Patent ID: 8099462

Claim:
A method of displaying multiple effects from a sender of a first electronic device to a chat client of a second electronic device on a video chat region, the method comprising: displaying an effect selected by the sender on a display of the first electronic device; receiving with the second electronic device the effect selected by the sender; checking in a database of the first electronic device or the second electronic device to map the effect selected by the sender to a corresponding mapping interactive effect, wherein the mapping interactive effect and the effect selected by the sender have a predetermined mapping relationship; displaying the mapping interactive effect on the chat client of the second electronic device, wherein the effect selected by the sender and displayed on the display of the first electronic device is different from the mapping interactive effect displayed on the chat client; applying the mapping interactive effect to an application region of the video chat region of the chat client, wherein the application region is a partial or an entire region of the video chat region; and determining whether the sender has specified the application region of the chat client, wherein if the sender has not specified the application region, the method further comprising: providing a mapping action effect list including at least one application region with a mapping action effect, wherein the application region is a predetermined application region when the application region has a mapping to the predetermined application region of the video chat region; and applying the effect or the mapping interactive effect on the predetermined application region of video chat region of the chat client.