic message handling rules and to the creation of groups of electronic message recipient addresses. An automatic creation of electronic message rules or filters is dynamically based upon routine user actions or inputs that can have purposes other than only for the creation of rules. According to an embodiment, upon the movement of an email from one directory to any one of a plurality of other directories, a user is provided with one or more options for creating rules that will automatically move other emails to that same directory if they meet the selected criteria. With respect to the creation of groups, embodiments include the creation of groups that can occur as an electronic message is being composed. | 02-28-2013 |
| 20130067351 | PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM USING PERFORMANCE FEEDBACK POOL - A system and method for designating or tagging an electronic message, such as an email that includes feedback about an employee's performance. The tagged email can then be automatically embedded within, or otherwise associated with, a performance management document such as a performance review. An example method includes providing a user interface display screen, whereby a user may view contents of an electronic message; providing a first user option, in association with the user interface display screen, to selectively designate the electronic message for a predetermined purpose and providing a signal in response thereto; and associating the electronic message with a document in response to the signal in accordance with a designation of the electronic message. In a specific embodiment, the designation of the electronic message includes a feedback designation, such that the electronic message is designated as a feedback message. The feedback message represents unsolicited feedback. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130067352 | E-Mail Interface Having an Informational Tool Tip - An interface enables perception of information regarding e-mail communications. The interface includes an e-mail application user interface that enables perception of e-mail message information for one or more e-mails received by an e-mail participant and that enables active display of one or more of the received e-mails selected by the e-mail participant, The interface also includes a mechanism that determines a request for e-mail message information for one of the e-mails from within a desired e-mail message that is not actively displayed. The interface further includes an informational tool tip that provides a temporary perceivable indication to the e-mail participant of at least a portion of the requested information for the desired e-mail message while maintaining active display of the one or more selected e-mails. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130067353 | E-Mail Interface Having an Informational Tool Tip - An interface enables perception of information regarding e-mail communications. The interface includes an e-mail application user interface that enables perception of e-mail message information for one or more e-mails received by an e-mail participant and that enables active display of one or more of the received e-mails selected by the e-mail participant. The interface also includes a mechanism that determines a request for e-mail message information for one of the e-mails from within a desired e-mail message that is not actively displayed. The interface further includes an informational tool tip that provides a temporary perceivable indication to the e-mail participant of at least a portion of the requested information for the desired e-mail message while maintaining active display of the one or more selected e-mails. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130067354 | Thumbnail Image Previews - An instant message is received from an instant message sender and a determination is made that the instant message includes a link to a web page that was selected by the instant message sender. In response to determining that the instant message includes the link to the web page, an image corresponding to the web page is fetched and stored, and a thumbnail image preview of the fetched image is generated. In addition, the thumbnail image preview of the fetched portion of the web page is displayed while at least a portion of the instant message is displayed. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130067355 | MANAGING AND COLLABORATING WITH DIGITAL CONTENT - A universal digital content system provides a dynamic user interface having a viewing area, an action menu area, and an organizing area. A user can create, organize, send, receive, access, collaborate with and otherwise manage digital content through a single user interface. The universal digital content system provides multiple ways of viewing and organizing all of the digital content accessible through the dynamic user interface. In addition, a user can create a collaboration session with one or more contacts using one or more digital content files. | 03-14-2013 |
| 20130073982 | Method and system for indicating categories in electronic messages - Method and system for adding a category icon to an electronic message, created by a sender to one or more recipients of a user community, are disclosed. The computer implemented method includes: providing the sender with a list of user community types when creating the electronic message; receiving from the sender the selection of a user community type from the list of user community types; providing the sender with a list of categories for the selected user community type and a category icon associated with each category; receiving from the sender the selection of a category from the list of categories; and appending the category icon corresponding to the selected category to the electronic message, wherein the category icon is subsequently displayed with the electronic message to one or more recipients of a user community to provide visual identification of the category of each electronic message. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130080914 | STORAGE AND EXPOSURE OF UNIFIED CONTACTS BASED ON MATCH CRITERIA - Individual contact information from a variety of sources are linked into a unified contact view to provide consistent user experience across platforms, while contact data is tracked in a distributed fashion. A communication application unifying multiple sources of contact data into a single logical view may communicate to a user that the unification has occurred. Through granular change tracking and data linkage, the user may be empowered to both understand and correct any system action. Match criteria for contact information may be exposed in individual contact views and in the unified contact view clarifying to the user matching and conflicting contact information. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130080915 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO FACILITATE REAL-TIME COMMUNICATIONS AND CONTENT SHARING AMONG USERS OVER A NETWORK - A system and method to facilitate real-time communications and content sharing among users over a network are described. In one preferred embodiment, multiple links to content information are dynamically generated for a sender user. Responsive to selection of a link by the sender user, the link and associated metadata information are communicated to at least one recipient user engaged in the real-time communications session with the sender user. | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130086485 | Bulk Categorization - Bulk categorization techniques are described for messages. In one or more implementations, an input is received that selects one or more messages accessible via a user account. A first option is output in a user interface that is selectable to categorize each message from a sender of the one or more messages in the user account. A second option is output in the user interface that is selectable to categorize each message subsequently received from the sender by the user account. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130086486 | Mutable Message Attributes - Mutable message attribute techniques are described. In one or more implementations, functionality is exposed, via a user interface, that is configured to receive one or more inputs to specify an action and one or more conditions for an attribute of a message that is mutable over time. A rule is configured to perform the action to one or more messages in accordance with the one or more conditions for the attribute that is mutable over time. | 04-04-2013 |
| 20130091438 | USER DEFINABLE CO-USER LISTS WITH STATUS INDICATORS - Systems and methods are disclosed for tracking and displaying the logon status of selected co-users of an on-line or network system in real time to a tracking user in a unique graphical interface. The invention provides user definable on-line co-user lists, or “buddy lists,” which track specific co-users in real-time automatically. When a user logs on to a system, one or more of the user's buddy lists are presented to the buddy list system. The buddy list system attempts to match co-users currently logged into the system with the entries on the user's buddy list. Any matches are displayed to the user. As co-users logon and logoff, a user's buddy list is updated to reflect these changes. An indication can also be added to show that a co-user just logged on or just left the system. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130091439 | MESSAGING APPLICATION VIEWS - A communication device comprising a microprocessor readable computer readable medium is provided that includes microprocessor executable instructions to provide single- and multi-thread views of messages sent and received by a communication device. | 04-11-2013 |
| 20130097526 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR REPLY MESSAGE COMPOSITION - An electronic device and method provide for composition of reply messages within a message listing display. A message listing screen including a message listing and input field is displayed, and while the screen is displayed, content is entered in the input field and a send command is detected. In response to the send command, the entered content is sent in a reply message in reply to a selected message in the message listing. The selected message for which the reply is intended may be identified after the send command is detected. The message listing screen can include a preview of the selected message. The message format for the content to be sent in reply may be selected to be different from the message format of the selected message. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130097527 | Method for Predicting Messaging Addresses for an Electronic Message Composed on an Electronic Device - A method for predicting messaging addresses for an electronic message composed on an electronic device is provided. In accordance with one embodiment, the method comprises: receiving a request to compose an electronic message; automatically filtering the contacts based on filter criteria comprising a type of the electronic message to generate a first list of contacts; displaying a message composition user interface screen on a display screen of the electronic device, the message composition user interface screen including one or more address fields for inputting message recipients; displaying the first list of contacts, the message recipients being selectable from the first list of contacts; and selecting a messaging address in accordance with selection of a contact from the first list of contacts and populating an active address field in the message composition user interface screen with the selected contact. | 04-18-2013 |
| 20130104052 | INTERNET-PADS, TABLETS, OR E-BOOKS THAT SUPPORT VOICE ACTIVATED COMMANDS FOR MANAGING AND REPLYING TO E-MAILS - Internet-Pads with voice activated command functions for replying to e-mails are disclosed and enabled. The Internet-Pad may include a touch sensitive screen, a graphical user interface, an image editing application, an e-mail application, an Internet browsing application, and applications for playing audio/video content. An operating system of the Internet-Pad may provide an application programming interface (API) to support applications. Users may install additional applications supported by the API to expand the functionalities of the Internet-Pad. The Internet-Pad may further include a microphone for receiving voice commands, and a speaker for outputting sound. In one example, the Internet-Pad may reply to an e-mail by simply receiving a user's voice command or by simply receiving a user's selection of a reply icon over the touch sensitive screen. In another example, the user may issue voice commands for the Internet-Pad to stream, send, play, print, or display digital content at an output device. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130104053 | TECHNIQUES TO SHARE MEDIA FILES THROUGH MESSAGING - Techniques to share media files through messaging are described. An apparatus may comprise a processor and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor. The memory may store a message application that when executed by the processor is operative to communicate a message and a message attachment comprising a media file at different time intervals using different transports. The message may have a link comprising a reference to a discoverable storage location for the media file. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130117689 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING INFORMATION IN RESPONSE TO A GESTURE - A method includes displaying, on a display of an electronic device, an information element associated with an application and detecting a first gesture. In response to detecting the first gesture, at least a first part of a first image is displayed, including information associated with the application, while reducing display of the information element. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117690 | Managing user definable co-user lists - A real time notification system that tracks, for each user, the logon status of selected co-users of an on-line or network system and displays that information in real time to the tracking user in a unique graphical interface. The invention provides user definable on-line co-user lists, or “buddy lists”, that track specific co-users in real-time automatically. A user can create many separate buddy lists of co-users, either with intersecting or disjoint lists of users, and label these buddy lists according to the user's preference. The user can update a buddy list or create new buddy lists whenever necessary. When a user logs on to a system, the user's set of buddy lists is presented to the buddy list system. The buddy list system attempts to match co-users currently logged into the system with the entries on the user's buddy list. Any matches are displayed to the user. As co-users logon and loge, a user's buddy list is updated to reflect these changes. An indication can also be added to show that a co-user just logged on or just left the system. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130117691 | Systems, Methods, and Graphical User Interfaces for Concurrent Display of Reply Message and Multiple Response Options - Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for concurrent display of a reply message and two or more response options are disclosed. In some implementations, a method includes, at a computer, maintaining the display of a reply message associated with a plurality of response options. Each respective response option in the plurality of response options is independently associated with one or more recipient addresses for the reply message. While maintaining the display of at least a portion of the reply message, at least one recipient address for the reply message is updated in accordance with a selected response option. In some implementations, the maintaining of the display of at least a portion of the reply message includes maintaining the display of at least a portion of a message body of the reply message. In some embodiments, the selected response option is one of: reply, reply to all, and forward. | 05-09-2013 |
| 20130125019 | System And Method For Displaying Message History When Composing A Message - A system and a method are provided for displaying message history while composing a message. The method includes displaying a message composition application comprising a first recipient field, a message history display area, and a message composition field; detecting an input into the first recipient field for specifying a recipient; and upon detecting that the recipient has been specified: displaying a second recipient field; navigating application focus from the first recipient field to the second recipient field; and displaying a message history associated with the recipient in the message history display area. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130125020 | EFFICIENT NAVIGATION OF HIERARCHICAL DATA DISPLAYED IN A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE - Techniques are described for display and navigation of hierarchical messages, which displays include contextual data for the messages. Context information for a current message includes reply messages, parent messages, and metadata representations. Message representations are also associated with visual depth indicators that are independent of the text of the messages. Users may navigate displays of hierarchical message data using different navigational inputs. For example, more information may be requested for messages, without selecting a new message for viewing as a focal message, using swipes across portions of the display dedicated to displaying the messages. A limited number of messages for a requested list of messages is initially retrieved and displayed, and a mechanism for viewing more messages from the list is provided. Historical usage of the mechanism is recorded and the number of messages to be displayed for the list of messages is adjusted based on the historical usage data. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130125021 | TABLET ALL-IN-ONE APPLICATION - A method and apparatus for an all-in-one tablet application is described herein. In one embodiment, an application presents marketing data on a visual display of the computing system viewable to a user. The application retrieves stored information from a remote Customer Relationship Management (CRM) server for processing by the computing system. The application presents a visual representation on the visual display of the computing system to allow a user to update or edit CRM content. The application provides an email interface to allow the user to send an email to a customer visited by the user. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130125022 | METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR SENDING, RECEIVING AND UPDATING INTERACTIVE INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET - Method, device and system for receiving, sending and updating interactive information on the Internet are disclosed. A method includes: after detecting a predetermined type of a user's operation, a user device prompts the user to input a contact address of a recipient of the interactive information; the user device then sends, to the contact address of the recipient, electronic information including content of the interactive information and a URL address with a passcode of the recipient. Another method includes: a user device receives and displays electronic information sent to a contact address of a user, the electronic information includes content of the interactive information and a URL address with a passcode of the user; and after detecting a click on the URL address, the user device sends a response from the contact address of the user to a server, content of the response includes the passcode of the user. | 05-16-2013 |
| 20130139069 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A MESSAGING CAMPAIGN WITHIN AN ENTERPRISE - A method and system for managing a messaging campaign within an enterprise are disclosed. Such a method includes generating with a server a user interface, the interface being configured to allow a user to select a recipient list based upon one or more contextual attributes stored in a database, wherein the contextual attributes are based upon the interaction of one or more recipients with external systems. The method also includes selecting a recipient list using the user interface based upon a set of contextual attributes, generating electronic messages within a message campaign, and sending the electronic messages to recipients on the recipient list. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20130145283 | Automated Patent Event Notification System - Systems, methods and computer program products for an automatic patent event notification are disclosed. In an aspect of the present invention, an automated patent event notification system enables an entity to select and to configure a class (or classes) of one or more patents (or one or more patent applications) and/or a family (or families) of one or more patents (or one or more patent applications) that are of interest to that the entity or that the entity is interested in monitoring. The system provides an event notification to the entity if a patent application of interest is published or a patent of interest is granted. | 06-06-2013 |
| 20130159875 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE TO FACILITATE SELECTABLE PRESENTATION POINT OF MESSAGE LIST - Techniques for navigating to a point in a presented list displayed on a display. One representative technique includes sorting a message list presented on the display based on at least one sorting criterion designated via a graphical user interface. A graphical selector control having a plurality of graphically selectable access points is presented, based on the designated sorting criterion. When a graphically selectable access point is selected, the presentation of the message list on the display device is adjusted to a position corresponding to the graphically selected access point. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159876 | SUPPORTING MULTIPLE ATTENTION-BASED, USER-INTERACTION MODES - The present invention monitors a user's activities to determine how much attention he is paying to one or more devices. Based on the information gathered about the user's current “attention profile,” a “user-interaction parameter” is set that reflects where the user's attention is focused and, ideally, how much of his attention is given to each device. Then, based on the user-interaction parameter, the user interface of at least one of the user's devices is configured to optimize the user's interactions, given the amount of attention he is currently giving to this user interface. If the user is giving the majority of his attention to the television, for example, then the user interface of a companion device can be configured to emphasize the types of interactions available to a user who is not actively watching the companion device. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159877 | STEALTH MODE FOR INTERACTING WITH ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - A stealth mode may be used to interact with electronic messages. A user may enter the stealth mode to interact with electronic messages without making state changes to the messages. While operating in stealth mode, operations (e.g. implicit operations such as reading a message) do not change the state of the electronic messages. Upon exiting the stealth mode, the state of the electronic messages is the same as before entering the stealth mode. According to an embodiment, explicit operations performed during stealth mode (e.g. marking a message as “read”, deleting/forwarding/replying a message, . . . ) may change the state of the message relating to the action. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159878 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING MESSAGE - A method and apparatus are provided for conveniently managing messages that are received from or sent to external devices through a network by a mobile device. At least one message is displayed and selected by a user for a further operation. Attribute information of the selected message is checked in a message history database. Based on the checked attribute information, a message related to the selected message is displayed. The selected message may be a previously marked message and the related message may be an unmarked message. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130159879 | Automatic Conversation Techniques - Automatic conversation techniques are described. An apparatus may comprise a computing device having an incoming message module operative to receive an incoming message, a conversation identification module communicatively coupled to the incoming message module, the conversation identification module operative to determine the incoming message is part of a conversation thread, and associate the incoming message with the conversation thread by setting a conversation identifier property of the incoming message to a conversation identifier for the conversation thread, and a conversation manager module communicatively coupled to the conversation identification module, the conversation manager module operative to determine a conversation rule is associated with the conversation thread, and apply the conversation rule to the incoming message. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 06-20-2013 |
| 20130174052 | MULTIPLE AVATAR PERSONALITIES - Perception of multiple online personas is enabled in an instant messaging communications session. At least two identities within a communications environment to whom messages may be directed are identified. A first persona of a user is enabled to be projected to a first of the identities while a second persona of the same user is enabled to be concurrently projected to a second of the identities. The first and second personas each include an avatar capable of being animated, and the first persona and the second persona differ. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130174053 | Electronic System and Method For Creation and Management of Media Content - An electronic system (and corresponding method) for creating and managing media content involves at least one content management system (CMS) and a service. The CMS is configured to interact with at least one first-type user in order to create and manage media content for publication. The service is configured to interact with a plurality of second-type users in order to submit media content items that are associated with media content managed by the CMS and to store such media content items. Both the CMS and the service include corresponding interfaces that allow for exchange of electronic messages therebetween via network communications over the Internet, wherein the electronic messages conform to a predefined protocol. | 07-04-2013 |
| 20130179800 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND MESSAGE-BASED CONVERSATION OPERATION METHOD FOR THE SAME - A mobile terminal and message-based conversation operation method for the same are provided. The message-based conversation operation method includes generating message groups by classifying one or more messages exchanged during a message-based conversation according to preset conditions, storing the generated message groups, and outputting display items corresponding to the stored message groups in a dialog window for the message-based conversation. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130179801 | METHOD OF ASSOCIATING ATTRIBUTES AND SYSTEMS AND APPARATUS THEREOF - Is provided herein a method of automatically associating attributes with email attachments and graphically displaying the email with respective attachments in a generally rectilinear fashion and in graphical relationship. Emails and attachments are also separated, sorted and displayed in conjunction with other documents having at least one commonality. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130185649 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BLENDED PRESENTATION OF LOCALLY AND REMOTELY STORED ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - An electronic messaging client caches copies of a subset of electronic messages available in a remote store in a local store of a user device. When the user device is in an online state, the client provides for the blended presentation of electronic messages such that a user can concurrently view information about the electronic messages that have been cached in the local store as well as information about electronic messages that are stored only in the remote store. The client also presents a blended state associated with a container of electronic messages to a user of a user device and enables a user to execute a search of cached electronic messages stored in a local store as well as of electronic messages stored in the remote store. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130185650 | APPARATUS FOR MESSAGE TRIAGE - Incoming messages, like incoming wounded on the battlefield, can be initially sorted into groups e.g. a) those which can be or should be treated immediately, b) those which can be treated later, and c) those which should not be treated. Like in a triage unit on a battlefield, it is useful to reduce the amount of effort and increase the speed at which this sort takes place. The present invention allows the user's effort to sort to be reduced to a minimum, with a consequent increase in speed. | 07-18-2013 |
| 20130191759 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING AND MANAGING RECURRING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS - Described are systems and methods for detecting and processing recurring electronic communications. A graphical user interface (GUI) event is detected that includes a selection and a drag-and-drop of a first electronic communication object onto a second electronic communication object. A similarity is determined between the first and second electronic communication objects. At least one search criteria rule is automatically generated from the at least one similarity in response to detecting the GUI event. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191760 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DYNAMIC SESSION PLACEHOLDER FOR MESSAGE COLLECTION USER INTERFACE - A method and apparatus for representing a conversation of related messages is provided. In a message collection user interface for displaying messages sent and received by a communications device, a dynamic session placeholder is used for a respective conversation of related messages. The message collection user interface is displayed including any dynamic session placeholders in the list of messages. As messages from the conversation are occasioned, the dynamic session placeholder is updated. When the message collection is displayed, it is displayed in accordance with the updated session placeholder. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130191761 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING INSTANT MESSAGING (IM) MESSAGE - A method and an apparatus for displaying an Instant Messaging (IM) message are provided. The method includes, when the size of a picture to be processed is greater than the size of a container, setting the display size of the picture to be processed to be not greater than the size of the container; and drawing the picture to be processed according to the set display size. As such, a picture to be processed having the size greater than the container size can be adapted to the size of a container in IM software, and the IM software can directly display the entirety of the picture that is originally greater than the container size. | 07-25-2013 |
| 20130205226 | Instant Messaging Activity Notification - User activity is communicated in a messaging system. Communication is performed by monitoring an input region displayed to a first user of the messaging system in a client executed at a user terminal of the first user; responsive to receiving a user activated input at the input region, analyzing the input and using the analysis to match the input to a type of user activity from a predetermined set of user activities; and transmitting a message comprising data representing the type of user activity from the user terminal of the first user to a user terminal of at least one other user of the messaging system over a communications network. | 08-08-2013 |
| 20130219296 | REAL TIME EDITING FOR ELECTRONIC MAIL - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for real time editing for electronic mail. A method includes, in a network, establishing a session between an email client and an email server, loading a legacy email message in the email client, receiving a live edit selection, converting contents of the legacy email message into a set of revisions, sending the set of revisions to the email server with an identifier created using a hashing algorithm on parts of the legacy email message header and body, comparing the identifier with current live emails to determine if the legacy email message has been edited previously, if the identifier is not found, generating a new live email with a master revision line containing the initial set of revisions, if the identifier is found, adding the revisions to a master revision line in the preexisting live email, and sending the live email content back to the email client where it replaces the legacy email. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130219297 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR E-MAIL-BASED MANAGEMENT OF VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENTS - A technique for remotely managing virtual machines employs a user interface (UI) of a rich e-mail client that is configured to interpret metadata included in a communication received from a management server for the virtual machines and, in response, generate one or more UI elements. The UI includes a first region that displays a message from the management server and a second region that displays the one or more UI elements for causing a command to be generated and sent to the management server in response to a predetermined input made thereon. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130227430 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING AN E-MAIL IN A PORTABLE TERMINAL - An e-mail displaying apparatus and method in a portable terminal transmits a predetermined e-mail, and outputs the transmitted predetermined e-mail in a display, then displays a reason of a transmission failure when the transmission failure occurs in a form of an icon or in a pop-up window. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130239015 | User Interface Apparatus and Method - The apparatus and method of the invention relate to data entry and menu selection. Applications include: (a) data entry for ideographic languages, including Chinese, Japanese and Korean; (b) fast food ordering; (c) correction of documents generated by optical character recognition; and (d) computer access and speech synthesis by persons temporarily or permanently lacking normal motor capabilities. In a preferred embodiment, each option of a menu is associated respectively with a selectable region displayed adjacent an edge of a display, forming a perimeter menu and leaving a region in the center of the perimeter menu for the output of an application program. Selectable regions may be on the display, outside the display, or both. A menu option may be selected by clicking on the associated selectable region, by dwelling on it for a selection threshold period or by a cursor path toward the selectable region, or by a combination thereof. Remaining dwell time required to select a selectable region is preferably indicated by the brightness of the selectable region. Submenus of a perimeter menu may also be perimeter menus and the location of a submenu option may be foretold by the appearance of its parent menu option. Menu options may be ideographs sharing a sound, a structure or another characteristic. Ideographs, which may be homophones of one another, may be associated with colored indicating regions and selection of an ideograph may be made by speaking the name of the associated color. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130239016 | SCHEDULING EVENTS FROM ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - Scheduling an event on an electronic communications device configured for sending and receiving electronic messages over a communications network, including extracting information from an electronic message at the communications device; displaying on a display of the communications device an event scheduling interface for scheduling an event, the event scheduling interface having a plurality of input fields for receiving information about the event; and automatically populating at least one of the input fields in dependence on the extracted information. | 09-12-2013 |
