US 2017/0249291 A1Published application

Systems and methods for processing shorthand items in electronic communications

AssigneeEchoStar Technologies L.L.C.

InventorBHAVESH PATEL

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Abstract

System and methods are disclosed that replace shorthand items such acronyms, abbreviations, jargon, slang, codes, shortcut expressions, emojis, stickers, ideograms and emoticons in an electronic message with expansions, which are definitions or meanings of the shorthand items. Based on a number of times previous messages to the recipient included an expansion of the shorthand item, the system determines whether to stop or to continue expanding the shorthand item in electronic messages to that recipient. This may be based on a threshold or other preferences selected by a user. The system also indicates which text in the message presented to the recipient is an expansion of a shorthand item and suggests shorthand items to insert into outgoing messages based on the text of the message.

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Dependent claims

A computer implemented method in an electronic communications system, the method comprising:

receiving, by at least one computer processor, an electronic message for a recipient;
in response to receiving the electronic message, making a determination, by at east one computer processor, that there exists a shorthand item in the electronic message;
in response to the determination that there exists a shorthand item in the message, determining, by at least one computer processor, a number of times previous messages to the recipient included a replacement of the shorthand item with an expansion;
based on the determined number of times previous messages to the recipient included a replacement of the shorthand item with the expansion, determining, by at least one computer processor, whether to expand the shorthand item in the electronic message;
and
if it was determined to expand the shorthand item in the electronic message based on the determined number of times previous messages to the recipient included a replacement of the shorthand item with the expansion, then expanding, by at least one computer processor, the shorthand item in the received electronic message.

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An electronic communications system, comprising:

at least one computer processor;
at least one communications module coupled to the at least one computer processor;
and
a memory coupled to the at least one computer processor, wherein the memory has computer-executable instructions stored thereon, that when executed, cause the at least one computer processor to:
read text of an electronic message to be sent to at least one recipient;
make a determination whether to replace at least some of the text of the message with a shorthand item;
based on the determination, replace at least some text in the message with at least one shorthand item;
make a determination of whether to include in the message one or more indications of which text in the message has been replaced with a shorthand item;
include in the message one or more indications of which text in the message has been replaced with a shorthand item based on the determination of whether to include one or more indications in the message of which text in the message has been replaced with a shorthand item;
and
cause the at least one communications module to send the message to the at least one recipient.

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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions thereon that, when executed by at least one computer processor, cause at least one computer processor to:

receive text of an electronic message for a recipient as the message is being written by a sender of the message;
in response to receiving the text of the electronic message, make a determination that there exists a shorthand item in the electronic message;
in response to the determination that there exists a shorthand item in the message, determine one or more textual expansions of the shorthand item that represent a possible meaning of the shorthand item;
suggest at least one of the one or more textual expansions of the shorthand item to a sender of the message;
receive input from the sender in response the suggestion of at least one of the one or more textual expansions of the shorthand item;
and
determine whether to replace the shorthand item in the message with one of the one or more expansions of the shorthand item based on the received input from the sender in response the suggestion.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.