PRESERVING EMOTION OF USER INPUT

• US 20150120282A1
• Filed: 10/30/2013
• Published: 04/30/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo PC International Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Beaumont, Suzanne Marion, VanBlon, Russell Speight, Waltermann, Rod D.
• Granted Patent: US 9,342,501 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/9
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24575 using context
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/683 using metadata automatically derived from the content
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/151 Transformation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/30 Semantic analysis
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/226 Delivery according to priorities

Abstract

An aspect provides a method, identifying: receiving, at an input component of an information handling device, user input comprising one or more words; identifying, using a processor of the information handling device, an emotion associated with the one or more words; creating, using the processor, an emotion tag including the emotion associated with the one or more words; and storing the emotion tag in a memory. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, at an input component of an information handling device, user input comprising one or more words;

identifying, using a processor of the information handling device, an emotion associated with the one or more words;

creating, using the processor, an emotion tag including the emotion associated with the one or more words; and

storing the emotion tag in a memory.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

analyzing one or more emotion tags; and

modifying the user input based on the analyzing.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein modifying comprises changing the visual rendering of the user input.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the storing of the emotion tag in a memory occurs remote from the information handling device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the storing of the emotion tag in a memory occurs locally to the information handling device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein:

the user input comprises speech input; and

the identifying an emotion associated with the one or more words comprises using an acoustic characteristic of the speech input to identify an emotion.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

receiving additional speech input;

wherein the using an acoustic characteristic of the speech input to identify an emotion comprises comparing an acoustic characteristic of the speech input to an acoustic characteristic of the additional speech input.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

analyzing one or more emotion tags; and

modifying operation of an application based on the analyzing.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the modifying an operation of an application comprises supplementing a search application result utilizing emotion tag searching.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the modifying an operation of an application comprises providing a prompt to a user prior to sending a message including the user input.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the modifying an operation of an application comprises assigning a priority level to a message including the user input.

12. An information handling device, comprising:

an input component;

a processor;

a memory device assessable to the processor and storing code executable by the processor to;

receive, at an input component, user input comprising one or more words;

identify an emotion associated with the one or more words;

create an emotion tag including the emotion associated with the one or more words; and

store the emotion tag in a memory.

13. The information handling device of claim 12, wherein the code is further executable by the processors to:

analyze one or more emotion tags; and

modify the user input based on the analyzing.

14. The information handling device of claim 13, wherein to modify comprises changing the visual rendering of the user input.

15. The information handling device of claim 12, wherein storing of the emotion tag in a memory occurs remote from the information handling device.

16. The information handling device of claim 12, wherein storing of the emotion tag in a memory occurs locally to the information handling device.

17. The information handling device of claim 12, wherein:

the user input comprises speech input; and

to identify an emotion associated with the one or more words comprises using an acoustic characteristic of the speech input to identify an emotion.

18. The information handling device of claim 17, wherein the code is further executable by the processor to:

receive additional speech input;

wherein the using an acoustic characteristic of the speech input to identify an emotion comprises comparing an acoustic characteristic of the speech input to an acoustic characteristic of the additional speech input.

19. The information handling device of claim 12, wherein the code is further executable by the processors to:

analyze one or more emotion tags; and

modify operation of an application based on the analyzing.

20. The information handling device of claim 19, wherein to modify an operation of an application comprises supplementing a search application result utilizing emotion tag searching.

21. The information handling device of claim 19, wherein to modify an operation of an application comprises providing a prompt to a user prior to sending a message including the user input.

22. The information handling device of claim 19, wherein to modify an operation of an application comprises assigning a priority level to a message including the user input.

23. A program product, comprising:

a storage device having computer readable program code stored therewith, the computer readable program code comprising;

computer readable program code configured to receive, at an input component of an information handling device, user input comprising one or more words;

computer readable program code configured to identify, using a processor of the information handling device, an emotion associated with the one or more words;

computer readable program code configured to create, using the processor, an emotion tag including the emotion associated with the one or more words; and

computer readable program code configured to store the emotion tag in a memory.