| 20130246938 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A SEARCH-BASED EMAIL CLIENT - A search-based email client may incorporate a number of useful features. A search function can default to a search of all email contexts, thereby eliminating user cogitation over which context an email message may be stored in. Furthermore, the search function can automatically search for related personal content and/or related information on the internet or other computer network, and present this useful information to the user in addition to the returned emails. The search function can be integrated into a user interface to allow for one-click searches on any likely search field. The search function can search the body of email messages by default, thereby widening the scope of default searches and eliminating potentially missed information and user need to proactively widen their search. A search function can search attachments, which also provides a wider search scope. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130254677 | Method, System, Graphical User Interface, and Data Structure for Creating Electronic Calendar Entries from Email Messages - A method, system, and data structure for creating electronic calendar entries are disclosed. One aspect of the invention involves a computer data structure that includes an email message with an embedded link. The embedded link contains event information corresponding to multiple parameters for an event described in the email message. The embedded link is configured, upon activation, to initiate generation of an electronic calendar entry form with multiple fields. A plurality of the multiple fields contain event information from the embedded link. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130254678 | ICONIC COMMUNICATION - A method of sending a message on a mobile communication network, including, activating an icon entering interface on a mobile device, said interface including at least 50 icons, at least 25 of which include an associated name stored on said mobile device; entering a message including at least three consecutive icons, using said activated interface; and transmitting said message to a remote communication device. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130254679 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CREATING E-MAIL IN A PORTABLE TERMINAL - Provided is an apparatus and method for creating an e-mail in a portable terminal, in which the e-mail can be created using a template. The apparatus includes a display unit comprising an input region and a display region and a controller for searching for and displaying a template corresponding to a search gesture generated on the display unit during an e-mail creation mode. The apparatus may also include a memory for storing templates and a controller for storing a new template comprising only a text selected in a template displayed in an e-mail mode. | 09-26-2013 |
| 20130263013 | Touch-Based Method and Apparatus for Sending Information - Embodiments of the present invention provide a touch-based method and apparatus for sending information. The method includes: obtaining input information, which is input by a source user through an information input area preset on a display screen; and when preset gesture information is received, sending the input information to a target user corresponding to the gesture information. The embodiments of the present invention improve the existing information sending manner while inputting, and compared with the prior art, when sending information, require no touch or tap operation to select a recipient and send button and the like, but instead, send information quickly by using a preset convenient gesture, thereby improving performance of sending information instantly. In addition, because the preset gesture is convenient for inputting, user experience may be improved when a user sends information on a touch apparatus. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130263014 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SENDING AN INTERACTIVE MESSAGE - A method for sending an interactive message comprises the steps of: a) generating a new message, wherein said message includes widget(s); b) sending said new message to a web server; c)receiving said message in said web server; d) decoding and parsing said received message; e)creating data objects for said message and said widgets; f) storing data related to said message; g) executing server callback actions; h) encoding said message and executing server callfore actions; and i) sending said message to a client software of the recipient. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130263015 | MANAGEMENT OF ACCESS TO ENTRY POINTS ON A COMMUNICATION DEVICE - A system and method for managing access to entry points in a graphical user interface on a communication device are provided. The entry points are associated with services such as message services and are actuatable to invoke a content listing display for viewing content associated with a given service. One entry point provides access to a unified inbox for display of messages received or sent via a plurality of message services. Other entry points provide access to other message services or filtered views of the unified inbox. Access to the various entry points is provided via a user interface displaying one or more user interface elements, such as icons, pointing to the various entry points. Display of the elements is managed so as to hide elements pointing to potentially duplicative views. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130268867 | METHOD AND DEVICE TO SIMPLIFY MESSAGE COMPOSITION - A method and device to simplify message reply composition on a communications device, using a partially transparent overlay to allow a user to freely scroll and move around to other sections of a message or message chain while still being able to see and edit the reply being composed. When the reply is scrolled such that the composition field is not visible on the display screen, the device displays the overlay when the user enters text or on user request. The user may then type text into the overlay while viewing the underlying portion of the reply message, such as previous messages in the string. | 10-10-2013 |
| 20130275881 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SERVICE FOR SEARCHING FRIENDS - A method of providing a friend search service of a portable terminal is provided. The method includes transmitting, by a first portable terminal, a message for controlling a microphone of a second portable terminal to a contact server through a cellular network, outputting a sound including a first encryption key after transmitting the message, receiving a second encryption key from the second portable terminal through the cellular network, checking the second portable terminals existing in a sound-reaching area by comparing the first encryption key with the second encryption key, and displaying a friends list including the second portable terminals existing in the sound-reaching area. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130275882 | System and Method for Breaking up a Message Thread when Replying or Forwarding a Message - Disclosed is a method of communicating a message thread, comprising: receiving a message thread at a first device, the message thread comprising existing sub-messages; receiving input of a newly composed sub-message associated with the message thread; delineating each of the respective existing sub-messages from one another within the message thread; receiving selection of at least one delineated existing sub-message from the message thread through a selection interface for one of inclusion in and exclusion from a modified message thread; creating a modified message thread in accordance with the selection of at least one delineated existing sub-message, the modified message thread further comprising the new sub-message; and initiating communication of the modified message thread to a second device. | 10-17-2013 |
| 20130290869 | SELECTIVE CAPTURE OF INCOMING EMAIL MESSAGES FOR DIAGNOSTIC ANALYSIS - A method for processing email is presented here. The method begins by receiving email capture criteria for incoming email messages directed to a destination tenant of a multi-tenant database system. The method continues by comparing the email capture criteria to searchable information conveyed in the incoming email messages. When the searchable information in a candidate email message of the incoming email messages matches the email capture criteria by at least a threshold amount, the candidate email message is identified as a matched email message. The method continues by saving a copy of the matched email message for diagnostic analysis, and performing incoming email processing on the matched email message. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130298035 | USER INTERFACE METHOD FOR CREATING MULTIMEDIA MESSAGE OF MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL - A user interface method for creating a multimedia message of a mobile communication terminal is disclosed in which menu fields for creating a multimedia message are displayed in one screen, and when inputting content for each menu field is completed, it is automatically switched to a multimedia message-creating screen in which a selecting bar is positioned at the next field. In addition, while a user is using a multimedia function, a current image can be switched to the multimedia message-creating screen according to a user's need. Thus, the number of user's key manipulations can be reduced in creating the multimedia message, thereby enhancing a user's convenience. | 11-07-2013 |
| 20130305164 | DELIVERY/READ RECEIPTS FOR ELECTRONIC MESSAGING - Systems, methods, and computer program products for delivery/read receipts for electronic messaging are disclosed. During one-on-one electronic messaging sessions in a conversation view format, only a single read receipt is shown only for the most recent message transmitted in the conversation. In some implementations, a delivery receipt is shown which then can be replaced or morphed into a read receipt. In a group conversation, a read receipt can be displayed for the recipient who most recently caught up in the ongoing conversation. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130305165 | System and method for folder conduits - The invention provides a digital document management system that incorporates email functionality. The system allows an individual user to share documents and emails with others via a folder conduit system. | 11-14-2013 |
| 20130318447 | Prompting of Recipient Expertise in Collaboration Environment - A method for prompting expertise in a collaboration environment includes drafting a message for a collaboration environment in a graphical user interface; entering a name of at least one recipient for the message; obtaining expertise information about the at least one recipient; and highlighting at least one word of the message that is associated with the obtained expertise information in the graphical user interface. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130318448 | PRESENTING IMAGE PREVIEWS IN ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - An instant message is received from an instant message sender and a determination is made that the instant message includes a link to a web page that was selected by the instant message sender. In response to determining that the instant message includes the link to the web page, an image corresponding to the web page is fetched and stored, and a thumbnail image preview of the fetched image is generated. In addition, the thumbnail image preview of the fetched portion of the web page is displayed while at least a portion of the instant message is displayed. | 11-28-2013 |
| 20130326366 | USER TERMINAL APPARATUS, MESSAGE EXCHANGE SYSTEM, METHOD FOR DISPLAYING MESSAGE, AND METHOD FOR EXCHANGING MESSAGE - A user terminal apparatus is provided. The user terminal apparatus includes: a display which displays a map indicating a location of the user terminal apparatus and a location of one other user terminal apparatus, a communicator which receives a message which is input through the one other user terminal apparatus, and a controller which, when the message is received, controls to display the message on a region corresponding to the location of the one other user terminal apparatus on the map. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130326367 | PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE AND SCREEN DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF - It is possible to constantly display a content of a certain IMS while securing as large a display range as possible even in the case of signing in to accounts of a plurality of IMSs, and to confirm the presence of an unread message for another IMS at the same time. A portable terminal device ( | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130332849 | EMAIL CONTENT SHARING - A method and system for email content sharing is described. A method may comprise receiving an email including content. The method may further comprise providing an option available from an email application to share the content on a social network. The method may also comprise receiving an indication, associated with the option available from the email application, to share the content on the social network. The method may additionally comprise sharing the content on the social network by, at least in part, making the content accessible from the social network. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130332850 | PRESENTING E-MAIL ON A TOUCH DEVICE - Messages are presented so as to make effective use of the display area to convey information to the user. For example, message content of primary interest to the user (e.g., new content) can be distinguished from secondary content (e.g., content quoted from a previous message), and the message can be initially displayed with the secondary content hidden using an expandable visual indicator that the user can expand to reveal the secondary content. Different elements within a message, such as textual content and graphical content elements, can be scaled independently using magnification factors optimized for each element. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130332851 | IM Conversation Management - A method and apparatus for managing IM conversations is provided. In response to idle time and, preferably, read message status, particular current conversations are removed from a list of current conversations. The removed conversations may be moved to an archive which may be automatically maintained in response to size constraints. An archive interface is facilitated to review conversations, save all or portions thereof, delete, etc. The archived conversations are preferably associated with the contact for the conversation to show a history of conversations. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130332852 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SERVICE SPECIFIC NOTIFICATION - A flexible, programmable messaging system and method for associating specific happenings with particular services and users associated with those services is disclosed. The contact means for the users are held in a single database with retrievable historical information regarding the user and/or the service. Users and administrators are defined where the user may exercise a group of predetermine privileges. Users may subscribe and un-subscribe to one or more services. The administrator may exercise more privileges or all the privileges, and the additional privileges will include creating messages related to specific happenings, editing of the billing for the service, editing subscription forms, managing the members of a service and tracking the delivery of message. The presentation pages and the messaging format are arranged using templates with predetermined information and formats that may be programmable. The system is arranged in a client/server arrangement where standard servers can be used. The users administrators, and messaging systems include virtually all forms of communications. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20130339873 | Message Payload Editor - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for editing messages via a message-specific user interface. In some implementations, a method may be provided. The method may include receiving, at a user interface, data content of a message corresponding to a business object; presenting, at the user interface, the data content of the message corresponding to the business object, the user interface generated specifically for a type associated with the message; and initiating, at the user interface, at least one of a change and a save to the data content. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20130339874 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, DATA TRANSMISSION DEVICE, DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM, DATA PROCESSING METHOD, AND DATA TRANSMISSION METHOD - Provided is a data processing device including: an acquisition unit which acquires a message and a threshold amount of time for the message; a display unit which displays the message; a user interface which receives instructions for selection of the displayed message; and a management unit which manages the message as a read message, irrespective of whether the user interface has received the instructions, when a threshold amount of time has elapsed since the message is displayed on the display unit. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20140006968 | System and Method for Electronic Contact List-Based Search and Display | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140006969 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING INFORMATIONAL OBJECTS ON MOBILE DEVICES | 01-02-2014 |
| 20140026069 | Method And System For Publishing An Electronic File Attached To An Electronic Message - Publishing content associated with an electronic file attached to an electronic message by executing instructions contained in the electronic attachment and accessing the content at a remote computer server identified by the attached file. The attached file includes computer-executable instructions, such as a computer program or script, which include an identifier for a remote server connected to a distributed computer network. This identified remote server typically hosts a web site containing content for viewing by the recipient of the electronic message. In response to launching the attached file of the electronic message with a viewer program, a browser program can be opened to enable the recipient to view the content of the identified remote server, typically a web site on an intranet or the global Internet. This supports the communication of electronic content by using an electronic message to transport an electronic file attachment having instructions that, when executed by the recipient's computer, enable the recipient to view the electronic content by accessing a server computer connected to distributed computer network. | 01-23-2014 |
| 20140033070 | Graphical User Interface for Recipient Communication - A graphical user interface (GUI) is disclosed. The GUI includes a recipient area having one or more recipient fields to enter one or more recipient electronic mail (email) addresses and a first icon located next to a recipient email address designating a note component associated with a recipient email address. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140033071 | Actionable Reminder Entries - Techniques for processing task items are provided. A task item is electronic data that represents a task to be performed, whether manually or automatically. A task item includes one or more details about its corresponding task, such as a description of the task and a location of the task. Specifically, techniques for generating task items, organizing task items, triggering notifications of task items, and consuming task items are described. In one approach, a task item is generated based on input from a user and context of the input. In another approach, different attributes of task items are used to organize the task items intelligently into multiple lists. In another approach, actions other than the generation of notification are enabled or automatically performed, actions such as entailing, calling, texting, and searching. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140033072 | Method And Apparatus For Notifying Friend - A method for notifying a friend includes configuring a friend notifying input box in a text editing interface; initiating a friend association based on a keyword input by a user and a friend list of the user, according to the keyword input in the friend notifying input box by the user; determining at least one friend to be selected from the friend list of the user according to the keyword; determining at least one friend selected by the user from the at least one friend as at least one target friend; sending a friend notification to the at least one target friend after the user finishes editing a text and posts the text. An apparatus for notifying a friend is provided. | 01-30-2014 |
| 20140040768 | MULTIPE-STAGE INTERFACE CONTROL OF A MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device, such as a mobile communication device, and a method are provided for multiple-stage interface control of the device. The device is provided with a homescreen display, which includes a plurality of panels. The panels include at least one panel that is a fullscreen view of a first application executing on the device. This first application can be a messaging application, and the fullscreen view can be a unified inbox view for a plurality of different message types. The panels also include at least one launch panel having a number of graphical user interface elements, such as icons, representing access points to a corresponding application on the device. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040769 | MULTIPLE-STAGE INTERFACE CONTROL OF A MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device, such as a mobile communication device, and a method are provided for multiple-stage interface control of the device. The device is provided with a homescreen display, which includes a plurality of panels. The panels include at least one panel that is a fullscreen view of a first application executing on the device. This first application can be a messaging application, and the fullscreen view can be a unified inbox view for a plurality of different message types. The panels also include at least one launch panel having a number of graphical user interface elements, such as icons, representing access points to a corresponding application on the device. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040770 | Enhancement of E-Mail Client User Interfaces and E-Mail Message Formats - An enhancement to e-mail user interfaces and message formats includes a dynamic preview window to view and retrieve attachments and summaries of e-mail messages directly in the e-mail list view or inbox view without opening an e-mail message. The efficient viewing mechanism further allows previews without cluttering the listing of the e-mails in the inbox by allowing the client to detect special preview instructions within an e-mail and run executables within the preview window. The enhancement is applicable to standalone e-mail clients (POP or IMAP based) and to web-based e-mail systems. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140040771 | Systems and Methods for Downloading and Viewing Images - A system for displaying images associated with a received electronic message concurrently displays the received electronic message, a view-all-images icon and a respective view icon for each image of a plurality of images attached to the received electronic message as a plurality of distinct attachments. In response to a single user selection of the view-all-images icon, where the user selection of the view-all-images icon is made while the received electronic message and the view-all-images icon are concurrently displayed, the system fetches from a document storage system a single document containing the plurality of images and display the plurality of images contained in the document. In response to user selection of the view icon for a respective image attached to the received electronic message, the system displays the respective image. | 02-06-2014 |
| 20140047353 | EMAIL CONVERSATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - System and methods of searching conversations are provided. At a computing device having one or more processors and memory storing programs executed by the one or more processors, and responsive to a search query a conversation having two or more messages is identified. Further, there is formatted for display to a user (A) information representing the identified conversation, and (B) a sorted sender list displayed as a single-line item, associated with the identified conversation. The sorted sender list includes (i) a first sender identifier identifying a first sender of a first message in the two or more messages, and (ii) a second sender identifier identifying a second sender of a second message in the two or more messages. The first sender list identifier and the second identifier are sorted. | 02-13-2014 |
| 20140053081 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE REAL-TIME DISPLAY OF IMAGES IN CONJUNCTION WITH OBJECTS ON A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE - A system for the real-time displaying of images includes a web server accessed by a plurality of users via a global communication network. The web server has an IP address associated with a domain and the server includes an email address generator providing a unique email address to which a user may send digital images and a mail server receiving email messages. The mail server includes a “catch-all” email account receiving all email for the IP address that does not match an existing email account of the domain and a time based job scheduler initiating checks for any new emails within the “catch-all” email account. The system identifies emails addressed to the unique email address and determines if the email has any valid digital image file attached thereto and then downloads any valid digital image files from the mail server to the web server for viewing by the user on the webpage in real time. | 02-20-2014 |
| 20140059448 | MESSAGE HANDLING METHOD AND TERMINAL SUPPORTING THE SAME - Provided is a message handling function of a terminal and, particularly, a message handling method and a terminal for supporting the same, the message handling method including displaying plural messages, receiving a predetermined input event instructing aggregation of the plural messages, and aggregating at least one of the messages per user identification information to generate per-user aggregated messages according to the input event. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140059449 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING USER INPUT - A method processes a user input according to an identified input mode among a set of input modes. The method for processing an input in a portable device, includes detect a user input from an input region, identifying an input mode from a set of input modes including at least one of a text input, a drawing input, an equation input, and a drawing input, and processing the user input according to the input mode to create a message, wherein the message comprises at least one input content processed according to the identified input mode. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140059450 | COMBINED MESSAGE BOXES - The present application relates to message account linking that allows users to selectively link message accounts and customize those linked message accounts. In one embodiment, the user selects a number of message accounts for selective linking. A message application updates a message account database to selectively link the message accounts and create a combined message box. When a user selects the combined message box for display, all messages from the selectively linked message accounts are displayed. In one embodiment, a user can create multiple combined message boxes on a single device, and may assign names to each of the combined message boxes. In yet another embodiment, an icon associated with a combined message box is added to the device's home screen. | 02-27-2014 |
| 20140068458 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MANAGEMENT OF A MESSAGE AND ATTACHMENT - The present disclosure relates to a message context management method and a terminal performing the method. The message context management method based on an attached file includes: downloading, by a terminal from a host device, messages and attachments to one or more of the messages; generating a message context related to each of the messages and the respective attachments; and displaying the message context related to a file selected from the attachments. | 03-06-2014 |
| 20140075332 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal and a control method thereof capable of receiving an electronic mail. A mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a display unit configured to display an electronic mail being written in an electronic mail writing mode, a controller configured to detect another electronic mail associated with the electronic mail being written, and to control the display unit to display the electronic mail being written in a first screen region and display at least part of the detected electronic mail in a second screen region other than the first screen region. The controller may detect the another electronic mail associated with the electronic mail being written from at least one of an electronic mail received during the writing of the electronic mail and prestored electronic mails. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140075333 | System and Method for Associating Information with a Contact Profile on an Electronic Communication Device - A method is provided for associating information with a contact profile on an electronic communication device. The method comprises enabling content in a first application on a communication device to be selected; enabling selected content to be stored in association with a contact profile for a contact associated with the first application; and making at least a portion of the selected content available to a second application associated with the contact to enable the at least a portion of the selected content to be used with the second application. An electronic communication device and computer readable medium for implementing the method are also provided. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140082520 | Method and System for Gesture- and Animation-Enhanced Instant Messaging - Instant messaging applications of all forms, ranging from standard short-message-service (SMS) text messaging to basic multimedia messaging incorporating sounds and images, to myriad “chat” applications, have become a staple form of communication for millions or billions of phone, computer and mobile device users. The following invention is composed of a set of claims that comprise a novel method and system for an enhanced, more expressive system of messaging that combines text and multimedia (audio, images and video) with a gesture-driven, animated interface especially suited for the newest generation of touch-sensitive mobile device screens. An additional set of claims extends the gesture-driven interface to include “hands-free” spatial-gesture-recognizing-devices which can read and interpret physical hand and body gestures made in the environment adjacent to the device without actual physical contact, as well as adaptations for less-advanced traditional computers with keyboard and mouse. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140082521 | EMAIL AND TASK MANAGEMENT SERVICES AND USER INTERFACE - A system, method, service, user interface, and computer readable medium to integrate email and task management is disclosed. Users are provided with options to convert an email into a task, including one-click command options. Efficient triaging of incoming emails is supported. Integration with different email systems and third party services is also supported. Additionally, context aware operation supports features such as adapting operation for efficient use of mobile device in combination with desktop computers. | 03-20-2014 |
