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1. 0015 Clicking on Options will open a small window where the user will be given the choice to personalise the setting and position of the toolbar Here the user will also be able to write suggestion complaints to the software develop ers if they feel so Parameters like toolbar color and position and sliding bar color and position can be changed by a user The user may also set a default emotion so that every time he she messages that particular emotion will be used auto matically HELP OPTION 0016 The Help option will provide assistance to the user by providing a topic based user manual on the various func tions and features It will guide the user step by step for both ordinary and exceptional tasks and problems 0017 When this emotion toolbar will be used the text formatting feature the emotion related picture feature the default emotion feature and all other features other than the emotion label will be by default deactivated However they may be activated whenever the user requires Also by default if no emotion is specified and the message is sent then the label will read Emotion unspecified 0018 The emotion toolbar will preferably be used in a client server architecture where the toolbar will be provided as an integral feature to the user by default along with the other standard features of the messaging application All tool bar related processing will be done at the server s site All data relat
2. However the user does not think that these pictures explain his sadness enough so he decides to take a picture of himself sulking He takes the picture and saves it to the hard drive He then browses for the picture from the Picture submenu and selects it He now sends the message by clicking on send In this specific example the normal use of the system is explained The Topic feature was not used by this user as in emailing the subject field would suffice For the recipient the email will have a Very Sad label to it thus immediately conveying the emotion Once opened the picture and text formatting will further convey the emotion If the emotion label was not used and the keyword search method was used to determine mood then there would be ambivalence It can be seen that the user mentioned both emotional words at least once Happy and Sad thus settling on any one emotion may come down to the protocol of choosing the emotional word first or last used in the context as the overall mood which is inaccurate Fur thermore if the subject field of the email is searched using the same keyword technique the results will again be false since the word promotion reflects happiness but in fact the sender is sad as he is referring to the promotion of another US 2012 0047447 Al 0027 The invention will now be described solely by way ofexample and with reference to the accompanying drawings in which
3. Other tab will deal with settings such as setting a default emotion for a particular user this option once enabled will select that default emotion whenever the messaging service is opened Also the three default emotions represented by emoticons on the toolbar can be rearranged or even swapped for other emotion s from the emotions menu Also the toolbar menus font size and font face may be changed Finally there is a search feature once selected will open a separate window This window will require the user to enter search criteria This feature will enable the user to search or filter his her messaging history of both sent and received messages based on emotion as the Feb 23 2012 major criteria The user will be ableto view the results as a list or even graphically This search feature will be explained further in FIG 14 It is one of the major applications of this patent 0053 The last tab Suggestions will give the user the facility to file suggestions or complaints The user willneedto specify their name and email address 0054 All setting that have been changed in this window can be saved and applied by clicking Apply command 14 which will close the window The Cancel command 15 can be used to cancel any changes that may have currently been made in this window This window can be closed to return to the previous window by clicking on the Close command icon 12 0055 FIG 6 shows a stan
4. our vision by font face color size and background color We can already see similar examples in our daily life such as why statements of love are usually written in red Now if these emotion invoking computer parameters can be manipulated in various permutations or amalgamations it may be possible to express a deeper richer and more informed emotion between the sender and recipient via electronic media 0020 Other additional features include personalising fea tures that will be discussed in the explanation of figures There is also the search and filter feature which too will be discussed in the explanation of figures 0021 There is another additional feature provided to the user in which they can directly mention the topic to which he she has chosen an emotion This topic could include news social events political events major discussion topics major scientific and research topics and many more This feature is optional The sender can select an emotion he she feels about either the subject mentioned perceived in the message body or with this additional feature a topic chosen from a drop down menu and displayed as an icon beside the emotion label This icon will reveal the subject once the user clicks on or hovers the mouse over it This feature claims a menu contain ing major contemporary topics events and subjects divided into various subheading categories such as Human rights Thus there will be a limited number of ava
