Patent Document ID: 9613023
Application ID: 13999773

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented system for developing and updating ethnic and cultural emoticon dictionaries through crowdsourcing, comprising: a plurality of smart devices capable of requesting and downloading ethnic and cultural dictionaries; a system server for controlling operations for development and updating of crowd sourced ethnic and cultural emoticon dictionaries and downloading requested ethnic and cultural dictionaries to the plurality of smart devices, with the system server having a capability to compare new emoticons input to the system server for addition to ethnic and cultural dictionaries by comparing each new emoticon's visual image and written meaning with a visual image and written meeting of emoticons stored in a dropped emoticon archive of a system database and if there is no match of the new emoticon's visual image and written meaning or there is only a match of the new emoticon's visual image or written meeting but not both, the new emoticon will be evaluated by crowdsourcing for addition to a cultural or emoticon dictionary, and if there is a match of the new emoticon's visual image and written meaning with a visual image and written meaning of any emoticons in the dropped emoticon archive, then the new emoticon will cease being processed by the system server; a plurality of system databases electronically connected to the system server for storing ethnic and cultural emoticon dictionaries developed and updated by crowdsourcing and storing crowdsourced information for selection and in ethnic and cultural dictionaries and at least one system database including the dropped emoticon archive; a plurality of computer-based systems for providing crowdsourced information through system server for storage in the plurality of databases for potential selection for inclusion in ethnic and cultural dictionaries; and a wireless network for connecting the plurality of smart phones and a plurality of computer-based systems for providing crowdsourced information to the system server.

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Claim 3:
3. The system as recited in claim 1 , wherein the system controller includes at least a processor, input output modules, and memory.