System and method for increasing clarity and expressiveness in network communications

A system comprising:

• a data processor;
• a network connection, in data communication with the processor, for access to a network;
• and
• a message processing system module, executable by the processor, to:
• obtain a message from a first user as part of a network-enabled conversation with a second user;
• analyze the message to identify an expressiveness keyword indicative of an emotion, mood, or level of expressiveness;
• select a level or degree of emotional expressiveness to which a corresponding emotion or mood should be expressed in relation to the identified expressiveness keyword;
• apply at least one embellishment to the message to produce an embellished message, the embellishment including either an explicitly user-selected embellishment or an automatically generated embellishment based on content of the message, the at least one embellishment being configured in a manner consistent with the selected level or degree of emotional expressiveness, the embellished message including configuration data encoded therewith corresponding to the at least one embellishment, the configuration data including a plurality of data values defining particular embellishment properties of the at least one embellishment;
• and
• cause transmission of the embellished message via a network to the second user.

A non-transitory machine-useable storage medium embodying instructions which, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to:

• obtain a message from a first user as part of a network-enabled conversation with a second user;
• analyze the message to identify an expressiveness keyword indicative of an emotion, mood, or level of expressiveness;
• select a level or degree of emotional expressiveness to which a corresponding emotion or mood should be expressed in relation to the identified expressiveness keyword;
• apply at least one embellishment to the message to produce an embellished message, the embellishment including either an explicitly user-selected embellishment or an automatically generated embellishment based on content of the message, the at least one embellishment being configured in a manner consistent with the selected level or degree of emotional expressiveness, the embellished message including configuration data encoded therewith corresponding to the at least one embellishment, the configuration data including a plurality of data values defining particular embellishment properties of the at least one embellishment;
• and
• cause transmission of the embellished message via a network to the second user.