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US 8,285,313 B2Granted
Messaging system and method
AssigneeAristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
InventorOliver Boyd Errington
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Abstract
A messaging method using a mobile user terminal, the method including the steps of: creating, at the mobile user terminal, at least one graphical messaging symbol adapted to convey a meaning to a message recipient; preparing message content including at least one of the created graphical messaging symbols using the mobile terminal; and sending the message to a recipient via a communication network.
Claims19
A messaging method using a mobile user terminal, the method comprising:
- creating, at the mobile user terminal, at least one graphical messaging symbol adapted to convey a meaning to a message recipient;
- preparing message content including at least one of the created graphical messaging symbols using the mobile terminal;
- sending the message to a recipient via a communication network;
- storing a created graphical messaging symbol in a symbol library;
- making created graphical messaging symbols available for downloading from the symbol library via a network;
- and
- monitoring downloading of symbols from the graphical symbol library, wherein monitoring downloading of graphical symbols includes incrementing a download counter value of a download counter associated with a graphical symbol or set of graphical symbols for each download.
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A messaging system comprising:
- a network accessible symbol library for storing graphical messaging symbols;
- and
- at least one mobile user terminal having a processor adapted to execute a set of instructions to enable a user to:
- create at least one graphical messaging symbol adapted to convey a meaning to a message recipient;
- prepare message content including at least one of the created graphical messaging symbols;
- send the message to a recipient via a communication network;
- and
- store created graphical messaging symbols in the symbol library,
- wherein the user terminal is also adapted to access, via the communication network, graphical messaging symbols stored in the symbol library, and download one or more graphical symbols to the user terminal for use in preparing message content or creating further graphical symbols.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.