Universal symbol system language-one world language

• US 10,769,607 B2
• Filed: 07/22/2015
• Issued: 09/08/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/08/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Jgist, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Jgist, Inc.
• Inventors: Hewitt, Gregory Marion, Vervais, Steven James
• Primary Examiner(s): Vyas, Abhishek
• Assistant Examiner(s): Aziz, Abdulmajeed
• Application Number:
  US14/806,322
• Publication Number:
  US 20170004470A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,875 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• 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 40/157 using dictionaries or tables
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/145 Payments according to the detected use or quantity
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0239 Online discounts or incentives

Abstract

A system for symbolic communication including a communication system, a sender communication device including a processor and a memory, a symbolic communication software module stored in the sender communication device memory, the symbolic communication software module including a database of symbols, with some of the symbols being billable, each billable symbol being associated with a merchant and having a billing rate associated with its use in a message, the symbolic communication software module comprising executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to allow a user to select symbols to compose a message; send the message to a receiver communication device using a communication system; count and record each symbols used in the message in the symbol server, and bill the merchant for the use of the billable symbol in a message, using the billing rate associated with the billable symbol.

Claims

1. A system for symbolic communication comprising:

a symbol server including a server processor, a server memory and a database of symbols containing billable and non-billable symbols, the billable symbols representing products or services, each billable symbol being associated with a merchant that registers with the system, and having a billing rate associated with its use, the symbol server being configured to;

initiate a population of symbols in the database of symbols using indirect symbol harvesting which allows the symbol server to search and acquire symbols from the internet, wherein each symbol populated using indirect symbol harvesting is associated with alphabetic words or phrases by a system administrator;

register the merchant to contract billable symbols with the system;

populate the billable symbols, submitted by the merchant, in the database using commercial symbol harvesting, wherein the commercial symbol harvesting allow the merchant to contract billing information and submit a plurality of the billable symbols with respective dynamic billing rate for each of the billable symbols populated, wherein the dynamic billing rate for each billable symbol is based on a time of day, geography and store location;

populate additional symbols submitted by a user in the database, using at least one method selected from a group consisting of direct symbol harvesting, blind symbol harvesting, and genius symbol harvesting, wherein each of the additional symbols populated is associated with respective alphabetic words or phrases, wherein the direct symbol harvesting allows users of the system to submit each additional symbol with an association of the respective alphabetic words or phrases, wherein the blind symbol harvesting allows the users of the system to participate in games that validate the association of respective alphabetic words or phrases with the additional symbol, wherein the genius symbol harvesting allows a self-identified expert user to validate the association of respective alphabetic words or phrases with the additional symbol;

parse alphabetic words and phrases used in a message to configure a dynamic series of symbol selection wheels for display on the communication device;

configure, for display on a touch-based the graphical user interface of the communication device, the dynamic series of symbol selection wheels including consensus-popular symbols which sequentially correspond to the relevant alphabetic words and phrases used in the message, wherein the consensus-popular symbols are ranked based on the usage count of each symbol across all messages previously sent by all users in the system, wherein the consensus-popular symbols displayed on each respective wheel include the highest ranked symbols relative to the respective alphabetic word or phrase parsed in the message;

convert the respective alphabetic words and phrases to user selected consensus-popular symbols in the message;

count each symbol used in the message;

store the count in the database, and

bill the merchant for the use of each billable symbol in the message, using the billing rate associated with the billable symbol;

the communication device including a device processor and a device memory and a touch-based graphical user interface display, and including a subset of the billable and non-billable symbols obtained from the symbol server;

a symbolic communication software module stored in the device memory, comprising executable instructions that when executed by the device processor cause the device processor to;

compose the message using the alphabetic words or phrases;

request, via the touch-based graphical user interface, the consensus-popular symbols relevant to the alphabetic words or phrases used in the composition of the message;

display, on the touch-based graphical user interface and overlaying a touch keyboard, a first symbol selection wheel, from the configured dynamic series of symbol selection wheels, which corresponds to a first alphabetic word or phrase associated with a consensus-popular symbol, wherein the additional symbols not presented on the first symbol selection wheel are further selectable by the user through a symbol keyboard on the touch-based graphical user interface;

receive a selection, from the communication device, the consensus-popular symbols from the first symbol selection wheel, wherein additional symbol selection wheels are each displayed in sequential order relative to the remaining unselected consensus-popular symbols based on the configured dynamic series of symbol selection wheels;

send the message from the communication device to a second communication device using either a texting application or an email application.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the communication device is a mobile smartphone.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein a coupon associated with the billable symbol is sent to the communication, the second communication device or both.

