Patent ID: 9746990
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04M

Claim:
1. A communication device for selectively augmenting communications, the communication device comprising: a display, a user environment information acquiring module to acquire, in response to a change in a sensed physical environment relating to a user of the communication device, user environment information comprising one or more user-defined stimulus events for the sensed physical environment, wherein to acquire, in response to the change in the sensed physical environment, the user environment information comprises to acquire the user environment information only when the change is at least a threshold amount, a user environment indicator creation module to create one or more user environment indicators based on acquired user environment information, a user environment indicator display module to display the one or more created user environment indicators via the display, and a user environment indicator selection module to include a selected one or ones of the one or more displayed user environment indicators in a communication to be transmitted by the communication device.