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Messaging including custom characters with tags localized to language of user receiving message

  • US 10,298,522 B2
  • Filed: 05/12/2017
  • Issued: 05/21/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/10/2017
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for displaying and sending messages including one or more custom characters from a first client device to a second client device, wherein the first client device is associated with a first user having a first designated language, and wherein the second client device is associated with a second user having a second designated language that is different than the first designated language, the method comprising:

  • (a) accepting and displaying, via a user interface of the first client device, a message within a message entry field, the message including one or more custom characters that are selected by the first user associated with the first client device,wherein a unique custom character reference, one or more tag words, and image data are associated with each of the custom character(s), andwherein each of the custom character(s) is not included within a Unicode Standard;

    (b) in response to accepting an indication that the user of the first client device wants to send the message within the message entry field to the second user associated with the second client device, sending, from the first client device to the second client device, message data that includes the followingthe unique custom character reference associated with each of the custom character(s) included in the message entry field, andone or more tag words associated with each of the custom character(s) included in the message entry field;

    wherein the sending of the unique custom character reference associated with each of the custom character(s) included in the message entry field, from the first client device to the second client device, enables the second client device to obtain the image data associated with each of the custom character(s) from a local data store of the second client device or from a remote server, and thus, without the first client device sending the image data associated with each of the custom character(s) to the second client device;

    wherein at least one said tag word associated with each of the custom character(s) is in the second designated language of the second user and is for display to the second user, in response to the second user selecting the custom character while viewing the custom character, to thereby provide the second user with context for the selected custom character in the second designated language of the second user.

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