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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.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2012
Applicants:
Jenny Yuen, Cambridge, MA (US);
Luke St. Clair, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Jenny Yuen, Cambridge, MA (US);
Luke St. Clair, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/10 (2013.01); H04L 51/063 (2013.01); H04L 51/32 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a computing device receives input from a user participating in a message session. The computing device detects an emoticon in the received input and identifies an image corresponding to the emoticon. The computing device accesses the image corresponding to the emoticon and replaces the emoticon with the image in the message session.