DYNAMICALLY UPDATING EMOTICON POOL BASED ON USER TARGETING

• US 20130103766A1
• Filed: 10/19/2011
• Published: 04/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: R2 Solutions LLC (Acacia Research Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Gupta, Arpit
• Granted Patent: US 9,870,552 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/101 Collaborative creation, e.g. joint development of products or services
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/08 Annexed information, e.g. attachments
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

Embodiments are directed towards dynamically updating, in real-time, an emoticon pool of a user based on a current personal construct of the user. In one embodiment, real-time changes in the current personal construct of a user may result in a real-time update to the emoticon pool of the user, which can allow the user'"'"'s emoticon pool to dynamically track the user'"'"'s current personal construct. The current personal construct of a user may be determined by examining user targeted information associated with the user. In some embodiments, the user targeted information may include, but not limited to, static user information, dynamic user information, implicit user information, and/or dynamic external information. In one embodiment, a user'"'"'s emoticon pool may be dynamically updated by modifying an appearance of one or more base emoticons in a base emoticon pool and/or one or more existing emoticons in the user'"'"'s emoticon pool.

Claims

1. A method operating on one or more network devices, comprising:

obtaining user targeted information associated with a user of a client device;

examining the user targeted information to determine a current personal construct of the user;

dynamically updating, in real-time, an emoticon pool of the user based on the user'"'"'s current personal construct, wherein the emoticon pool includes a plurality of emoticons; and

providing the updated emoticon pool to the client device to enable the user to select an emoticon from the updated emoticon pool for use in a message.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the user targeted information includes at least one of static user information, dynamic user information, implicit user information, or dynamic external information.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein dynamically updating the emoticon pool of the user further comprises:

modifying an appearance of one or more base emoticons from a base emoticon pool; and

augmenting the one or more modified based emoticons to the emoticon pool of the user.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein dynamically updating the emoticon pool of the user further comprises:

modifying an appearance of one or more of the plurality of emoticons in the emoticon pool of the user.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein dynamically updating the emoticon pool of the user further comprises:

selecting a subset of base emoticons from a base emoticon pool; and

augmenting the emoticon pool of the user to include the selected subset of base emoticons.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein dynamically updating the emoticon pool of the user is further based on user feedback of a previously updated emoticon pool.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the emoticon pool of the user is dynamically updated in real-time based on real-time changes to the user'"'"'s current personal construct.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the user'"'"'s current personal construct is dynamically updated in real-time based on real-time changes to the user targeted information.

9. A network device, comprising:

a transceiver for communicating with at least one client device over a network;

a processor for enabling actions, the actions comprising;

receiving user targeted information, including dynamic external information, about a user of a client device;

examining the user targeted information to determine a current personal construct of the user;

dynamically updating, in real-time, an emoticon pool of the user based on a subset of the user'"'"'s current personal construct, wherein the emoticon pool includes a plurality of emoticons; and

displaying the updated emoticon pool to the user to enable the user to select an emoticon from the updated emoticon pool for use in a message.

10. The network device of claim 9, wherein the user targeted information further includes at least one of static user information, dynamic user information, or implicit user information.

11. The network device of claim 9, wherein dynamically updating the emoticon pool of the user further comprises:

modifying an appearance of one or more base emoticons from a base emoticon pool; and

modifying the emoticon pool of the user to include the one or more modified based emoticons.

12. The network device of claim 11, wherein modifying an appearance of one or more base emoticons further comprises:

selecting one or more emoticon attributes based on the user'"'"'s current personal construct; and

augmenting the one or more base emoticons with the selected one or more emoticon attributes.

13. The network device of claim 11, wherein modifying an appearance of one or more base emoticons further comprises:

modifying a feature of the one or more base emoticon based on the user'"'"'s current personal construct.

14. The network device of claim 9, wherein dynamically updating the emoticon pool of the user further comprises:

modifying an appearance of one or more of the plurality of emoticons in the emoticon pool of the user.

15. The network device of claim 9, wherein dynamically updating the emoticon pool of the user further comprises:

selecting a subset of base emoticons from a base emoticon pool; and

replacing the emoticon pool of the user with the selected subset of base emoticons.

16. The network device of claim 9, wherein the emoticon pool of the user is dynamically updated in real-time based on real-time changes to the user'"'"'s current personal construct.

17. The network device of claim 9, wherein the emoticon pool of the user is dynamically updated in real-time based on real-time changes to the user targeted information.

18. A computer-readable storage device having computer-executable instructions stored thereon such that when the storage device is access by a computing device, the instructions are executable by the computing device to perform actions, the actions comprising:

obtaining user targeted information associated with a user;

examining the user targeted information to determine a current personal construct of the user;

dynamically updating, in real-time, one or more emoticon pools of the user based on the user'"'"'s current personal construct, wherein each of the one or more emoticon pools includes a plurality of emoticons; and

selectively displaying the one or more emoticons pools to the user to enable the user to select an emoticon from at least one of the one or more emoticon pools for use in a message.

19. The computer-readable storage device of claim 18, wherein each of the one or more emoticon pools is dynamically updated based on a subset of the user'"'"'s current personal construct.

20. The computer-readable storage device of claim 18, wherein the user targeted information includes dynamic external information and dynamic user information.