| 20140089814 | METHOD FOR POSTING MICROBLOG TOPIC AND TERMINAL - Described is a method for posting a microblog topic. The method includes: receiving a trigger for an operation of a topic; acquiring a preset default topic; displaying the preset default topic in an input box of a microblog; receiving content to be posted; receiving a trigger for an operation of a post; determining whether a topic currently displayed in the input box of the microblog is the preset default topic; and posting the content to be posted with the preset default topic if the topic currently displayed in the input box of the microblog is determined as the preset default topic. The method is capable of increasing the user's participation in discussing the topic. | 03-27-2014 |
| 20140096032 | CENTRALIZED MEDIA HANDLING - A system is described that includes a media management application for automatically scanning messages in a message inbox and new messages that are sent from or received by the message inbox to identify content, such as pictures, songs, etc., for tagging each message based on content attributes, and for storing the messages and content in a “shoebox” relative to the content attributes. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140096033 | ENHANCEMENTS TO UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS AND MESSAGING SYSTEMS - The invention relates to a system and method of handling a plurality of communications between parties. Novel approaches to the presentation, storage and creation of both real-time and “store and forward” interactions are presented. These make it easier for a user of the system to read and understand what is being communicated, by whom and to whom. This extends beyond the presentation of a single message to sets of related messages. By combining recording of real-time interactions with the presentation and handling of inherently “store and forward” mechanisms, users find it easier to mix and match communication methods optimally for the task at hand. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140096034 | ENHANCEMENTS TO UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS AND MESSAGING SYSTEMS - The invention relates to a system and method of handling a plurality of communications between parties. Novel approaches to the presentation, storage and creation of both real-time and “store and forward” interactions are presented. These make it easier for a user of the system to read and understand what is being communicated, by whom and to whom. This extends beyond the presentation of a single message to sets of related messages. By combining recording of real-time interactions with the presentation and handling of inherently “store and forward” mechanisms, users find it easier to mix and match communication methods optimally for the task at hand. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140101568 | SIMULTANEOUS SHARING COMMUNICATION INTERFACE - A user can share (show) multimedia information while simultaneously communicating (telling) with one or more other users over a network. Multimedia information is received from at least one source. The multimedia information may be manually and/or automatically annotated and shared with other users. The multimedia information may be displayed in an integrated live view simultaneously with other modes of communication, such as video, voice, or text. A simultaneous sharing communication interface provides an immersive experience that lets a user communicate via text, voice, video, sounds, music, or the like, with one or more other users while also simultaneously sharing media such as photos, videos, movies, images, graphics, illustrations, animations, presentations, narratives, music, sounds, applications, files, and the like. The simultaneous sharing interface enables a user to experience a higher level of intimacy in their communication with others over a network. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140101569 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING IMAGES OVER A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - A system and method for creating an electronic icon containing information unique to a particular user including information allowing access with respect to a particular digital media file having the icon associated therewith over a communication network by a third party. | 04-10-2014 |
| 20140115495 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING AND ORGANIZING ELECTRONIC CONTENT - The present disclosure generally relates to processing and organizing electronic content. In accordance with one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided that comprises detecting a user interaction with the user interface and determining if the detected user interaction corresponds to (i) a dragging of at least one electronic message to an empty content stack or (ii) a dragging of at least one electronic message to an existing content stack. The method further comprises generating a new content stack on the user interface, if the detected user interaction corresponds to a dragging of at least one electronic message to an empty content stack, and updating the existing content stack on the user interface, if the detected user interaction corresponds to a dragging of at least one electronic message to the existing content stack. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140115496 | Method and Apparatus for Switching Among Multiple Message Reply Windows - A method and an apparatus for switching among multiple message reply windows. The method includes: presenting multiple message reply windows, where a message reply window placed on the top is used to display a message of a user at a peer end and is further used to receive a reply message for the presented message of the user at the peer end; and automatically switching, according to an ordered queue of the multiple message reply windows, the first message reply window in the ordered queue to the message reply window placed on the top, where the ordered queue is generated by ordering the multiple message reply windows in a customized ordering manner. | 04-24-2014 |
| 20140123024 | PRESENTING INSTANT MESSAGES - Methods and systems for presenting instant messaging contacts are provided in which a plurality of contacts associated with a user are identified. They are formatted for display, in a display region within an instant messaging application. Responsive to a display adjustment to the display region, a contact in the plurality of contacts is identified in accordance with interactions between the user and the contact. Then, automatically, without user intervention, display of the contact within the instant messaging application is terminated. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140123025 | PRESENTING INSTANT MESSAGES - Methods and systems for presenting instant messaging contacts are provided. At a computing device having one or more processors that execute one or more programs stored in memory of the computing device there is obtained, from a first electronic device, a first online status of an instant messaging contact. The instant messaging contact is logged-in, at the first electronic device, with respect to an instant message application. Further there is obtained a second online status of the instant messaging contact from a second electronic device. The instant messaging contact is also logged-in, at the second electronic device, with respect to the instant message application. There is determined, with respect to the instant messaging application, an overall online status for the instant messaging contact using the first online status and the second online status. | 05-01-2014 |
| 20140129961 | TOOL FOR MANAGING USER TASK INFORMATION - The invention includes methods to aid a user in managing massive data flow and multiple tasks in an optimal and productive way. The invention comprises methods for collecting, managing information for tasks, such as notes, email messages, and files in order to provide for fast access to the information and reduce time spent on organizing data. The invention also comprises methods of measurement priorities and methods of visual representation of multiple tasks that may simplify the choices for a user and make decisions more accurately and quicker, build action plans that are simpler and faster vs the existing ways of working. Moreover, the invention includes methods for tracking changes, receiving new information, and archiving obsolete data. Overall, the methods of the invention can optimize a user's workload and help to improve productivity by gaining the biggest value with fewer resources expended. | 05-08-2014 |
| 20140136987 | GENERATION OF A USER INTERFACE BASED ON CONTACTS - Methods of generating a user interface based on content associated with one or more contacts are provided. In a messaging application, such as email, SMS, chat, or the like, an indication of a message in a conversation (e.g., an icon or some other graphic indicating the receipt of a new message) may be displayed. The conversation can be associated with one or more contacts engaged in the conversation. User input may be received that selects the indication of the message. In response, one or more contacts associated with the conversation may be determined. The conversation may be displayed over a background associated with the one or more contacts. For example, the first conversation may be displayed over a contact image associated with one of the contacts. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140136988 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SWITCHING DATA ADD-POSITIONS-TO CARRY DATA IN EMAIL - A method and apparatus for switching a data add region between a mail body region within an email and a file attach region within the email are provided. The method includes selecting, in response to a user input, one of data of an attached file from the file attach region and mail body data from the mail body regiont; receiving a data add region switching request; determining a data add region in response to the data add region switching request; and adding the selected data in the determined data add region. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140136989 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING MESSAGE, AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING MESSAGE IN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method usable by an electronic device displays in display image, content of a plurality of transmitted and received conversation messages. In an aspect, the messages may be displayed for an individual date, sequentially collated by date and time. In response to at least one detected touch on a touch screen, the method may compress at least one of (a) the transmitted or (b) received, conversation messages and displays an image element representing at least one of the compressed conversation messages. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140136990 | SYSTEM FOR AND METHOD OF EMBEDDING RICH MEDIA INTO TEXT MESSAGES - While texting, a user is able access, share, and control rich media without leaving the texting application. The rich media are provided directly within the executing texting application. The texting application includes an embedded widget for controlling the rich media. Rich media includes, among other things, video clips, streaming audio, a map application, a movie-time application, a social movie-site application, a dynamically controllable image, or promotional media. Different mobile devices executing the texting applications communicate through a server that allows additional functionality, such as syncing the play of video clips and hosting and pushing the promotional media. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140136991 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING MESSAGE THEREOF - A method for transmitting a message in the display apparatus includes, when a command is input from a user, displaying a user interface (UI) for generating a message, registering message information including message contents and an object to receive the message using the UI, and when the object to receive the message is identified, outputting the message contents. | 05-15-2014 |
| 20140143681 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING USER-SELECTED CONTENT - A method and system for enabling, via conventional web browser controls, a user to generate and send an internet document including user-generated highlights are disclosed. The user-generated highlights included in the internet document embedded in the email are highlights that were previously made via a highlighting service. Accordingly, the recipient of the internet document receives a copy of an internet document including highlights, and need not install any special software to view the highlighted portions of the internet document. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140143682 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TOUCH-BASED COMMUNICATIONS - Disclosed is a system and method for an interactive communication experience on mobile devices. In general, the present disclosure discusses dynamically manipulating or modifying graphic user representations during an electronic communication. The modification or manipulation of these graphic user representations enables users to convey nuances of mood and feelings rather than being confined to conveying them through conventional communications, including text, images, video, or selecting an appropriate emoticon or avatar from a palette of predetermined emoticons or avatars. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140143683 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ORGANIZING MESSAGES - A system and method for sorting messages within an interface including providing a navigational menu with at least three menu options of at least three message collections, the menu options ordered according to an ordered horizontal virtual arrangement of a set of message collections; upon receiving user selection of one of the menu options, activating the message collection corresponding to the user selected menu option, which comprises—displaying the message collection of the selected menu option and virtually positioning the remaining set of message collections off screen; within the active message collection of the set of message collections, detecting a gesture swipe in a horizontal direction; selecting a sorting option corresponding to a message collection virtually positioned in the horizontal direction relative to the active message collection; and transferring the message to the message collection of the selected sorting option. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140143684 | MESSAGE-BASED CONVERSATION OPERATION METHOD AND MOBILE TERMINAL SUPPORTING THE SAME - A message-based conversation operation method and a mobile terminal supporting the same are disclosed. The method includes detecting user input for one or more messages, assigning contextual information to the messages according to the user input and storing the contextual information, and outputting a new display mode for the messages according to the contextual information. | 05-22-2014 |
| 20140149884 | User-Based Interactive Elements - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a computing device of a first user, an indication of a message to the first user from a second user. The computing device provides for persistent display to the first user an interactive element indicating that the first user has a message from the second user. The interactive element is configured to function and to be displayed independent of and without altering the activity of an application already open on the computing device that the first user is interacting with. The interactive element is further configured to continue to be displayed until the computing device receives first user input selecting the interactive element or second user input dismissing the interactive element. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20140157148 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF LINKING SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE APPLICATION - A method for enabling easy access to an application linked to contact information is provided. The method includes retrieving a substitute contact means or available applications for contact information of a message while a text messaging screen is being displayed, displaying respective indicators of at least one application with the message, and turning to a running screen of an application that corresponds to a selected indicator. By doing this, a user may easily run the substitute contact means or associated application without leaving the text messaging screen while using the text messaging. It thus gives an advantage of effectively guaranteeing continuity of conversation from the perspective of the user. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140157149 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD - An information processing apparatus according to embodiments includes: a comment acquisition unit for acquiring a comment of a viewer for a program from an external posting site to which a comment, which is feedback on the content of a program, is instantly posted; and a comment displaying unit for displaying the comment acquired by the comment acquisition unit in a live information display area located below an image display screen for displaying an image of the program. The comment displaying unit scroll-displays, in a horizontal direction, a comment acquired by the comment acquisition unit in either a first lane or a second lane of the live information display area. | 06-05-2014 |
| 20140164946 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTIVELY TAGGING RECEIVED MESSAGES - A method and system for selectively tagging received messages is described herein. The method may include the step of delivering a message to a first recipient and a second recipient such that the first recipient receives a copy of the message and the second recipient receives a copy of the message. The method may also include the step of receiving a save command from the first recipient in which the save command is a directive to save the copy of the delivered message received by the first recipient in a database that provides access rights to both the first recipient and the second recipient. In response to the copy of the delivered message received by the first recipient being saved in the database, the copy of the delivered message received by the second recipient can be tagged with a save indicator to enable the second recipient to determine that the delivered message has been saved in the database. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164947 | COLLABORATIVE ARBITRATION OF POLLING RESULTS IN A COLLABORATIVE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT - Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to arbitrating polling results and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for collaborative arbitration of polling results in a collaborative environment. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for collaborative arbitration of polling results in a collaborative environment can be provided. The method can include placing a poll within a message and sending the message to a select group of collaborators in the collaborative environment. The method further can include receiving poll results from a collaborator in the select group in a reply to the message, extracting the poll results from the reply and placing the poll within a new message along with the extracted poll results. Thereafter, the new message can be sent to the select group. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164948 | REMOTE COLLABORATIVE DIAGNOSIS METHOD AND SYSTEM USING MESSENGER-BASED MEDICAL IMAGE SHARING SCHEME - Disclosed are a messenger-based medical image sharing method and system. The messenger-based medical image sharing system includes a first viewer configured to include a messenger, and to transmit information about a link to a first medical image displayed on a screen via this messenger; a second viewer configured to include a messenger, and receive the information about a link from the first viewer via this messenger, thereby sharing the first medical image, and a medical image server configured to provide the first medical image corresponding to the information about a link to the second viewer. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164949 | EMAIL USER INTERFACE - Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems receive a reply or forward command for a selected email message in an email user interface, determine that the email user interface is in full screen mode and that the selected email message is at least partially outside of a visible area of the email user interface, and display a composition window in response to the command, wherein the displaying includes a sequence of images to create the illusion of the composition window sliding up from the bottom of the screen. In an example, a user interface includes a collapsible panel of mailboxes and folders, and a separate and independent favorites bar including a plurality of the mailboxes and folders. One of the mailboxes and folders in the favorites bar may be a hierarchical folder that includes a subfolder that is accessible via a drop down menu from the hierarchical folder in the favorites bar. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140164950 | EXTENDED USER INTERFACE FOR EMAIL COMPOSITION - Method and apparatus for composing an email to be sent by a mobile device is disclosed. A screen including one or more fields for receiving user input to define a content of the email is adapted to expand at least a one of the fields to present additional options to define the content. | 06-12-2014 |
| 20140173457 | BROWSING ELECTRONIC MESSAGES DISPLAYED AS TILES - Electronic messages are displayed as tiles. A tile may include a background related to the electronic message. For example, the background of a tile may be a preview of an attachment to the message. When the message includes an attachment (e.g. document, picture, link . . . ), an overlay is displayed over the background. The overlay includes information relating to the electronic message (i.e. subject, sender, time, message preview . . . ). When the message does not include an attachment then the tile may include all/portion of the content of the electronic message. For example, the tile may include the subject, sender, time stamp, and message content. A user may switch between different browsing experiences (e.g. conversation view, list view, strip view, . . . ). When a tile represents a conversation each sender within the conversation may be displayed on a tile along with a preview of the messages of the conversation (i.e. the most recent message). | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140173458 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SHARING EVENT INFORMATION USING ICONS - An apparatus includes at least one processor, at least one display controlled by the processor, and at least one wireless transceiver communicating with the processor. The processor is configured to send, to at least one recipient, a message including data representing at least one non-alphanumeric who icon representing a person. The message also includes data representing at least one non-alphanumeric what icon representing an event and/or activity, as well as at least one non-alphanumeric when icon representing a time associated with the event and/or activity. | 06-19-2014 |
| 20140181687 | Method and Apparatus for Processing Contact Information - Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for processing contact information. The method includes: receiving an instant message from a peer end; determining whether the instant message includes a contact keyword related to local contact information; if the instant message includes a contact keyword related to local contact information, determining to prompt a user to send contact information corresponding to content of the instant message in the local contact information to the peer end. The method and the apparatus for processing contact information provided by the embodiments of the present invention can improve efficiency in processing contact information. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140181688 | Method and System for Embedded Personalized Communication - A method and system for embedded personalized communication have been disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises providing software code to be embedded in a webpage. The webpage is loaded including the software code. A configuration file is fetched from a configuration server in response to the software code. A first instant messaging user interface is rendered on the webpage. A request is sent to a web-based instant messaging server, the request initiating an instant messaging session with a second instant messaging user interface. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140181689 | Electronic Message Content and Header Restrictive Recipient Handling System and Method - An electronic messaging system and method with reduced traceability. Separate displays are provided at a recipient user device for separately displaying via the user device header information of an electronic message and message content including a media component. The display of the header information does not display the media component and the display of the message content does not display a username associated with the header information. The message content including the media component are automatically deleted after being displayed such that after the display of the message content is terminated from view, the message content including the media component is no longer available to a recipient user. | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140181690 | CONTEXTUAL BASED COMMUNICATION METHOD AND USER INTERFACE - The present disclosure is directed towards automatically determining a context of an communication which is to be sent to a first user ( | 06-26-2014 |
| 20140189528 | MESSAGE TRANSFER SYSTEM INCLUDING DISPLAY DEVICE, MOBILE DEVICE AND MESSAGE TRANSFER METHOD THEREOF - A display device is provided, which includes a memory which stores a plurality of templates which are differently set according to kinds of messages, a detector which detects different pieces of status information, a display which displays a message transfer screen, a controller which automatically generates a message through combination of at least one of the plurality of templates and at least one of the different pieces of status information, which respectively correspond to a selected kind of message, when the kind of message to be transferred is selected on the message transfer screen, and a communicator which transfers the message to an external device. Accordingly, the display device can conveniently transfer the generated message. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140195928 | Return to Sender - In some implementations, a return to sender option can be invoked from within a file editing application when a user has edited a file received as a message attachment. The user can select a file attached to a message from within a messaging application. A file editor can be invoked to open and edit the file. The user can select a return to sender option from within the file editor. In response to the selection of the return to sender option, the edited file can be automatically saved, a reply message can be automatically generated and the edited file can be automatically attached to the reply message. | 07-10-2014 |
| 20140208227 | AGGREGATE AND HIERARCHICAL DISPLAY OF GROUPED ITEMS SPANNING MULTIPLE STORAGE LOCATIONS - Techniques for the aggregate and hierarchical display of grouped items spanning multiple storage locations are described. Some techniques may aggregate items in response to user input identifying a scope for item retrieval. The user input may identify a scope such as selection of a local storage location or a search query for retrieving items. The aggregated items may span multiple storage locations and include items within the identified scope and related items outside the identified scope. A group of aggregated items are presented in a hierarchical display within a user interface. The hierarchical display may visually differentiate items inside and outside of the identified scope, and may identify parent-child relationship between related items. An aggregate header for the group of aggregated items may be displayed indicating total items in the group and a status for items in the group within the identified scope. Other embodiments are described and claimed. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140208228 | Location Sensitive Messaging - Methods including computer program products for receiving a request from a first device, the request incorporating a message. One or more users from a first set of one or more users are selected where each of the selected one or more users is associated with a second device that is in a proximity to a current location of the first device. The message and the current location of the first device are sent to each of the second devices associated with the selected one or more users. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140208229 | COMMUNICATIONS GROUPED AS CONVERSATIONS - Described are embodiments for displaying groups of communications, such as messages, as a conversation. Conversations are groups of communications that can be traced back as related to an original communication. The embodiments allow a user to select a conversation mode for displaying communications, e.g., messages, as conversations. In response to the user's selection, embodiments provide for displaying a graphical element associated with a conversation. The graphical element can be selected to display the messages associated with the conversation. Additionally, embodiments provide for selecting a conversation and applying actions to the conversation, resulting in the application of the action to the messages that are associated with the conversation. | 07-24-2014 |
| 20140215352 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PINNABLE CHAT MESSAGE - A user interface for chat sessions. A user may designate, or pin, one or more messages sent or received during a chat session to be displayed for the duration of the chat session, while other messages may scroll off of the top of the chat window transcription area. Designated messages may be displayed, for example, at the top or bottom of the transcription area, or in a separate window. | 07-31-2014 |
| 20140223332 | INFORMATION TRANSMITTING METHOD, DEVICE AND TERMINAL - An information transmitting method is applied to a first electronic device, and the first electronic device stores at least one piece of contact information in a contact information set. The method includes: determining a first object and a second object, wherein the first object is determined after a display unit displays the first object, the second object is determined after the display unit displays at least a first part of the contact information set, the first object corresponds to first information, the second object corresponds to second information, and the second information is second contact information; determining transmission information in accordance with the first information corresponding to the first object; determining a transmission parameter in accordance with the second contact information corresponding to the second object; and transmitting the transmission information to a second electronic device by utilizing the determined transmission parameter. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140237380 | Online shared calendar application that facilitates communication and coordination of shared events amongst users and their contacts - An online shared calendar application which facilitates communication, coordination and scheduling for users to plan get-togethers and share event information with others. Users have their own personal calendars and can upload and/or manually enter their contacts' information, create and share events, and invite or inform individuals from their contacts to their events. Inviting/sharing events automatically e-mails these contacts and updates their calendars with the event. Contacts who were invited/informed respond from their calendars. These responses send immediate and automated e-mails to the inviter and update the inviter's calendar. Thus, this is an online, shared calendar application that facilitates the sharing and coordination of events among users' contacts. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140237381 | Interactive Live Political Events - An interactive political event allows clients to provide feedback to political candidates speakers and/or event producers relative to the event being observed. Feedback options include shout outs, emotapplause, and voting. Ticket scarcity management system adjusts event marketing, and/or ticketed sales methodologies, which include free and paid to maintain optimal conditions for an interactive political event. Multiple video/audio streams of an interactive event are simultaneously distributed as part of a broadcast to enable switching between streams by the online audience members and/or users without interruption of the presentation of the event and may include additional data relative to a candidates and/or speakers history and/or position with respect to issues being debated and/or discussed. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140237382 | USER INTERFACES AND ASSOCIATED PROCESSES IN EMAIL COMMUNICATION - Methods and systems are disclosed for user interfaces and associated processes in email communication. In some embodiments, information such as address-context information of an email message is rendered to aid the user in various user interface scenarios. These scenarios include user interfaces for the Reply All command and the Send command. A Prompt is provided on the user interface in some embodiments for the usage of commands such as the Reply All command and Send command. The activation of the Reply All command in some embodiments is enabled with a predefined gesture on the user interface that is different from that used for other commands such as the Reply command. In other embodiments the gesture required for the activation of the Send command is changed based on the command that was activated to create the email message to be sent. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140237383 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HANDLING A MESSAGE - A system for handling automated messages from a travel supplier includes a messaging client configured to receive an automated message generated by a remote travel supplier. The message comprises a link to a web address for completing a travel action associated with the link. A parsing unit configured to extract the link from the automated message, identify the travel action associated with the link, and store the extracted link and a representation of the travel action in a non-volatile memory device. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140237384 | Microblog information publishing method, server and storage medium - A microblog information publishing method, a server and a storage medium are described, which pertain to the technical field of networks. The method includes: acquiring information to be published of a first user, which includes information contents and an information notification object account; and publishing the information contents through the information notification object account. The server includes an acquiring module and a publishing module. A service for users to publish a message anonymously is provided, namely, the information is published through an anonymous account without displaying the original publisher, so that the privacy of the user is better protected and the microblog service becomes three-dimensional and diversified. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140237385 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING NOTIFICATIONS ON A MOBILE COMPUTING DEVICE - A system and method for providing notifications on a mobile computing device are disclosed. The method comprises enabling multiple applications that operate on the mobile computing device to generate notifications in response to event occurrences. A plurality of notification representations are presented in a notification bar on the display. The plurality of notification representations are individually generated by a corresponding application in response to an event occurrence. The plurality of notification representations are represented in a first portion of the notification bar and with a number that represents how many notification representations from an application have been generated and not dismissed by a user. | 08-21-2014 |
