Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Forming a group of users for a conversation
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Application No.: US15146659Application Date: 2016-05-04
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Publication No.: US10541950B2Publication Date: 2020-01-21
- Inventor: Jonathan F. Brunn , Jennifer Heins
- Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Fabian VanCott
- Agent Steven L. Nichols
- Main IPC: H04N7/15
- IPC: H04N7/15 ; H04L29/08 ; H04L29/06 ; H04L12/58 ; H04L12/18

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.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160323545A1 FORMING A GROUP OF USERS FOR A CONVERSATION Public/Granted day:2016-11-03
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