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US 2014/0156762 A1Published application
Replacing Typed Emoticon with User Photo
AssigneeFacebook, Inc.
InventorsJenny Yuen, Luke St. Clair
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a computing device receives input from a user participating in a message session. The computing device detects an emoticon in the received input and identifies an image corresponding to the emoticon. The computing device accesses the image corresponding to the emoticon and replaces the emoticon with the image in the message session.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- by a computing device, receiving input from a user participating in a message session;
- by the computing device, detecting an emoticon in the received input;
- by the computing device, identifying an image corresponding to the emoticon;
- by the computing device, accessing the image corresponding to the emoticon;
- and
- by the computing device, replacing the emoticon with the image in the message session.
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One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media in one or more computing systems, the media embodying logic that is operable when executed to:
- receive input from a user participating in a message session;
- detect an emoticon in the received input;
- identify an image corresponding to the emoticon;
- access the image corresponding to the emoticon;
- and
- replace the emoticon with the image in the message session.
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A first computing system comprising:
- a memory comprising instructions executable by one or more processors;
- and
- the one or more processors coupled to the memory and operable to execute the instructions, the one or more processors being operable when executing the instructions to:
- receive input from a user participating in a message session;
- detect an emoticon in the received input;
- identify an image corresponding to the emoticon;
- access the image corresponding to the emoticon;
- and
- replace the emoticon with the image in the message session.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.