Manage graphic and/or audio elements in a messaging system

Abstract

An improved messaging system (2), preferably transient, characterized in that it comprises at least one sender device (4) and at least one receiver device (6), configured to communicate with both devices by means of at least one central unit (8) of the system sends and / or receives text messages (60), and is characterized in that: - said at least one central unit (8) comprises a database (12) containing each A user data set (14) of at least one univocal identification code (ID) of a user has a relationship (18) with at least one element data set (16) containing at least Unambiguous identification codes (30) for all graphic and / or audio elements, thereby defining graphic and / or audio elements that can be accessed / managed by each user of the user data set (14), wherein in the messaging system (2) Each graphical and / or audio element manageable is associated with said univocal identification code (30) in said messaging system (2), - a first software module is loaded on said sender device (4) and / or the receiver device (6) and run therein, the module is configured to send to the central unit (8) based on the message to be sent with at least one graphic and / or audio element (31, 33, 35, 37) A data structure (20) generated by a message (60), said data structure (20) comprising a first field (26) containing said at least one graphic and / or audio element of the message (60) The corresponding univocal identification code (23,30,32,34), - the second software module is loaded in said at least one central unit (8) and runs in it, and this module is based on the data structure (20 ) creating a structured data packet (40) comprising a second field (48) at least partially filled with the first field (26) of the data structure (20), the first software The module is configured such that, when said first software module is run in said sender device (4) by a given user of a user data set (14), there are only The graphic element (31) of the corresponding identification code (30) of the univocal identification code ID having a relationship (18) can be inserted into said message (60) to be sent, loaded on said sender device (4) and / or or said first software module running in and in the recipient device (6) is further configured to: - Obtain a structured data packet (40) from said central unit (8) and detecting in said second field (48) of a structured data packet (40) a univocal identification code (23, 30, 32, 32, 34), - if the graphic and / or or the audio element is not yet present in the first software module in the local memory of the device in which it is running, then request from the central unit (8) such graphic and / or audio elements (31, 33, 35, 37) and download it locally to the device, based on the content of the structured data package (40) and the associated code (23, 30, 32, 34) thus identified Graphical and / or audio elements, showing on the display of the device (6) in which the first software module is running a transmitted message (60), which also implements said graphic and / or audio elements (31, 33, 35 , 37).

Description

technical field [0001] The present invention relates to an improved messaging system, preferably instantaneous, and to an improved method for managing graphical and / or audio elements in a messaging system. Background technique [0002] Emoticons, which involve the use of specific combinations of characters (letters, numbers, punctuation marks, etc.) system. [0003] So-called emoticons are also known, which are actually real images associated with and concatenated with a given encoding (generally of the Unicode type). For this to work, emoji must be supported by appropriate software that can read them, otherwise they won't display. [0004] In this context, when exchanging messages containing emojis, it can happen that the same encoding is associated with different images between sender and receiver, causing undesired misunderstandings. Not only that, but sometimes it happens that the recipient's terminal does not support a given emoji, or there is no image associated wit...

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Problems solved by technology

[0004] In this context, when exchanging messages containing emojis, it can happen that the same encoding is associated with different images between sender and receiver, causing undesired misunderstandings

Not only that, but sometimes it happens that the recipient's terminal does not support a given emoji, or there is no image associated with the encoding used by the sender, resulting in the display of unpleasant spaces or white squares

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