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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 30, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2012
Applicants:
LI Chen, Cary, NC (US);
Thomas R. Haynes, Apex, NC (US);
Lin Sun, Morrisville, NC (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); H04N 21/8549 (2011.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/107 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04N 21/8549 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0261 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods of conducting status updates may incorporating a text summary of an image into a status update message, and determining whether to incorporate the image into the status update message based on a network condition associated with a network. In addition, the status update message can be sent via the network wherein, in one example, the status message is sent only to remote parties having a status that satisfies a relevance condition with respect to the content of the text summary.