423 results about "Chat room" patented technology

The system, method, and program of the invention captures actual physical gestures made by a participant during a chat room or instant messaging session or other real time communication session between participants over a network and automatically transmits a representation of the gestures to the other participants. Image processing software analyzes successive video images, received as input from a video camera, for an actual physical gesture made by a participant. When a physical gesture is analyzed as being made, the state of the gesture is also determined. The state of the gesture identifies whether it is a first occurrence of the gesture or a subsequent occurrence. An action, and a parameter for the action, is determined for the gesture and the particular state of the gesture. A command to the API of the communication software, such as chat room software, is automatically generated which transmits a representation of the gesture to the participants through the communication software.

A method and apparatus for automatically gathering, summarizing, and indexing real-time information derived from real-time communication on the Internet, such as Internet chat sessions, or any other comparable form of real-time communication on the Internet. The present invention provides live information selection and analysis and provides basic functionality of crawling, indexing and summarizing chat room data, as well as generating messages, such as advertisements, responsive to the subject matter of the communication.

Systems and methods are provided for combined social behavior tracking, online surveillance and web bot software technologies via a mobile device or computer for tracking online consumer behavior and data, cookies, embedded advertisements, predicting online consumer behavior, buying patterns by monitoring online activities, online communications, search inquiries, social networking, social plugins, social applications, advertisements, purchasing, behavior, and buying patterns, consumer address books and contact lists, blogs, chat rooms, friends, acquaintances and strangers, instant messaging, text chat, internet forum, service providers, travel and hospitality, real estate, educational services, ancillary services (as defined herein) and delivery system for behavior targeting and filtering of coupons, mobile services, products, goods and services, advertisements and service providers and related company information on a three dimensional geospatial platform using multi-dimensional and scalable geospatial mapping associated with entities providing and / or members of the service and / or social networking.

The present invention provides a method or an apparatus to provide area chat rooms where unspecified users each carrying a portable terminal can exchange message or the like in real time as well as for creating or searching for chat rooms based on location information and displaying locations of participants during a chat. The apparatus includes chat rooms each associated with a specific location, accepts an entrance request with a current location and a remark attached from a portable terminal, and distributes a user of the portable terminal to a chat room whose area contains a current location. Then, each of the terminals displays the location and remark of participants on its screen.

A system and method for notifying an offline global computer network user of an online interaction in which the offline user could participate. The system and method specify notification criteria of the offline user, monitor activities occurring on the global computer network, compare the activities to the notification criteria, and, if the activities satisfy the notification criteria, forward an offline communication to the offline user, which notifies the offline user of the online interaction. Examples of the online interactions include chat rooms, game sites, instant messaging services, auctions, and calls made over the global computer network. Examples of the offline communication include calls to a wireline telephone, calls to a wireless telephone, messages to a caller identification device, messages to a wireless access protocol device, messages to a one-way pager, and messages to an interactive pager.

A web page is YACHNEE™ enabled by providing an icon on the page which allows actuation upon being clicked. The user is then able to design a character to represent him on the screen. He also sees characters on screen representing other users, which characters have been designed by the users. A user may move his character all over the screen by dragging it with his mouse and may rotate it towards or away from other characters. The characters may speak to each other, either through a voice communication or typing, in which case the text appears in a bubble (cartoon fashion). A user may change the appearance of a character to reflect an emotion (e.g. anger) and he may invite other characters to a private chat. When a user leaves the web page, the corresponding character disappears from all other users' screens. Communication among users viewing the same web page is facilitated without the need for any program or plug-in other than what is standard in a web browser. Additionally, such features as the automatic generation and de-activation of chat-rooms are possible, which in previous applications are pre-defined and independent of the presence of users.

An interactive multimedia interface and display for providing a wide variety of multimedia content and services to a plurality of users utilizing various platforms. Users or a group of users can participate in interactive multimedia sessions and communicate by text messaging, audio, or video signals in real time. Numerous interactive tools such as application sharing, synchronized internet browsing allowing users to browse the network together, file distribution and sharing, voting and polling, session recording, shared whiteboard, and chat room are provided. Advertising and purchasing information windows allow products to be advertised and purchased. The layout, size, and interactive tools offered can be flexible adapted to requirements.