| 20140245174 | Device and Method for Generating Message Item Display Data - A device is described. The device comprises a processor configured to communicate with a display and detect a user selection indicative of a message items view. The processor, in response to the detected user selection, is further configured to obtain message data items via a message application executable on the device; arrange the message data items in a two-dimensional scheme; generate display data of the two-dimensional scheme of message data items for display; and output the generated data to the display. A method for a device is also described. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140245175 | Method, Apparatus and Computer Readable Medium for Providing a Graphical Representation of File Attachments - A method is disclosed comprising generating, using computing apparatus, in relation to a repository of computer-readable messages accessible by the computing apparatus, a graphical representation for display using a display device of a list of file attachments attached to said messages. The listed file attachments are grouped by the messages to which they are respectively attached. Each list entry may correspond to the attachments of one message. Computer apparatus configured to implement the method, and computer-readable medium comprising instructions capable of causing computing apparatus to carry out the method are also disclosed | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140245176 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING EMAIL MESSAGES - A computing device and method for displaying content such as email messages in a user interface including email message cards. Email messages in an email mailbox are accessed. The email messages are configured into a graphical display format, where the display format includes email message cards, each email message card representing a respective email message in the mailbox and including a portion of email contents of the email message. The graphical display format is communicated to a display device for display of the configured message cards. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140245177 | GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR ENTERING MULTI-CHARACTER EXPRESSIONS - A system and method for receiving user input via a graphical user interface (GUI) to generate message text on an electronic communication device comprising a touch-sensitive electronic display. The touch-sensitive electronic display provides the user with a message composition interface. This message composition interface comprises a virtual alphanumeric keyboard having keys configured to receive a user input for composing message text character-by-character. The message composition interface is modified to display to the user an appropriate GUI module comprising graphical representations of predefined multi-character expressions. A user interaction with at least one of said graphical representations of the GUI module specifies at least one of said multi-character expressions. Text associated with the user-specified multi-character expression is inserted into the message as a result. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20140250387 | METHOD FOR ADJUSTING NAVIGATION FRAME, NAVIGATION APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A method for adjusting a navigation frame, a navigation apparatus, and a recording medium are provided. In the method, a navigation frame is displayed on a screen of a device in a form of a three-dimensional picture. When an event is received, the angle of view of the navigation frame is adjusted to make the size of the navigation frame reduce and a window corresponding to the event is displayed in an area of the screen that is emptied due to the reduction of the navigation frame. | 09-04-2014 |
| 20140258883 | NOTIFICATION CLASSIFICATION AND DISPLAY - A method can include receiving, by a notification module operable by a computing device, an instruction to generate a contextual notification and notification information associated with the instruction. The method also cam include generating, by the notification module and in response to receiving the instruction, a notification object. In some examples, the method can include assigning, by the notification module and based on the notification information, the notification object to at least one notification class from a plurality of notification classes. The example method can also include generating, by the computing device and based at least in part on the at least one notification class to which the notification object is assigned, the contextual notification by populating the notification object with the notification information; and outputting the contextual notification in a manner based at least in part on the at least one notification class. | 09-11-2014 |
| 20140282079 | DISPLAYING MESSAGE CONTENT DIFFERENTIAL IN POPUP WINDOW - A difference between a source email message and at least one target email message is determined and then displayed in a popup window. A first selected message in a message thread is designated as a source message. The thread is searched for a target message that comprises a next oldest message in the thread. Identifying data in the source message is compared to identifying data in the target message for generating difference data. Content of both the source message and target message is also compared. A popup window is generated over the target message and the content difference is displayed in the popup window. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140282080 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS OF SHARING DIGITAL FILES - Methods and systems for sharing digital information, such as photos, that include creating a viewable medium or website associated with an event using a computer interface. An identification module is provided at the website or other viewable medium that generates a unique event identifier that may be provided to or received by a plurality of individuals. Photos or other digital files or information relating to the event can then be communicated to the website or viewable medium by the individuals via user devices such that a subset of the information may be accessed at a remote computing interface e.g., by utilizing the event identifier. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140282081 | Consistent Interface for Email Activity Business Object - A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to an email activity business object. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140282082 | Consistent Interface for Appointment Activity Business Object - A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to an appointment activity business object. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140282083 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING CHAT SESSIONS IN A CONTACT CENTER - A network call center system has a Unified Communication and Collaboration (UCC) device coupled to a communication network for managing incoming and outgoing calls. The UCC device connects a first user with a second user. The UCC device generates a screen on a communication device of the second user wherein the screen having a chat window to display communication between the first user and the second user. The screen further has a first function icon which when selected allows a third user to see the chat window and the communication between the first user and the second user. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140282084 | Systems and Methods For Displaying a Digest of Messages or Notifications Without Launching Applications Associated With the Messages or Notifications - In one embodiment, a method includes displaying a digest of messages and notifications without launching applications associated with the messages or notifications, receiving a user input selecting an interactive element in the digest corresponding to a message or notification, displaying the message or notification corresponding to the selected interactive element without launching the application associated with the message or notification, receiving a second user input interacting with the message or notification, executing a messaging or notification function corresponding to the interaction without launching the application associated with the message or notification. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140282085 | METHOD FOR DISPLAYING A GRAPHIC INTERFACE WITH MESSAGE/NOTIFICATION, APPARATUS, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - Disclosure is related to a method for displaying a graphic interface with message/notification, an apparatus, and a computer-readable storage device. It is featured that a graphic interface is displayed on a screen of a mobile device for showing one or more messages/notifications in one limited area. This interface allows a user to preview the message before clicking the link. After that, the full content can be read while the link is opened. The method includes firstly parsing the received message/notification and retrieving the content, format, and the correlated software program. Based on numbers, formats and the correlated software programs of the messages, the content displayed onto a graphic interface is arranged. On the graphic interface, one or more preview content of the messages/notifications having profiles of specifying one or more software programs are provided for the user to click for viewing the full content. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140282086 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND APPARATUS - The present disclosure relates to an information processing method and information processing apparatus applicable to a first electronic device comprising a first application. The information processing method comprises receiving a first information sent from a second electronic device and associated with the first application in a process of the first electronic device being in communication with the second electronic device through the first application; receiving a second information sent from the second electronic device; and displaying the first information and the second information; wherein the first information is different from the second information, the first information includes communication information, and the second information includes information acquired by the second electronic device being in response to a detection of a predetermined operation or state on the second electronic device. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140289643 | MESSAGE PREVIEW CONTROL - Embodiments of the invention relate generally to computing devices and systems, as well as software, computer programs, applications, and user interfaces, and more particularly, to systems, devices and methods to facilitate message preview control. For example, the method may include generating representations for messages to present on an interface, and detecting selection of the representation for the message. Further, the method can include presenting preview information for the message, which can be an electronic facsimile. The representations for the messages can include a representation for an electronic facsimile, as well as a voice message and an email. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140289644 | DELIVERY AND MANAGEMENT OF STATUS NOTIFICATIONS FOR GROUP MESSAGING - Communication devices, computer readable media and methods are provided for managing a group messaging session. A graphical user interface comprising a conversation window and a multiplicity of avatars is displayed. Each avatar represents one of a multiplicity of group members. Responsive to transmission of a multicast message from a sending communication device for delivery to the multiplicity of group members, a first status update message indicating delivery of the multicast message to a corresponding receiving communication device for each group member is received. Responsive to receiving the status update message, a delivery notification for each of the multiplicity of group members is displayed. The notification is associated with a corresponding one of the avatars. Further, a second status update message indicating that the multicast message was read at a corresponding receiving communication device is received and a read notification for each of the multiplicity of group members is displayed. | 09-25-2014 |
| 20140298196 | INFORMATION SHARING SYSTEM, INFORMATION SHARING METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM - A generating unit of an information sharing system generates, in a case where one of a plurality of users enters a comment, notice information for notifying the other users of a notification of the comment. When the user who enters the comment specifies a destination of the comment, a destination associating unit associates destination identifying information for identifying the specified destination with the notice information. A display information generating unit generates display information for displaying, on a display unit of the user, a screen on which the notification of the comment that specifies the user as the destination is distinguished from the notification of the comment that does not specify the user as the destination, based on the notice information and the destination identifying information. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140298197 | METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING MESSAGE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF - A method and an apparatus for transmitting a message in an electronic device are provided. The method for transmitting a hidden message includes displaying one or more hiding frames in an input message display area of a display, and transmitting a message including information on the hiding frame. | 10-02-2014 |
| 20140304613 | Method And Apparatus For Facilitating Message Selection And Organization - One or more messages may be selected and grouped and one or more group-level actions may be initiated for the group, such that the group-level action is performed on each message in the group. Each message in a group shares the at least one attribute value. A messaging user interface may comprise a listing of the set of messages and a message group display portion that displays one or more message groups and a group-level toolbar comprising a selectable indicator for each group-level action. A message, or messages, shown in a message list portion of the user interface may be selected from the message list based on similarity of the message(s) to previously selected messages, and the selected message(s) may be grouping based on shared attribute values. The messages belonging to a group may be modified in the same way via a single action taken on the group. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140304614 | Plotting emails into a predetermined visual map - Coordinate information for an element of a project map comprises a user-selectable logistical indicator selected from a plurality of logistical indicators, each representing a different a manner of handling a project component and each uniquely represented by a predetermined visual indicium. The coordinate information, the map element and the logistical indicator are associated with electronic information. Using coordinate information provided by users, the map is displayed the predetermined visual indicia associated with the logistical indicators of the coordinate information plotted on the map elements. Each plotted visual indicium is selectable by a user to display at least a portion of the electronic information associated with the logistical indicator represented by that predetermined visual indicia. The result is to an electronic information management tool which provides a visual overview of the logistical indicators that have been selected by users for map components. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140304615 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING MESSAGE SELECTION AND ORGANIZATION WITH GROUP-LEVEL ACTIONS - One or more messages may be selected and grouped and one or more group-level actions may be initiated for the group, such that the group-level action is performed on each message in the group. Each message in a group shares the at least one attribute value. A messaging user interface may comprise a listing of the set of messages and a message group display portion that displays one or more message groups and a group-level toolbar comprising a selectable indicator for each group-level action. A message, or messages, shown in a message list portion of the user interface may be selected from the message list based on similarity of the message(s) to previously selected messages, and the selected message(s) may be grouping based on shared attribute values. The messages belonging to a group may be modified in the same way via a single action taken on the group. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140304616 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING NOTIFICATION INFORMATION - Provided is a terminal and method for processing received notification information. A mobile terminal to process notification information includes a receiver to receive first notification data associated with a first application installed in a mobile terminal, a processor to extract identification information for identifying a target of the first notification data, and to generate a first notification list item by grouping the first notification data with second notification data based on the identification information, and a display screen to display notification list items including the first notification list item on a notification panel. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140304617 | Information Prompt Method, Apparatus and Terminal Device - Embodiments of the present invention provide an information prompt processing method, apparatus, and terminal device. The information prompt processing method includes: identifying a contact keyword contained in body content edited in an editing interface; extracting from a contact database at least one piece of contact information corresponding to the contact keyword, generating at least one editing operation according to the contact information and an operation command for the contact information, and displaying the at least one editing operation in the editing interface for a user to select; and executing the operation command for the contact information corresponding to the editing operation according to the selection of the user. The operation process in the embodiments of the present invention is simple, and the operation efficiency when the user adds contact information is improved. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140325385 | METHODS AND INSTANT MESSAGING CLIENT DEVICES FOR PERFORMING IM USING MENU OPTION - This disclosure provides an IM method and an IM client device. In the method, menu options are deployed on a session interface displayed on a viewing screen of an IM client device. The method includes generating, by an IM client device, a first event request when a user clicks on a first menu option on the session interface; sending, by the IM client device, the first event request to a third-party server via an IM server; and receiving, by the IM client device, a first event response from the third-party server via the IM server. With the technical scheme of the present disclosure, more personalized services may be provided to the user. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140325386 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS CONTROL METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus is provided that inputs a plurality of mail files generated by a mail application, displays a mail body text and an attached file included in the respective mail files, selects at least one of the mail body text and the attached file that is to be incorporated in an electronic binder from among the displayed mail body text and the displayed attached file included in the respective mail files, and creates the electronic binder based on the mail body text or the attached file selected by the selection unit. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140325387 | METHOD AND DEVICE TO SIMPLIFY MESSAGE COMPOSITION - A method and device to simplify message reply composition on a communications device, using a partially transparent overlay to allow a user to freely scroll and move around to other sections of a message or message chain while still being able to see and edit the reply being composed. When the reply is scrolled such that the composition field is not visible on the display screen, the device displays the overlay when the user enters text or on user request. The user may then type text into the overlay while viewing the underlying portion of the reply message, such as previous messages in the string. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140325388 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED NETWORK BASED DIALOGUES - Systems and methods for personalizing dialogues are disclosed. A dialog system can provide a user interface to allow a first user to specify a second user to participate in an automated dialog, a specific response option, and a maximum time period for responding. The dialog system can send a message to the second user with the specific response option. The dialog system can branch the dialog based on the occurrence of an event or combination of events occurring in conjunction the second user. In a first branch, the dialog system is configured to send a second communication to the second user using a second communications channel, the second communication containing the specific response option. In a second branch, the dialog system is further configured to execute a third instruction associated with the dialog. | 10-30-2014 |
| 20140331148 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING E-MAIL MESSAGES - A method for displaying e-mail messages to a user of an e-mail message viewer comprises displaying a list of received e-mail messages with a list entry for each received email message and displaying binary information indicating the read/unread status of each received email message in the list. The read/unread status information of each received first email message is switched from “unread” to “read” when the text and/or attachments of this particular first e-mail message have been displayed at least partially to the user when opening this particular first e-mail message. The read/unread status information of each received second email message is switched from “unread” to “read” when the text and/or attachments of this particular second e-mail message have been displayed at least partially to the user when opening a particular first e-mail message. | 11-06-2014 |
| 20140337756 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USER INTERACTION BASED ON LICENSE OR OTHER IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION - Methods and systems for facilitating user interaction are described. One such method includes receiving, from a first user device, identification information associated with a targeted user and retrieving, from a database, contact information associated with the identification information. The method may further include providing the contact information to the first user device to facilitate communication between the first user device and a user device of the targeted user and/or providing a message to the user device of the targeted user. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140337757 | PRESENTATION OF MESSAGES IN MULTI-SECTIONED VIEWS - Systems and methods for presenting electronic messages are provided. In some implementations, a method includes, at a computing device having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors, (A) causing to be concurrently displayed in an E-mail application (i) a first view of a message folder that includes one or more electronic messages and (ii) a user interface control indicating one or more alternate views are available for the message folder, wherein the user interface control persistently indicates the availability of the one or more alternative views and (B) hiding the user interface control, without user intervention, responsive to the occurrence of a predetermined system event. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20140344709 | RULE-BASED MESSAGING AND DIALOG ENGINE - One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for generating a message. During operation, the system receives user interaction event data. The user interaction event data describes explicit or implicit interactions of a user with a web application and/or mobile application. Next, the system modifies a graph describing the user's current context associated with the user based on an analysis of the user interaction event data, as interpreted by the system learning from previous processing of user interaction event data. The context graph includes information about the user's state, behavior, and interests, and some or all portions of the context graph may be shared between users. The system determines a set of rules associated with a group of users that includes the user, and then applies the determined set of rules to any context graph associated with the user to generate the message. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344710 | PRESENTING ACTION MENUS IN VIEWING PANES - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for implementing enhanced menu presentation technology. In at least one implementation, a user interface to a personal information service is presented by a suitable computing system. The user interface includes a viewing pane and an information panel in which various personal information items may be organized. In response to a selection of any of the personal information items for viewing, content associated with the item is presented in the viewing pane. In addition, in response to an identification of an action group that includes multiple ones of the personal information items, an action menu is presented in at least a portion of a space in the user interface occupied by the viewing pane. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344711 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR GRAPHICAL INDICATOR OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - A number of unread messages having a time of reception within a time interval can be determined. A number of read messages having a time of reception within the time interval can also be determined. A number of unseen messages may also be determined. A graphical indicator can be output to represent the number of unread messages relative to the number of received messages. The graphical indicator can show a proportion of the number of unread messages to a total number of messages received within the time interval and can also show a proportion of the number of read messages to the total number. The graphical indicator may further show a proportion of the number of unseen messages to the total number of messages. A group of message indicators of unseen messages can be displayed as separated from message indicators of other messages by a gap. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344712 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, PART GENERATING AND USING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a part generation unit configured to generate a part that is suitable for a predetermined application and that includes at least a portion of any photo and is displayed on a display screen at a time of execution of the application, and an application control unit configured to control the execution of the application and at least display the part on the display screen during the execution of the application. | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140344713 | PERSONALIZATION OF A MESSAGE INTERFACE - The invention proposes the management of a graphical user interface for a messaging application on a terminal receiving a message from a first user (A), according to the following steps:
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| 20140344714 | DISPLAY DEVICE, INFORMATION TERMINAL DEVICE, DISPLAY METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information terminal device ( | 11-20-2014 |
| 20140351713 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR UPDATING COMMUNICATION REPRESENTATIONS BASED ON ACTIVITY LEVEL - An electronic device outputs on a display a plurality of communication representations. Each of the communication representations is associated with a different communication history between at least two electronic devices. The electronic device updates on the display at least one communication representation of the plurality of communication representations when an activity level associated with the at least one communication representation meets a threshold. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140351714 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING AN EXTERNAL-SYSTEM VIEW OF EMAIL ATTACHMENTS - A method and email application enable email attachments to be viewed through a system external to the email application itself in accordance with select categories. The email application creates categories and categorizes the email attachments according to such categories. The email application then maps the categories into a format understandable by the external system for category information and provides the mapped categories to the external system in such format. In response to receiving a request from the external system for the contents of one of the mapped categories and in response to such category having no further subcategories, the email application identifies the email attachments under such category and maps the identified email attachments to file names. The file names are then provided to the external system as the contents of such category. If the external system requests the contents of a category that has further subcategories, the email application maps the subcategories into a format understandable to the external system and provides such subcategories to the external system as the contents of such category. | 11-27-2014 |
| 20140359479 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTO-ADJUST POSITIONING OF PREFERRED CONTENT FOR INCREASED CLICK AND CONVERSION RATES - A computer-implemented user notification method includes displaying, at user-accessible locations on a graphical display of a mobile device, notifications corresponding to user interest, preference, and frequency of interaction with particular applications or activities on the mobile device. By increasing ease of interaction with particular notifications and advertisements that are of increased importance and relevance for the user, a higher click through and conversion rate is anticipated. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140359480 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTEXTUAL MAIL RECOMMENDATIONS - An email system that enables users to request for and receive recommended messages which are relevant and contextually related to a received message via activation of a user interface element is disclosed. When a message is received, it is analyzed and keywords relevant to the received message along with named entities comprised in the received message are retrieved and stored. Upon activation of a user interface element, the relevant keywords are employed to retrieve other similar messages which are grouped into clusters. The clusters are further ranked based on their relevance to the received message and the top ranked messages from the most relevant cluster are selected for display to the user as the messages that are contextually relevant to the received message. The email system also facilitates execution of batch operations on the contextually relevant messages. | 12-04-2014 |
