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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2011
Filed:
May. 18, 2004
Andrew Weaver, Herndon, VA (US);
Eric Jeffrey Wolf, Alexandria, VA (US);
Julie Mccool, Reston, VA (US);
Julie Mills, Reston, VA (US);
Brian Heikes, Ashburn, VA (US);
Andrew Weaver, Herndon, VA (US);
Eric Jeffrey Wolf, Alexandria, VA (US);
Julie McCool, Reston, VA (US);
Julie Mills, Reston, VA (US);
Brian Heikes, Ashburn, VA (US);
AOL Inc., Dulles, VA (US);
Abstract
A user interface on a display enables perception of communications that leverage an instant messaging platform. The user interface includes a module for identifying at least two identities within an instant messaging communications environment to whom messages may be directed, a module for associating a first persona of a user with a first functionality, a module for associating a second persona of the user with a second functionality, the second functionality differing from the first functionality, a module for rendering an instant messaging application user interface for a first instant messaging communications session involving the user and a first identity and a second instant messaging communications session involving the user and a second identity, the user interface being presented at a system display presented to the user, and a module for enabling the first person of the user to be projected to the first identity while concurrently enabling a second persona of the same user to be projected to the second identity.