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(12) United States Patent
Appelman
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(10) Patent N0.:
(45) Date of Patent:
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ADDING CO-USERS TO USER DEFINABLE
CO-USER LISTS
US 8,713,441 B2
*Apr. 29, 2014
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(71) Applicant: Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US)
(72) Inventor:
4,653,090 A
5,136,501 A
Barry Appelman, Great Falls, VA (US)
Notice:
8/ 1992 Silverman et a1.
(Continued)
(73) Assignee: Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US)
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3/1987 Hayden
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zine; Apr. 1996.
(21) Appl. No.: 13/720,295
(22)
Filed:
4/1997
12/1997
(Continued)
Dec. 19, 2012
Primary Examiner * Kevin Nguyen
(65)
(74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm * Keller Jolley Preece
Prior Publication Data
US 2013/0110858A1
May 2, 2013
(57)
ABSTRACT
A real time noti?cation system that tracks, for each user, the
Related US. Application Data
logon status of selected co-users of an on-line or network
(63)
(51)
Continuation of application No. 13/719,071, ?led on
Dec. 18, 2012, Which is a continuation of application
No. 13/347,277, ?led on Jan. 10, 2012, Which is a
continuation of application No. 12/469,347, ?led on
May 20, 2009, noW Pat. No. 8,099,667, Which is a
continuation of application No. 10/866,304, ?led on
Jun. 14, 2004, noW Pat. No. 7,539,942, Which is a
continuation of application No. 08/803,692, ?led on
Feb. 24, 1997, noW Pat. No. 6,750,881.
When a user to logs on to a system, the user’ s set of buddy lists
is presented to the buddy list system. The buddy list system
attempts to match co-users currently logged into the system
(2006.01)
(2006.01)
With the entries on the user’s buddy list. Any matches are
displayed to the user. As co-users logon and logoff, a user’s
US. Cl.
USPC
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lists according to the user’ s preference. The user can update a
buddy list or create neW buddy lists Whenever necessary.
Int. Cl.
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system and displays that information in real time to the track
ing user in a unique graphical interface. The invention pro
vides user de?nable on-line co-user lists, or “buddy lists”, that
track speci?c co-users in real-time automatically. A user can
create many separate buddy lists of co-users, either With
intersecting or disjoint lists of users, and label these buddy
buddy list is updated to re?ect these changes. An indication
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can also be added to shoW that a co-user just logged on or just
Field of Classi?cation Search
USPC ........ .. 715/733, 853, 758, 750, 743, 7364737
left the system.
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48 Claims, 7 Drawing Sheets
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LOGON SYSTEM
BUDDY usr SYSTEM
USER
NOTIFIES BUDDY
LOGS ON
SYSTEM ABOUT
USER
LOGON SYSTEM
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LOGON SYSTEM
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BUDDY LIST SYSTEM
DISPLAYS BUDDY LISTS
WITH INDICATOR MARKINGS