US Patent:
20140181229, Jun 26, 2014
Inventors:
- Mountain View CA, US
Jon Watte - Redwood City CA, US
Phylissa Li - Redwood City CA, US
Matt Danzig - Menlo Park CA, US
Assignee:
IMVU Inc. - Mountain View CA
International Classification:
H04L 12/58
Abstract:
Embodiments for increasing clarity and expressiveness in network communications include: obtaining a message from a first user as part of a network-enabled conversation with a second user; analyzing the message to identify an expressiveness keyword indicative of an emotion, mood, or level of expressiveness; selecting a level or degree of emotional expressiveness to which a corresponding emotion or mood should be expressed in relation to the identified expressiveness keyword; applying, by use of a processor, 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; and causing transmission of the embellished message via a network to the second user.