Disney Enterprises, Inc.

Arkady G Trestman

Vita G Markman

Paul Pak

Sean O'Dell

Christian P Shrigley

Drew Beechum

Marc Adam Silbey

Lane Merrifield

Andrew R Beechum

Michael Veprinsky

Kip Martin

Stephane Jankowski

Kevin O'Sullivan

Roger H Hughston

Techniques are disclosed for generating phrases for selection by users communicating in an online virtual world environment. A phrase generation engine automatically constructs new phrases using pre-approved words from a dictionary of frequently used words and language-specific rules for phrase formation to ensure safety and supplement an existing database of commonly used, pre-approved phrases. Increasing the number of phrases that are available for selection by a user increases the user expressivity. Each word in the dictionary is annotated with semantic and grammatical information that constrains how the word is combined with other words to generate a new phrase. Each new phrase may also be tagged to enable translation into a different language so a phrase in a first language selected by a first user may be displayed in a second language to a second user.

System and method for generating phrases

Techniques are disclosed for supplying users in an online environment with a safe and effective chat facility. The chat facility is 'safe' in the sense that the ability of users to compose inappropriate messages is greatly restricted, while 'effective' in the sense that users are still allowed a broad range of expressivity in composing and exchanging chat messages.

Soft-sending chat messages

Dynamically generated phrase-based assisted input

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Sherman Oaks, CA, United States of America

Arkady G Trestman