METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SIGNALING PRESENCE OF USERS IN A NETWORKED ENVIRONMENT

Patent №

US 6,148,328

Granted

2000-11-14

Filed 1998

Owner

IBM CORPORATION

AI components

3

kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

09016052

Dynamic information is unobtrusively provided to a target user about other users in an online environment. The target user is informed of the arrival and departure from the environment of particular selected users. Additionally, an indication of an aggregate number of users in the environment is given to the target user.

AI classification

Planning0.93
Knowledge representation0.91
AI hardware0.69
Machine learning0.05
Evolutionary computation0.01
Vision0.00
Natural language0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

IBM CORPORATION

assignment · 89520167

Assignors

CUOMO, GENNARO, SINGHAL, SANDEEP K.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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