Identifying and using identities deemed to be known to a user
AssigneeAOL Inc.
InventorRoy BEN-YOSEPH
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Abstract
The people a user is presumed to know or be associated with may be determined using a number of techniques. This information about people that the user knows is used in relation to the user's communications. For example access to a user's online presence may be restricted based on the known people such that access to presence is provided only to those people that the user knows.
Claims21
-45. (canceled)
A method of providing presence information comprising:
- maintaining, in a storage device, a list of people that is known to a user;
- determining, using at least one processor, that a person is known to the user based, at least in part, on one or more actions performed by the user on one or more messages received by the user from the person, the actions including one or more of (a) saving the one or more messages from the person;
- (b) printing the one or more messages from the person;
- (c) moving the one or more messages from the person from an inbox to a folder;
- and (d) leaving the one or more messages from the person open for a predetermined period of time;
- in response to determining that the person is known to the user, updating the list maintained in the storage device to reflect that the person is known by the user;
- and
- communicating, to the user, presence information based on the updated list of people known to the user.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions which, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform the following steps:
- maintaining a list of people that is known to a user;
- determining that a person is known to the user based, at least in part, on one or more actions performed by the user on one or more messages received by the user from the person, the actions including one or more of (a) saving the one or more messages from the person;
- (b) printing the one or more messages from the person;
- (c) moving the one or more messages from the person from an inbox to a folder;
- and (d) leaving the one or more messages from the person open for a predetermined period of time;
- in response to determining that the person is known to the user, updating the list maintained in the storage device to reflect that the person is known by the user;
- and
- communicating presence information based on the updated list of people known to the user.
A system for providing presence information, the system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- at least one computer-readable storage medium storing a set of instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the following steps:
- maintaining a list of people that is known to a user;
- determining that a person is known to the user based, at least in part, on one or more actions performed by the user on one or more messages received by the user from the person, the actions including one or more of (a) saving the one or more messages from the person;
- (b) printing the one or more messages from the person;
- (c) moving the one or more messages from the person from an inbox to a folder;
- and (d) leaving the one or more messages from the person open for a predetermined period of time;
- in response to determining that the person is known to the user, updating the list maintained in the storage device to reflect that the person is known by the user;
- and
- communicating presence information based on the updated list of people known to the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.