Classifications

• • H—ELECTRICITY
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• • H—ELECTRICITY
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  • H04L67/14—Session management
  • H04L67/142—Managing session states for stateless protocols; Signalling session states; State transitions; Keeping-state mechanisms
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
  • H04L67/00—Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications
  • H04L67/2866—Architectures; Arrangements
  • H04L67/30—Profiles
• • H—ELECTRICITY
  • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
  • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
  • H04L69/00—Network arrangements, protocols or services independent of the application payload and not provided for in the other groups of this subclass
  • H04L69/30—Definitions, standards or architectural aspects of layered protocol stacks
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  • H04L69/329—Intralayer communication protocols among peer entities or protocol data unit [PDU] definitions in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Definitions

• the present invention relates to personal communication with pictures over an open computer network.
• the invention makes it possible for a person who is looking at a picture page via the open network to see and communicate with other persons who are looking at the same page.
• the here described invention offers considerably increased possibilities for meetings between people by giving each web page possibility of being a potential meeting place.
• the invention creates virtual meeting places where the participants inter alia can exchange documents and execute a "conversation" by writing, at the same time as they can see each other.
• Certain web pages are adapted for direct communication with persons who are visiting just that page, so called chatting. Such solutions are connected to a separate web page, so called chat page. Any generally available possibility to direct communication with others does not exist via the web pages. It is, for instance, not possible to start a chat from just any page, and there are needed certain tools for chatting.
• Chatting via a chat page is anonymous since the counterpart is not possible to identify. Name and other information in connection with the chatting is voluntary information that can be presented during the chatting and there are small possibilities to get a reliable identification. Neither there is any possibility to see the person with whom one is chatting.
• an infrastructure is created which exist parallel with, but separate from, an open computer network, for instance Internet.
• the invention by that can be utilised together with all web pages on the Internet.
• information sites in Internet are grouped into “worlds” .
• a “world” is a multiple of web pages that persons with interests in common can be expected to visit.
• a “world” can for instance be constituted by web pages that are associated to the same server, deal with the same field of interest, or belong to the same organisation.
• the "world” constitutes the base for creation of contact between the users on the open computer network.
• the invention is built of a management system, client program and a database.
• information sites web pages
• users are registered with address and identity information.
• the client program which is accessible to retrieve from the management system, includes necessary functions for contact with the management system and for the communication possibilities with other users of the open computer network.
• a person who visits a web page will find other persons who are visiting the same web page or "related" web pages.
• the invention makes it possible that people can meet in the virtual world without needing specific fora, such as chat rooms. Prepared and not prepared meetings are possible on just any web page.
• Client software that is necessary, in addition to browser, to utilise the invention, is loaded to the user terminal from a central storing place. There are no modifications required of the web pages that are associated, or of the web servers from which the web pages are loaded.
• the invention functions as a chat application on the Internet, and makes it possible for people with interests in common, and who for that reason are visiting the same web page, to get into contact with each other.
• the invention When the invention is used on the intranet of a company, it will promote spontaneous contacts between colleagues. It will by that be an important aid for internal distribution of information and communication.
• the invention can be applied on the web site of a company and there directly give visitors at the web site support from staff at the company. Support staff have possibility to see the visitors and to communicate directly and give them advice and support and in other ways contribute to that the visitors of the page will have the wanted information or contact.
• a user In connection with electronic shopping via the website of a company, a user can be attended to by a seller who gives personal service and aid and who can guide the visitor at the web site of the company. The customers also can get assistance from a seller without need of calling a certain telephone number or write e-letter.
• the invention can be used to show who are connected, and function as a support in the communication.
• the invention can be used in connection with telephone conferences to show who are connected, and give the users easy facilities to share documents.
• the invention makes it possible for people to meet in the virtual world, without need of specific fora, such as chat rooms. Prepared and not prepared meetings are possible on any web page. Spontaneous meetings will arise in the same way as in the real world. Authors, journalists and other publishers can be constantly present on a web page. The one who is visiting the page can see them and communicate with them and vice versa.
• Figure 1 shows the communication at establishing of personal communication.
