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Adjunct use of instant messenger software to enable communications to or between chatterbots or other software agents

Details

Inventors: Slotznick, Benjamin;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Cabeca; John
Assistant Examiner: Detwiler; Brian
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP

A user's chatterbot participates in a chat session with other users and the other users' chatterbots. The originator of an incoming instant message is identified to such a degree that a buddy on a buddy list is able to determine that the instant message was sent by a user's chatterbot (e.g., "Jackie's chatterbot"), and not the user ("Jackie"). The chatterbots can communicate with other chatterbots while the chatterbots' users listen to the chatterbots converse. The chatterbots may respond to messages originated by other chatterbots' messages and buddies' (users') messages.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention allows a user's chatterbot to "participate" in instant messaging along with its owner, and thereby allows the user's chatterbot to engage in "conversations" with the user's "buddies" or their chatterbots.
The chatterbots may be artificially intelligent or may mimic human conversation.
The chatterbots are software controlled agents, each associated with a human user.
The chatterbots and their associated human users participate in an electronic chat session.
Messages transmitted and received during the electronic chat session are processed in accordance with the present invention.
Each message includes the identity of the source (e.
g.
, originator) of the message.
Each source is a participant in the electronic chat session that is either a human user or a software controlled agent associated with the human user.
In a preferred embodiment of the present invention when the chatterbot generates a message, the present invention brings the instant messaging software in focus (the invention will cause the focus of the operating system to "attach" to the instant messaging software window).
The present invention then inputs the text for the message as if it were generated by keystrokes.
However, the present invention first prefaces the text with characters indicating that the message is generated by the chatterbot.
For example, if the present invention is embodied as software, the user (say a boy named "Jackie") can enter a name for his chatterbot, such as "Jackie's chatterbot," into the software, then the present invention would preface the chatterbot message with "Jackie's chatterbot says:" The present invention then activates transmission of the message as if it were any instant message (for example, by inputting the "enter" key keystroke).
The present invention then returns the focus to whatever the user was doing.
To elaborate, the transmitted message clearly indicates that it is the user's chatterbot generating the message for the amusement of everyone on the buddy list

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