SUPER-EMOTICONS
First Claim
29. A method for facilitating communications between participants, comprising the computer-implemented steps of:
- receiving, from a particular user, through a messaging client, input text for a conversation;
determining that said input text includes a trigger-string associated with a visual image that exhibits a particular behavior;
determining whether said user is subscribed to use said visual image;
if said user is subscribed to use said visual image, then causing one or more messaging clients that are participating in said conversation to generate said visual image; and
if said user is not subscribed to use said visual image, then responding to said input text without causing any messaging clients that are participating in said conversation to generate said visual image.
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Abstract
Techniques are described for generating and displaying “super-emoticons”. Super-emoticons are similar to smileys in that they may be generated in response to a participant in a textual conversation entering a specific sequence of textual characters. However, super-emoticons differ from smileys in that super-emoticons are programmed to demonstrate more sophisticated behaviors, including but not limited to: moving out of the text insertion location, interacting with other display elements, interacting with users, changing appearance based on context, exhibiting randomly selected behaviors, and making use of information from services.
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57 Claims
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29. A method for facilitating communications between participants, comprising the computer-implemented steps of:
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receiving, from a particular user, through a messaging client, input text for a conversation; determining that said input text includes a trigger-string associated with a visual image that exhibits a particular behavior; determining whether said user is subscribed to use said visual image; if said user is subscribed to use said visual image, then causing one or more messaging clients that are participating in said conversation to generate said visual image; and if said user is not subscribed to use said visual image, then responding to said input text without causing any messaging clients that are participating in said conversation to generate said visual image. - View Dependent Claims (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57)
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57-1. A computer-readable medium carrying one or more sequences of instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, causes the one or more processors to perform the method recited in claim 29.
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