Brian Heikes
28 Papers
1.3K Citations
Brian Heikes is an academic researcher from Facebook. The author has contributed to research in topics: Instant & Message broker. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 28 publications.
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Patent
Using avatars to communicate
Patrick Blattner,John Robinson,Jamie Odell,Brian Heikes,Tom Love,Mike Blackwell,David S. Levinson,Andrew Weaver +7 more
- 01 Mar 2004
TL;DR: A graphical user interface on a display device for using a computer to communicate using an avatar includes an instant message sender display that displays a sender avatar capable of displaying multiple animations as discussed by the authors.
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Buddy list filtering
Brian Heikes,David Gang +1 more
- 16 Dec 2005
TL;DR: In this paper, the first filter criteria are applied to the first information associated with each instant messaging participant to obtain a first filter result for each of the other instant messaging participants (635).
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Managing Instant Messages
Brian Heikes,Kristine Amber Krantz,Kelly Monroe Mathews,Russell Scott Medeiros,Venkatesh Ramanathan,Richard W. Robinson,Perry E. Miranda Roman,Edward L. Sears,Andrew L. Wick,Deborah Ruth Yurow +9 more
- 21 Jul 2004
TL;DR: In this article, instant messages created by or on behalf of one or more message sources for delivery to an intended recipient are collected and two or more of the qualifying instant messages may be captured.
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Instant messaging personalization
Brian Heikes,James A. Odell,Justin Uberti,Andrew L. Wick,Xiaoyan Yin,Xiaopeng Zhang +5 more
- 27 Nov 2002
TL;DR: In this article, a personalization item is enabled in an instant messaging communications session by rendering, on an instant message recipient system, a user interface for instant messaging application user interface.
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Rendering Destination Instant Messaging Personalization Items Before Communicating With Destination
Brian Heikes,James A. Odell,Justin Uberti,Andrew L. Wick,Xiaoyan Yin,Xiaopeng Zhang +5 more
- 31 Dec 2002
TL;DR: In this paper, an instant messaging application running on the instant messaging sender system is described, where the personalization items are made perceivable prior to communication with the intended instant message recipient.
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