Ideograms Based on Sentiment Analysis

• US 20150222586A1
• Filed: 02/05/2014
• Published: 08/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ebersman, David, Lessin, Samuel, Stocky, Thomas, Vernal, Michael
• Granted Patent: US 10,050,926 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/274 Converting codes to words; Guess-ahead of partial word inputs
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/30 Semantic analysis
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/02 using automatic reactions or user delegation, e.g. automatic replies or chatbot-generated messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services

Abstract

Particular embodiments of a method comprise analyzing a message to perform sentiment analysis with respect to at least a portion of the message. One or more sentiments associated with the at least a portion of the message may then be identified. One or more ideograms (e.g., written characters, symbols or images that represent an idea or thing), each corresponding to an identified sentiment, may then be suggested to a user for insertion into a message. Upon receiving a user selection of one or more of the ideograms in relation to some portion of the message, an association may be saved in a user-specific dictionary linking the user-selected one or more of the ideograms with the portion of the message. In particular embodiments, the sentiment analysis may incorporate social-networking information and/or historical ideogram usage information.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

by a computing device, analyzing a message to perform sentiment analysis with respect to at least a portion of the message;

by the computing device, identifying one or more sentiments associated with the at least a portion of the message; and

by the computing device, suggesting one or more ideograms, wherein each ideogram corresponds to a sentiment.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

inserting at least one of the ideograms into the message.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the at least one of the ideograms comprises metadata for the at least one of the ideograms, the metadata comprising descriptive text for the ideogram, text typed by the author for which the ideogram was substituted, or etc.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a user selection of one or more of the ideograms in relation to the at least a portion of the message; and

saving, in a user-specific dictionary, an association between the user-selected one or more of the ideograms and the at least a portion of the message.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the saving the association comprises:

saving, together with the association, metadata for the message.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the sentiment analysis is based on:

social-networking information associated with an author of the message, information associated with a social-networking relationship between an author of the message and a target of the message, an ideogram usage history for an author of the message, or an ideogram usage history for other users of a social-networking system.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifying one or more sentiments comprises determining a score for each of the identified sentiments, wherein each of the ideograms is associated with at least one score corresponding to a sentiment, and wherein the at least one score associated with the ideogram correlates to a score for at least one of the identified sentiments within a specified tolerance.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the suggesting one or more ideograms comprises:

providing the one or more ideograms for selection by the user for insertion into the message;

or

suggesting the one or more ideograms for substitution with respect to the at least a portion of the message.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the suggesting one or more ideograms comprises:

presenting the one or more ideograms sorted into an emotional range.

10. One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software that is operable when executed to:

analyze a message to perform sentiment analysis with respect to at least a portion of the message;

identify one or more sentiments associated with the at least a portion of the message; and

suggest one or more ideograms, wherein each ideogram corresponds to a sentiment.

11. The media of claim 10, further comprising software operable when executed to:

insert at least one of the ideograms into the message.

12. The media of claim 11, wherein the at least one of the ideograms comprises metadata for the at least one of the ideograms, the metadata comprising descriptive text for the ideogram, text typed by the author for which the ideogram was substituted, or etc.

13. The media of claim 10, further comprising software operable when executed to:

receive a user selection of one or more of the ideograms in relation to the at least a portion of the message; and

save, in a user-specific dictionary, an association between the user-selected one or more of the ideograms and the at least a portion of the message.

14. The media of claim 13, wherein the software operable when executed to save the association comprises software operable when executed to:

save, together with the association, metadata for the message.

15. The media of claim 10, wherein the sentiment analysis is based on:

social-networking information associated with an author of the message, information associated with a social-networking relationship between an author of the message and a target of the message, an ideogram usage history for an author of the message, or an ideogram usage history for other users of a social-networking system.

16. A system comprising:

one or more processors; and

a memory coupled to the processors comprising instructions executable by the processors, the processors being operable when executing the instructions to;

analyze a message to perform sentiment analysis with respect to at least a portion of the message;

identify one or more sentiments associated with the at least a portion of the message; and

suggest one or more ideograms, wherein each ideogram corresponds to a sentiment.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the sentiment analysis is based on:

social-networking information associated with an author of the message, information associated with a social-networking relationship between an author of the message and a target of the message, an ideogram usage history for an author of the message, or an ideogram usage history for other users of a social-networking system.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the processors being operable when executing the instructions to identify one or more sentiments comprises the processors being operable when executing the instructions to:

determine a score for each of the identified sentiments, wherein each of the ideograms is associated with at least one score corresponding to a sentiment, and wherein the at least one score associated with the ideogram correlates to a score for at least one of the identified sentiments within a specified tolerance.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the processors being operable when executing the instructions to suggest one or more ideograms comprises the processors being operable when executing the instructions to:

provide the one or more ideograms for selection by the user for insertion into the message;

or

suggest the one or more ideograms for substitution with respect to the at least a portion of the message.

20. The system of claim 19, wherein the processors being operable when executing the instructions to suggest one or more ideograms comprises the processors being operable when executing the instructions to:

present the one or more ideograms sorted into an emotional range.