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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2012
Benjamin David Eidelson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Gregory Matthew Marra, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jason B. Prado, San Francisco, CA (US);
Fred Peter Gilbert, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ye-jeong Kim, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Punit Singh Soni, Mountain View, CA (US);
Aaron David Kemp, Kitchener, CA (US);
Sharvil Nanavati, Dundas, CA (US);
Jonathan Gordon Sharkey, Kitchener, CA (US);
Anish Acharya, Toronto, CA;
Sean Yaoxing Liu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
William C. Ferrell, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Benjamin David Eidelson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Gregory Matthew Marra, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jason B. Prado, San Francisco, CA (US);
Fred Peter Gilbert, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ye-Jeong Kim, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Punit Singh Soni, Mountain View, CA (US);
Aaron David Kemp, Kitchener, CA (US);
Sharvil Nanavati, Dundas, CA (US);
Jonathan Gordon Sharkey, Kitchener, CA (US);
Anish Acharya, Toronto, CA;
Sean Yaoxing Liu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
William C. Ferrell, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for presenting a group conversation on an electronic device of a user, via displaying, on a graphical user interface of the device, a group of contacts with which the user can communicate, the group of contacts comprising one or more individual contacts and one or more social circles which define a preset collection of contacts associated with one another. User input is received via the graphical user interface, the user input specifying a selection of participants from the group of contacts for a group conversation. The group conversation provides for sharing communication messages among the participants. A conversation window is presented on the graphical user interface. The conversation window displays a collection of contact icons with each contact icon respectively corresponding to one of the selected participants of the group conversation, and a conversation thread with the shared communication messages.