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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2001
Method, product, and apparatus for requesting a resource from an identifier having a character image
Applicant:
Steven Schneider, San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventor:
Steven Schneider, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
One or more character image elements can be detected from an identifier that includes a character image of an emoticon, the image elements including a base image identifier and character modifier identifier. After detection at least one uniform resource identifier component corresponding to said at least one character image element can be generated. After component generation a uniform resource locator (URL) incIuding said at least one uniform resource identifier component can be generated. After URL generation, a network resource can be requested from the URL.