USER ATTENTION AND ACTIVITY IN CHAT SYSTEMS

摘要

In a chat system user attention and activity can be reflected to other chat participants to increase communication effectiveness, immediacy, and quality. Further, efficient communication can be facilitated by a keyboard providing, in an intelligent manner, non-textual content for selection. User attention focus indicating the progress of a content consumption activity being performed using a display device can be determined and communicated to other chat participants. The content consumption activity can relate to content other than chat message text content. A graphical indication can be displayed to indicate an amount of chat message text input being input for a message that is not yet sent. Further, the indications of non-textual content for the keyboard can be populated according to content of a current chat or content of a chat history.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
providing a chat system for communication among a plurality of chat clients over a network; determining an attention focus for a chat client of the chat clients, the attention focus indicating the progress of a content consumption activity being performed at the chat client, the content consumption activity relating to content other than chat message text content; synchronizing the determined attention focus to other chat clients; and updating displays of the other chat clients based on the synchronized attention focus of the chat client to indicate the content consumption activity.