| US 7,558,828 B1 | ||
| Enabling electronic logging using an instant message system | ||
| John Panzer, Mountain View, Calif. (US) | ||
| Assigned to AOL LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company, Dulles, Va. (US) | ||
| Filed on Dec. 30, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/747,677. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/473926, filed on May 29, 2003. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 60/488398, filed on Jul. 21, 2003. | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 15/16 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 709—206 [709/205] | 62 Claims |
| 1. A method of web logging using an instant message (IM) system, the method comprising:
identifying, to an IM host system, an interactive software agent that has a screen name and is configured to receive and respond
to IMs from users of the IM host system;
maintaining, in a computer memory storage device, data that records associations between individual web logs within a collection
of multiple web logs and corresponding user identifiers that are associated with the individual web logs;
receiving, at the interactive software agent, an IM from an IM sender that is addressed to the screen name for the interactive
software agent and that includes content that is to be added to a web log associated with the IM sender;
in response to receiving the IM from the IM sender that is addressed to the screen name for the interactive software agent:
determining that the IM includes content that is to be added to a web log;
identifying, from among the users of the IM host system and based on the IM, the IM sender as the IM user who sent the IM;
based on having identified the IM sender as the IM user who sent the IM:
accessing the data that records the associations between the individual web logs and the corresponding user identifiers that
are associated with the individual web logs;
comparing a user identifier corresponding to the IM sender to at least some of the user identifiers within the accessed data,
and
based on results of comparing the user identifier corresponding to the IM sender to the user identifiers within the accessed
data, identifying, from among the collection of web logs, a web log as being associated with the IM sender;
based on having determined that the IM includes content that is to be added to a web log and as a consequence of having identified
the web log as being associated with the IM sender, determining that the web log identified as being associated with the IM
sender is the web log, from among the collection of web logs, to which the content included in the IM is to be added; and
based on having determined that the identified web log is the web log to which the content included in the IM is to be added,
adding the content included in the IM to the web log identified as being associated with the IM sender.
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