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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 04, 1999
Harry W. Morris, Reston, VA (US);
Robert G. Watkins, Vienna, VA (US);
America Online, Inc., Dulles, VA (US);
Abstract
Interactions between users of a computer network are facilitated by transmitting a first user's proposal for an activity to another user, with the proposal including one or more parameters descriptive of the proposed activity. A response received from the other user may include a counterproposal having one or more parameters descriptive of the proposed activity, with at least one of the parameters of the counterproposal differing from a corresponding parameter of the proposal. The users automatically engage in the proposed activity using the parameters included in the counterproposal upon acceptance of the counterproposal by the first user.