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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2016
Imvu, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Morgan Tucker, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jon Watte, Redwood City, CA (US);
Phylissa Li, Redwood City, CA (US);
Matt Danzig, Menlo Park, CA (US);
IMVU, INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments for increasing clarity and expressiveness in network communications can be configured to: obtain a message from a first user as part of a network-enabled conversation with a second user, the conversation having a plurality of associated messages; analyze the content of the message; automatically use a panel layout based on the content of the message, the panel layout defining a consistent set of expressive elements for at least one message of the plurality of messages associated with the conversation, the panel layout further defining one or more panels for presenting messages of the conversation with the expressive elements; integrate the message into at least one of the panels with the expressive elements; automatically select at least one embellishment from an available set of embellishment options based on the panel layout; apply the automatically selected at least one embellishment to the message to produce an embellished message.