Aggregation and visualization of multiple chat room information

摘要

The information made available in a series of chat windows which each represent a different chat room is summarized and displayed in a single chat window summary screen. In this way a user can monitor a single window in a single display rather than many windows occupying a series of displays. When one of the chat room summaries indicates something of interest to the user, the user may return to a view of the entire chat window for that chat room. In some implementations the user may designate one or more of the chat room summaries as an active window. The active window may include more information in its summary that the chat room summaries for the remaining chat room summaries which are not designated as active windows.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
receiving over a communications network a plurality of chat messages from two or more different chat rooms; analyzing the plurality of messages to extract a summary of activity taking place in the two or more chat rooms, wherein the summary of activity further includes a chat room summary to be presented on a distinct region of the display for each of the two or more chat rooms,
the distinct region of a plurality of the chat room summaries each including a plurality of subregions, a first subregion presenting one or more infographics reflecting an amount of participant activity in its respective chat room, wherein the infographics provide a real-time indication of a participant's activity in its respective chat room; andcausing the summary of activity to be presented on a display.