{
  "patent_number": "US 9467413",
  "country": "US",
  "title": "How Instant Messaging Apps Open Reply Windows for Social Media Updates",
  "original_title": "Method and system for replying to website update event",
  "summary": "A method for letting users reply to social media updates directly within an instant messaging app by using external software to control the appearance of the reply window.",
  "what_it_does": "This patent describes a way to bridge the gap between a social networking site (SNS) and an instant messaging (IM) application. When a user receives a notification about a social media update—like a new photo or status post—the IM client receives specific prompting information. Upon the user's command, the IM client loads the relevant social media content and uses an external software program to define how the reply window should look, including its size, title, and background color. This allows the user to interact with the social media update without leaving the IM interface.",
  "what_it_does_not_cover": [
    "Does not cover replying to updates directly within the social networking site's own native app or website.",
    "Does not cover general notification systems that do not involve generating a specific reply window via external software attributes.",
    "Does not cover automated or bot-driven replies that occur without user interaction."
  ],
  "filed": "2014-06-20",
  "granted": "2016-10-11",
  "expires": null,
  "status": "active",
  "holder": "Tencent Technology Shenzhen Co Ltd",
  "holder_url": "https://patentbrief.org/company/tencent-technology-shenzhen-co-ltd",
  "inventors": [
    {
      "name": "Xin Xu",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/xin-xu"
    },
    {
      "name": "Jianing Tang",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/jianing-tang"
    },
    {
      "name": "Shuzhan Yang",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/shuzhan-yang"
    },
    {
      "name": "Xuan Zhou",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/xuan-zhou"
    }
  ],
  "times_cited": 0,
  "tags": [
    "software",
    "telecommunications",
    "consumer_electronics"
  ],
  "abstract": "A method for replying to a website update event includes steps of: receiving, at an instant-messaging client end, prompting information about an update event of personal dynamic information of a user account associated with a current user at the instant-messaging client end in an SNS, wherein the prompting information includes information of prompting the user to conduct a reply; loading and rendering, at the instant-messaging client end, the updated personal dynamic information when the instant-messaging client end receives command information corresponding to the information of prompting the user to conduct a reply; and generating and outputting, at the instant-messaging client end, a reply window according to the loaded and rendered updated personal dynamic information and thereby enabling the user at the instant-messaging client end to conduct a reply through the reply window. A system for replying to a website update event is also provided.",
  "url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/9467413/facebook-marketplace",
  "markdown_url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/9467413/facebook-marketplace/md",
  "google_patents_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US9467413",
  "relatedPatents": []
}