| 20140365914 | DETERMINING MESSAGE DATA TO PRESENT - Determining message data to present based on a message is disclosed, including: identifying a web address included in a message sent from a first instant messaging client to a second instant messaging client; extracting identifying information to use to identify page content from the web address; retrieving message data corresponding to the identifying information including by sending a processing request to a server; and presenting the message data within a display window of the second instant messaging client. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140365915 | METHOD FOR CREATING SHORT MESSAGE AND PORTABLE TERMINAL USING THE SAME - A method for automatically creating a short message and a portable terminal using the same includes extracting at least one word expected to be input from a database provided in the portable terminal when a message creation menu is selected. At least one input expected word that has been extracted is then displayed. At least one word that is recognized is selected from among the displayed at least one input expected word; and inputting the selected word to a text message creation window. A user can create a short message without having to input words one-by-one through a keyboard. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140365916 | Contact List with Conversation Point Reminder - A method is provided to remind a user of a communication device of a conversation point for a future communication. The communication device has access to a contact list, with each contact list entry configured to retrieve a communication address of an entity, a name identifying the entity, and any user-inputted memo for reminding of a conversation point. The method comprises receiving an input indicating a need to activate a first contact list entry for the user to perform at least one of receiving and requesting a communication addressed to the communication address thereof. The method further comprises checking whether there is any user-inputted memo attached to the first contact list entry, and causing an indication indicating a presence of the memo to be automatically displayed on the display screen during activating of the first contact list entry when the memo is detected attached thereto. | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140365917 | UNIFIED ACCESS AND MANAGEMENT OF EVENTS ACROSS MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS AND ASSOCIATED CONTACTS THEREOF - Systems and methods for a unified user interface to facilitate communication with a user via multiple applications via a mobile device are provided. The method includes depicting a representation of multiple contacts accessible at the device. The multiple contacts that are depicted in the unified user interface is determined based on frequency of communications. The method also includes, responsive to detecting a selection of a given representation associated with a contact, presenting modes of communication channels represented by graphical indicators in the unified user interface | 12-11-2014 |
| 20140372903 | Independent Hit Testing for Touchpad Manipulations and Double-Tap Zooming - In one or more embodiments, a hit test thread which is separate from the main thread, e.g. the user interface thread, is utilized for hit testing on web content. Using a separate thread for hit testing can allow targets to be quickly ascertained. In cases where the appropriate response is handled by a separate thread, such as a manipulation thread that can be used for touch manipulations such as panning and pinch zooming, manipulation can occur without blocking on the main thread. This results in the response time that is consistently quick even on low-end hardware over a variety of scenarios. | 12-18-2014 |
| 20140380189 | MOBILE DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL PROGRAM, AND DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD - A mobile device comprising a first touch panel and a second touch panel for displaying images is disclosure. A decision module is operable to indicate a touch condition, if a touch position on a first touch panel is changed to a predefined direction toward a second touch panel, and if a touch is detected on both the first touch panel and the second touch panel. A display control module is operable to display at least some of an image displayed on the second touch panel on the first touch panel in response to the touch condition. | 12-25-2014 |
| 20150019996 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING EMAIL IN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method and an apparatus are provided for processing an email in an electronic device The method includes displaying an email screen; displaying at least one recipient i in a recipient area of the email screen based on the input order of the at lease one recipient; detecting a gesture in the recipient area; and setting and displaying a recipient type of the at least one recipient, based on the detected gesture. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150019997 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING CONTENTS IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - Provided are a method and an apparatus for processing contents in a portable terminal. The method includes displaying the contents on a contents screen. The method also includes displaying a tray to display selected information in the contents screen when the information is selected from the contents screen. The method also includes displaying information and a recommendation application related with the information on the tray when the selected text is moved to the tray. A user selects and collects collected texts in the tray without inconveniently pasting the collected texts into a corresponding field to recommend an application related with the collected texts, and executes a selected application when selection of the application is detected, and collectively maps the executed application to a corresponding item. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150019998 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENHANCED COMMUNICATIONS VIA SMALL DATA RATE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A system and method for interacting with an interactive communication system include processing a profile associated with an interactive communication system; generating a user interface based on the processing of the profile to solicit a user response correlating to a response required by the interactive communication system; receiving the user response via the user interface; updating the user interface using the profile based on the user response; and sending a signal to the interactive communication system based on one or more user responses. | 01-15-2015 |
| 20150026592 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR FILTERING MESSAGES USING SLIDING TOUCH INPUT - A device and method for filtering messages using sliding touch input are provided. The device comprises a processor; a memory storing messages of different types, at least a subset of the messages designated as unread messages; and a touchscreen including a display. A sliding touch input is detected at the touchscreen, the sliding touch input comprising a first portion in a first direction and a second portion in a second direction such that the sliding touch input includes a change in direction. In response, the messages are filtered according to one or more of a first filtering condition associated with the first portion and a second filtering condition associated with the second portion, to filter the messages according to one or more of type and a read status. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150026593 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING MESSAGE IN MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL WITH TOUCH SCREEN - An apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving a message in a mobile communication terminal with a touch screen are provided. The method includes generating a Simple Contact Object (SCO) mapped to at least one contact and a Simple Inputbox Object (SIO) for message composition, displaying the generated SCO and SIO on an idle screen in a widget format, composing a message using the displayed SIO, and storing the composed message in the SIO, and, when a contact between the SIO storing the message therein and the SCO is detected, transmitting the stored message to the contact mapped to the SCO. | 01-22-2015 |
| 20150033141 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN INTERACTIVE MESSAGE INBOX - Disclosed is a system and method for email management that leverages information associated with an incoming email message in order to organize the recipient's inbox and display relevant message content from the inbox. The present disclosure identifies messages by their relevance to a recipient, and effectively displays the relevant portions of the message to the recipient in an efficient manner which allows users to interact with the messages from the inbox. According to some embodiments, the present disclosure categorizes emails and provides a user interface for presenting the emails prioritized by importance or relevance to the recipient. The present disclosure logically categorizes incoming emails and displays enriched snippets extracted from the messages from the inbox without the user having to open the message, thereby allowing the user to view and/or interact with the message from the inbox. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150033142 | METHOD FOR MANAGING IM SERVICES AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME - A method for managing IM services and an electronic device using the same are provided. The method includes determining whether identification information respectively recorded in a first electronic device and a second electronic device is consistent when the first electronic device and the second electronic device are connected to each other through a network. The method also includes transmitting, by the second electronic device, at least one IM login information stored therein to the first electronic device if the identification information respectively recorded in the first electronic device and the second electronic device is consistent. The method further includes when a function button corresponding to a login function of the first electronic device receives a selection operation, executing, by the first electronic device, an IM service login procedure by using the at least one IM login information received from the second electronic device. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150033143 | USER TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING INTEGRATED COMMUNICATION HISTORY OF THE USER TERMINAL - A method for displaying an integrated communication history of a user terminal includes transmitting or receiving a content using an integrated communication service, collecting communication history of content transmission or reception using the integrated communication service, and generating a user interface feature based on the communication history. A user terminal to display an integrated communication history includes an integrated communication provider to support an integrated communication service, a communicator to transmit or receive content using the integrated communication service, a communication history manager to collect communication history of content transmission or reception using the integrated communication service, an interface manager to generate a user interface feature based on the communication history, and an image display to display a user interface comprising the user interface feature. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150033144 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING SCHEDULE IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - A method and an apparatus for displaying a user interface of schedule registration in an electronic device are provided. The method includes receiving a user conversation including schedule related contents in one of a voice and text form, displaying a schedule message generated based on the user conversation on a screen of the electronic device, and displaying a selectable reserved schedule other than the displayed schedule message if a user's modification request is received for the schedule message. According to the present disclosure, a user convenience is improved and the user may intuitively identify a schedule registration method because a schedule may be registered without a direct input of the user by analyzing a natural language of user conversation in a character or voice form. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150033145 | EMAIL MAILBOX MANAGEMENT WITH SENDER-SPECIFIC MESSAGE LISTS - Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems receive an instruction to establish a rule to take an action on each email message received from a first email address, determine that the first email address is associated with contact data, determine that the contact data is associated with a second email address, and apply the rule to take the action on each email message received from the second email address. | 01-29-2015 |
| 20150040033 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTERGRATING ADVANCED MULTIMEDIA FEATURES WITHIN AN INSTANT MESSAGING ENVIRONMENT - An instant messaging graphical user interface (“GUI”) is described comprising: a text entry region in which a user may enter instant messages; an IM conversation window in which a complete IM conversation between the user and a selected contact appears; a video window for displaying real time video of the user and/or the contact during an IM session; and a plurality of user-selectable personal video recorder (“PVR”) controls for performing a respective plurality of PVR functions on the video displayed within the video window, the PVR functions including record, pause, and rewind for recording, pausing, and rewinding the video, respectively. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150046838 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING A MESSAGING INTERFACE - An approach is presented for interacting with a messaging user interface. A presentation is caused, at least in part, of a messaging user interface associated with one or more messaging services at a device. Presentation of a user interface element providing a link to one or more communications sessions corresponding to the messaging services is caused, at least in part. Selection of the user interface element causes, at least in part, presentation of representations of the communications sessions as one or more overlay elements on the user interface. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150046839 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM - As an application is enabled to dynamically set a list of icons, display character strings and arguments in an OS, share destination applications are displayed as options in one-to-one correspondence with transmission destinations of data, and an argument corresponding to a selected transmission destination is passed to a selected application. In this way, a procedure taken by a user at the time of sharing is simplified. | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150046840 | INDICATING STATUS OF APPLICATION PROGRAM WITH ICONS - A computing device ( | 02-12-2015 |
| 20150052450 | Displaying Hierarchies of Artifacts - Among other things, we describe receiving, from a user, a first criterion for arranging a set of artifacts in a first hierarchy including a first arrangement, the artifacts being stored in an archive in a second arrangement, and displaying, in a user interface, a level of the first hierarchy including a subset of the artifacts, the subset of the artifacts having a common feature identified based on the first criterion. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150052451 | REAL TIME TEXT MESSAGE SYSTEM - A mobile text messaging application on a mobile computing device communicatively coupled to a communications network is disclosed. The mobile application includes an initiation module configured for sending a validation request to a central server, wherein said validation request includes a unique identifier for the user, and receiving a validation, as well as a validated list of text messaging recipients, a transmission module configured for storing a unique identifier for each of the one or more text messaging recipients selected from the validated list, transmitting a keyboard stroke, as well as the unique identifier for the user and all recipients selected, to the central server, without requiring any command from the user to send the keyboard stroke, and a receiving module configured for receiving a keyboard stroke displaying it inline in the graphical user interface. | 02-19-2015 |
| 20150058746 | CAPTURING A CONTENT OBJECT IN A MESSAGING SYSTEM - A technology for a computing device that is operable to capture a content object. A first content object can be received from a first computing device via a graphical user interface. The first content object can be displayed on a display screen of the computing device using a graphical user interface. A contemporaneous response object can be captured from a camera of the computing device at a time contemporaneous to the time the first content object is displayed. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150058747 | ELECTRONIC STICKY NOTE SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING TERMINAL, METHOD FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC STICKY NOTE, MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM, AND DATA STRUCTURE OF ELECTRONIC STICKY NOTE - Provided is a technology enable to associate electronic sticky data with any application and to execute the application. An electronic sticky note system includes display means for displaying an electronic sticky note, storage means for storing sticky note information which includes header information to be displayed in a display area for the electronic sticky note, sticky note displaying position information indicating a position to be displayed the electronic sticky note, and application associating information corresponding to information for activating the application associated with the electronic sticky note, control means for displaying, by the display means, the electronic sticky note on the basis of the header information and the electronic sticky note displaying position information and for executing the application on the basis of the application associating information, and input means for inputting the sticky note information. In the electronic sticky note system, an application, which is associated with the electronic sticky note, includes other than the application which is indicated by the sticky note displaying position information. | 02-26-2015 |
| 20150067533 | SOCIAL PROFILING OF ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - A method of associating an electronic message social profile with electronic messages. The method comprises identifying a plurality of users having a social affinity to one another, tagging each of a plurality of electronic messages received at a plurality of messaging accounts of the plurality of users with at least one user behavior tag indicative of a behavioral messaging action performed by one of the plurality of users, identifying a cluster of electronic messages having a common content from the plurality of electronic messages according to a similarity analysis, calculating, using a processor, an electronic message social profile for members of the cluster based on a combination of respective the at least one user behavior tag of the members of the cluster, and associating the electronic message social profile with the members of the cluster. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150067534 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SHARING CONTENTS OF ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method of and apparatus for sharing contents of an electronic device are provided. The method includes displaying contents; if a touch input for sharing the contents is generated, displaying an application list including applications and an execution item for each application which displays a number of contents previously shared with an application; if an execution item of an application in the application list is selected, sharing the contents with an application, and updating and displaying the execution item. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150067535 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING INSTANT MESSAGING (IM) MESSAGE - A method and an apparatus for displaying an Instant Messaging (IM) message are provided. The method includes, when the size of a picture to be processed is greater than the size of a container, setting the display size of the picture to be processed to be not greater than the size of the container; and drawing the picture to be processed according to the set display size. As such, a picture to be processed having the size greater than the container size can be adapted to the size of a container in IM software, and the IM software can directly display the entirety of the picture that is originally greater than the container size. | 03-05-2015 |
| 20150074547 | MANAGING EMAIL CONTENT IN AN ACTIVITY STREAM - Managing email content in an activity stream includes receiving a selection of a number of criteria that indicate content to be presented in an activity stream, retrieving email content based on the number of criteria, and displaying the email content in an activity stream by referencing email data related to the metadata. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150074548 | Information Sharing Method and Apparatus - The present invention discloses an information sharing method and apparatus. The method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes receiving a shared resource dragged by a user into an information sharing field apparatus, extracting an information type of the shared resource, and acquiring attribute information of the shared resource according to the information type. The method further includes acquiring a target sharing user and a sharing mode; and invoking an interface corresponding to the sharing mode, and sending the shared resource to a terminal of the target sharing user according to the attribute information of the shared resource. A technical solution of the present invention can implement a uniform resource sharing application mode, and improve sharing convenience and user experience; and enable the use of different sharing modes in accordance with different resource types, implement sharing for a specific target user, and improve the time effectiveness, accuracy, and abundance of information sharing. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150074549 | VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS TOOL - A visual communications (VC) tool creating visual arrangements and presenting the visual arrangements to others for feedback and comment in an efficient and secure manner. An author uses the VC tool to generate a folio, storyboard, or presentation, and publishes the generated arrangement to desired recipients. The published arrangement is uploaded to a server once, and a recipient equipped with a copy of the VC tool downloads the arrangement in response to a notification from the server. Thereafter, only changes to the visual arrangement are uploaded to the server and forwarded to the recipient. The recipient may transmit a comment on the visual arrangement back to the author's VC tool. The author's VC tool tracks and automatically correlates all received comments to their respective arrangements, allowing them to be concurrently displayed on a single screen. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150074550 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND CELLULAR PHONE TERMINAL - Disclosed is an information processing apparatus including a display unit displaying information on a display screen, an operation unit including a text input key, and a control unit. The control unit displays text in response to input from the operation unit in a state of displaying an initial screen on the display screen, shows an application using text to a user for selection, starts up the application in accordance with the user's selection, and executes the application, using the text inputted from the operation unit. | 03-12-2015 |
| 20150082188 | MESSAGING INTERACTION ENGINE - Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for managing message interactions. An embodiment operates by receiving, by a message interaction device, a message, determining a current state of a message interaction engine associated with the message, determining a value of a dynamic parameter associated with the current state, selecting an action based on the current state, the message, and the dynamic parameter, and performing the action. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150082189 | PROVIDING VISUALIZATIONS FOR CONVERSATIONS - Technologies are generally described for providing a system for visualizing items and conversations in a communication application. Conversations are presented as a list of items in the communication application. A quantity of presented items is limited based on a size of a client device employed for viewing the items. Visualizations are applied to the presented items to attempt to maximize a number of items that are presented while providing information about the items to enable a user to preview content and take actions on the items. The visualizations include different templates applied to each item based on a type of item and content associated with the item, and the templates may be are dynamically updated based on user interactions with the items. The templates for items are determined by applying a set of rules and factors to each item to determine a most appropriate visualization for each item. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150082190 | INITIATING SOCIAL INTERACTION BASED ON E-MAIL CONTENT - Arrangements described herein relate to initiating social interaction based on e-mail content. Information associated with an e-mail being composed by a user can be analyzed to determine whether content of the e-mail is appropriate for incorporation into at least one social system. Responsive to determining that the content of the e-mail is appropriate for incorporation into at least one social system, a first option to enter the content of the e-mail in a first social system and a second option to enter the content of the e-mail in a second social system can be presented to the user. Responsive to the user selecting to enter the content of the e-mail in the first social system, a first entry in the first social system can be automatically created. The first entry can include the content of the e-mail composed by the user. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150082191 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTIVELY CONTROLLING PARTICIPATION IN A MESSAGE CONVERSATION - A method for selectively controlling participation in a message conversation is described herein. The method can include the step of sending an initial message that includes a first participant in which the first participant is one of several participants that are part of the initial message. The method can also include the step of receiving a silence command that is configured to restrict one or more characteristics associated with future messages that are related to the initial message. The silence command can identify the characteristics to be restricted and may be on behalf of the first participant. In response to the receipt of the silence command, a future message rule can be generated that is configured to apply the characteristic restrictions identified by the silence command to future messages that are related to the initial message. In addition, future messages that are related to the initial message may be detected for purposes of executing the future message rule for application of the characteristic restrictions identified by the silence command. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150082192 | Highlighted Display of Unopened (Unread) Email Approaching Expiration Date - A mechanism is provided for highlighting a display related to unopened (unread) delivered email. The mechanism determines whether a delivered email has been opened (read) or remains unopened (unread). When it has been determined that the delivered email remains unopened, the mechanism determines whether the expiration date established for the delivered email has passed. When it has been determined that the established expiration date has not passed, the mechanism determines whether the time threshold for starting highlighted display established for the delivered email has passed. When it has been determined that the time threshold has passed, the mechanism highlights the display related to the delivered email. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150082193 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VARIANT CONTENT NAVIGATION - A method and system for managing hierarchical content having a plurality of messages where a navigation widget with message zones receives messages from a message database. When a message zone is selected, a message list is updated to show only those messages specific to that message zone. When a message from the message list is selected, the message zone renders a preview of the selected message within the message zone. | 03-19-2015 |
| 20150089389 | MULTIPLE MODE MESSAGING - Example systems and methods of facilitating multiple mode messaging are presented. In one example involving a first communication device, a user selection of one of a plurality of message input modes including a text input mode, a graphical input mode, and an audio input mode is received. A user input interface for the selected message input mode is presented. User messaging input is received via the user input interface for the selected message input mode. A user command is received to send the user messaging input as at least one communication service message to a second communication device. In response to the user command, the at least one communication service message is transmitted via a communication network to the second communication device. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150089390 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including an operation unit acquiring an input operation for a message composed of at least one of text and an image, a recording control unit recording the message in accordance with the acquired input operation, and a reproduction control unit reproducing the recorded message to display the message on a display unit. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150089391 | EFFICIENTLY SHARING USER SELECTED INFORMATION WITH A SET OF DETERMINED RECIPIENTS - Targeted information to be shared according to a “pre-analyzed user behavior” of a set of potential candidates is analyzed. The pre-analyzed user behavior is determined from a set of previously conveyed messages from a sender to one of the potential candidates. A list representing a determined subset of the potential candidates and related preference tools/applications is presented to the sender via a user interface. Tools/applications are determined for sending said targeted information content. An action message is sent to the tools/applications of selected candidates, which results in each of the subset of potential candidates receiving the targeted information. | 03-26-2015 |
| 20150095799 | Method and Apparatus For Information Exchange Over a Web Based Environment - Exchange information across the World Wide Web is a way of life in modern society. The innovated dynamic workspace technology of present invention allows people much efficiently and flexibly to exchange information across a global environment. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150095800 | PRIORITIZING COMMUNICATIONS BASED ON COMMUNICATION PATTERNS - A system for prioritizing communications for review by a user based on communication patterns between the user and the user's contacts is provided. The prioritization system generates a score for a contact based at least in part on a communication pattern between the user and the contact. The score indicates a likelihood that the user will want to give a high priority to reviewing communication from that contact. If the score satisfies a priority criterion, the prioritization system identifies communications from that contact that have not yet been reviewed by the user. When scores for multiple contacts satisfy the priority criterion, the prioritization system may order the contacts based on their scores. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150095801 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THEREFOR - A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which a message inputted before or after a message reception can be selectively sent when a message is received from a counterpart while composing a message. The present invention includes the steps of if a counterpart message is externally received in the course of a message input to a message input window and a message is additionally inputted to the message input window, applying a visual effect to either a message inputted before receiving the counterpart message or the additionally inputted message and if a send command is received, sending a message corresponding to the send command to a counterpart, wherein the message corresponding to the send command is selected from a message having the visual effect applied thereto and a message not having the visual effect applied thereto among messages displayed on the message input window. | 04-02-2015 |
| 20150100894 | AGGREGATE ELECTRONIC MAIL MESSAGE HANDLING - Techniques for aggregating one or more electronic mail messages (e.g., a subscribed to email) are described, including receiving at an aggregating domain, electronic mail communicated from another domain, parsing the electronic mail to selectively extract content identifiers for content (e.g., text, images, audio, video, media) included in the electronic mail, generating a tile object from selectively extracted content identifiers, and displaying the tile object on a display grid for viewing by a subscriber (e.g., user) of one or more of the electronic mail messages. A plurality of tiles may be generated for a plurality of different email messages and the display grid may display all or a portion of the plurality of tiles. Electronic mail messages may include a subscription to the aggregating domain that was elected by a user as an option presented by a publisher of a unsubscribe page in response to the user's unsubscribe request. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150100895 | METHOD OF CUSTOMIZING MULTIMEDIA ATTACHMENT IN ELECTRONIC MAIL AND COMPUTING DEVICE - A method of customizing a multimedia attachment within an e-mail, and a computing device are provided. The method includes providing an icon, provided so as to receive a user's request for customizing the multimedia attachment, to an e-mail window user interface, receiving the user's request for customizing the multimedia attachment from the user through the icon, and customizing the multimedia attachment in response to the user's request. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150100896 | METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR CONSTRUCTING A LISTING OF E-MAIL MESSAGES - There is provided a method of constructing a listing of e-mail messages, the method comprising: retrieving, by at least one server, information in respect of a plurality of e-mail messages from at least one database in electronic communication with the at least one server, each e-mail message including a header having a plurality of header fields and a body having content; sending, by the at least one server to a client device via a communications network, instruction to display in one of an e-mail message listing pane or an e-mail message listing window in a graphical user interface of the client device, a listing of e-mails, the listing including in respect of at least some of the e-mail messages listing information including at least some of the header fields; for a first one of the e-mail messages, one of determining a classification of the first one of the e-mail messages by the at least one server and retrieving from the database a classification of the first one of the e-mail messages by the at least one server, the classification including a sender type and at least one message type; sending, by the at least one server to the client device via the communications network, instruction to display in the listing information in respect of the first one of the e-mail messages appearing in the listing of e-mail messages a first user-selectable graphical element for causing a first function to be performed in respect of the first one of the e-mail messages, the first function being based, at least in part, on the classification of the first one of the e-mail messages. | 04-09-2015 |