2. A method for symbolic communication performed by a symbol server including a server processor, a server memory and a database containing billable and non-billable symbols, the billable symbols representing products or services, each billable symbol being associated with a merchant that registers with the system, and having a billing rate associated with its use, and a communication device including a device processor and a device memory and a touch-based graphical user interface display, and including a subset of the billable and non-billable symbols obtained from the symbol server, the symbol server and the communication device configured to:

initiate, by the symbol server, a population of symbols in the database of symbols using indirect symbol harvesting which allows the symbol server to search and acquire symbols from the internet, wherein each symbol populated using indirect symbol harvesting is associated with alphabetic words or phrases by a system administrator of the symbol server;

register, by the symbol server, the merchant to contract billable symbols;

populate, by the symbol server, the billable symbols submitted by the merchant in the database using commercial symbol harvesting, wherein the commercial symbol harvesting allow the merchant to contract billing information and submit a plurality of the billable symbols with respective dynamic billing rate for each of the billable symbols populated, wherein the dynamic billing rate for each billable symbol is based on a time of day, geography and store location;

populate, by the symbol server, additional symbols submitted by a user in the database using at least one method selected from a group consisting of direct symbol harvesting, blind symbol harvesting, and genius symbol harvesting, wherein each of the additional symbols populated is associated with respective alphabetic words or phrases, wherein the direct symbol harvesting allows users to submit each additional symbol with an association of the respective alphabetic words or phrases, wherein the blind symbol harvesting allows the users to participate in games that validate the association of respective alphabetic words or phrases with the additional symbol, wherein the genius symbol harvesting allows a self-identified expert user to validate the association of respective alphabetic words or phrases with the additional symbol;

compose, by a user of the communication device, the message using the alphabetic words or phrases;

request, by the user of the communication device, via the touch-based graphical user interface, consensus-popular symbols relevant to the alphabetic words or phrases used in the composition of the message;

parse, by the symbol server, alphabetic words and phrases used in the message to configure a dynamic series of symbol selection wheels for display on the communication device;

configure, by the symbol server, for display on the touch-based graphical user interface of the communication device, the dynamic series of symbol selection wheels including consensus-popular symbols which sequentially correspond to the relevant alphabetic words and phrases used in the message, wherein the consensus-popular symbols are ranked based on the usage count of each symbol across all messages previously sent by all users, wherein the consensus-popular symbols displayed on each respective wheel include the highest ranked symbols relative to the respective alphabetic word or phrase parsed in the message;

display, via the communication device, on the touch-based graphical user interface and overlaying a touch keyboard, a first symbol selection wheel, from the configured dynamic series of symbol selection wheels, which corresponds to a first alphabetic word or phrase associated with a consensus-popular symbol, wherein the user can further select additional symbols through a symbol keyboard not presented on the touch-based graphical user interface;

select, by the user of the communication device, the consensus popular symbols from the first symbol selection wheel, wherein additional symbol selection wheels are each displayed in sequential order relative to the remaining unselected consensus-popular symbols based on the configured dynamic series of symbol selection wheels;

convert, by the symbol server, the respective alphabetic words and phrases to user selected consensus-popular symbols in the message;

send, by the user of the communication device, the message from the communication device to a second communication device using either a texting application or an email application;

count, by the symbol server, each symbol used in the message,

store, by the symbol server, the count in the database, and

bill, by the symbol server, the merchant for the use of each billable symbol in a message, using the billing rate associated with the billable symbol.

5. The method of claim 2, wherein the communication device is a mobile smartphone.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein a coupon associated with the billable symbol is sent to the communication device, the second communication device or both.