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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2015
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Jonathan F. Brunn, Logan, UT (US);
Jennifer Heins, Cary, NC (US);
Assignee:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04N 7/15 (2006.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/04 (2013.01); H04L 12/1822 (2013.01); H04L 65/1069 (2013.01); H04L 65/403 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01); H04N 7/152 (2013.01); H04N 7/157 (2013.01);
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.