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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2001
David Gray Boyer, Oceanport, NJ (US);
James Owen Coplien, Wheaton, IL (US);
Rebecca Elizabeth Grinter, San Francisco, CA (US);
Randy L. Hackbarth, Western Springs, IL (US);
James David Herbsleb, Naperville, IL (US);
Lalita Jategaonkar Jagadeesan, Naperville, IL (US);
Peter Andrew Mataga, Sparta Township, Sussex County, NJ (US);
Graham John Wills, Naperville, IL (US);
David Gray Boyer, Oceanport, NJ (US);
James Owen Coplien, Wheaton, IL (US);
Rebecca Elizabeth Grinter, San Francisco, CA (US);
Randy L. Hackbarth, Western Springs, IL (US);
James David Herbsleb, Naperville, IL (US);
Lalita Jategaonkar Jagadeesan, Naperville, IL (US);
Peter Andrew Mataga, Sparta Township, Sussex County, NJ (US);
Graham John Wills, Naperville, IL (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A ConnectIcon View is employed to establish collaborative communications between a plurality of participants in a group. Specifically, it is a dynamic visual representation of the participants of a group being invited to communicate together with their presence information, lists of documents and URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) to be examined, and a set of mechanisms (email, chat, voice, and the like) to initiate communication, each of which can be billed to the originator or otherwise as desired. The available presence information allows a user to employ the best mode of communicating for the instant purpose, namely, either asynchronous communication or synchronous communication.