Wireless mobile image messaging
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1. In a wireless mobile device, a method of operation comprising:
- facilitating, by the wireless mobile device, a user of the wireless mobile device in forming, for a recipient who is a user of another wireless mobile device, a mixed-media message equivalently conveying an all-text message to the recipient, where the mixed-media message includes both text from the all-text message and at least one image in place of one or more words from the all-text message, the at least one image graphically conveying the one or more words in substitution for the one or more words themselves such that the at least one image is placed in a position in the mixed-media message at which the one or more words are located in the all-text message;
forming, by the wireless mobile device, the mixed-media message; and
transmitting, from the wireless mobile device, the mixed-media message to the recipient at the other wireless mobile device for display of the text and the at least one image.
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Abstract
Non-verbal communications between users of wireless mobile devices are facilitated using image messages. An image message may e.g. convey information about the sender user, in particular, current information about the sender user. In one aspect, a user may select an image message category, and select an image message among the image messages of the selected image message category for transmission, to quickly, efficiently and graphically convey (current) information about the user. The process may be performed to form a mixed media message. Received image message to convey current information may be aged via time and/or color displays.
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1. In a wireless mobile device, a method of operation comprising:
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facilitating, by the wireless mobile device, a user of the wireless mobile device in forming, for a recipient who is a user of another wireless mobile device, a mixed-media message equivalently conveying an all-text message to the recipient, where the mixed-media message includes both text from the all-text message and at least one image in place of one or more words from the all-text message, the at least one image graphically conveying the one or more words in substitution for the one or more words themselves such that the at least one image is placed in a position in the mixed-media message at which the one or more words are located in the all-text message; forming, by the wireless mobile device, the mixed-media message; and transmitting, from the wireless mobile device, the mixed-media message to the recipient at the other wireless mobile device for display of the text and the at least one image. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 21)
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8. A wireless mobile device comprising:
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a storage medium having a plurality of programming instructions designed to enable the wireless mobile device to; facilitate a user of the wireless mobile device in forming, for a recipient who is a user of another wireless mobile device, a mixed-media message substantially conveying an all-text message to the recipient, where the mixed-media message includes both text from the all-text message and at least one image in place of one or more words from the all-text message, the at least one image graphically conveying the one or more words in substitution for the one or more words themselves such that the at least one image is placed in a position in the mixed-media message at which the one or more words are located in the all-text message; form the mixed-media message; and transmit the mixed-media message from the wireless mobile device to the recipient for display of the text and the at least one image; and a processor coupled to the storage medium to execute the programming instructions. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 22)
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15. In a wireless mobile device, a method of operation comprising:
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receiving, at the wireless mobile device, a mixed-media message sent by a user of another wireless mobile device to substantially convey an all-text message, the mixed-media message being transmitted in a textual form; and rendering, by the wireless mobile device, the message in a mixed-media mode, with one or more words from the all-text message that have equivalent image(s) being replaced in-line in the mixed-media message by the equivalent image(s) in a position at which the one or more words that have equivalent image(s) were located in the all-text message. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23)
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