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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
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, Mountian View, CA (US);
Aaron David Kemp, Kitchener, CA;
Sharvil Nanavati, Dundas, CA;
Jonathan Gordon Sharkey, Kitchener, CA;
Sean Yaoxing Liu, Sunnyvale, 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, Mountian View, CA (US);
Aaron David Kemp, Kitchener, CA;
Sharvil Nanavati, Dundas, CA;
Jonathan Gordon Sharkey, Kitchener, CA;
Sean Yaoxing Liu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and machine-implemented method for differentiating participants in a group conversation within a graphical user interface of an electronic device of a user, via displaying a collection of contact icons on the graphical user interface, each contact icon respectively corresponding to one of a plurality of participants in a group conversation, wherein the group conversation provides for sharing communication messages among the plurality of participants including the user; determining which of the plurality of participants are currently accessing the group conversation; and differentiating, in the graphical user interface, display of the contact icons corresponding to those participants determined to be currently accessing the group conversation from the remaining contact icons.