A system and method for handling an electronic communication such as an email, an instant message or a chat room statement. Instructions receive and parse the electronic communication. URLs within the parsed electronic communication are identified and categorized as appropriate or inappropriate. The electronic communication is routed as a function of the categorized URLs—appropriate electronic communications are routed to the addressee; inappropriate electronic communications have controlled access. Also included is a system and method for controlling access by third parties to web pages including instructions for parsing a web page, identifying URLs within the parsed web page, categorizing the identified URLs, and permitting third parties to access the web page as a function of the categorized URLs.

The present invention is system and method for holding voice chat over a telephone network. An embodiment for implementing the invention can comprise the following steps. First, a caller accesses the chat service by dialing a telephone number that is associated with the service of the present invention. Second, the caller is routed to a conference bridge circuit. Third, the subscriber enters a public chat room. Fourth, the subscriber participates in the public chat room that he or she had entered. While in the public chat room, the subscriber hears the voices of other chatters in the public chat room, and those chatters hear the subscriber's voice when the subscriber speaks. Fifth, at anytime, the subscriber may leave the public chat room by pressing an appropriate key on the keypad. In the preferred embodiment, two or more chatters may request to be placed in a private chat room for a private discussion that is not heard by other chatters of the public chat room.

A system is disclosed that provides a goal based learning system utilizing a rule based expert training system to provide a cognitive educational experience. The system provides the user with a simulated environment that presents a training opportunity to understand and solve optimally. The system utilizes an artificial intelligence engine driving individualized and dynamic feedback with synchronized audio, video, graphics and animation used to simulate real-world environment and interactions. Multiple “correct” answers are integrated into the learning system to allow individualized learning experiances in which navigation through the system is at a pace controlled by the learner. Multiple users or students can utilize the simulated environment simultaniously and interactively from mupltiple viewpoints. A dynamic feedback system is utilized theat narrowly tailors feedback and focuses it based on the performance and characteristics of the student to assist the student in reaching a predefined goal.

System and method for operating reputation-based communication or content service. Method includes obtaining metric related to first user contributor reputation; identifying communication or content having association with first user contributor; and processing communication or content to generate processed communication or content based on the obtained objective contributor reputation. Service is broadly defined and may be selected from bulletin board, message board, chat room, forum, information provision service, content delivery service, email service, information provision service, search engine service, content delivery service, communication or content screening service, communication or content screening service, or other. System for providing reputation processed based on-line communication or content. Communication or content provided or generated by the inventive system or method. Business method for operating a communications or content provision service. Computer program and computer program product stored either on a tangible media or in an electronically accessible and readable form to implement method.

A method, system and program storage device are provided for allowing chat room participants to communicate with other participants privately without requiring general chat “friends” or “buddies” pre-authorization. All chatting dialog including private and public chats are consolidated into a unified group chat dialog window that requires no special handling by a user to see public and private chats. The private and public chat messages are displayed chronologically in a single chat message log within the chat group window.

A system for implementing a content-centered chat room operates to display messages received from one or more invitees of a subscriber on the subscriber's TV as program content is displayed on the subscriber's TV. The subscriber and the invitees all watch television, either a common TV program or different TV programs. Participants may be located in the same or in several different locations, and if the invitee-participants are also subscribers, the chat room may also appear on their TV screens. A subscriber invites friends to participate in the chat session for a specific TV program using the set top box (STB) of his television to send invitations, and a dedicated subscriber server coordinates notification of the invitees and directs their message-comments to a chat session displayed with the program content. In one embodiment, participants or the participants who are not also subscribers of the TVChat service or whose televisions are otherwise not chat-enabled, may receive other participants' chat messages by mobile phone.

The present invention is a method and system for using predetermined preferences / characteristics to ascertain personal compatibility between network or chat room participants based upon profile information. When the system determines that these preferences are favorable for interpersonal compatibility, the system will automatically notify or page the participants so as to facilitate their introduction. Further functionality, aside from the compatibility based upon profile information, includes e-mail and other electronic notification of personal compatibility as well as geographic compatibility.

