Patent ID: 8019818

Claim:
A method of providing at least one icon of an iconic language to users of a server-based communications network system, comprising: providing an iconic language converting software to user devices of the users in said communications network system; identifying the users of said communications network system according to user information stored in a user information database; creating a group of users comprised of at least one user, but less than all users, of said communications network system based on the user information; providing said at least one icon to said group of users by uploading the at least one icon from an iconic language database into the devices of the group and storing the icon therein; encoding an iconic language message into bits for uploading by a user in said group wherein the message comprises a plurality of icons including said at least one icon: transmitting the encoded message to at least one other user in said communications network; and converting the encoded message from bits into an iconic language message including said at least one icon by at least one other user in said communications network.