Recursive identification of individuals for casual collaborative conferencing
AssigneeRockstar Consotrium US LP
InventorCraig Alexander Will
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Abstract
A method for real-time communication among two or more individuals separated in space. The method includes the steps of determining that a first individual is likely to be interested in communicating with a second individual via a first communications link; retrieving information via the first communications link about one or more additional individuals from electronic memory means associated with the second individual; and establishing communication with at least one of the additional individuals based on the retrieved information.
Claims18
A method of enabling communications between users in a network, the method comprising:
- monitoring communication between a first user and at least one other user;
- recording information relating to the communication between the first user and the at least one other user in a directory associated with the first user;
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- sending to a second user, via a communications link connected to the directory associated with the first user, information relating to the communication between the first user and the at least one other user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.