| 20150106741 | MANAGING CONVERSATIONS - Technologies are generally described for providing a system to facilitate efficient management and prioritization of conversations, such as emails, in a communication application. Conversations may be prioritized according to user preferences, and an inbox may be rearranged to display important conversations in a user defined order. Conversations may also be associated together so that they may appear together and flow together in the inbox. Additionally, the system may enable a user to delay display of a conversation until a later time based on various criteria such as location, time, and client device. A user may also move important emails to the top of an inbox for prominent display. The system may perform the actions automatically based on observed user behavior. Furthermore, the system may enable touch interactions for interacting with and managing the conversations, and quick controls may be provided for executing commands to perform actions associated with the conversations. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150106742 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, which facilitates a terminal to be used in further consideration of user's convenience. The mobile terminal according to the present invention comprises a wireless communication unit configured to send or receive a message, a memory configured to store the message, a display unit configured to display a message list, the displayed message list including at least one counterpart and at least one corresponding message, and a controller, wherein in response to receiving a first scroll input while a specific counterpart is selected from the message list, the controller to change the message of the selected counterpart based on the first scroll input. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150106743 | Electronic Message Recipient Handling System and Method with Separated Display of Message Content and Header Information - An electronic messaging system and method with reduced traceability. Separate displays are provided at a recipient user device for separately displaying via the user device header information of an electronic message and message content including a media component. The message content and the header information are correlated with a unique identifier. The header information is displayed in a message list via a first display. The message content including a media component is displayed via a second display. The display of the message content occurs via the second display without displaying the header information. Methods, systems, and computer readable media with separation of the display of media component and header information in various implementations may provide for reduced traceability of an electronic message. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150106744 | Electronic Message Recipient Handling System and Method with Media Component and Header Information Separation - An electronic messaging system and method with reduced traceability. Separate displays are provided at a recipient user device for separately displaying via the user device header information of an electronic message and message content including a media component. The message content and the header information are correlated with a unique identifier. The header information is displayed in a message list via a first display. The message content including a media component is displayed via a second display. The display of the header information via the first display does not include a display of the media component. Methods, systems, and computer readable media with separation of the display of media component and header information in various implementations may provide for reduced traceability of an electronic message. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150106745 | Method And System For Organizing Electronic Messages Using Eye-Gaze Technology - Organizing messages received and transmitted over a network is described. In one aspect, a method includes tracking where a user is gazing as the user is composing an outgoing message on a first computer system; during a composition time period in which the user is composing the message, determining a number of times the user's gaze dwells on a displayed message after the user's gaze is directed away from the message, determining a relevance rating for the gaze areas, each gaze area associated with one of the messages based on the number of times the user's gaze dwells on the associated message; identifying, based on at least one of the relevance ratings, at least one displayed message that is related to the outgoing message; and associating with the outgoing message an identifier for at least one of the at least one displayed message that is related to the outgoing message. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150113435 | AUTOMATED MESSAGING RESPONSE - Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for an automated messaging response. A message parsing module may parse a textual message to determine whether the message includes a question. A question determination module may determine a question type for the question. A response presentation module may present a response interface that includes a plurality of selectable responses to the question. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150113436 | Providing Enhanced Message Management User Interfaces - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for providing enhanced message management user interfaces are presented. In some embodiments, a computing device may present a user interface comprising a scrollable content display region that includes at least two message cards and at least two target zones. The computing device may receive first input moving a first message card to a first target zone. In response to receiving the first input, the computing device may perform a first action on a first email message corresponding to the first message card. Thereafter, the computing device may receive second input moving a second message card to a second target zone. In response to receiving the second input, the computing device may perform a second action different from the first action on a second email message corresponding to the second message card. At least one action may be defined by a user of the computing device. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150113437 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OPERATING USER INTERFACE AND RECORDING MEDIUM USING THE SAME - A method and an apparatus for operating a user interface, and a recording medium using the same are provided. First, a plurality of user interfaces is provided and one of them is displayed on a touch screen of a portable electronic device. Then, the touch screen is used for detecting a touch signal. When the touch signal is moved toward a first direction, the currently displayed user interface is switched to another one. When the touch signal is moved toward a second direction, an item of the currently displayed user interface is switched to another item. Accordingly, a more intuitive and convenient manner for operating the user interface is provided for the user. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150113438 | News Feed Techniques - News feed techniques are described. In implementations, content is parsed from one or more emails that are addressed to a user. The parsed content from the email is exposed, automatically and without user intervention, for output in a news feed of the user. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150113439 | MESSAGE-BROWSING SYSTEM, SERVER, TERMINAL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - To make a user interested in a service even if feelings of a sentence cannot be identified, a message-browsing system includes an image storage unit storing user images corresponding to the multiple users, respectively, a motion storage unit storing motion information defining motions of the images associated with types of feelings or forms of posts, a keyword storage unit storing keywords according to the types, a determination unit determining whether or not any of the types can be identified by finding keywords stored in the keyword storage unit in a sentence of a post, and a setting unit, when a type of feelings can be identified, selecting motion information corresponding to the identified feelings, selecting motion information corresponding to a form of the post when the type cannot be identified, and setting a motion of a user image corresponding to the user contributing the post based on the selected motion information. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150113440 | PROVIDING SUPPLEMENTAL CONTACT INFORMATION CORRESPONDING TO A REFERENCED INDIVIDUAL - Providing supplemental contact information for an individual referenced in an electronic message typically includes receiving an electronic message, examining the electronic message, detecting an identifier for a referenced individual contained in the electronic message, and making supplemental contact information for the referenced individual available to a recipient of the electronic message. The supplemental contact information may include information that is in addition to information contained in the electronic message. The supplemental contact information may include at least one of an e-mail address, a screen name, a telephone number, a facsimile number, and a mailing address, each of which is associated with the referenced individual. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150121248 | SYSTEM FOR EFFECTIVELY COMMUNICATING CONCEPTS - Described herein are various examples of systems and methods to aid effectively communicating a meaning. In some embodiments, content units may be provided to a user of a system to assist that user in communicating a meaning. Each of the content units may be suggestive of a single concept and will be understood by a viewer to suggest that single concept. Any suitable concept may be conveyed by such a content unit, as embodiments are not limited in this respect. In some cases, some or all of the content units may be suggestive of an emotion and intended to trigger the emotion in a person viewing or listening to the content unit, such that a conversation partner receiving the content unit will feel the emotion when viewing or listening to the content unit or understand that the sender is feeling that emotion. | 04-30-2015 |
| 20150128068 | METHOD FOR OPERATING MESSAGE APPLICATION AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE IMPLEMENTING THE SAME - A message application operating method for promptly transmitting a message to a user without switching a screen, and an electronic device for implementing the method are provided. The method includes executing an application including a schema; recognizing an execution request for a message composing window while the application is executed; displaying the message composing window in response to the request; recognizing a completion of inputting a message in the message composing window; and requesting a transmission of the message to a related application that processes the schema. | 05-07-2015 |
| 20150135094 | COLLABORATIVE PLATFORM FOR TEAMS WITH MESSAGING AND LEARNING ACROSS GROUPS - The present disclosure extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for providing collaboration among users within a group for improved communication and scheduling. | 05-14-2015 |
| 20150143254 | DISPLAYING CONTEXT-RELATED BUSINESS OBJECTS TOGETHER WITH RECEIVED ELECTRONIC MAIL (E-MAIL) MESSAGES - When an E-mail message is transmitted to receiving display terminals, there is provided a set of suggested business objects developed by a method comprising profiling the person sending the E-mail message and the person receiving the E-mail message, extracting key words from E-mail message content, performing a semantic analysis of E-mail content and correlating the profiling, extracted key words and semantic analysis to provide the set of suggested business objects. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150143255 | Name Composition Assistance in Messaging Applications - A method includes identifying, at an electronic device ( | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150143256 | Interface for Interaction with a Compendium by Members of a Group - A system, method, and user interface for interacting with digital yearbooks, memory books, or other types of photo books via a smartphone or tablet (device). Electronic books can be viewed easily on the user's device. Signatures for the book can be requested from other members of the group, and signatures can be created in others' books integrating various multi-media elements, straight from the user's device. Electronic books with collages on different pages can also be created easily on the device. Such books can also be created collaboratively by a number of users. The users can also communicate with each other as a group, or provide signatures for each other. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150143257 | WORKFLOW AND IN-CONTEXT E-MAIL RECIPIENT HANDLING - Various technologies and techniques are disclosed that improve the workflow process for resolving data elements, such as email addresses. These technologies and techniques allow the user to perform such tasks in the same context as the activity or message. In addition, user can start and stop the resolution process at any point in the process of composing the activity or email. The activity cannot be finalized, such as an email message being sent, until all of the data elements are resolved. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150143258 | EMAIL AND TASK MANAGEMENT SERVICES AND USER INTERFACE - A system, method, service, user interface, and computer readable medium to integrate email and task management is disclosed. Users are provided with options to convert an email into a task, including one-click command options. Efficient triaging of incoming emails is supported. Integration with different email systems and third party services is also supported. Additionally, context aware operation supports features such as adapting operation for efficient use of mobile device in combination with desktop computers. An option is provided to convert an email into a To-Do item, which may include a contextually based reminder. Another option includes adding an email item to an electronic calendar. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150143259 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A MESSAGING INTERFACE - Computer-implemented systems and methods for a simplified messaging interface are provided for allowing users to initiate and engage in messaging conversations. In some embodiments, the systems and methods reduce the overhead involved in initiating and/or engaging in messaging conversations. In addition, the messaging interface may allow users to initiate and/or engage in conversations without having to open a separate standard messaging window for every conversation. Further, the simplified messaging interface may be used in conjunction with a standard messaging interface. | 05-21-2015 |
| 20150149925 | EMOTICON GENERATION USING USER IMAGES AND GESTURES - An embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, at an information handling device, a trigger event for insertion of an emoticon into a messaging application; providing, using a processor of the information handling device, an emoticon derived from one or more of an image of a user and a gesture of a user; after the trigger has been detected, inserting, using the processor, the emoticon into the text portion of the chat application. Other aspects are described and claimed. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150149926 | EMAIL WITH PERSONAL MESSAGE - A computer-implemented method comprises providing a user interface to allow the composition of an email message. The method receives an indication of a plurality of recipients of the email message, including a first recipient. The method provides a user interface to allow the composition of a personal message for accompanying the email message, wherein the personal message is only for distribution to the first recipient. The method associates the personal message with the email message. The method forwards the email message and the personal message to a mail server. Another network device receives the email message and personal message. It forwards the email message to the plurality of recipients and forwards the personal message only to the first recipient. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150149927 | COMMUNICATION USER INTERFACE SYSTEMS AND METHODS - The principles described herein provide methods and systems of providing a user interface to allow a user to compose and send an electronic communication quickly and conveniently. For example, a user interface includes split-pane interface having a navigable tray area and a composition area. The navigable tray area may include categories of trays, each tray including a navigable listing of content items that may form part of the electronic communication. The navigable tray area allows the user to navigate from one tray to the next to access different types of content items to be used in composing the electronic communication. When composing an electronic communication, a user can select an item in a tray, and the item is previewed in the composition area and can become part of the electronic communication. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150149928 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR IMPLEMENTING AN INSTANT MESSAGING APPLICATION - A method for an instant messaging application is disclosed comprising receiving source data sent from a third party server, wherein a tag of the instant messaging application is embedded in the source data; and implementing a function of the instant messaging application, on a third party interface displayed based on the source data, based on a script or a Software Development Kit of the instant messaging application and the tag of the instant messaging application. Also disclosed is relevant system and devices. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150293670 | METHOD FOR OPERATING MESSAGE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREFOR - A method for operating an electronic device is provided. The method includes transmitting and receiving messages with at least one first external electronic device through a chat window. In response to the user selecting at least some of the transmitted and received messages, the electronic device transmits a chat invitation request including the selected messages to at least one second external electronic device. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150295863 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING INCOMING MESSAGES - A message processing method and a computing device running on an IOS platform are provided. The method includes: capturing a new message notification thrown by an underlying communication module of an IOS system, the new message notification including a message identifier (ID); querying a message database by using the message ID, to acquire associated information of a message corresponding to the message ID, the associated information including one or more of message content, a message type, and information about a message sender; and displaying the found associated information in a pop-up window. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150295868 | INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND DEVICE - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an information processing method and device, relating to the technical field of information processing, and enabling a user to perform an interactive operation on information pushed by an information tips module. The method comprises: receiving by a client side information tips data to be displayed in an information tips module and an identifier of a microblog generated based on the information tips data, which are sent by a server side; invoking and displaying by the client side the information tips module, in which the information tips data and an interactive operation link are displayed; determining by the client side the microblog generated based on the information tips data according to the identifier of the microblog generated based on the information tips data, when the interactive operation link is checked; and invoking by the client side an interactive operation interface that the interactive operation link points to, such that a user can perform, on the interactive operation interface, an interactive operation on the microblog generated based on the information tips data. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150295872 | AGGREGATING DIGITAL FILE AND MESSAGE CONTENT INTO A SINGULAR AND CHRONOLOGICALLY ORGANIZED CONVERSATION - Files and messages, such as would be exchanged by participants in a negotiation, can be organized in a singular record of updates that can easily be reviewed and understood by any of the participants in the interaction. Such a singular record can be stored in a highly secure manner that can allow the participants in the interaction to exchange confidential information without the concern that it will be accessed by an unauthorized third-party, either while in transit or due to insecure computer systems. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150295873 | THREADED MESSAGING - A user device comprising a processor configured to execute a client capable of transmitting and receiving instant messages to and from a plurality of remote user accounts instantiated on a plurality of remote devices, wherein the client is configured to: attribute to each instant message a thread identifier independently of the remote user account; and group the instant messages for presentation to a user according to the thread identifier and independently of the remote user account. | 10-15-2015 |
| 20150301696 | PERFORMING ACTIONS THROUGH A USER INTERFACE - The present invention relates to a user interface in a device, in which first and second selection areas are displayed on a display. The first selection area can be an area for selecting an object. In response to user input being received that selects the first selection area and the second selection area, a first predetermined action is performed for the selected object in response to the user input selecting the first selection area before the second selection area, and a second predetermined action is performed for the selected object in response to the user input selecting the second selection area before the first selection area. The user input can be received by various methods, including a touch and/or drag event received through a touch screen. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150304251 | Direct Manipulation of Object Size in User Interface - A client device displays user interface elements on a display device such as a screen. The user interface elements have a configuration including a size. An input device of the client device detects a gesture motion intended to modify the size of a subset of the user interface elements in a composing region of the screen. The gesture motion includes at least one gesture object (e.g., a finger, a stylus) contacting the composing region of the screen, moving across the screen while maintaining contact with the screen, and detaching from the screen after moving across the screen. In response to the gesture motion, the client device determines an updated configuration including an updated size for the subset of user interface elements. The subset of user interface elements is displayed in their updated configuration. | 10-22-2015 |
| 20150309711 | TERMINAL DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - A terminal device includes a display control unit that displays on a display unit, a display flake having a predetermined form to produce a visual effect and an information flake which indicates that there is notification information to be communicated to a user, where the information flake has a form identical or similar to the form of the display flake. It is possible that information flakes corresponding to different items of the notification information are displayed and a type of the notification information and/or an amount of information for each item of the notification information are determined. Each information flake may be displayed on the display unit in a manner such that the information flake has one or both of color and size which changes according to the results of the above determination. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150309720 | MESSAGING WITH DRAWN GRAPHIC INPUT - Messaging applications are enhanced with drawn images or words that appear on a communication device screen alongside messages. Users can express themselves more creatively as well as visually reference previously sent or received messages, such as by drawing an arrow to them or circling them. Graphic inputs are also operable to alter a sent message so as to convey additional or corrective meaning. By extending the drawing field outside the individual messages, this combination of messages and graphic inputs creates a third communication functionality not present in either messaging or drawing alone. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150312180 | Expandable Graphical Icon for Response to Electronic Text Transmission - A graphical user interface utility for message data sent from a sender personal communications device to a recipient personal communications device displays a base response prompt, according to an instruction from the sender, in the message data that appears on the recipient personal communications device. The graphical user interface utility changes the appearance of the base response prompt when the base response prompt is selected by the recipient by displaying one or more recipient-actuable selection elements along with the message content. At least one of the one or more recipient-actuable selection elements has an associated response signal that is transmitted back to the sender according to recipient selection. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150312183 | VARIABLE IMAGE ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING TECHNIQUES BASED ON IMAGE DATA TYPE - A server device may receive file data from a user device via a web browser application associated with the user device. The file data may be extracted by an application, different from the web browser application, associated with the user device. The server device may determine an acquisition technique based on the file data; obtain a computer file, associated with the file data, using the acquisition technique; receive, from the user device, a request to transmit a message including the computer file; insert the computer file in the message; and transmit the message. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150312197 | PREVENTION OF SENDING MESSAGES BY MISTAKE - Machine logic implemented techniques for preventing sending messages by mistake (with such “mistakes” including sending a message to an unintended recipient). One embodiment of the technique includes: detecting an intention of sending a message to a target user; responsive to detection of the intention, predicting a risk that the target user is not a desired recipient of the message; and providing a prompt responsive to the predicted risk being higher than a predetermined threshold. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150312198 | MESSAGE DISTRIBUTION WARNING INDICATION - An apparatus and method for receiving and sending messages from a communication device is disclosed. Message recipient information is compared to stored information for potential recipients to determine whether a characteristic of the expression of the message on a device display should be changed such that the user perceives an unavoidable visual indication relating to the result of the comparison. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150312199 | ORGANIZING SOCIAL NETWORK MESSAGES BASED ON TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS - A method for organizing messages may include detecting, by a processor, receipt of each new message of an activity stream comprising a group of messages and determining, by the processor, a tense associated with each new message. The method may also include associating, by the processor, the tense with each new message. At least the tense may be used for organizing the group of messages of the activity stream. The method may additionally include adding, by the processor, each new message and the associated tense of the message to the activity stream. | 10-29-2015 |
| 20150319114 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MESSAGE CONVERSATION VIEW CUSTOMIZATION - A method and apparatus for anchoring and controlling objects in messages across multiple devices are provided herein. The method includes displaying one or more messaging objects in a scrollable portion of a first messaging conversation display screen on a first participant device, the one or more messaging objects comprising at least one message conveyed between the first participant device and at least a second participant device; receiving an instruction to perform a first action on a first messaging object of the one or more messaging objects; performing the first action on the first messaging object; and sending a first object instruction message to at least the second participant device to perform a second action on a second messaging object in a second messaging conversation display screen on the second participant device, the second action associated with the first action and the first messaging object associated with the second messaging object. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150319119 | DATA PROCESSING DEVICE AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD BASED ON USER EMOTION ACTIVITY - A data processing device and a data processing method are provided. The data processing device includes a collection storage unit configured to collect and store emotion icon log data for an emotion icon activity of a user with respect to one or more services and an analysis processing unit configured to analyze the emotion icon activity of the user by using the emotion icon log data, and to provide, to a service server, a result obtained by analyzing the emotion icon activity of the user, to allow the service server to apply the result obtained by analyzing the emotion icon activity of the user, to the services. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150319123 | Method and System for Exchanging Emails - A communication system and method for organization, preparation and viewing of emails, including a graphical user interface operating on a display of a computing device. The graphical user interface includes: a writing interface with writing functions; a reading interface with a plurality of reading functions; and an organizing interface with a plurality of organizing functions. The writing functions including a recipient action identifier indicating what is expected of the recipient with regard to the sent email, what folder the writer has designated the email is to be stored in on the recipient computing device, a read date identifying a date on which the writer wishes the recipient to read the email, and a writing block for text associated with a message being sent in accordance with the email. The recipient action identifier and the read date are appended to the email and by a computer system of a recipient upon receipt of the email by the recipient. | 11-05-2015 |
