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| 20090100497 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING A SET OF USERS FROM ACCESSING A MESSAGE IN AN INSTANT MESSAGING SYSTEM - The illustrative embodiments described herein provide a computer-implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for preventing a set of users from accessing a message in an instant messaging system. The process determines whether a message received by a receiving computing device from a sending computing device is undetected by a set of users associated with the receiving computing device. The process notifies the sending computing device that the message is undetected by the set of users in response to determining that the message is undetected by the set of users associated with the receiving computing device. The process prevents the set of users from accessing the message in response to receiving a request to prevent the set of users from accessing the message. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090198652 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SELECTING A COMMUNICATION MEANS - A method and system for selecting communication means are provided. The method includes receiving a request for communication ( | 08-06-2009 |
| 20090319614 | Triage of Electronic Mail - A method for processing electronic mail messages (emails), including receiving a first batch of the emails, and displaying a first listing of the first batch to a recipient of the emails for selection by the recipient for viewing. The method further includes recording an order of the selection by the recipient of the emails from the first listing, and receiving a second batch of the emails subsequent to the first batch. The method also includes formulating and displaying to the recipient a second listing of the second batch responsively to the order of the selection from the first listing. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20100161369 | APPLICATION OF RELATIONSHIP WEIGHTS TO SOCIAL NETWORK CONNECTIONS - A method and system for relationship weighting in social networks are provided. The method includes identifying a plurality of sources of relationship data and extracting from each source a list of connected contacts with a relationship strength for each connection. The lists of contacts from the sources are aggregated into an aggregated list, with each source having a source weighting. The aggregated list is applied to an un-weighted social network to provide relationship strengths between contacts. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100174747 | METHODS FOR RECOMMENDING NEW INDIVIDUALS TO BE INVITED INTO A CONFIRMED SOCIAL NETWORK BASED ON MINED SOCIAL DATA - A computer-implemented method that inputs a confirmed social network of a user, performs data mining of electronically accessible data for the user to produce a mined social network including individuals having a social relationship with the user and having an electronically accessible link to the user, subtracts the confirmed social network of the user from the mined social network to produce a recommendation list, in which the recommendation list includes at least one new individual not belonging to the confirmed social network of the use, and in which the recommendation list recommends the at least one new individual not belonging to the confirmed social network for membership in the confirmed social network, and outputs the recommendation list to the user. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20100198633 | Method and System for Obtaining Social Network Information - A method and system for obtaining social network information are provided. The method includes capturing a social environment at a given time including capturing a set of identities in a predefined proximity to a monitored identity at the given time, wherein an identity is an identity of a real person or a virtual identity, and recording parameters of the social environment. The method then combines the captured social environments in a time range for a monitored identity and analyses the combined captured social environments in the time range to provide a social network for the monitored identity including weightings of the relationships between the monitored identity and the captured identities. The monitored identity and the captured identities may be avatars and the predefined proximity may be a proximity to a virtual location. Alternatively or additionally, the monitored identity and the captured identities may be identities of real people or groups of people, and the predefined proximity may be a proximity to a real location. | 08-05-2010 |
| 20100241964 | Shared Feed Reader and Method of Shared Feed Reading - A shared feed reader for multiple users and a method for sharing feed reading are provided which provide group collaboration features. The shared feed reader includes a server including a processor hosting the shared feed reader for remote access by multiple users, and a user interface for each of the multiple users including an aggregator of web feeds subscribed to by the user. The shared feed reader includes: a mechanism for defining a group of users, wherein web feeds subscribed to by users in the group are exposed to the other users in the group; and a mechanism for sharing a read status of a web feed post across the group, wherein the read status indicates which users have read the post. The shared feed reader may also include a mechanism for receiving a meta-feed of meta-posts, wherein meta-feeds and meta-posts relate to activities of users in the group on shared feeds and posts. | 09-23-2010 |
| 20110055333 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HIGHLIGHTING EMAIL RECIPIENTS - A method and system for highlighting email recipients according to a user's social network are provided. The method includes receiving an email message at a user's email client, the email message having multiple recipients, one of the recipients being the user. The method further includes obtaining a social network list for the user and comparing the social network list for the user with the email message recipients and highlighting recipients in the email message who are also in the social network list. The social network list for a user may be obtained by different methods including using the user's contact resources, or using an aggregating social network system including weighting relationships between contacts. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110078587 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EMAIL MESSAGING - A method and system for preventing sending of messages to incorrect email recipients are provided. The method includes determining ( | 03-31-2011 |
