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 5:
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the profile of the first user comprises at least one of user interests, user favorites, user preferences, user demographics, user search history, user media asset access history, and user information.