MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATION AND PRESENTATION

• US 20110040841A1
• Filed: 08/20/2010
• Published: 02/17/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/1998
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mind Fusion, LLC (Ascend Innovation Management, LLC), Novita Communications, Inc. (Monotype Imaging Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: I2Z Technology LLC (Innovation Management Sciences, LLC)
• Inventors: NGUYEN, Julien T.
• Granted Patent: US 8,683,328 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99931 Database or file accessing

Abstract

The invention provides a method and system for entry and editing of multimedia objects for communication and presentation, associating multimedia objects with received sequences of keystroke or mouse action abbreviations. When an abbreviation is detected, the abbreviation is replaced with the associated multimedia object. Each multimedia object has editable properties, and each set of multimedia objects can be collected into an ensemble, which itself can have editable properties. One such ensemble property is a “theme,” which presents a variant of each multimedia object consistent with the theme.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for entry and modification. of multimedia objects in electronic communication, the method being implemented in a computer system including one or more processors configured to execute computer program modules, the method comprising:

storing to a computer readable medium accessible to the computer system a set of mnemonic names associated with multimedia objects, the set of mnemonic names including a first mnemonic name associated with a first multimedia object;

receiving sequences of control inputs from a first user to the computer system, the control inputs designating content of an electronic communication from the first user to a second user; and

replacing, in the electronic communication from the first user to the second user, mnemonic names from the stored set of mnemonic names present in the received sequences of control inputs with associated multimedia objects such that responsive to the first mnemonic name being present in one of the received sequences control inputs, the first mnemonic name is replaced in the electronic communication with the first multimedia object.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first multimedia object has at least one editable property that is edited in the electronic communication responsive to receiving corresponding input from the first user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first multimedia object has at least one editable property that is edited in the electronic communication responsive to receiving corresponding input from the second user.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising conveying to the first user an edit of the at least one editable property of the first multimedia object in the electronic communication made responsive to input from the second user.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the sequences of control inputs comprise keystrokes.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the sequences of control inputs comprise mouse actions.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the electronic communication comprises either an email message or a chat message.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising transmitting the electronic communication to the second user with the appropriate multimedia objects included therein.

9. A system configured for to enable entry and modification of multimedia elements in electronic communication, the system comprising:

a database comprising a set of mnemonic names and associated multimedia objects, the set of mnemonic names including a first mnemonic name associated with a first multimedia object;

one or more processors in operative communication with the database, the one or more processors being configured (i) to receive sequences of control inputs from a first user input by the first user through an input device, the control inputs designating content of an electronic communication from the first user to a second user, and (ii) to replace, in the electronic communication from the first user to the second user, mnemonic names from the set of mnemonic names present in the sequences of control inputs with associated multimedia objects such that responsive to the first mnemonic name being present in a received sequence of control inputs, the first mnemonic name is replaced in the electronic communication with the first multimedia object.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the first multimedia object has at least one editable property, and wherein the one or more processors are further configured to edit the at least one editable property in the electronic communication responsive to receiving corresponding input from the first user.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the first multimedia object has at least one editable property, and wherein the one or more processors are further configured to edit the at least one editable property in the electronic communication responsive to receiving corresponding input from the second user.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to convey to the first user an edit of the at least one editable property of the first multimedia object in the electronic communication made responsive to input from the second user.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the sequences of control inputs comprise keystrokes.

14. The system of claim 9, wherein the sequences of control inputs comprise mouse actions.

15. The system of claim 9, wherein the electronic communication comprises either an email message or a chat message.

16. The system of claim 9, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to transmit the electronic communication to the second user with the appropriate multimedia objects included therein.

17. A computer-implemented method for entry and modification of multimedia objects in electronic communication, the method being implemented in a computer system including one or more processors configured to execute computer program modules, the method comprising:

storing to a computer readable medium accessible to the computer system a set of mnemonic names associated with sets of multimedia objects, the set of mnemonic names including a first mnemonic name associated with a first set of multimedia objects, the first set of multimedia objects comprising a first multimedia object and a second multimedia object;

receiving sequences of control inputs from a first user to the computer system, the control inputs designating content of an electronic communication from the first user to a second user;

identifying, in the received sequences of control inputs from the first user, occurrences of mnemonic names from the set of mnemonic names, including occurrences of the first mnemonic name;

responsive to identification of an occurrence of the first mnemonic name in the received sequences of control inputs, determining which multimedia object from the first set of multimedia objects should replace the identified occurrence of the first mnemonic name in the electronic message from the first user to the second user; and

replacing, in the electronic communication from the first user to the second user, the identified occurrence of the first mnemonic name in the received sequence of control inputs with the determined multimedia object from the first set of multimedia objects.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the determination of which multimedia object from the first set of multimedia objects should replace the identified occurrence of the first mnemonic name in the electronic message from the first user to the second user is made based on a capability Of a client device associated with the second user.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the determination of which multimedia object from the first set of multimedia objects should replace the identified occurrence of the first mnemonic name in the electronic message from the first user to the second user is made based on previously received input from the first user designating which of the first set of multimedia objects should replace the first mnemonic name in outgoing electronic communications.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the previously received input from the first user comprises a selection of a theme for multimedia objects by the first user.

21. The method of claim 17, wherein the determination of which multimedia object from the first set of multimedia objects should replace the identified occurrence of the first mnemonic name in the electronic message from the first user to the second user is made, based on previously received input from the second user designating which of the first set of multimedia objects should replace the first mnemonic name in incoming electronic communications.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the previously received input from the second user comprises a selection of a theme for multimedia objects by the second user.