• FIG. 2 shows an overview of the structure of the invention.
• Figure 3 shows an example of how the meeting place can be shown on the client's place of work.
• Webb Function on the Internet (or on an intranet) that allows that one in an easy way can retrieve linked information in form of text, picture and sound .
• Web page The amount of information on a web site that one can access without need to go further via a link; often corresponds to the amount one can see on the screen at the same time, or by scrolling the picture .
• Chat Carry on a dialogue by writing, in real time, via Internet.
• node shall be addressable and recognised by the host computer.
• Internet The international computer network that has the greatest spreading and that is based on TCP/IP, a standard for data communication .
• Intranet Internal computer network (for instance within an organisation) , which utilises the same technology as Internet, but which is not accessible from the Internet .
• IP-address Numerical Internet address. In order to utilise the address space optimally, Internet users are often allocated IP- address dynamically.
• a visitor (20) who retrieves information on a server via an open computer network (21) will have possibility to communicate with others (22) , who are retrieving "related" information.
• "Related” information can, for instance, be information stored at the same storing place, within the same speciality, with the same author, or with the same publisher.
• the arrangement is so arranged that no limitation be applied to the site of the visitors in the open computer network, such as the visitor's address in the computer network.
• the arrangement neither implies any limitation of storing place of concerned information, such as identity, ownership, or address to server, in excess of reading rights and other restrictions of access in the open network to said information.
• Necessary resources can be provided by the one who manages the arrangement , in form of , among other things :
• management systems which manage the arrangement and which communicate with users
• database (25) which stores information about users and information regarding identification of said "related" information.
• the client program completes the communication functions that are utilised in the user's terminal for communication on the open computer network.
• the completion relates to functions for the data interchange with the management system, and for communication with other users on the open computer network.
• information is stored about the users who are utilising the arrangement. Necessary information is brought to the database through the user, by which the user himself/herself is given possibility to control which information that shall be stored. Examples of stored information about the user are:
• address information such as address to establish communication, telephone numbers, e-mail address etc.
• the person searching information is given support to establish communication with other persons with the same interest, searching information, or others who are searching information within "related" fields.
• the arrangement also gives access to communication possibilities with said other users.
• Said communication possibilities can include:
• the invention is utilised on the Internet.
• a management system (11) controls the function by managing control logic (13) and constitutes storing place from where the user can load his/her computer with the client program.
• the client program By the client program being retrieved via Internet, no adaptation or preinstallation is required at the user's computer (12) .
• the client program (15) is started from the user's web crawler (14) .
• This client program reads the Internet addresses that the user activates in the web crawler.
• An address to a web page is indicated in the user's web crawler (1) at which the web server where this web page is, returns the requested web page to the web crawler (2) .
• the client program senses that a new web page has been requested (3) and sends a message (4) to the management system (11) .
• the message contains the Internet address to the retrieved web page .
• the concept "world” is used to refer to persons who are looking at the same page or, if a multiple of pages are included in a world, the same group of pages.
• the management system looks up in a database which world that is associated with this Internet address (5), and returns the identity for the associated world (world- ID) to the client (6) . To the world is associated a lot of objects, such as users, documents and chat rooms. These objects are accessible to those who are visiting the same world, but not for others .
• the client program uses this new world-ID to get access to the now current world (7) .
• the management system returns the documents and users that are associated with the looked up world (8) , for presentation to the user.
• the client also changes chat room to the room that is associated with current world, in order to make possible text communication between users who are in the same world.
• Each user is registered in the management system with inter alia the IP-address at which he/she is. This will facilitate communication between users and makes possible addressing also when dynamic IP-addresses are utilised.
• Web pages are associated to worlds by that one indicates a node in the web tree. All pages further down in the tree than the specified node is regarded as belonging to the same world. A plurality of nodes can belong to the same world.
• web tree is meant the tree structure that is created by the domain hierarchy of the Internet, and the file trees of the web servers.
• Documents in common can be located to the server so that everybody in an easy way can have access to the same document. Different rights of access to these documents in common can be allocated to the users .
• the component is also useful for exchange of other files or objects .

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