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Animated messaging

a technology of animated messages and messages, applied in the field of instant messaging, can solve the problems of rigidity and lack of choice and achieve the effect of improving the accuracy and accuracy of fixed simple diagrams

Inactive Publication Date: 2007-04-26
E CLIPS INTELLIGENT AGENT TECH
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[0006] The present invention provides a solution that allows an animated interactive talking character to appear on a user's screen when conducting an Instant Messaging (IM session. The character which is displayed on the user's screen may be determined by a profile for the sender of the message. This allows a user to pre-select which character will be displayed on the screen of recipients of the instant messages.

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The rigidity and lack of choice of these fixed simple diagrams, however, is a limitation.

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[0027] Embodiments of the present invention are described herein in the context of a system of computers, servers, and software. Those of ordinary skill in the art will realize that the following detailed description of the present invention is illustrative only and is not intended to be in any way limiting. Other embodiments of the present invention will readily suggest themselves to such skilled persons having the benefit of this disclosure. Reference will now be made in detail to implementations of the present invention as illustrated in the accompanying drawings. The same reference indicators will be used throughout the drawings and the following detailed description to refer to the same or like parts.

[0028] In the interest of clarity, not all of the routine features of the implementations described herein are shown and described. It will, of course, be appreciated that in the development of any such actual implementation, numerous implementation-specific decisions must be made...

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Abstract

A method and apparatus that allows an animated interactive talking character to appear on a user's screen when conducting an Instant Messaging (IM) session. The character which is displayed on the user's screen is determined by a profile for the sender of the message. This allows a user to pre-select which character will be displayed on the screen of recipients of the instant message.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION [0001] The present application claims priority based on Australian Provisional Application 20022950502, filed on Jul. 31, 2002, by e-Clips Intelligent Agent Technologies Pty. Ltd, entitled “Animated Messaging”. This application and its disclosure are fully incorporated in the present disclosure by reference thereto. FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0002] The present invention relates to the field of instant messaging. More specifically, the present invention relates to a solution that allows for animated instant messaging. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003] Instant Messaging (IM) has been growing in popularity in recent years. Commonly utilized IM formats, such as Yahoo™ Messenger, created by Yahoo™ of Sunnyvale, Calif, and Net Messenger, created by Microsoft™ of Redmoneed, Wash., allow a computer user to transmit typed information or other data (such as images and videos) to other users of the IM service almost instantaneously. Additionally, many cellu...

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IPC IPC(8): G06F15/16G06F13/16G06F13/00G06T13/00G06T15/70G10L13/00G10L13/04H04L12/58
CPCH04L12/581G06T13/80H04L51/04G10L2021/105G10L13/043G10L13/00G06Q30/0277G06T13/40G06F3/0481
Inventor RUSSELL, NICHOLAS
Owner E CLIPS INTELLIGENT AGENT TECH