US 2014/0179358 A1 · MESSAGES AUGMENTED WITH STRUCTURED ENTITIES

Abstract

Messages containing structured entities may be sent between devices in a way that leverages the existing Short Message Service (SMS) protocol. On the message sender's device, the sender may author a message indicating specific entities such as people, places, dates, or times. When the message is to be sent, an SMS representation of the message is sent to the recipient, and a full representation of the message, including the included entities, is sent to a server. If the SMS message is received at a device that is equipped with software that can retrieve and render the rich representation, then the device queries the server to determine whether there is a rich message that corresponds to the SMS message. If such a message exists, then the message is communicated to the recipient's device and is rendered in place of the SMS message.

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Dependent claims

A device-readable medium that stores executable instructions to send content, the executable instructions, when executed by a first device, causing the first device to perform acts comprising:

displaying an interface that comprises a box into which text is typed;
receiving said text;
composing a first message that comprises a first representation of said text;
composing a second message based on said text;
receiving an indication of a second device of a recipient of said content;
sending said first message to said second device using a text communication protocol;
and
sending said second message to a server with a digest of said first message, said second message being associated by said server with said digest and a timestamp.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Messages augmented with structured entities

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Messages augmented with structured entities

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Abstract

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