Forming a group of users for a conversation
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsJonathan F. Brunn, Jennifer Heins
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Abstract
Forming a group of users for a conversation includes determining when users are accessing information associated with each other, maintaining a group of the users, the group of the users representing a transitive closure over a viewing relationship of the information, displaying, via a display of a user device, digital representations of the users in the group accessing the information, and initiating, based on an action of at least one of the users in the group of users, a conversation.
Claims20
A method for forming a group of users for a conversation, the method comprising:
- determining when users are accessing information associated with each other;
- maintaining a group of the users, the group of the users representing a transitive closure over a viewing relationship of the information;
- displaying, via a display of a user device, digital representations of the users in the group accessing the information;
- and
- initiating, based on an action of at least one of the users in the group of the users, a conversation.
A method for forming a group of users for an electronic, online conversation, the method comprising:
- determining when users on a computer network are accessing electronic information associated with each other;
- and
- in response to a first user accessing information associated with a second user, displaying to the first user a digital representation of the second user with an option to initiate an electronic communication session with the second user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.