Global Patent Index - EP 1173815 A1

EP 1173815 A1 20020123 - PERSONAL COMMUNICATION ON COMPUTER NETWORKS

Title (en)

PERSONAL COMMUNICATION ON COMPUTER NETWORKS

Title (de)

PERSÖHNLICHE KOMMUNIKATION AUF COMPUTERNETZWERKEN

Title (fr)

COMMUNICATION PERSONNELLE SUR DES RESEAUX INFORMATIQUES

Publication

EP 1173815 A1 20020123 (EN)

Application

EP 00921234 A 20000322

Priority

  • SE 0000560 W 20000322
  • SE 9901121 A 19990326

Abstract (en)

[origin: WO0058867A1] The invention makes it possible for a person who is looking at a picture page via an open computer network, for instance Internet or an intranet, to communicate with other persons, who are looking at the same page. By the invention is provided an arrangement and a method that makes it possible for a visitor (20) to retrieve information from a server (21), and get possibility to communicate with others (22), who are retrieving "related" information. Information, which, for instance, is within the same speciality, has the same storing place, the same author, or the same publisher is, according to the invention, regarded as "related". The invention makes it possible for persons to meet in the virtual world and there get access to: information about, inclusive address to and picture of, other persons who are searching information within the same or related fields, possibility for direct communication, access to documents in common, or other objects or files. The invention is built up of a management system, client program and a database.

IPC 1-7

G06F 17/30

IPC 8 full level

H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

H04L 12/1818 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01); H04L 67/142 (2013.01); H04L 67/30 (2013.01); H04L 69/329 (2013.01)

Citation (search report)

See references of WO 0058867A1

Citation (examination)

  • WO 9820410 A1 19980514 - COMPUSERVE INC [US]
  • EMMANUEL FRÉCON, MARTEN STENIUS: "DIVE: a scaleable network architecture for distributed virtual environments", DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS PUBLISHING, 1 September 1998 (1998-09-01), Bristol, GB, pages 91 - 100, XP020073365
  • LEA R; HONDA Y; MATSUDA K; HAGSAND O; STENIUS M: "Issues in the design of a scalable shared virtual environment for the Internet", SYSTEM SCIENCES, 1997, PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRTIETH HWAII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WAILEA, HI, USA, 7 January 1997 (1997-01-07), Los Alamitos, CA, USA, pages 653 - 662, XP010272052
  • MERZ M; ET AL: "Dynamic neighborhoods: browsing the World Wide Web together", PROCEEDINGS OF THE SPIE, BELLINGHAM, VA , US, 1998, pages 423 - 432, XP002379878
  • PAUL P MAGLIO AND ROB BARRETT: "Adaptive Communities and Web Places", 20 June 1998 (1998-06-20) - 24 June 1998 (1998-06-24), XP007908115, Retrieved from the Internet <URL:http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/ah98/Maglio/Maglio.html>

Designated contracting state (EPC)

DE DK ES FI FR GB IT SE

DOCDB simple family (publication)

WO 0058867 A1 20001005; EP 1173815 A1 20020123; NO 20014499 D0 20010917; NO 20014499 L 20010926; NO 319725 B1 20050912; SE 516134 C2 20011119; SE 9901121 D0 19990326; SE 9901121 L 20000927

DOCDB simple family (application)

SE 0000560 W 20000322; EP 00921234 A 20000322; NO 20014499 A 20010917; SE 9901121 A 19990326