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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2016
Glu Mobile, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Sourabh Ahuja, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael Andrew Mok, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nicholas Kenichi Miyake, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lori Leilani Cox, San Francisco, CA (US);
Liang Wu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tao Tao, San Francisco, CA (US);
Glu Mobile Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A method at a first electronic device with a display and an input device includes: displaying a message input area along with a graphical input stream in a first application, where the graphical input stream includes a source of predefined graphical images and a source for a coded character set. The method includes detecting entry of one or more objects from the graphical input stream into the message input area and receiving a user input to transmit the contents of the message input area. In response to receiving the user input to transmit, and in accordance with a determination that the one or more objects includes a predefined graphical image, the method includes forming a merged message comprising the contents of the message input area, including the predefined graphical image, where a merged message is an image, and transmitting the merged message to a recipient or another application.