发明名称 |
Initiating communications with web page visitors and known contacts |
摘要 |
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for initiating communication between two users among several users while at least one of the two users is browsing a web page. User information is collected about each user among the several users. Page information is collected about what web page each user among the several users is browsing. A portion of the user information and page information for a first user and a second user is shared between the first user and the second user when a predetermined criterion is met, and request by the first user to initiate communication with the second user is processed. |
申请公布号 |
US8839120(B2) |
申请公布日期 |
2014.09.16 |
申请号 |
US201113045615 |
申请日期 |
2011.03.11 |
申请人 |
Google Inc. |
发明人 |
Karam Joseph F. |
分类号 |
G06F3/00;G06F3/048 |
主分类号 |
G06F3/00 |
代理机构 |
McDermott Will & Emery LLP |
代理人 |
McDermott Will & Emery LLP |
主权项 |
1. A computer-implemented method for initiating communication between a plurality of users, the method comprising:
determining page information, the page information including information indicative of web content areas displayed by a first web browser and a second web browser among a plurality of web browsers, wherein the first web browser and the second web browser are associated with a first user and a second user respectively; determining whether the first web browser and the second web browser among the plurality of web browsers are simultaneously displaying a same web site; in response to determining that the first and second web browsers are simultaneously displaying the same web site: providing an indication to the first web browser and the second web browser that the first and second web browsers are simultaneously displaying the same web site; sharing identifiers of the first user and the second user and a portion of the page information of the web site displayed in the first web browser and the second web browser, wherein the identifier of the first user is provided in a menu of the second web browser associated with the second user and the identifier of the second user is provided in a menu of the first web browser associated with the first user; and processing a request to initiate communication between the first user and the second user using respective identifiers of the first user and the second user, wherein the communication is performed via a mechanism for the first user to send an instant message to the second user or via a mechanism for the second user to send an instant message to the first user. |
地址 |
Mountain View CA US |