| 20150326708 | SYSTEM FOR WIRELESS NETWORK MESSAGING USING EMOTICONS - A system for messaging, which comprises mobile computing devices of different users connected to each other in a network with each mobile device having a text input unit. The system also comprises a multimedia object storage and selection units. Multimedia objects are associated with tags describing informational content of the message and user's perception of a multimedia object, while the graphic subsystem of the mobile device is able to display such objects based on tags associated with the user input, and the interface of the mobile device enables the user to select at least one of the objects listed, wherein the sender's mobile device is able to send multimedia to the recipient in case the sender places a command to send a multimedia object. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20150334059 | TRIGGER EVENT BASED RESPONSE EXECUTION - The aspects of the present disclosure allow an extremely simple way to interact with e.g. various Internet and mobile telecommunications related services, for example by a single button press. An identification message is sent from a sensor apparatus, over a wireless communication network, in response to a trigger event sensed by a sensor device comprised in the sensor apparatus. The identification message includes a unique identifier of the sensor apparatus. The identification message is received at a network server. A pre-configured action profile associated with the unique identifier in the received identification message is accessed by the network server. A response action is caused to be executed based on information in the accessed action profile. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150334062 | TRIGGER EVENT BASED RESPONSE EXECUTION WITH AUTOMATIC POWER ON/OFF - An identification message is sent from a sensor apparatus, over a wireless communication network, in response to a trigger event, i.e. a button press, sensed by a sensor device comprised in the sensor apparatus. The identification message includes a unique identifier of the sensor apparatus. The identification message is received at a network server. A pre-configured action profile associated with the unique identifier in the received identification message is accessed by the network server. A response action is caused to be executed based on information in the accessed action profile. The sensor apparatus is switched on in response to the pressing of the button, and the sensor apparatus is automatically switched off after a predetermined time period, thereby allowing e.g. saving power and preventing electromagnetic radiation. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150334063 | TRIGGER EVENT BASED RESPONSE EXECUTION WITH UNINTENTIONAL BUTTON PRESS PREVENTION - An identification message is sent from a sensor apparatus, over a wireless communication network, in response to a trigger event, i.e. a button press, sensed by a sensor device comprised in the sensor apparatus. The button is kept pressed down until instructed by the network server to return the button to its initial position. The identification message includes a unique identifier of the sensor apparatus. The identification message is received at a network server. A pre-configured action profile associated with the unique identifier in the received identification message is accessed by the network server. A response action is caused to be executed based on information in the accessed action profile. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150334067 | MESSAGING PROVIDING GRAPHICAL AND AUDIBLE FEATURES - Methods and systems for messaging. One system includes a first computing device that includes a first processor and first non-transitory computer-readable medium. The first computer-readable medium stores a first software application executable by the first processor to receive a selection of an audio-enabled emoticon from a first user, automatically insert at least one tag into a message wherein the at least one tag is associated with the selected audio-enabled emoticon, and transmit the message to a second computing device including a second processor and second non-transitory computer-readable medium. The second computer-readable medium stores a second software application executable by the second processor to translate the at least one tag into the selected audio-enabled emoticon and display the selected audio-enabled emoticon as part of the message to a second user. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150334075 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS IMPLEMENTING USER INTERFACE OBJECTS - According to one aspect, a system including a memory, at least one processor coupled to the memory, and a user interface component executed by the at least one processor is provided. The user interface component may be configured to present a representation of a first object within a message thread, receive, from a user, a first user interface action associated with the representation of the first object, receive, from the user, an input that causes the first user interface action to be applied to a target element associated with the chat interface, and execute the first user interface action on the target element associated with the chat interface. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150334187 | TRIGGER EVENT BASED RESPONSE EXECUTION WITH SECURE INITIALIZATION - An identification message is sent from a sensor apparatus, over a wireless communication network, in response to a trigger event sensed by a sensor device in the sensor apparatus. The identification message includes a unique identifier of the sensor apparatus. The identification message is received at a network server. A pre-configured action profile associated with the unique identifier in the received identification message is accessed by the network server. A response action is caused to be executed based on information in the accessed action profile. The sensor apparatus is paired to a subscriber account before first use, thereby allowing secure initialization. | 11-19-2015 |
| 20150339037 | Interactive Device Comprising an Email Address Key - An interactive device such as a smartphone, tablet or pc, which device can be used for sending text messages, the device comprising an email address key, whereby actuating the email address key displays an email address stored in the device on a screen of the device, which interactive device can be used for composing a message to be sent by the device comprising the step of inserting an email into a message, for example a WhatsApp chat line message, by way of actuating the email address key of the device, whereafter the message can be sent. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150339043 | INTERACTIVE MESSAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD - Disclosed embodiments include apparatus, method and storage medium associated with interactive messaging. In embodiments, an apparatus may include an interactive message service to selectively display messages of a collection of messages, in response to navigation controls received from a proximally located portable client device, through a navigation interface provided to the proximally located portable client device by the interactive message service. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. | 11-26-2015 |
| 20150346916 | SWIPING FUNCTIONS FOR MESSAGING APPLICATIONS - This application relates to performing organizational tasks using a variety of physical operations in a message application. The physical operations can include swiping actions performed by the user of the message application. By performing certain types of swipes on a user interface of the message application, the user can more readily organize messages stored by the message application. The types of swipes can include full swipes, which can execute one or more functions on a message, and partial swipes, which can open up a menu that includes multiple buttons for executing various operations on the message being swiped. Additionally, the direction of the swipe can also determine the functions and operations to be performed on the message being swiped. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350117 | CONVERSATION BRANCHING FOR MORE EFFICIENT RESOLUTION - A method for conversation branching may include storing a plurality of messages communicated in an online conversation and generating a fingerprint for each message. The fingerprint for each message may be stored in a lookup table. The method may also include detecting a new message from one of the users and processing the new message to generate an artifact that correlates to the new message. The lookup table may be queried using the artifact to determine a similarity between the new message and each of the stored messages. One or more proposed reply messages to the new message may be generated for branching the online conversation to a new conversation point that corresponds to a selected one of the one or more proposed reply messages. The one or more proposed reply messages are based on one of the stored messages that has a closest similarity to the new message. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350118 | CANNED ANSWERS IN MESSAGES - At an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display, display a message transcript, where the message transcript includes at least one message from at least a first user. Determine, based at least in-part on the at least one message, a plurality of suggested one or more characters. Display, on the touch-sensitive display, the plurality of suggested one or more characters. Detect an input on the touch-sensitive display. Determine whether the input represents user selection of one of the plurality of suggested one or more characters. Display the selected one of the plurality of suggested one or more characters in the message transcript. Send the selected one or more characters to the first user. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350123 | USER TERMINAL APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING USER TERMINAL APPARATUS - A user terminal apparatus including: a display configured to provide a messenger service image of a messenger service; a user interface unit user interface configured to receive user interaction with respect to the messenger service image; and a processor configured to control the user terminal apparatus to transmit, in response to a user command for execution of an application being input in the messenger service image, identifier information of corresponding to the application and participant information corresponding to participants of the messenger service image to an app application providing server in response to a user command for app execution in the messenger service image being input, and to control the user terminal apparatus to receive app application execution information configured based on the participant information from the app application providing server, and to provide the app application execution information as an input message of the messenger service. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350130 | MESSAGE USER INTERFACES FOR CAPTURE AND TRANSMITTAL OF MEDIA AND LOCATION CONTENT - A device provides user interfaces for capturing and sending media, such as audio, video, or images, from within a message application. The device detects a movement of the device and in response, plays or records an audio message. The device sends the recorded audio message in response to detecting a movement of the device. The device removes messages from a conversation based on expiration criteria. The device shares a location with one or more message participants in a conversation. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350136 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING RESPONSES TO AND DRAWINGS FOR MEDIA CONTENT - Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can detect an initiation of a drawing to a media content item. A first drawing option that is selectable via a first dimension can be provided. A second drawing option that is selectable via a second dimension can be provided. A first current state of the first drawing option and a second current state of the second drawing option can be indicated. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350142 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MARKING EMAIL THREADS - Disclosed herein is a technique for marking email threads as important. When an email thread is marked as important, all email messages belonging to the email thread are marked as important in an email user interface. Also, notifications are generated for any incoming messages belonging to the email thread that has been marked as important. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150350147 | DISPLAYING INTERACTIVE NOTIFICATIONS ON TOUCH SENSITIVE DEVICES - Methods and devices display an interactive notification element at an electronic device. The method comprises detecting an occurrence of an event associated with an application. In response to detecting the occurrence of the event, a notification element is displayed. A user of the device inputs a sequence of one or more gestures to reveal actions he can take in response to the notification element. The device then displays a plurality of action option UI elements, the selection of each action option UI element causing the application to perform a different action. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20150358257 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTING AMONGST A PLURALITY OF PROCESSES TO SEND A MESSAGE - In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for selecting amongst a plurality of processes to send a message (e.g. a message for updating an endpoint system, etc.). These mechanisms and methods for selecting amongst a plurality of processes to send a message can enable embodiments to utilize more than one queue for sending such message. The ability of embodiments to provide such multi-process feature can, in turn, prevent latency that typically accompanies a mounting number of messages. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150358270 | System and method for targeting information based on a list of message content - Targeted information is provided in accordance with one or more conversations from a list of conversations. At least one portion of a conversation from each of conversation in a list of conversation can be selected. From the selected portions, at least one conversation can be chosen. The conversation can be chosen based on a number of criteria such as a number of distinct keywords or word phrases present in the selected portion from a list of keywords or word phrases. One or more content components from the chosen conversation can be used to obtain targeted information, such as an advertisement. Targeted information can also be obtained by scanning a conversation description and a snippet for each conversation in a list of conversations to identify keywords or word phrases. Targeted information can be obtained using the identified keywords or word phrases. | 12-10-2015 |
| 20150363092 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COLLABORATIVE ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS - Systems and methods for collaborative electronic communications are presented. One or more messages within a collaborative electronic communication platform, such as emails or chat messages, can be selected for further action. Messages such as chat messages within a chronological, multi-user chat stream can be selected for generation of an associated post content item. Content from the selected messages may be automatically inserted into the generated post. The post may be displayed together in a content group along with discussion or other further content contributions. Multiple posts and their content groups may be displayed in sequence by post date or date of last content contribution. Messages may also be selected for generation of an associated task item within a task management platform. In a chat platform, multiple non-adjacent messages may be selected for generation of a single task item. Generated posts or tasks may incorporate default information extracted from their associated messages. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150365369 | USER INTERFACE FOR EMAIL INBOX TO CALL ATTENTION DIFFERENTLY TO DIFFERENT CLASSES OF EMAIL - A user interface for email users which calls attention to one or more categories of emails in different ways. In some species, at least three categories are used: branded senders with Trumarks; white list buddies; and fraudulent emails which are either not from the domain they purport to be from or in which the content was tampered. The preferred embodiment authenticates emails from branded senders and displays them with the sender's Truemark. Branded sender emails have their Truemarks displayed in the sender column of a list view in the preferred embodiment. In a preferred embodiment, white list senders have either an icon or other graphic or photo they choose displayed to the left or right of the sender column with their name in the sender column. In a preferred embodiment, fraudulent emails have a fraud icon displayed to the left or right of the sender column with a warning in the sender column. Antiphishing processing is also disclosed. | 12-17-2015 |
| 20150370437 | AUTOMATED EMAIL DOCUMENT STORAGE SYSTEMS AND METHODS - An email client includes a user interface that provides a STORE field in addition to TO, CC, BCC, SUBJECT, SENDER, and message body fields. The STORE field can be used to select a storage location for the email message and any attachments that is besides or in addition to the SEND file location associated with the email client. Email messages can be automatically stored once a user sends a message. The email message can also be converted into another format prior to storage after the message is sent by a user to email recipients. | 12-24-2015 |
| 20150378590 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes a touchscreen and a controller controlling the touchscreen to output a running screen of a 1 | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150379752 | AVATAR-BASED TRANSFER PROTOCOLS, ICON GENERATION AND DOLL ANIMATION - Systems and methods may provide for identifying one or more facial expressions of a subject in a video signal and generating avatar animation data based on the one or more facial expressions. Additionally, the avatar animation data may be incorporated into an audio file associated with the video signal. In one example, the audio file is sent to a remote client device via a messaging application. Systems and methods may also facilitate the generation of avatar icons and doll animations that mimic the actual facial features and/or expressions of specific individuals. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381534 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR INDICATING EMOTIONS THROUGH ELECTRONIC SELF-PORTRAITS - Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to systems and methods that allow a user of an electronic device, who is engaged in communicating with one or more other users, to convey an emotional context with that communication using an image created by the user. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20150381544 | EMAIL MESSAGE GROUPING - An email client includes a network interface, a hardware processor, a user interface, an identification module, a content email management module and one or both of a grouping module and bypass email handling module. The network interface communicates with at least one service provider email server. The identification module identifies content emails by analyzing email traffic in an email account established on the service provider's email server. Content email senders are classified as content providers. The content email management module obtains content emails. The grouping module groups content emails from each content provider for display as respective single content item. Optionally, a bypass email handling module implants content emails received over said bypass channel into an email account or accounts. | 12-31-2015 |
| 20160011757 | EMAIL AND TASK MANAGEMENT PLATFORM | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160014053 | Method and Device for Composing Electronic Mail Messages Starting From Existing Messages in an Electronic Mail Program | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160014059 | Presenting one or more types of interface(s) or media to calling and/or called user while acceptance of call | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160014067 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, AND METHODS FOR PRESENTING CONTACTS BY PROJECT | 01-14-2016 |
| 20160018895 | PRIVATE MESSAGING APPLICATION AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - A mobile device application that enables users to easily engage in a private chat that. Users can switch from a normal chat to the private chat by performing a simple gesture. Once the users are finished, they can deactivate the private chat by performing another gesture. Once a user leaves the private chat, all digital data from the chat is permanently deleted and cannot be retrieved. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160021037 | RECOMMENDATION OF A LOCATION RESOURCE BASED ON RECIPIENT ACCESS - The method includes receiving a first message to a plurality of user profiles and having a location resource to a first content item. The method also includes determining that a grouping of user profiles from a plurality of recipients do not have access permission to the location resource. The method also includes identifying a first content data for the first content item. The method also includes selecting a first user profile from the grouping of user profiles. The method also includes receiving an access permission for the first user profile to a first plurality of content items. The method also includes recommending one or more repositories for the first user profile based on a similarity of the first content item to a second content item within the one or more repositories that shares at least part of the first content data. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160021039 | MESSAGE CONTROL FUNCTIONS WITHIN COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - A chat-based communication capability is presented. In at least some embodiments, a chat-based communication capability may utilize a chat-based communication paradigm to support one or more communication interaction types not typically supported by chat-based communication paradigms. In at least some embodiments, a chat-based communication capability may support chat-based communication between a human entity and a non-human entity or between multiple non-human entities. In at least some embodiments, a chat-based communication capability may support extended operations which may be provided within the context of a chat-based system. In at least some embodiments, a chat-based communication capability or other communication or interaction environment may support one or more of relationship identification and notification capabilities, question and answer management functions, message attribution management functions, software developer functions, or the like. | 01-21-2016 |
| 20160026352 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND DEVICE-READABLE MEDIUM FOR MESSAGE COMPOSITION WITHIN A UNIFIED EVENT VIEW - A method, electronic device, and device-readable medium are provided for implementing a quick reply action for communication events listed in a unified inbox. In a unified inbox, a subset of communication event listings include a user interface element that is actuatable to initiate a reply to the communication event, while other listings in the unified inbox do not include this user interface element. In response to actuation of this user interface element, reply message content can be received, and provided to an application executing on the electronic device to send the content in a reply message. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028666 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSTANT MESSAGING - A method of instant messaging is provides. The method comprises providing an image frame for display of a message in an event of instant messaging, the image frame configured to exhibit a textual input, a background environment and a character associated with the message; receiving at least one of a textual input, a background environment or a character from a user; and integrating into the image frame the received at least one of the textual input, the background environment or the character. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160028669 | METHOD OF PROVIDING CONTENT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF - According to various embodiments, a method for providing content in an electronic device includes: providing content through a display functionally connected to the electronic device; selecting at least one object included in the content based on a user input; and connecting an input comment to the at least one selected object when the comment corresponding to the at least one selected object is input. The method for providing content in an electronic device can be implemented through various embodiments of the present disclosure. | 01-28-2016 |
| 20160034162 | Instant Messaging - A method for updating a message exchanged over a communications network during an instant messaging communication session between a plurality of participants each associated with a participant device, the message comprising a plurality of updateable fields, the method comprising: maintaining state information of each of the plurality of updateable fields in a memory; detecting at least one selection by one or more of the plurality of participants to edit at least one of the updateable fields; updating the state information of the at least one of said plurality of updateable fields in response to the detection; and communicating the updated state information to at least one of the participants of the instant messaging communication session. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160036649 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND APPARATUS FOR ESTABLISHING AND MONITORING SESSIONS WITH CLIENTS OVER A COMMUNICATION NETWORK - Systems and methods provide real-time communication between website operators and website visitors including monitoring, gathering, managing and sharing of information. The features include: simultaneous chatting with system's website visitor while responding/submitting tickets/emails and searching through company knowledge base; operator communicating message to another operator directly in active chat session, while message remains hidden to visitors/customers; displaying advertising messages to visitors/customers within chat window during active chat sessions; growing knowledge base by adding information into knowledge base during chat session; providing real-time access to system's website visitor information by seeing the content of visitor's shopping cart or by passing information from system's server into visitor's information located in operator's panel; creating and branding multiple chat windows and selectively linking all or some to the account; tagging and grouping each chat sessions; parent-child ticketing for project management; lead scoring; and mobile live chatting. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160036737 | Instant Messaging - An instant messaging communication method implemented by a client application when executed on a user device, the method comprising: detecting selection by a user of the user device to transmit a poll message to at least one further device of an instant messaging communication session over a communications network; receiving a search term input by the user using an input device of the user device; transmitting a search request comprising the search term over the communications network to a network entity configured to perform a search for web content; and automatically populating a plurality of poll option fields in a poll message to be transmitted to the at least one further device based on search results received from the network entity in response to transmitting the search request. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160048303 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF MESSAGING MEETING INVITEES - A method of composing an email message at an electronic device and an electronic device operable to carry out the method are provided. The method includes receiving an email command from a user input of the electronic device through a calendar user interface, the email command relating to at least one of a plurality of intended attendees of a calendared meeting, and providing an email composition interface in response to receiving the email command. The email composition interface includes a user-editable portion of an address field. The user-editable portion of the address field is automatically populated with email address information for the at least one of the plurality of intended attendees. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160048373 | DIGITAL MEDIA MESSAGE GENERATION - A method of generating a digital media message includes receiving a first digital content segment via an electronic device, associating the first digital content segment with a first position in a play sequence, receiving a second digital content segment different from the first digital content segment, and receiving a third digital content segment different from the first and second digital content segments. The method also includes adding the second and third digital content segments to the play sequence such that the second digital content segment is presented simultaneously with at least one of the first and third digital content segments when the digital media message is played. Such a method further includes providing the digital media message for sharing with a remote electronic device. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160050165 | QUICK NAVIGATION OF MESSAGE CONVERSATION HISTORY - A messaging application running on a computing device utilizes a navigation model that exposes user interfaces (UIs) which implement a messaging conversation history in a minimized form so that a user can quickly jump to a desired conversation displayed on a chat card without having to toggle back and forth between a conventional messaging list view and chat card views. The minimized conversation history can be implemented using a scrollable carousel of images that is persistently displayed on the UI. The images represent messaging participants (i.e., contacts) that are arranged in an ordered display according to conversation history. The particular contact that is associated with the currently displayed chat card is highlighted in the carousel using color and/or other graphic treatments. As messaging activities occur and new messages come in and are sent out, the carousel is dynamically updated to show the contacts in the appropriate sorted historical order. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160050168 | SYNCHRONIZED SINGLE-ACTION GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES FOR ASSISTING AN INDIVIDUAL TO UNIFORMLY MANAGE COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED ACTIVITIES UTILIZING DISTINCT SOFTWARE AND DISTINCT TYPES OF ELECTRONIC DATA, AND COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEMS UTILIZING SUCH SYNCHRONIZED SINGLE-ACTION GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES - An inventive exemplary graphical user interface which includes a visual display component specifically programmed with a plurality of actionable features allowing a user to perform at least the following: moving to and from the visual display component at least the following items: a first object corresponding to a first native application; a second object corresponding to a second native application, where the first native application is distinct from the second native application; a first data item of a first data type; and a second data item of a second data type, where the first data type is distinct from the second data type; where each of such items is moved by utilizing a single action while each item is in an active form or an inactive form; tracking such items based on timing of actions involving such items; and interacting as if each item being in a native computing environment. | 02-18-2016 |
| 20160055165 | METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR ARCHIVING A DOCUMENT - an email comprising a content recipient module configured and operable to receive at least one portfolio scheme data piece comprising an archiving scheme data piece and optionally a docketing scheme data piece; receive a flow of emails from a content provider; and compile the flow of emails; thereby storing the flow of emails according to the portfolio scheme data piece. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160057085 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A MESSAGING INTERFACE - Computer-implemented systems and methods for providing a simplified messaging interface are provided for allowing users to initiate and engage in messaging conversations. In some embodiments, the systems and methods reduce the overhead involved in initiating and/or engaging in messaging conversations. In addition, the messaging interface may allow users to initiate and/or engage in conversations without having to open a separate standard messaging window for every conversation. Further, the simplified messaging interface may be used in conjunction with a standard messaging interface. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160057093 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING CONTENT - A method is provided comprising: displaying a first screen including a plurality of messages received from at least a first contact and a second contact; detecting a selection of the first contact; in response to the selection, hiding from the first screen a first message in the plurality that is received from the first contact. | 02-25-2016 |
