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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 23, 2016
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Thomas Goossens, Paris, FR;

Aymeric Bard, Paris, FR;

Alexandre Carlhian, Paris, FR;

Thomas Deniau, Paris, FR;

Raphaël Mor, Paris, FR;

Assignee:

APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 13/40 (2011.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 13/40 (2013.01); H04L 51/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various embodiments provide for techniques to facilitate online communication. In one embodiment, the communication is facilitated by providing a framework to enable the transmission of customized avatars across the messaging platform. The avatars may be recipe based, such that a receiving client device can receive the avatar recipe and render an avatar based on the recipe. In one embodiment the recipe includes set of components and a parameters associated with the set of components. An expression identifier associated with an expression to represent via the avatar can be received via the messaging platform and an animation of the avatar can be displayed to convey the intended expression.


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