Patent ID: 7379066
Filing Date: 2008-05-27
Classification: G06Q,G06T

Abstract:
1. A method for creating a personal animated entity for delivering a multi-media email message from a sender to a recipient, the method comprising: receiving from the sender a personal image file at a server, the image file including an image of an entity; via a dialog between the server and the sender, requesting the sender to provide input with respect to a plurality of facial features of the image of the entity in preparation for animating the image of the entity, wherein the dialog includes, after the sender has input a predetermined number of facial features, presenting the sender with an option to continue to mark facial features: after the sender provides the input with respect to the plurality of facial features of the image of the entity, presenting the image of the entity as a personal animated entity to the sender to preview; and upon approval of the preview from the sender, as the sender later begins a process of preparing a multi-media email message to send to the recipient, presenting the image of the entity as a sender-selectable personal animated entity for delivering the multi-media email message to the recipient.