Patents Assigned to AOL
  • System and methods for providing multiple personas in a communications environment
    Patent number: 8037150
    Abstract: A user interface on a display enables perception of communications that leverage an instant messaging platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: AOL Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Weaver, Eric Jeffrey Wolf, Julie McCool, Julie Mills, Brian Heikes
  • Using automated agents to facilitate chat communications
    Patent number: 8037147
    Abstract: An automated agent, such as an instant message robot, is be used to facilitate introduction of a chat participant to a small group of other chat participants in a chat room. To do so, for example, a BOT may present a chat participant who desires to be introduced to a small group of chat participants in a chat room with a series of multiple-choice questions, identify a subset of chat participants based on responses to the multiple-choice questions, and provide introductions among the chat participants in the subset to facilitate conversation therebetween. For example, the introductions provided by the BOT may indicate areas of mutual interest among chat participants in the subset, similar responses to one or more multiple-choice questions, and/or diverse responses to one or more multiple-choice questions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: AOL Inc.
    Inventors: June R. Herold, William P. Schreiner
  • Multi-modal participant lists
    Patent number: 8037139
    Abstract: An instant messaging user may use a buddy list that includes a user-selected list of potential instant messaging recipients (“buddies”) to identify another instant messaging user with whom instant messages are to be exchanged. An instant messaging user also may use a buddy list for other purposes, such as to initiate playing of an on-line game or to invite participants to play an on-line game. Techniques are provided to transform a buddy list from one messaging-mode to another messaging-mode. The transformation may include, for example, substitution or re-ordering of groups of buddies, substitution of buddy icons associated with buddies, substitution of information displayed about buddies, and substitution of controls for directing operation of the buddy list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: AOL Inc.
    Inventors: Edmund J. Fish, Allen J. Eichler
  • Display apparatus including computer generated icon
    Patent number: D646284
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: AOL Advertising Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Thai, John Kilpatrick, Dejan Sormaz, Ramon Espinosa, David Edward Miller, Karin Jo Eanes
  • Display apparatus including computer generated icon
    Patent number: D646285
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: AOL Advertising Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Thai, John Kilpatrick, Dejan Sormaz, Ramon Espinosa, David Edward Miller, Karin Jo Eanes
  • Display apparatus including computer generated icon
    Patent number: D646286
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: AOL Advertising Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Thai, John Kilpatrick, Dejan Sormaz, Ramon Espinosa, David Edward Miller, Karin Jo Eanes
  • Display apparatus including computer generated icon
    Patent number: D646287
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: AOL Advertising Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Thai, John Kilpatrick, Dejan Sormaz, Ramon Espinosa, David Edward Miller, Karin Jo Eanes
  • Display apparatus including computer generated icon
    Patent number: D646288
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: AOL Advertising Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Thai, John Kilpatrick, Dejan Sormaz, Ramon Espinosa, David Edward Miller, Karin Jo Eanes
  • Display apparatus including computer generated icon
    Patent number: D646289
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: AOL Advertising Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Thai, John Kilpatrick, Dejan Sormaz, Ramon Espinosa, David Edward Miller, Karin Jo Eanes
  • Display apparatus including computer generated icon
    Patent number: D646291
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: AOL Advertising Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Thai, John Kilpatrick, Dejan Sormaz, Ramon Espinosa, David Edward Miller, Karin Jo Eanes
  • Display apparatus including computer generated icon
    Patent number: D646292
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: AOL Advertising Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Thai, John Kilpatrick, Dejan Sormaz, Ramon Espinosa, David Edward Miller, Karin Jo Eanes
  • Display apparatus including computer generated icon
    Patent number: D646293
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: AOL Advertising Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Thai, John Kilpatrick, Dejan Sormaz, Ramon Espinosa, David Edward Miller, Karin Jo Eanes
  • Display apparatus including computer generated icon
    Patent number: D646294
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: AOL Advertising Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Thai, John Kilpatrick, Dejan Sormaz, Ramon Espinosa, David Edward Miller, Karin Jo Eanes
  • Display apparatus including computer generated icon
    Patent number: D646295
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: AOL Advertising Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Thai, John Kilpatrick, Dejan Sormaz, Ramon Espinosa, David Edward Miller, Karin Jo Eanes
  • Display apparatus including computer generated icon
    Patent number: D646296
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: AOL Advertising Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Thai, John Kilpatrick, Dejan Sormaz, Ramon Espinosa, David Edward Miller, Karin Jo Eanes
  • Display apparatus including computer generated icons
    Patent number: D646690
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: AOL Advertising Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Thai, John Kilpatrick, Dejan Sormaz, Ramon Espinosa, David Edward Miller, Karin Jo Eanes
  • Display apparatus including computer generated icon
    Patent number: D646691
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: AOL Advertising Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Thai, John Kilpatrick, Dejan Sormaz, Ramon Espinosa, David Edward Miller, Karin Jo Eanes
  • Display apparatus including computer generated icon
    Patent number: D646692
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: AOL Advertising Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Thai, John Kilpatrick, Dejan Sormaz, Ramon Espinosa, David Edward Miller, Karin Jo Eanes
  • Display apparatus including computer generated icon
    Patent number: D646693
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: AOL Advertising Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Thai, John Kilpatrick, Dejan Sormaz, Ramon Espinosa, David Edward Miller, Karin Jo Eanes
  • Display apparatus including computer generated icon
    Patent number: D646694
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: AOL Advertising Inc.
    Inventors: Tom Thai, John Kilpatrick, Dejan Sormaz, Ramon Espinosa, David Edward Miller, Karin Jo Eanes