An intranet providing a multiple-carrel public-access kiosk is disclosed. The intranet provides free access to foreign and domestic informational e-commerce intranet sites as well as e-mail and public service educational and informational materials. The kiosk accepts anonymous pre-paid cards issued by a local franchisee of a network of c-commerce intranets that includes the local intranet. The franchisee owns or leases kiosks and also provides a walk-in e-commerce support center where e-commerce support services and goods, such as pre-paid accounts for access to paid services at a kiosk, can be purchased. The paid services provided by the carrel include video-conference and chat room time, playing and / or copying audio-visual materials such as computer games and music videos, and international e-commerce purchase support services such as customs and currency exchange. The third-party sponsored public service materials include audio-visual instructional materials in local dialects introducing the user to the use of the kiosks services and providing training for using standard business software programs. Sponsors include pop-up market research questions in the sponsored public service information and receive clickstream date correlated with the user's intranet ID and answers to the original demographic questions answered by the user.

A media production control system with built-in newsgathering and fact-checking tools, able to receive news feeds in multiple formats from many sources, and featuring geographic portability and low cost. The system allows a producer to select and queue individual feeds for broadcast or limited distribution, using either the system's software or an externally coupled device. Shared communications tools comprise a web browser, an instant-messaging package, a chat room, a headlines display, and a virtual whiteboard.

Exemplary embodiments include methods, systems, and storage mediums for providing multi-media content storage and management services. From a single user interface, the method includes creating a library of content items including at least one of a photo library and a video library, creating at least one other content item including at least one of a web page, newsletter, message board, email, instant message, chat room text message, and electronic greeting, associating at least one component of the library with the at least one other content item to form an arrangement, and designating access restrictions to the arrangement. The access restrictions include the option of applying no restriction.

For use in media communications, e.g. in the delivery of video and audio or in teleconferencing, a media file or title is partitioned for secured, efficient delivery. A data sequence representing the file is partitioned into smaller subsequences, with a first subsequence being chosen to convey a degraded-quality representation of the data, and the other sequences for complementing the first subsequence to obtain a superior-quality representation. Among areas of applicability are media on demand, real-time communications and broadcasting, and online media locker, jukebox and chat room services.

Provided is a method and system for controlling an Internet of Things (IoT) device. An IoT control method configured as a computer may include registering an IoT device as a buddy through an open application programmer interface (API) of a messenger service platform; creating a group chat room by grouping a plurality of IoT devices among IoT devices registered as the buddy; and providing a messaging service participated in by the plurality of IoT devices through the group chat room.

A method and apparatus for controlling access of individuals to a service, device or location in order to restrict access to members of a particular age and / or gender category, by machine-sensing a predetermined biometric characteristic of the individual indicative of the particular age and / or gender category, and utilizing the machine-sensed characteristic for automatically controlling access of the individual. The method and apparatus are particularly suited to controlling access of children to certain Internet sites, TV programs, chat rooms, or other places inappropriate to children.

An intelligent interactive multimedia system that provides a wide variety of multimedia content and services to a plurality of users utilizing various platforms. A plurality of channels is provided to users. Users or a group of users can participate in interactive multimedia sessions and communicate by text messaging, audio, or video signals in real time. Numerous interactive tools such as application sharing, synchronized internet browsing allowing users to browse the network together, file distribution and sharing, voting and polling, session recording, shared whiteboard, and chat room are provided. An advertising and purchasing module allow products to be advertised and purchased.

The present invention provides systems and method to assist users in monitoring multiple communications sessions such as from electronic chat rooms, for example. The system allows the user to set certain settings for each chat room, wherein the settings or thresholds pertain to data associated with participants and activity of the sessions. The user then receives notifications when certain events occur in a given chat room. This enables the user to monitor various activities at multiple chat rooms, without having to pay attention or read each entry at each chat room or session.

