American Greetings Corporation

Josef A Mandelbaum

David Mayer

Allison Marsh

Mary McClain

Sharon Bogdanski

Katalina Speck

Kimberly Bikowski

Eliza DeVogel

Cathy Tasse

Rajiv Jain

Catherine Gruntman

Mindy Leeders

Jason S Jhonson

Bryan A Biniak

Dave Higham

Melinda Leeders

Benjamin J Tripoli

Jeffrey M Rapp

Bryan A Malkowski

Electronic greeting cards include a greeting card with two or more interconnected panels in combination with a digital multimedia player device which includes an electronic display and an audio output, and circuitry which is operative to receive, store and play digital multimedia files and content. The various greeting card structures cover and encapsulate or otherwise house and adorn the digital multimedia player. Digital files are loaded on to the digital multimedia player by a connection to a network, or directly from a data storage device such as an SD card or USB connection or compact flash which interfaces with a port in the digital multimedia player. Pre-recorded digital multimedia greeting card content is either pre-loaded on a portable data storage device, or selected for purchase and downloaded or transferred for replay by the digital multimedia player of the electronic greeting card.

Electronic greeting cards

An electronic messaging contextual storefront system and application provides electronic and instant messaging with contextual graphical and textual content which corresponds with or is related to the subject matter of an electronic or instant message string or chat stream. Graphical and textual content for the contextual storefronts is retrieved based upon detected keywords, and presented in contextual storefronts which are associated with conversation and text entry boxes or other parts of an electronic message system display. Selected graphical and textual content can be placed directly in the text stream or elsewhere in the display either by user commands or automatically by the system. The graphical and textual content is stored by subject matter or theme or by association with keywords in a relational database. Access to contextual storefront content can be tracked, accounted for and controlled by a payments processing system.

Electronic messaging contextual storefront system and method

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Beachwood, OH, United States of America

Josef A Mandelbaum