Facebook, Inc.

Aol Inc.

Kelly Matthews

Brian Heikes

Deborah Ruth Yurow

Barry Appelman

Xiaoyan Yin

Andrew Lee Wick

Kristine Amber Krantz

Venkatesh Ramanathan

Russell Scott Medeiros

Richard W Robinson, Jr

Edward L Sears

Perry E Roman

Controlling the volume of an audible alert associated with an instant messaging communications session includes rendering, on a first instant messaging user system, an instant messaging application user interface for an instant messaging communications session involving at least a first instant messaging user and a second instant messaging user, receiving notification of an event related to the instant messaging communications session, determining a characteristic of the event, accessing an audible alert to be rendered to signal existence of the event, adjusting based upon the determined characteristic of the event a volume of the audible alert corresponding to the event, and rendering the audible alert to signal existence of the event.

Changing event notification volumes

Changing sound alerts during a messaging session

Managing instant messages may include receiving instant messages created by or on behalf of one or more message sources for delivery to an intended recipient. From among the received instant messages, qualifying instant messages may be identified that satisfy a capture rule, and two or more of the qualifying instant messages may be captured. The intended recipient may be informed of the captured instant messages unobtrusively, and also may be enabled to manage the captured instant messages.

Methods and systems for capturing and managing instant messages

Variable level sound alert for an instant messaging session

Instant messaging sound control

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Kelly Matthews