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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 10289654 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019

Filed:

May. 16, 2016

Smart variable expressive text or graphics for electronic communications

Applicant:

Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Mark Chang, Seattle, WA (US);

Joy Barlow, Mountain View, CA (US);

Anton Volkov, San Francisco, CA (US);

Matthew Austin, Palo Alto, CA (US);

James Buyayo, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jason Cornwell, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Debbie Kim, Kirkland, WA (US);

Richard Lo, Fremont, CA (US);

Johnathon Schlemmer, San Ramon, CA (US);

Christopher Tompkins, Mountain View, CA (US);

Megan Torkildson, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:

IP Spring

Primary Examiner:

Xiomara L Bautista

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G06F 17/21 (2006.01); G06F 17/24 (2006.01); G06T 11/60 (2006.01); G06T 13/80 (2011.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04W 4/14 (2009.01); H04M 1/725 (2006.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/211 (2013.01); G06F 3/04845 (2013.01); G06F 3/04847 (2013.01); G06F 3/04883 (2013.01); G06F 17/214 (2013.01); G06F 17/24 (2013.01); G06F 17/27 (2013.01); G06T 11/60 (2013.01); G06T 13/80 (2013.01); H04L 51/046 (2013.01); H04L 51/10 (2013.01); H04L 51/38 (2013.01); H04M 1/72552 (2013.01); H04W 4/14 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04806 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for creating, sending, receiving, or displaying messages with smart variable expressive text or graphics is described. The method includes providing a user interface for inputting content and specifying an appearance of the content, receiving the content and an appearance control input via the user interface, responsive to the appearance control input, creating a message including the content and formatting information, and sending the message including the content and the formatting information.

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