Disclosed herein is a group messaging system for providing file sharing through bidirectional interlock with a cloud server, including: a messenger server receiving information requesting creation of a group chatting room including group members and instructing user terminals of the respective group members to create the group chatting room; and a cloud server interlocking with the messenger server, receiving information about the creation of the group chatting room from the messenger server, and creating a sharing group mapped to the group chatting room in a one-to-one scheme.

An arrangement, system, and methods for creating and distributing authenticated personal information for users of network services and participants in social surveys, and in chat rooms and other forums. A trusted organization verifies that personal information presented by a user is correct, and authenticates the information in an encapsulated form as “certified profiles” within a smart card or other secure portable hardware device issued to the user Certified profiles are authenticated by digital signatures of the trusted organization and the profile users. Personal information in certified profiles can be in raw and / or in statistically-processed and abstracted form, and can be tailored by the user for specific needs to include whatever personal information is required, and to exclude all other personal information. By the use of unique aliases, it is possible for users to anonymously access restricted network sites and participate in surveys, while still satisfying recipients that supplied personal information is accurate, and for surveys that the user has not responded to the same survey more than once. Users enroll for certified profiles via trusted enrollment vendors who market the service to the public and also make hardware and software available to users for managing, maintaining, and distributing the certified profiles.

Systems and methods for an autonomous marketplace system consist of a server that extracts borrower data that includes financial, operational and business data. The system also extracts lender data from prospective lenders including financial data and a target profile for each prospective lender. It then generates, using artificial intelligence, an autonomous ranked match of prospective lenders, wherein the artificial intelligence is used to identify relationships between the borrower data and the prospective lender data to generate the autonomous ranked match based on a preference of the borrower and a correlation between the identified relationships. Upon the borrower entering an internet based chat room the identities of the prospective lenders are revealed. The borrower selects one or more prospective lenders to receive a finance request, and after selection by the borrower, the selected prospective lenders are first notified and informed of an existence of the finance request of the borrower.

An interactive database and real time exchange system for specialty commodity products and other products that must have their identity preserved from trade to delivery. The database includes specialty commodity products available from member producers and other information related to such products, and is accessible to system users, preferably through an interactive network system. An automated exchange director provides for real time matching of specific products in the database with corresponding bids from system users, and executes trades of accepted matches for identified units of the specific products. A delivery module is provided in communication with the exchange director, and implements delivery logistics and tracking of the identified unit between the trade and completed delivery. The system can further include a forum interactive module which allows communication between and among system users, such as through chat rooms and specific product forum pages. In one embodiment applicable specifically to agricultural specialty commodity products, the system further includes a monitor for periodically providing information to the system about the condition of the specific product in a traded identified unit during delivery. The system and process provide a central exchange which includes interactive access to all information needed for production, marketing, researching, trading, use and delivery of specialty commodity products, optimizing quality, timing and exchange price for all concerned.

One embodiment of the present method and apparatus for user-moderation of an online chat room in which a plurality of users are exchanging messages includes providing the chat room and controlling a manner in which the users send and receive the messages in the chat room in accordance with user feedback relating to the messages. In one embodiment, the user feedback is received in the form of user chat profiles, which describe the respective users' participation in the chat room, and flags, which users may be given in response to messages that are deemed inappropriate for the chat room.

The position-linked chat system makes it possible to carry out a chat using many terminals connected to a server device through the Internet. The server device includes a chat room controller which generates many chat rooms based on a geographical standard, a chat room selector which selects a chat room in which a user of certain terminal is to participate based on information relating to the current position of that terminal, and a voice controller which mixes voices of users transmitted from the terminals of respective users participating in the same chat room.

A process for managing an instant messaging or chat room session provides an automated real-time status of the activity of a participant currently disengaged from the messaging session. Throughout the messaging session, the status a participant is continuously determined, and a status indicator indicating the current action of the participant is sent to the other participant. The instant messaging application, other system applications and all interconnected hardware are monitored for user activity. Detected user activity is interpreted into a status indicator, which is transmitted to the other participant and displayed on the recipient's computer in a preferred format.