5. an example of a diagrammatic view of the results ofa search and filter feature that can be executed by a user 0044 FIG 1 shows a default non personalised emotion toolbar used to specify emotion The emotion toolbar is meant to be indivisible and to be incorporated into email and other forms of messaging Please note that this toolbar will only be Feb 23 2012 visible to the sender of that message while he she is compos ing it after that it will be replaced by a label a picture icon a topic icon or their combination 0045 Major emotions are represented by their corre sponding smileys 1 which can be selected or not based on the user s choice If selected and the message sent then the recipient will be shown the corresponding label The emotion menu icon 2 once pressed will open up a drop down menu containing other emotions that are not one of the three major emotions displayed as emoticons on the emotion toolbar Intensity sliding bar 3 will provide a scale to enable the user to vary the intensity of the emotion specified unless emotion unspecified the sliding pointer 4 can directly be moved by the user along the sliding bar 3 to vary the emotion Varying the emotion will result in the placement of a prefix to the emotion such as Very happy The options menu icon 5 once pressed will open up a drop down menu containing various options and features 0046 FIG 2 shows the drop down menu that will appear when th
6. blog of a school student remember how happy the teacher looked after we here mentioned is the word happy but from the context it can be noticed that the sender has not specified their emotion i e the student may be angry or sad for all we know but according to this keyword searching technique the student will be considered happy Another problem with this system is in the case when two or more contrasting emotion related words appear together for instance if happy and sad appear together There will ambiguity in the text inference EMOTION BASED MESSAGING SYSTEM 0004 The fact that text cannot fully express feeling is further emphasised by the fact that a spoken conversation can more aptly express the person s emotion than can text alone The solution to expressing emotion or mood in text based messaging calls for a system where users will specify their emotion not by elaborating within the body of the text but rather concisely as a label and associated set of attributes The label will appear with the message beside the sender s name and the regular date time of send stamp This label will thus conveniently serve as search criteria and it will provide a much more accurate expression of emotion to the recipient 0005 This patent specifies the use of single worded emo tion related words such as happy sad angry etc Also Feb 23 2012 the intensity of the emotion can b
7. many more emotions or moods written rather than depicted as smileys which will be sub classified into various headings for user convenience such as common recent latest add new and search Since there are a very large number of moods emotions feelings it would be easier if they were classified in such a way The Common heading will contain no more than fifteen everyday emotions Recent will contain those moods that the user often uses and also those which he she has used last The heading Latest will show all new emotions that have been added to the collection recently since there are a very large number of emotions it would not be possible to exhaustively think of every emotion and include it for use in the toolbar 0007 Thus we have given the user the ability to upload an emotion if it does not already exist in our collection This explains the purpose of the Add new option the Search option will enable a user to find an emotion that he she is feeling which is not displayed in the menu The collection will be stored on the server or client machine depending on the application The result of the search will depend on band width availability which in most cases will be almost instan taneous EMOTION INTENSITY SLIDING BAR 0008 The second section of the emotion toolbar will con tain the emotion intensity sliding bar The effect of moving this bar has already been discussed earlier Suppose a person
