Systems and methods for identifying and suggesting emoticons
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
- receiving one or more user-defined emoticons provided by a first user, each user-defined emoticon comprising a visual representation of the emoticon and being associated with a respective first sentiment;
receiving text authored by a second user;
determining a second sentiment of the text;
identifying one of the user-defined emoticons as a candidate for insertion into the second text based on, at least, a score indicating relevance between the respective first sentiment of the candidate emoticon and the second sentiment;
providing the candidate user-defined emoticon for selection by the second user;
receiving selection of the candidate user-defined emoticon by the second user; and
inserting the selected user-defined emoticon into the text.
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Abstract
Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for suggesting emoticons for insertion into text based on an analysis of sentiment in the text. An example method includes: determining a first sentiment of text in a text field; selecting first text from the text field in proximity to a current position of an input cursor in the text field; identifying one or more candidate emoticons wherein each candidate emoticon is associated with a respective score indicating relevance to the first text and the first sentiment based on, at least, historical user selections of emoticons for insertion in proximity to respective second text having a respective second sentiment; providing one or more candidate emoticons having respective highest scores for user selection; and receiving user selection of one or more of the provided emoticons and inserting the selected emoticons into the text field at the current position of the input cursor.
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30 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
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receiving one or more user-defined emoticons provided by a first user, each user-defined emoticon comprising a visual representation of the emoticon and being associated with a respective first sentiment; receiving text authored by a second user; determining a second sentiment of the text; identifying one of the user-defined emoticons as a candidate for insertion into the second text based on, at least, a score indicating relevance between the respective first sentiment of the candidate emoticon and the second sentiment; providing the candidate user-defined emoticon for selection by the second user; receiving selection of the candidate user-defined emoticon by the second user; and inserting the selected user-defined emoticon into the text. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A system comprising:
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a non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon; and a data processing apparatus configured to execute the instructions to perform operations comprising; receiving one or more user-defined emoticons provided by a first user, each user-defined emoticon comprising a visual representation of the emoticon and being associated with a respective first sentiment; receiving text authored by a second user; determining a second sentiment of the text; identifying one of the user-defined emoticons as a candidate for insertion into the second text based on, at least, a score indicating relevance between the respective first sentiment of the candidate emoticon and the second sentiment; providing the candidate user-defined emoticon for selection by the second user; receiving selection of the candidate user-defined emoticon by the second user; and inserting the selected user-defined emoticon into the text. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A computer program product stored in one or more non-transitory storage media for controlling a processing mode of a data processing apparatus, the computer program product being executable by the data processing apparatus to cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:
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receiving one or more user-defined emoticons provided by a first user, each user-defined emoticon comprising a visual representation of the emoticon and being associated with a respective first sentiment; receiving text authored by a second user; determining a second sentiment of the text; identifying one of the user-defined emoticons as a candidate for insertion into the second text based on, at least, a score indicating relevance between the respective first sentiment of the candidate emoticon and the second sentiment; providing the candidate user-defined emoticon for selection by the second user; receiving selection of the candidate user-defined emoticon by the second user; and inserting the selected user-defined emoticon into the text. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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