Patent ID: 8224815
Filing Date: 2012-07-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. An interactive message editing system, comprising: a database containing data representative of a plurality of media objects and of a plurality of data strings each associated with one or more of said media objects according to a predetermined rank depicting a nominal preference to be accorded to each media object matching the respective data string, a memory for storing multimedia message data entered by a user via a user interface, a parser coupled to the memory for parsing said message data on the fly for identifying successive character strings, a comparator coupled to the parser and to said database for comparing each of the character strings with data strings in the database, an interactive menu compiler coupled to the comparator and responsive to a character string at least partially matching a data string in the database for presenting on a display device one or more media objects associated with the data string, and a media enhancer responsive to manual selection by the user of a presented media object for embedding the selected media object in spatial association with the associated character string.