8. of post and other minor features have been omitted This diagram gives an example of how conventional messaging looks after being sent posted i e as viewed by the recipient or a viewer This diagram has no emotion specified and the textual content does not specify any thus there is ambiguity even if we consider the happy smiley inserted by the user This smiley may not necessarily indicate the user mood but rather his habit or how in this case the user is looking at last year s disastrous birthday party as hilarious Even if we do an emotional key word search the results may be ambiguous as discussed earlier 0057 The recipient is sceptical about how the user is feel ing By mentioning emotion and by enhancing it by text formatting and visual aid pictures the recipient will get a much better insight into the sender s feeling as he she was typing and thus the purpose of the message is more aptly delivered 0058 FIG 8 shows the same example as in FIG 7 but here the emotion toolbar was available and active when the sender was composing the message In this case no emotion was specified by the sender as seen by the emotion label 23 0059 FIG 9 shows the same example as in FIG 7 but as in FIG 8 the emotion toolbar was available and active while the sender was composing the message However in this case the user had specified a happy emotion and also enabled the US 2012 0047447 Al Formatting option thus changing
9. writing an email to his friend in another department about this The user will open the emailing service webpage and create a new email He will select the recipient and enter the subject of the email Promo tion The user will then choose an emotion that he thinks he is feeling about the subject of the email which is in this case Sad He will find it on the toolbar or select it from the emotion menu if the emotion is not one of the three major ones represented by emoticons The user can then specify an intensity of this emotion he chooses Very Sad by sliding the bar to the extreme right The user now begins to write the content of the message He mentions that he is sad at this outcome and that he would have been very happy if he had been promoted as he had been working very hard and was looking forward to it The user has now finished writing but he wants to express himself even further so he looks in the More options He decides to use all available features to express himself in the best way possible Firstly he selects the Formatting feature and at once the content of the message is formatted to a dull blue the background color also changes to make a good contrast the font face is also changed to a different style The user now returns to the same menu and clicks on Picture a sub menu opens and displays several standard pictures for that particular emotion and intensity this layout will be discussed in FIG 4
10. 0 of 16 Pa ory DOBY rin bk sn H H f root Patent Application Publication Figure 10 Patent Application Publication Feb 23 2012 Sheet 11 of 16 US 2012 0047447 Al Tina Pine weather today hang fis ii Rg Figure 11 Patent Application Publication Feb 23 2012 Sheet 12 of 16 US 2012 0047447 Al 19 20 24 26 21 Figure 12 US 2012 0047447 A1 Feb 23 2012 Sheet 13 of 16 Patent Application Publication iang Pay Figure 13 Patent Application Publication Feb 23 2012 Sheet 14 of 16 US 2012 0047447 Al ket R 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 een 20 24 ai 42 MANASE A tanta Figure 14 Patent Application Publication Feb 23 2012 Sheet 15 of 16 US 2012 0047447 Al 35 36 37 Figure 15 Patent Application Publication Feb 23 2012 Sheet 16 of 16 US 2012 0047447 Al US 2012 0047447 Al EMOTION BASED MESSAGING SYSTEM AND STATISTICAL RESEARCH TOOL 0001 This invention relates to the use of emotion labels and associated attributes that allow a user to specify their emotion on a certain subject at the time of writing thus enabling a more personal and effective communication with the recipient and also providing statistical data on the mood of a user over a certain period of time on a certain subject CONVENTIONAL MESSAGING METHOD 0002 Conventional text based forms of communication over the internet int
11. 0028 FIG 1 shows the emotion toolbar as it will be dis played for use in electronic mail instant messaging blogs forums and commenting systems containing the default emotion emoticons to the left the emotion intensity varying bar in the centre and the further options menu to the right 0029 FIG 2 shows the emotion toolbar with the emotion menu open and displaying the various options that can be selected from it 0030 FIG 3 shows the emotion toolbar with the More menu open and displaying the various emotions and options that can be selected from it 0031 FIG 4 shows the emotion toolbar with the More menu open and the Picture submenu open further and dis playing the various pictures and options that can be selected from it 0032 FIG 5 shows a window that opens to the user when the Options menu item is selected from the More menu and also showing the various features the user can select and change 0033 FIG 6 shows an example of how the emotion tool bar can be incorporated into an electronic mail template as seen by a user sending mail 0034 FIG 7 shows an example ofa standard status blog of a school student with similar format and components as seen on social networking sites and blogging sites 0035 FIG 8 shows an example of how using the emotion toolbar software and specifying no emotion will look for the recipient or viewer on a standard status blog 0036 FIG 9 shows an exampl
