Patent ID: 9437019
Filing Date: 2016-09-06
CPC Classification: G06F,G06T

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: by a computing device of a first user of an online social network hosted by a social-networking system, accessing a social graph maintained by the social-networking system, the social graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes, wherein: by the computing device, receiving a notification from the social-networking system, wherein the notification comprises an indication of a Unicode character-encoding system and a combining-character sequence, wherein the social-networking system generates the combining-character sequence to be sent to the first user based on information regarding at least one of the second nodes connected by one of the edges to the first node, and wherein: by the computing device, determining, in response to the received notification, that there is no existing mapping code for the combining-character sequence in a mapping table stored on the computing device and based on the Unicode character-encoding system; by the computing device, generating, in response to the received notification, a new listing in the mapping table for a new mapping code for the combining-character sequence, wherein the codespace of the Unicode character-encoding system comprises a range of code points reserved for private use, and wherein the new mapping code is in the range of code points reserved for private use; by the computing device, requesting a glyph corresponding to the combining-character sequence, wherein the glyph is stored in association with the new mapping code; and by the computing device, providing information to display the glyph.