Embodiments of the present invention provide a message processing method and apparatus, and relate to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: comparing a message feature of a currently processed message with a specified tracking feature; determining a user corresponding to the message as a target user when determining that the message feature matches the tracking feature; and reporting a signaling message of the target user to a network management server. In the present invention, a network fault is quickly located, and network connection efficiency is improved.

A messaging server receives a sharing message from a sharer client indicating that the sharer client is offering to provide live location information. When the messaging server receives a subscription request from a receiver client indicating a request to receive live location information shared by the sharer client, the messaging server sends a location request to the sharer client. The location request requests live location information from the sharer client. The sharer client determines its location using a location module and sends live location information to the messaging server in response to the request. The server sends the live location information received from the sharer client to the receiver client. When no receiver clients send subscription requests, the sharer client does not send live location information, thereby preserving power by limiting use of the location module.

The present invention relates to: a message display method according to an event occurrence in a virtual reality (VR) device, wherein, when an event such as a telephone call, a text receipt such as an SMS, and a message receipt using a messenger program or an application occurs, during the displaying of a stereoscopic image through a head mounted display (HMD)-based VR device, in a communication terminal such as a smart phone combined with the VR device, a message according to an event occurrence is displayed by linking with a screen of the stereoscopic image being currently reproduced, thereby solving problems of severe discomfort sensation, which have occurred in conventional methods in which a message according to an event occurrence is displayed in a shape such as a black-based bar or box distinctly different from the stereoscopic image being currently reproduced, and thus is seen as an error message; and an apparatus therefor.

Described are various embodiments of a user content sharing system and method with automated external content integration. In one embodiment, a system and method are provided in which a graphical user interface (GUI) is rendered on each system users' personal communication device. The GUI produces a content selection function selecting, under user operation, user content for sharing, and a sharing platform selection function selecting, under user operation, one or more sharing platforms. The system further comprise a digital content integrator communicatively linked to the user interface to gain access to the selected user content in response to the content selection function, the integrator having access to stored external content distinct from user content. The integrator integrates the external content with the selected user content to output integrated content. The system further comprises a communication interface communicatively linked to the integrator and selectively operable to interface with each of the distinct content sharing platforms, wherein the integrated content is concurrently relayed to the selected sharing platforms via the communication interface on behalf of system users as originating therefrom.

A technique for using a reference to identify permissions required to access a resource. One or more processors detect a reference in an electronic communication. The reference points to a resource stored in storage of a data processing system. The one or more processors identify a set of permissions required to access the resource pointed to by the reference in the electronic communication. The one or more processors then perform a set of access-oriented actions associated with the set of permissions.

A method for managing assets including receiving a task across a network to be performed by a set of assets, identifying a subset of assets owned by an owner, transmitting a personalized direct communication across the network to the owner, wherein the personalized direct communication requests approval for use of the subset of assets to execute the task, and responsive to receiving an approval communication across the network from the owner indicating respective approved assets from the subset of assets producing a set of approved assets, automatically transmitting a set of communications across the network to the set of approved assets for execution of the task.

A method for managing an e-mail response based on the e-mail domains of the recipients is provided. The method receives a first e-mail sent to a plurality of e-mail addresses that includes e-mails with different domain names, provides a list of different domain names associated with a plurality of e-mail addresses and an e-mail address of a sender of the first e-mail, generates, based on a selection of one or more of the different domain names, a distribution list including one or more e-mail addresses limited to e-mail addresses having a selected domain name, and providing the distribution list in an addressee field associated with the e-mail response.

A method for communicating location information to a device includes receiving, at a computer system that implements a social networking service, location information that represents a geographic location of a device associated with a first user, associating, by the computer system, the received location information with a profile associated with the first user; and sending, from the computer system to a device associated with a second user, a message that is generated based at least in part on the location information.

An apparatus and mechanism to subscribe to a single address and or session management service from multiple devices (such as e.g. tablets, smart phones, netbooks or other types of communication terminals or client devices) with a single account and password through the automatic assignment of a dynamic opaque service profile to each device a user uses to sign in to the service. After sign-in transparent call management services are provided to the user and allow the user to control sessions on any signed-in device from any signed-in device without revealing the distinct dynamic opaque service profiles to the user.

Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure relate to communicating via an avatar embedded in an email message. In some embodiments, the avatar can provide information associated with the email message.