12. All emotions The Intensity search criteria US 2012 0047447 Al 33 and its four check boxes 38 enable the user to select one of six possible choices checking all boxes checking none ofthe boxes checking any 1 box checking any 2 boxes checking any 3 boxes or checking any 4 boxes The user can select the boxes in any order The search criteria Picture 34 and its check box 38 enable the user to further reduce the results to those messages where an emotion related picture has also been used 0070 Viewing options 35 enable the user to view the results either by list pie chart bar chart or by other graphical means based on user choice or on the type of search i e some results may not be compatible to be viewed graphically Arrangement options 36 enable the user to view the results alphabetically or in the order of date i e latest first Com mand button 37 will begin the search based on the entered search criteria and display the results based on the type and arrangement of display 0071 FIG 16 shows a pie chart 39 for the results of the search and filter option described in FIG 15 It also shows how the use ofthe emotion toolbar can be analysed for a given number of messages It is an example to show how statistical research and analysis can be carried out from the information contained in servers i e the emotion ofa message The given diagram describes a miniature system where there are only 4 emotio
13. US 20120047447A1 av United States a Patent Application Publication o Pub No US 2012 0047447 Al Haq 43 Pub Date Feb 23 2012 54 EMOTION BASED MESSAGING SYSTEM 52 U S CL une 715 752 AND STATISTICAL RESEARCH TOOL 57 ABSTRACT A system that allows users to convey their emotional state of 76 Inventor Saad Ul Haq London GB mind by means of selecting their mood from a toolbar when using applications such as instant messaging SMS MMS emails blogs commenting etc Different moods appear as K different icons or in a drop down box as text Emotion inten 21 Appl No 12 805 873 sity can be changed by a sliding bar present on the toolbar The sender will have the option to display their mood for that certain message as an emotion label displaved with the mes 22 Filed Aug 23 2010 sage and also by message text formatting font face and color are emotion dependant whereas font size and tone lighter darker shades for the same color are intensity dependant Publication Classification This messaging technigue allows the recipient to gauge better the sender mood 1t can also be usedto dynamically determine 51 Int Cl population mood and extract and plot statistical data on GO6F 3 01 2006 01 mood emotion distribution maps charts or graphs for analy GO6F 15 16 2006 01 sis interpretation research and marketing Pa Gi 19 20 IR AR Boy777 Nine weather today hope an my day rol ike
14. dard electronic mailing service template with the emotions toolbar 1 2 3 4 5 incorpo rated This view is for the sender as he she writes the email For the recipient the view will be different This example is quintessential of how the sender will view the emotion tool bar and how it will be incorporated during sending for all types of messaging services such as blogs comments etc We will deal with how this system will look for the recipient in a later diagram s Standard electronic mail protocol of speci fying recipient address and subject of message is shown 16 Services such as attaching documents or multimedia are sum marised by the Attach label and drop down menu icon 17 Please note that all other email services are not shown Stan dard text formatting features 18 common to almost all email services are also shown Please note that all other formatting features are not shown Emotion toolbar constituents are shown emotion emoticons 1 emotions menu 2 sliding bar 3 sliding bar pointer 4 and More options label and menu icon 5 0056 FIG 7 shows a standard status blog template that summarises the basic layout of key constituents as seen in commenting systems instant messaging windows and forum websites The key features are the user alias or user ID 20 along with user ID picture 19 The content 21 of the message and the time of posting the message 22 are also shown Please note that date time
15. e emotion menu icon 2 is pressed The various options will enable the user to access a larger variety of emotions or ifthe emotion is not in the collection then it will enable the user to request to add a new emotion 0047 Active menu 6 is now open which is in this case the emotions menu containing various options 7 which will be explained in turn The Do not specify emotion is the equiva lent of not selecting any emotion it has been used in case an emotion was specified by the user who now no longer wants to specify emotion The Common heading contains emo tions moods or statuses that are the most frequently used when messaging these can be obtained through statistics The Recent heading displays those emotions last used by this particular user if no emotion has ever been used by this user then this section will remain empty ifa larger number of emotions have been used then the most recent will be dis played for the sake of space up to ten The Latest heading will display those emotions recently added to the collection of emotions such as those requested by users once approved by the authorising authority The Add new option once pressed will open a separate window where the user will read the rules for requesting for a new emotion such as searching the col lection for this new emotion to see if it doesn t already exist The user will then be asked to provide his her name and email address after w
