Patent ID: 9425974
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: obtaining a message from a first user as part of a network-enabled conversation with a second user; analyzing the message to identify an expressiveness keyword indicative of an emotion, mood, or level of expressiveness; selecting a level or degree of emotional expressiveness to which a corresponding emotion or mood should be expressed in relation to the identified expressiveness keyword; applying, by use of a processor, at least one embellishment to the message to produce an embellished message, the embellishment including either an explicitly user-selected embellishment or an automatically generated embellishment based on content of the message, the at least one embellishment being configured in a manner consistent with the selected level or degree of emotional expressiveness, the embellished message including configuration data encoded therewith corresponding to the at least one embellishment, the configuration data including a plurality of data values defining particular embellishment properties of the at least one embellishment; and causing transmission of the embellished message via a network to the second user.