Patent Document ID: 9854049
Application ID: 14610793

Base Claim:
1. A method for providing information to a user comprising: receiving, with user equipment associated with a first user, a communication transmitted by a second user; in response to receiving the communication that was transmitted by the second user, processing, with the user equipment associated with the first user, text of the communication to identify a symbol of the communication that is subject to a plurality of candidate interpretations, the symbol including one or more words in the processed text of the communication; identifying each candidate interpretation of the plurality of candidate interpretations; retrieving a profile of the first user; comparing an attribute of the profile to each candidate interpretation of the plurality of candidate interpretations; in response determining, based on the comparison, that the first user has accessed a first media asset that is associated with a first of the plurality of candidate interpretations more recently than a second media asset that is associated with a second of the plurality of candidate interpretations, selecting as a determined meaning of the symbol the first candidate interpretation; and updating the profile to include information based on the determined meaning.

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Claim 8:
8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: determining a location of the first user; identifying a vendor within a threshold distance of the first user; determining whether the vendor has inventory related to the media asset; and providing information about the vendor to the first user.