16. e of how using the emotion toolbar specifying a Happy emotion and using the Format ting option will look for the recipient or viewer on a standard status blog 0037 FIG 10 shows an example of how using the emotion toolbar software and specifying a Happy emotion will look for the recipient or viewer on a standard blog 0038 FIG 11 shows an example of how using the emotion toolbar specifying a Happy emotion and using the Picture option will look for the recipient or viewer on a standard blog 0039 FIG 12 shows an example of how using the emotion toolbar specifying a Happy emotion and using the Picture option will look for the recipient on a standard blog while the user is hovering the mouse over the emotion label to display qualifying words for that emotion 0040 FIG 13 shows an example of how using the emotion toolbar software specifying a Happy emotion and using the Picture option will look for the recipient on a standard blog while the user is hovering the mouse over the picture icon to display the emotion related picture selected by the sender 0041 FIG 14 shows an example of how using the emotion toolbar software specifying a Happy emotion and using the Topic feature will look for the recipient or viewer on a standard status blog 0042 FIG 15 shows a search window that can be opened from the Other tab in the Options window 0043 FIG 16 shows
17. e varied by means of a sliding bar which will be made available to the sender only Moving this sliding bar would indicate how much of that particular mood the sender is feeling How this will work is by the use of prefixes to the emotion related word The following example is given for a certain emotion A little happy Happy Very happy and Extremely happy Please note that these pre fixes will be made standard for all emotions and also that the extreme right of the sliding bar is the upper extreme of an emotion i e extremely and the extreme left is the lower extreme i e alittle EMOTION TOOLBAR 0006 By the use of a custom toolbar such as a text toolbar that contains font face color size and style bold italic underlined etc this patent claims a similar independent toolbar that will enable the user to specify emotion by pro viding various options menus and icons whose arrangement will be based on how this system of specifying mood works The emotion toolbar will contain the most common emotions as smiley icons which can simply be clicked on if the user is feeling that way We have limited the number of most com mon emotions to three happy sad and angry for the sake of space and convenience However it is very much possible that the user is not feeling one of these three emotions thus we have also created a drop down menu that can be accessed by clicking on an arrow icon beside the three smileys This menu will have
18. ed to the emotion toolbar including the collection of emotions and the emotion related pictures will therefore be stored on the server end However the pictures can also be uploaded by the user from the user s machine i e the client The emotion toolbar may also be used as a downloadable plug in that the user can install on their machine i e the client As a downloadable plug in it can also be used in other applications such as word processing ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND ENHANCEMENTS 0019 The additional features available to further enhance the emotion label are the use of text formatting qualifying words and emotion related pictures Although the emotion label concisely specifies emotion these features help in describing the emotion from different prospective angles Human beings have been defined to have five main human senses namely smell touch vision hearing and taste For other animals this may differ Since emotion is influenced by how we feel to a certain environment and that our environ ment is sensed through our five senses then it can be said that emotion is triggered when one or more of our five senses is actively involved in sensing If we define these human senses in terms of computer related parameters it will be possible to create computer related emotion i e it will be possible for the computer to express emotion in its own terms For example US 2012 0047447 Al hearing can be appealed to by the use of sound
