Identifying and mapping emojis

• US 10,699,066 B2
• Filed: 08/20/2018
• Issued: 06/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 12/09/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: PayPal, Inc. (PayPal Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Johnson, Raoul, Harkness, Christopher
• Primary Examiner(s): Albertalli, Brian L
• Application Number:
  US15/999,639
• Publication Number:
  US 20190042552A1
• Time in Patent Office: 680 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/274 Converting codes to words; Guess-ahead of partial word inputs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/35 Discourse or dialogue representation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information

Abstract

A computer system associates one or more actions with an emoji. The computer system detects a selection of the emoji within an electronic communication by a user. In response to the detecting the selection of the emoji within the electronic communication, the computer system initiates performance of at least one action of the one or more actions based on determining that one or more contextual factors associated with the electronic communication satisfy a set of conditions associated with the at least one action.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

one or more hardware processors; and

one or more computer-readable memories storing program instructions, the one or more hardware processors configured to execute the program instructions to cause the system to perform operations comprising;

detecting an emoji utilized in a communication by a user;

determining at least one action corresponding to the emoji; and

in response to determining that the at least one action corresponding to the emoji, determining whether an amount that the emoji has been utilized by other users to perform a similar action to the at least one action exceeds a threshold amount.

2. The system of claim 1, the operations further comprising:

in response to determining that the amount that the emoji has been utilized by the other users exceeds the threshold amount, identifying additional emojis being used by the other users; and

presenting one or more of the identified additional emojis to the user.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the presenting the one or more of the identified additional emojis to the user comprises:

determining whether an amount of utilization of each of the additional emojis exceeds a second threshold amount; and

selecting the one or more of the identified additional emojis that have a corresponding amount of utilization that exceeds the second threshold amount.

4. The system of claim 1, the operations further comprising:

in response to determining that the amount that the emoji has been utilized by the other users does not exceed the threshold amount, identifying additional emojis being used by the other users that correspond to the at least one action; and

presenting the identified additional emojis to the user.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the determining whether the amount that the emoji has been utilized by the other users exceeds the threshold amount includes determining whether a number of instances that the emoji has been utilized by the other users to perform the similar action exceeds the threshold amount.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the determining whether the amount that the emoji has been utilized by the other users exceeds the threshold amount includes determining whether a number of users of the other users that have utilized the emoji to perform the similar action exceeds the threshold amount.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the other users are social media contacts of the user.

8. A method comprising:

detecting, by one or more hardware processors, an emoji utilized in an electronic communication by a user;

determining, by the one or more hardware processors, at least one action corresponding to the emoji; and

in response to determining the at least one action corresponding to the emoji, determining, by the one or more hardware processors, whether an amount that the emoji has been utilized by other users to perform actions of a same type as the at least one action exceeds a threshold amount.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

in response to determining that the amount that the emoji has been utilized by the other users exceeds the threshold amount, identifying additional emojis being used by the other users; and

presenting one or more of the identified additional emojis to the user.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the presenting the one or more of the identified additional emojis to the user comprises:

determining whether an amount of utilization of each of the additional emojis exceeds a second threshold amount; and

selecting the one or more of the identified additional emojis that have a corresponding amount of utilization that exceeds the second threshold amount.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

in response to determining that the amount that the emoji has been utilized by the other users does not exceed the threshold amount, identifying additional emojis being used by the other users that correspond to the at least one action; and

presenting the identified additional emojis to the user.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the determining whether the amount that the emoji has been utilized by the other users exceeds the threshold amount includes determining whether a number of instances that the emoji has been utilized by the other users to perform the actions exceeds the threshold amount.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the determining whether the amount that the emoji has been utilized by the other users exceeds the threshold amount includes determining whether a number of users of the other users that have utilized the emoji to perform the actions exceeds the threshold amount.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein the other users are social media contacts of the user.

15. A computer program product comprising:

one or more computer-readable tangible storage devices; and

program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more computer-readable tangible storage devices, the program instructions when executed cause a machine to perform operations comprising;

detecting an emoji utilized in a communication by a user;

determining at least one action corresponding to the emoji; and

in response to determining the at least one action corresponding to the emoji, determining whether an amount that the emoji has been utilized by other users to perform actions of a same type as the at least one action exceeds a threshold amount, wherein the other users are social media contacts of the user.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, the operations further comprising:

in response to determining that the amount that the emoji has been utilized by the other users exceeds the threshold amount, identifying additional emojis being used by the other users; and

presenting one or more of the identified additional emojis to the user.

17. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the presenting the one or more of the identified additional emojis to the user comprises:

determining whether an amount of utilization of each of the additional emojis exceeds a second threshold amount; and

selecting the one or more of the identified additional emojis that have a corresponding amount of utilization that exceeds the second threshold amount.

18. The computer program product of claim 15, the operations further comprising:

in response to determining that the amount that the emoji has been utilized by the other users does not exceed the threshold amount, identifying additional emojis being used by the other users that correspond to the at least one action; and

presenting the identified additional emojis to the user.

19. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the determining whether the amount that the emoji has been utilized by the other users exceeds the threshold amount includes determining whether a number of instances that the emoji has been utilized by the other users to perform the actions exceeds the threshold amount.

20. The computer program product of claim 16, wherein the determining whether the amount that the emoji has been utilized by the other users exceeds the threshold amount includes determining whether a number of users of the other users that have utilized the emoji to perform the actions exceeds the threshold amount.