| 20160062605 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SUGGESTED REMINDERS - A method for annotating a message executes at a computing device having one or more processors and memory. The memory stores one or more programs configured for execution by the one or more processors. A plurality of messages for a user is analyzed to determine whether a task reminder is derivable for any of the messages. In this way, task reminders are derived for at least a subset of the messages. A user interface for an electronic messaging application is provided. The interface includes a list of objects, one or more of which represents a collapsed state of a message in the message subset and comprises a summary, task reminder, and a dismissal affordance. Responsive dismissal affordance selection, the task reminder and the dismissal affordances are removed from the object. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160062968 | Systems and Methods for Annotating Messages With Reminders - A method of annotating an electronic message executes at a computing device having one or more processors and memory. The memory stores one or more programs configured for execution by the one or more processors. The device displays a user interface for an electronic messaging application. The user interface includes a list of messages received by the user, and each displayed message includes a respective message summary that is displayed. The device receives from the user a description of a first task associated with a first message of the displayed messages. The user provides the description using a control in the user interface. The device stores the description as a first annotation associated with the first message and updates the displayed messages in the list of messages. For the first message, the device displays the first annotation as a substitute for the message summary. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160062977 | Interactive and Real-Time Absentee Reporting System for Schools, Parents and Other Institutions - A method and system are disclosed for interactive participation by parents with educational/school facilities and other governmental institutions wherein all are kept aware of the current location and the current absentee and other documented conditions (grades/tardiness/absentee record etc.) of a specific student. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160065505 | ANCHORED APPROACH TO SCROLLING - At an electronic device having access to a plurality of data objects: displaying a viewport comprising graphical representations of a first subset of the plurality of data objects that are ordered. While displaying the graphical representations of the first subset, the device receives a request to navigate through graphical representations of the plurality of data objects in the viewport. The request is associated with an input magnitude. In response to the request: generate a layout for a second subset of the plurality of data objects based on the input magnitude and an anchor within the plurality of data objects that was selected based on user input; and changing the content of the viewport by displaying graphical representations of the data objects of the second subset according to the layout. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160065509 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGE USER INTERFACE - The present disclosure relates to electronic message user interfaces. A device, including a display, a touch-sensitive surface, and a rotatable input mechanism, is described in relation to accessing, composing, and manipulating electronic messages. In some examples, a user can provide input through the rotatable input mechanism to access a landing screen of an electronic messages application. The landing screen concurrently displays an affordance for accessing an electronic messages inbox and an affordance for accessing an interface for composing electronic message. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160065520 | ELECTRONIC MESSAGE MANAGEMENT WITH CONVERSATION PARTICIPATION STATUS - Electronic message management with conversation participation status is enabled. Accordingly, time may be saved and lost productivity due to overload of messages may be reduced. Electronic conversations may be associated with a set of participants. Each participant may have a varying and/or changing level of interest in the conversation. Each participant may specify a conversation participation status and the conversation participation status and/or user status of each participant may be communicated and/or presented to each of the other participants. Messaging clients may change presentation of conversations and/or electronic messages for a participant based on the participant's specified conversation participation status. Participants sending messages may specify message status specific for each participant to alter treatment of message that would be based on participant status and/or conversation participation status when message is received by each participant. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160065521 | Systems and Methods for Organizing the Display of Messages - A method of processing messages executes at a computing device having one or more processors and memory. The memory stores one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors. Upon identification of a message subset in the plurality of messages pertaining to an event of a first event type or a first entity, an action associated with the message subset is executed thereby obtaining content from a data source distinct from the messages. A graphic compilation is formatted for display in the user in-box of a messaging application. A first portion of the compilation comprises the distinct data source content, a second portion of the compilation lists event items associated with the event or first entity extracted from the message subset, and a third portion of the compilation lists a plurality of objects, each of which is a synopsis of a message in the message subset. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160065525 | ELECTRONIC MAIL USER INTERFACE - The present disclosure relates to electronic mail user interfaces. A device, including a display, a touch-sensitive surface, and a rotatable input mechanism, is described in relation to accessing, composing, and manipulating electronic mail. In some examples, a user can provide input through the rotatable input mechanism to access a landing screen of an electronic mail application. The landing screen concurrently displays an affordance for accessing an electronic mail inbox and an affordance for accessing an interface for composing electronic mail. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160065529 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - It is possible to prevent a latest message associated with a message posted in the past from being overlooked by a user. An input unit that receives input data that is input by a user, a display unit that includes a plurality of display areas in which the input data is displayed, and displays the input data from the user in a display area assigned to the user, and a display control unit that causes input data that is an associating target to be displayed in the display area in a display mode indicating that the input data that is the associating target is associated with at least one of the input data displayed on the display unit and the display area are provided. | 03-03-2016 |
| 20160073243 | SOCIAL MESSAGING HUB SYSTEM - A social messaging hub provides communication services for a data enabled device having Internet network access capabilities such as a portable media player, personal digital assistant, a Wi-Fi mobile platform, a tablet computer, portable e-Reader, a personal computer, a laptop and a netbook computer. The social messaging hub communicates with the data enabled device over the Internet or cellular data networks, and interfaces with a message infrastructure including mobile carriers, message aggregators, message exchanges and various specialized social messaging services. Messages may originate in or be delivered to other users' mobile telephones or in similarly equipped and provisioned IP data enabled devices. The social messaging hub can provide a predetermined auto-reply response and retain messages for a timed duration in a message retention queue when requested by a user. Messages may be viewed with a data enabled device application at various zoom levels. | 03-10-2016 |
| 20160078404 | PRESENTING IMAGE PREVIEWS IN ELECTRONIC MESSAGES - An instant message is received from an instant message sender and a determination is made that the instant message includes a link to a web page that was selected by the instant message sender. In response to determining that the instant message includes the link to the web page, an image corresponding to the web page is fetched and stored, and a thumbnail image preview of the fetched image is generated. In addition, the thumbnail image preview of the fetched portion of the web page is displayed while at least a portion of the instant message is displayed. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160080292 | System and Method for Sharing Content in an Instant Messaging Application - A method and system for sharing content in an instant messaging application are disclosed. According to one embodiment a computer-implemented method comprises logging content accessed by a first client, and a list of accessible content is updated and provided to the first client. A request is received from the first client to share first content of the list of accessible content with a second client, and a message is delivered to the second client, the message containing a link to the first content. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160080293 | Accounts Control - The techniques discussed herein may facilitate user account management while also protecting a user's personally identifiable information (PII). The user's PII is stored in a protected area, such as a secure operating system area. The techniques may also implement a broker process to access a user's PII. The techniques display a user's accounts that are available for use with an application. The techniques further provide for passing a hint to the application upon receiving selection of an account, wherein the hint indicates which user account is selected, without divulging to the application any of the user's PII. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160080296 | SYSTEM AND INTERFACE THAT FACILITATE SELECTING VIDEOS TO SHARE IN A MESSAGING APPLICATION - Systems and methods are provided that facilitate selecting videos to share in a messaging session such as group video chat. In one or more aspects, a system is provided that includes an interface component configured to generate a graphical user interface that facilitates selecting by a user of the device, one or more videos provided by a remote streaming media provider, for sharing with one or more other users in association with a messaging session between the user and the one or more other users, the interface comprising a plurality of input categories including at least one video selection category corresponding to information identifying a set of videos associated with a shared attribute. The system further includes a presentation component configured to display the graphical user interface via a display screen of the device in response to a request. | 03-17-2016 |
| 20160085393 | PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR INSTANT MESSAGING - A method including displaying a list of instant message conversations on a touch screen display, a respective instant message conversation including a respective set of instant messages exchanged between a user of a device and a respective other person, and while displaying the list of instant message conversations, detecting a gesture on the touch screen display. In response to detecting the gesture on the touch screen display, entering a deletion mode. While in the deletion mode continuing to display the list of instant message conversations, displaying a selection icon adjacent to a plurality of instant message conversations in the list of instant message conversations, detecting a first user selection of an instant message conversation, and in response to detecting the first user selection of the instant message conversation, modifying a selection icon adjacent to the selected instant message conversation to indicate selection of the instant message conversation for deletion. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160085421 | Highlighting Message Addressees - In some implementations, a graphical user interface of an electronic messaging system can highlight addressees of a message in a group of candidate message recipients. For example, the graphical user interface can present graphical objects corresponding to candidate message recipients. When a user composes a message, the user can provide input identifying a recipient of the message. In response to the user input identifying the recipient of the message, the graphical user interface can highlight a graphical object corresponding to the identified recipient. In some implementations, the graphical user interface can subdue (e.g., grey out) graphical objects corresponding to candidate message recipients that are not identified in the message in order to highlight the identified recipient objects. In some implementations, a message recipient can be an individual contact (e.g., person). In some implementations, a message recipient can be a message stream. | 03-24-2016 |
| 20160092035 | Gameplay in a Chat Thread - There is provided a system and method for user generated gameplay in chat. The system including a memory storing a text and multimedia messaging software application, and a processor configured to execute the text and multimedia messaging software application to initiate a message exchange session with a remote mobile device, in response to a request received from a user of the mobile device, the message exchange session displaying a user interface for exchanging text and multimedia messages, provide a plurality of games for selection by the user to be played during the message exchange session and within the user interface for exchanging text and multimedia messages, receive a selection of one of the plurality of games by the user after initiating the message exchange session, and initiate the one of the plurality of games for playing within the user interface for exchanging text and multimedia messages. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160092039 | Predictive Determination of Actions - Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for predictive determination of actions. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a user device can receive input via a user input interface. The user input interface is application agnostic. The user device can analyze the input to determine an action option. The action option can include an action to be performed by the user device if selected. The user device also can present the action option for selection. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160092040 | COMMUNICATION DEVICE WITH CONTACT INFORMATION INFERENCE - Communication devices and/or systems are provided for inferring additional information about the contact information maintained in a user's electronic address book. In particular, the additional information may include relationship information or context information inferred based on location and/or correspondence between the user and the others. In an embodiment, the system may identify and analyze communications, such as emails, text messages, or the like, between the user and other users to determine or infer context and relationship between the user and the other users. Communication history between the user and other users also may be used to provide context and relationship history between the user and other users listed in the user's contact list. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160092402 | Selectable Styles for Text Messaging System Publishers - A system includes a computing device that includes a memory configured to store instructions. The system also includes a processor to execute the instructions to perform operations that include receiving at a publisher, a request from a user device for immutable style information of the brand to present a text message on the user device. The style information is provided to the publisher from an owner of the immutable style information of the brand or an agent of the owner. Operations also include preparing one or more files that include data representative of the immutable style information of the brand. Operations also include sending the one or more data files to the user device to provide the immutable style information of the brand for presenting within a text message that includes mutable content. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160094499 | TREATMENT OF CLOUD-BASED AND LOCAL ATTACHMENTS IN COMMUNICATION APPLICATIONS - Users of communication applications may be enabled to select from a user-friendly and efficiently provided list of files that may be of interest to them to attach to a correspondence and send to one or more recipients. For example, the communication application may retrieve information from one or more application programming interfaces (APIs) associated with applications of the user to determine the list of files. The files may be local files or cloud-based files, and a variety of criteria may be used to determine, group, and present the files to the user for selection. Once selected by the user, the files or links to cloud destinations of the files may be attached to the correspondence, where the files or links may be displayed in an attachment well or a body of the correspondence. Permissions associated with the attachments may be set by default, by user configuration, and/or modified by user. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160094504 | Session History Horizon Control - Session history horizon control techniques are described in which participants in a communication session are able to selectively control how much history of the communication session is shown to individuals added into the session. A representation of a session record (e.g., a message thread) may be exposed for rendering by communication modules used by participants for the communication session. Responsive to addition of participants, the communication module(s) may be configured to expose a history control element in conjunction with the session record to enable control over portions of the session record exposed to people added into the session. The history control element for a particular participant is configured to visually identify portions within the session record that are accessible to the particular participant. The history control element may also be positioned in different locations in the session record to modify exposure of the messages to the particular participant. | 03-31-2016 |
| 20160099983 | ELECTRONIC CONFERENCE APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME, AND DIGITAL PEN - An electronic conference apparatus, a method for controlling the same, and a digital pen are provided. The electronic conference apparatus includes a sensor configured to sense a touch point of a digital pen through first hand writer during a period in which handwriting is input to paper through second hand writer. The electronic conference apparatus further includes a controller configured to generate handwriting information based on the sensed touch point, and a communicator configured to transmit the handwriting information. | 04-07-2016 |
| 20160110465 | FRAGMENTING NEWSFEED OBJECTS - A technique allows a newsfeed item shown in a newsfeed of a social network to be easily promoted to another newsfeed in the social network. In a specific embodiment, the system receives a first user's promotion selection of an item displayed in a newsfeed of the first user. The item includes content provided by a second user. The first user is prompted to select a destination newsfeed. A selection of the destination newsfeed is received and the item is published on the destination newsfeed for a third user. | 04-21-2016 |
| 20160119258 | SUBSCRIPTION/NOTIFICATION OF A CONFERENCE IN A COLLABORATION CONFERENCING SYSTEM - Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for collaboration conferencing with multiple participants over a communications network, and more specifically for a conferencing controller in the network configured to control certain aspects of establishing a collaboration conference. In one particular embodiment, the user of the network may access the control system application to provide one or more conferencing parameters or settings the user wishes to be present during a collaboration conference session. The parameters may then be established by the control system and associated with the conferencing session involving the user. In one embodiment, such information may be associated with the identification token. In yet a further embodiment, a user to the collaboration control system may subscribe to receive a notification when another user of the system accesses a portion of a collaboration of the system. | 04-28-2016 |
| 20160124592 | DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED FROM COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES - Examples disclosed herein provide notifications to a user of a communications device. The communications device groups electronic communications received from different communications services according to senders of the electronic communications. The communications device sorts a list of one or more of the senders according to the electronic communications received. The communications device displays the sorted list via a graphical user interface of the communications device. For each sender on the list, the communications device displays an indication of a number of electronic communications received from the sender. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160124615 | CAPTURING INTENT WHILE RECORDING MOMENT EXPERIENCES - A system for capturing intent while recording moment experiences is described. A system receives a notice to record moment data via a mobile device. The system outputs a pictogram set, from multiple pictogram sets, based on contextual information associated with the notice. The system receives a selection of a pictogram from the pictogram set. The system records the moment data. The system outputs the moment data with the selected pictogram. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160127287 | METHOD OF PROVIDING INSTANT MESSAGING SERVICE, RECORDING MEDIUM THAT RECORDS PROGRAM THEREFOR, AND TERMINAL - Disclosed are a method of providing an instant messaging service, a recording medium that records a program therefor, and a terminal. A real time camera capture image is output to a background screen of a dialog window for displaying an instant message so that a user can keep his/her eyes forward through the background screen of the dialog window and use an instant messaging service while moving. Moreover, the real time camera capture image is transmitted to a partner in a conversation through the background screen of the dialog window according to the user's simple input so that it is possible for the user to share circumstances around him or her with the partner in real time. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160127302 | INTELLIGENTLY SHARING MESSAGES ACROSS GROUPS - Identifying recipients to receive communication based on content selection may be provided. An indication of content selected by a user is received. The content may be part of group communication that is communicated among users via an online communication application. The content and an author of the content are identified. One or more criteria may be applied to the content to determine the recipients of the communication. The communication may be transmitted as a single message to the recipients simultaneously. | 05-05-2016 |
| 20160132200 | COMMUNICATION USER INTERFACE SYSTEMS AND METHODS - The principles described herein provide methods and systems of providing a user interface to allow a user to compose and send an electronic communication quickly and conveniently. For example, a user interface includes split-pane interface having a navigable tray area and a composition area. The navigable tray area may include categories of trays, each tray including a navigable listing of content items that may form part of the electronic communication. The navigable tray area allows the user to navigate from one tray to the next to access different types of content items to be used in composing the electronic communication. When composing an electronic communication, a user can select an item in a tray, and the item is previewed in the composition area and can become part of the electronic communication. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160134580 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING NEAR REAL-TIME PREDICTED ENGAGEMENT LEVEL FEEDBACK TO A USER COMPOSING A SOCIAL MEDIA MESSAGE - Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for providing near real-time feedback when a user is composing a social media message. The feedback can indicate a predicted level of engagement with the social media message by other users of a social networking system. In some implementations, a prediction model is used to determine a predicted engagement score, which is an approximation of the predicted level of engagement with the social media message by the other users. A computing device can be configured to display a graphical representation of the predicted engagement score in a user interface at which the social media message is being composed. | 05-12-2016 |
| 20160147387 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING SUMMARIZED DATA - A method of operating an electronic apparatus, including displaying an interface associated with a plurality of messages received by the electronic apparatus; displaying summarized data associated with the plurality of messages when a first input is detected at the interface; and displaying the plurality of messages when a second input is detected at the interface. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160149841 | MESSAGING FOR EVENT LIVE-STREAM - A messaging system for a live event is described. A processing device provides a user interface having at least a first portion and a second portion. The first portion includes a media player streaming a live event having at least one active participant. The user interface is different from a native interface of an event hosting platform. The processing device receives one or more active participant messages entered via the native interface of the event hosting platform during the live event. The processing device also receives one or more viewer messages via the second portion of the user interface during the live event. The processing device provides the one or more active participant messages and the one or more viewer message for presentation in the second portion of the user interface during the live event. The presented viewer messages are integrated with the active participant messages. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160149972 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT CHANGE DEPLOYMENT SYSTEM - A method for managing information relating to a change deployment in order to communicate some or all the information to a plurality of users includes providing an interface to users at workstations accessible by the users, receiving information comprising a plurality of messages from users communicating via the workstations during a change deployment session, initiating display of at least one of the messages to the users via the interface, initiating display of task data to the users via the interface, the task data corresponding to at least one task necessary for completing the change deployment, logging event data related to a plurality of events associated with the change deployment conference session, the event data comprising task status data indicating the status of the at least one task necessary for completing the change deployment, and initiating display of at least some of the event data to the users via the interface. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160149973 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DETAILED TASK SCHEDULER SYSTEM - A method for managing information relating to a deployment of changes in order to communicate some or all the information to users includes providing an interface to a plurality of users at a plurality of workstations accessible by one or more of the users, receiving information comprising initiative data corresponding to each of the plurality of changes, the initiative data comprising data relating to a plurality of parameters corresponding to each of the plurality of changes, initiating display of some or all the initiative data corresponding to some or all the plurality of changes, logging event data related to a plurality of events associated with the deployment of the plurality of changes, the event data comprising change status data indicating a status of at least one of the plurality of changes, and initiating display of at least some of the event data to the users via the interface. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160149974 | INFORMATION MANAGEMENT DETAILED TASK SCHEDULER SYSTEM - A method for managing information relating to a deployment of changes in order to communicate some or all the information to users includes providing an interface to a plurality of users at a plurality of workstations accessible by one or more of the users, receiving information comprising initiative data corresponding to each of the plurality of changes, the initiative data comprising data relating to a plurality of parameters corresponding to each of the plurality of changes, initiating display of some or all the initiative data corresponding to some or all the plurality of changes, logging event data related to a plurality of events associated with the deployment of the plurality of changes, the event data comprising change status data indicating a status of at least one of the plurality of changes, and initiating display of at least some of the event data to the users via the interface. | 05-26-2016 |
| 20160154556 | TECHNIQUES FOR ENHANCING GROUP COMMUNICATION ON A MOBILE DEVICE | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160156574 | Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Lightweight Messaging | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160156584 | Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Managing Customer Relationships using a Lightweight Messaging Platform | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160156683 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING STATE INFORMATION | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160156770 | MESSAGE MANAGEMENT METHODS AND SYSTEMS | 06-02-2016 |
| 20160164809 | IDENTIFYING AND SELECTING CONTACTS TO INCLUDE IN A FACE TRAY OF A MESSAGING APPLICATION - A user interacts with a messaging application on a client device to capture and send images to contacts or connections of the user, with a single user interaction. The messaging application installed on the client device, presents to the user a user interface. The user interface includes a camera view, and a face tray. The messaging application automatically populates the face tray with contact icons associated with one or more contacts. The messaging application identifies contacts associated with the user and attributes associated with the contacts. Based on one or more attributes, the messaging application may rank the contacts. Based on the rank associated with the contacts, the messaging application selects one or more contacts to include in the face tray to present to the user or to provide to the user from which the user can select contacts to include in the face tray. | 06-09-2016 |
| 20160173429 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING COMMUNICATIONS WITH OBSCURED MEDIA CONTENT BACKGROUNDS | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160173434 | MESSAGE CLASSIFICATION AND MANAGEMENT | 06-16-2016 |
| 20160179331 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR OBSCURING TEXT IN A CONVERSATION | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182413 | Device and Its Method for Post-Processing Conversation Contents in a Communication Software | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182415 | SCALABLE SYSTEMS FOR CHANGE DETECTION OF STATISTIC DATA FEEDS ACROSS MULTIPLE SERVERS USING SHARED MEMORY WITH CONFIGURABLE MESSAGING TRIGGERS | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182423 | THREADED CONVERSATION USER INTERFACE | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182426 | RESTRUCTURING VIEW OF MESSAGES BASED ON CONFIGURABLE PERSISTENCE | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160182430 | OPTIMIZING VIEW OF MESSAGES BASED ON IMPORTANCE CLASSIFICATION | 06-23-2016 |
| 20160188164 | Instant Messaging Activity Notification - User activity is communicated in a messaging system. Communication is performed by monitoring an input region displayed to a first user of the messaging system in a client executed at a user terminal of the first user; responsive to receiving a user activated input at the input region, analyzing the input and using the analysis to match the input to a type of user activity from a predetermined set of user activities; and transmitting a message comprising data representing the type of user activity from the user terminal of the first user to a user terminal of at least one other user of the messaging system over a communications network. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160191429 | DIGITAL DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THEREFOR - A digital device configured to check a notification of an application and a method of controlling therefor are disclosed. If an icon including an indicator is slid to a direction of a sub display area from a main display area by a slide touch input, the digital device according to the present specification can display notification information corresponding to the indicator on the sub display area. | 06-30-2016 |
| 20160196239 | METHOD, TERMINAL DEVICE AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING CONTENT OF SHORT MESSAGE | 07-07-2016 |
| 20160253054 | SLIDER AND HISTORY FILED FOR SMART CHAT SESSIONS | 09-01-2016 |
| 20160378271 | METHOD AND A DEVICE FOR PROCESSING MESSAGES EXCHANGED BETWEEN USERS - One embodiment relates to a processing method for processing messages exchanged between a first user and at least one second user, the method comprising detecting a first message being composed by a first user in a message composition window displayed on a screen of a terminal of the first user. The method may also comprise detecting during this composition the arrival of a second message for the first user and coming from at least one second user; and, in response to this detection, interrupting the composition of the first message, with input by the first user in the composition window following this interruption leading to a third message being created. The method may comprise displaying the first message and the second message on the screen of the terminal, each message being displayed outside the composition window in association with at least one predetermined action that can be confirmed by the first user. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160380932 | Occasionally-Connected Computing Interface - Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for allowing a user to switch between interfacing with a service through a network or through short message service (SMS). A chat service is executed through which a first user at a first computer can communicate directly with a second user at a second computer. A request is received from the first computer to enable the first user to interface with the chat service through a mobile device of the first user using SMS instead of through the network using the first computer. The chat service is configured to interface with the mobile device through SMS, including communicating chat information through SMS to the first user's mobile device, and communicating control information through SMS to the first user's mobile device such that the first user can control a full functionality of the chat service using SMS. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20160381092 | EPHEMERAL INTERACTION SYSTEM - Techniques for enabling members that have interacted physically to interact thereafter via an online social networking service are described. According to various embodiments, it is determined that a first member and a second member of an online social networking service physically interacted at an interaction location at an interaction time, and a specific time interval commencing at the interaction time is calculated. Thereafter, an ephemeral prompt is displayed to the first member, during the specific time interval, indicating that the first member physically interacted with the second member, and inviting the first member to message the second member via the online social networking service. The ephemeral prompt is prevented from being displayed subsequent to expiration of the specific time interval. | 12-29-2016 |
| 20190146635 | PRESENTING MESSAGES VIA GRAPHICAL OBJECTS IN A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE | 05-16-2019 |
| 20190146650 | USER INTERACTION PROCESSING IN AN ELECTRONIC MAIL SYSTEM | 05-16-2019 |
| 20190149505 | PRESENTING TASKS IN EMAIL APPLICATION AND CALENDAR APPLICATION | 05-16-2019 |
