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US 7,454,709 B1Granted
User definable on-line co-user lists
AssigneeAOL LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company
InventorBarry Appelman
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AssigneeAOL LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company
InventorBarry Appelman
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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 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.
An electronic network system that enables a user of the electronic network system to define and to perceive one or more user-created co-user lists and to track a current logon status of co-users in the co-user lists in substantially real-time, comprising:
A method that enables a user of an electronic network system to define and to perceive one or more user-created co-user lists and to track a current logon status of co-users in the co-user lists in substantially real-time, the method comprising:
A system that enables a user of an electronic network system to define and to perceive one or more user-created co-user lists and to track a current logon status of co-users in the co-user lists in substantially real-time, comprising:
A graphical user interface that enables a user of an electronic network system to define and to perceive one or more user-created co-user lists and to track a current logon status of co-users in the co-user lists substantially in real-time, comprising:
A computer program product embodied in a tangible computer-readable medium, the computer program product comprising instructions for enabling a user device to define and to perceive one or more user-created co-user lists and to track a current logon status of co-users in the co-user lists substantially in real-time and to enable the following operations in a graphical user interface having one or more window interfaces:
A system that enables a user of an electronic network system to define and to perceive one or more user-created co-user lists and to track a current logon status of co-users in the co-user lists substantially in real-time, comprising:
A method for enabling a user to control perception, by co-users, of an indication of the user's presence on an electronic network system, the method comprising:
The method as in clam 131 wherein the inclusion list contains a list of co-users expressly permitted by the user to perceive the indication of the user's presence on the electronic network system.
A graphical user interface for enabling a user to control perception, by co-users, of an indication of the user's presence on an electronic network system, comprising:
A computer program product embodied in a tangible computer-readable medium, the computer program product including instructions that, when accessed, result in a computer performing operations comprising:
The computer program product of clam 151 wherein the inclusion list contains a list of co-users expressly permitted by the user to perceive the indication of the user's presence on the electronic network system.
A system for enabling a user to control perception, by co-users, of an indication of the user's presence on an electronic network system, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.