Patent ID: 8635306

Claim:
A method for providing character input to a display device, the method: detecting, by the display device, a user selection of an application which allows for character input by a user, the application associated with at least one of electronic mail, internet searching, social networking, searching a network site, and entertainment; launching a receiver application by the display device in response to detecting the user selection of the application that allows character input; instructing, by the receiver application of the display device, a messenger application to detect for a transmission relating to one or more character inputs from a user device different from the display device while the application is being operated by the user; detecting the transmission from the a user device by the messenger application of the display device, wherein the receiver application decodes the transmission to identify at least one graphical character for display and provide the at least one graphical character to the application on the display device; and displaying, by the display device, the at least one graphical character.