Context-Aware Emotion Icon Recommendation in Messaging

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing messaging environments struggle to recommend emotion icons that accurately reflect the intended meaning of user text, considering factors like location, societal changes, and historical data, leading to potential misinterpretations and inappropriate usage.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that utilizes machine learning to detect text within a messaging environment, determine context based on location, environment, language, and historical data, and generate a filtered series of emotion icons for selection, leveraging AI tools like LSTM networks to predict appropriate icons.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a messaging environment provides a variety of emotion icons to convey any intended meaning, then the completeness of communication is improved, but the complexity of selecting appropriate icons increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompleteness of communicationVSAvoidcomplexity of selecting appropriate icons
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically determines context and filters emotion icons without requiring user intervention for context analysis. The machine learning model autonomously processes text, location data, environment data, and historical data to generate personalized icon recommendations, freeing users from manual selection complexity while maintaining comprehensive communication capabilities

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

An intermediary system (machine learning model with LSTM network) is introduced between the user and the emotion icon selection process. This intermediary automatically analyzes context factors and filters appropriate icons, acting as a mediator that reduces selection complexity while preserving the full range of communicative possibilities

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Speed

If emotion icons are recommended without considering context factors like location and historical data, then the speed of icon selection is improved, but the accuracy of conveying intended meaning deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvespeed of icon selectionVSAvoidaccuracy of conveying intended meaning
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary context analysis by processing location data, environment data, language context data, and historical data before generating icon recommendations. This preliminary action enables the LSTM model to accurately predict appropriate icons while maintaining fast selection speeds through pre-computed context representations and efficient filtering mechanisms

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Measurement precision

If the system processes multiple types of data (location, environment, language, historical) to determine context, then the accuracy of emotion icon recommendation is improved, but the computational complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of emotion icon recommendationVSAvoidcomputational complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The computational process is segmented into distinct stages: data collection (location, environment, language, historical data), context determination through LSTM network processing, and emotion icon filtering. This segmentation allows each stage to be optimized independently, managing computational complexity while maintaining high recommendation accuracy through specialized processing at each stage

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS12481825B2Method of recommending emotion icons
Publication Date: 2025.11.25 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

An embodiment for improved computer-implemented methods of recommending emotion icons. The embodiment may detect text associated with user activity within a connected messaging environment. The embodiment may, in response to detecting the text associated with user activity within the connected messaging environment, determine a context for the detected text based on at least location data, environment data, language context data, and historical data. The embodiment may generate a filtered series of emotion icons based on the context. The embodiment may display the filtered series of emotion icons to a user for selection.