Expandable Graphical Icon for Response to Electronic Text Transmission
First Claim
1. A graphical user interface utility for message data sent from a sender personal communications device to a recipient personal communications device, wherein the graphical user interface utility displays a base response prompt, according to an instruction from the sender personal communications device, in the message data that appears on the recipient personal communications device;
- wherein the graphical user interface utility changes the appearance of the base response prompt when the base response prompt is selected by a recipient by displaying one or more recipient-actuable selection elements along with the message content; and
wherein at least one of the one or more recipient-actuable selection elements has an associated response signal that is transmitted back to the sender device according to the recipient selection.
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Abstract
A graphical user interface utility for message data sent from a sender personal communications device to a recipient personal communications device displays a base response prompt, according to an instruction from the sender, in the message data that appears on the recipient personal communications device. The graphical user interface utility changes the appearance of the base response prompt when the base response prompt is selected by the recipient by displaying one or more recipient-actuable selection elements along with the message content. At least one of the one or more recipient-actuable selection elements has an associated response signal that is transmitted back to the sender according to recipient selection.
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19 Claims
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1. A graphical user interface utility for message data sent from a sender personal communications device to a recipient personal communications device, wherein the graphical user interface utility displays a base response prompt, according to an instruction from the sender personal communications device, in the message data that appears on the recipient personal communications device;
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wherein the graphical user interface utility changes the appearance of the base response prompt when the base response prompt is selected by a recipient by displaying one or more recipient-actuable selection elements along with the message content; and wherein at least one of the one or more recipient-actuable selection elements has an associated response signal that is transmitted back to the sender device according to the recipient selection. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A graphical user interface utility for eliciting and acquiring a response to an inquiry in an electronic message sent from a first personal communications device of a message sender to a second personal communications device of a message recipient,
the utility executing on a processor on each of the first and second personal communications devices and actuable to display, according to instructions from the sender, a base response prompt to the recipient in the received message on the second personal communications device, wherein, in response to selection of the base response prompt by the recipient, the utility displays an expanded response prompt on the second personal communications device, wherein the expanded response prompt comprises a set of one or more selection elements, wherein each member of the set of selection elements has an associated response signal, and wherein, following selection of a selection element of the expanded response prompt by the recipient, the utility transmits the corresponding response signal back from the second personal communications device to the first personal communications device as the response to the inquiry.
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13. A method for obtaining a response from a message recipient, the method comprising:
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a) receiving, from an electronic message sender at a first personal communications device, an electronic message for display to the message recipient at a second personal communications device; b) displaying, in response to a received instruction encoded within the electronic message, a base response prompt along with the electronic message on the second personal communications device; c) responding to recipient selection of the base response prompt by displaying a set of one or more recipient-actuable selection elements within the electronic message on the second personal communications device, wherein each member of the set of recipient-actuable selection elements has an associated response signal; and d) responding to recipient selection of one member of the set of recipient-actuable selection elements by transmitting the corresponding associated response signal from the second personal communications device to the first personal communications device of the electronic message sender. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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