Method for sending multi-media messages using emoticons
First Claim
1. A method of customizing a multi-media message with emoticons, the multi-media message being created by a sender for a recipient wherein the multi-media message comprises an animated entity audibly delivering a text message, the method comprising:
- storing emoticons related to actions associated with the animated entity;
providing to a sender at least one button option for choosing emoticons to insert into the text message at a location of a cursor; and
upon the sender choosing an emoticon using one of the at least one button options, inserting an emoticon into the text message at the location of the cursor, wherein when the animated entity delivers the text message, the animated entity exhibits the actions associated with the inserted emoticons beginning at a point corresponding to a first predetermined number of words before a respective one of the emoticons and ending at a second point corresponding to a second predetermined number of words after the respective one of the emoticons, whereinthe first predetermined number of words and the second predetermined number of words are associated with respective word lengths of words before and after a position of the respective one of the emoticons within the text message.
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Abstract
A system and method of providing sender-customization of multi-media messages through the use of emoticons is disclosed. The sender inserts the emoticons into a text message. As an animated face audibly delivers the text, emoticons associated with the message are started a predetermined period of time or number of words prior to the position of the emoticon in the message text and completed a predetermined length of time or number of words following the location of the emoticon. The sender may insert emoticons through the use of emoticon buttons that are icons available for choosing. Upon sender selections of an emoticon, an icon representing the emoticon is inserted into the text at the position of the cursor. Once an emoticon is chosen, the sender may also choose the amplitude for the emoticon and increased or decreased amplitude will be displayed in the icon inserted into the message text.
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16 Claims
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1. A method of customizing a multi-media message with emoticons, the multi-media message being created by a sender for a recipient wherein the multi-media message comprises an animated entity audibly delivering a text message, the method comprising:
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storing emoticons related to actions associated with the animated entity; providing to a sender at least one button option for choosing emoticons to insert into the text message at a location of a cursor; and upon the sender choosing an emoticon using one of the at least one button options, inserting an emoticon into the text message at the location of the cursor, wherein when the animated entity delivers the text message, the animated entity exhibits the actions associated with the inserted emoticons beginning at a point corresponding to a first predetermined number of words before a respective one of the emoticons and ending at a second point corresponding to a second predetermined number of words after the respective one of the emoticons, wherein the first predetermined number of words and the second predetermined number of words are associated with respective word lengths of words before and after a position of the respective one of the emoticons within the text message. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method of customizing a multi-media message by choosing emoticons from a group of stored emoticons, the multi-media message being created by a sender where text typed by the sender is presented to a recipient using an animated entity in the multi-media message, the method comprising:
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providing to the sender at least one button option, each button option of the at least one button option associated with an emoticon is associated with an emotion displayed by the animated entity during delivery of the multi-media message; and upon the sender choosing an emoticon using one of the at least one button options, inserting the emoticon into the text typed by the sender, wherein as the multi-media message is delivered to the recipient, the animated entity displays the associated emotion beginning at a point corresponding to a first predetermined number of words before the emoticon and ending at a second point corresponding to a second predetermined number of words after the emoticon, wherein the first predetermined number of words and the second predetermined number of words are associated with respective word lengths of words before and after a position of the emoticon within the text message. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method of presenting a multi-media message having an animated entity created by a sender including at least one chosen emoticon, the multi-media message being created by the sender where text typed by the sender is presented to a recipient using an animated entity in the multi-media message, the at least one emoticon being in a position associated with an ordering of the typed text, the method comprising:
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beginning a presentation of the at least one chosen emoticon by the animated entity a first predefined number of words before the at least one emoticon position within the ordering of the typed text; and ending the presentation of the at least one emoticon a second predefined number of words after the at least one emoticon position within the ordering of the typed text, wherein; the first predefined number of words and the second predefined number of words are associated with the respective word lengths of words before and after the position of the at least one emoticon within the ordering of the typed text.
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