19. en chosen and selected by the sender at the time of composing Here seen is a feature where the user can hover over or click the small colored icon 25 in order to open and view the image as a small popup window 27 This visual aid boosts the effec tiveness of specifying an emotion These pictures or anima tions may be standard from the software developer or non standard from the user s own collection The nature of our minds is that humans attach emotion to memories and fur thermore that memories are short clips and images of our past thus by using pictures the user appeals to the recipients Feb 23 2012 experience as a way of describing that emotion Please note that no mouse pointer has been drawn here 0065 FIG 14 shows a similar example of a status blog as in FIG 7 As in FIGS 12 and 13 also shown here is a small pop up window 42 which has been opened by the user by hovering the mouse over the Topic feature icon 41 This Topic feature can either be present on the Options menu or it may have its own icon and drop down menu on the emotion toolbar however it has not been included in any of the emo tion toolbar drawings This figure shows how this feature once enabled by the sender would look to the recipient or viewer If the viewing user does not hover the mouse over the icon then the pop up window 42 will not be displayed but rather the Topic feature icon 41 alone would be Sending
20. font formatting param eters for the message content 21 The happy emotion label 24 can be seen beside the user ID 20 at the beginning of the message 0060 This figure summarises the effect of specifying emotion and changing font formatting parameters can have on the recipient as to understanding how the sender felt The use of this specific font is meant to incite the level of feeling of happiness the sender was feeling Please note that font color and background color could not be shown so have been omitted As for another emotion such as anger the font color could be red and the font face could be chosen to have fiery edges around characters The intensity of color and fiery edges i e font face would vary based on the level ofanger as set by the sliding bar 0061 FIG 10 shows the same example as in FIG 7 but as in FIG 9 the emotion toolbar was available and active while the sender was composing the message However here the user specified his her emotion only without enabling the for matting feature The emotion label 24 shows the user emo tion and message content 21 here will be standard and default 0062 FIG 11 shows the same example as in FIG 7 As in FIG 10 emotion had been specified as seen by the emotion label 24 The difference is in this case the user had also selected a picture when composing the message to act as visual aid A small colored icon 25 has been placed next to the emotion label 24 t
21. he emotion and its relating intensity Each emotion will have its own signature color and shades thus limiting the emotions to a handful This means that the emotions menu that can be accessed by clicking on emotions menu icon 2 will be limited to a few selected emotions The Picture sub option willopen a further sub menu The purpose ofthis feature is for the sender to specify an emotion related picture with the message to enhance his her emotion The Options sub op tion will open a window where the user may personalise the toolbar The Help option will also open a window where the user will be provided a step by step topic based manual for carrying out different tasks while also providing explanation ofthe various features 0050 FIG 4 shows the drop down menu that will appear when the Picture option of the More sub options 8 is clicked on The More sub options can be accessed by click ing on the More menu icon 5 The active submenu 6 which is in this case the Picture submenu contains various standard emotion related pictures 9 which can be selected by the userto aid that specific emotion he she has chosen The active menu sub options 7 which are in this case the Pic ture menu sub options allow the user to specify a picture that is not one of the given pictures 9 The More option of the active menu sub options 7 will open a window which will contain an even larger c
22. hich they will type out the new emotion and then send this information to the developers email address electronically The developers will check this emotion s exist ence if it is new then the emotion will be approved by the authorising authority added to the Latest heading and the requesting user will be sent a confirmation letter The Search heading contains a search bar that will enable the user to type an emotion letter by letter from the collection The search is instantaneous and dynamic it will dynamically display all matching results letter by letter as the user types The results will be displayed below the bar under the same heading Computer generated suggestions may also help the user in the case of misspelled emotions The user will then be able to select the emotion 0048 FIG 3 shows the drop down menu that will appear when the More options icon 5 is clicked on The various options and features will allow the user to personalise the emotion toolbar or enhance the method in which the emotion will be displayed to the recipient 0049 Active menu 6 which is in this case the More menu will display various sub options 7 These sub options US 2012 0047447 Al include the feature Formatting which will change the for matting parameters ofthe text content ofthemessage Param eters such as font color and font size along with background color will automatically be applied to the text based on t
23. ilable topics how ever as in the emotion menu the user will be able to search a larger collection or if non existent then add their own and get it approved The topics can also be country or region specific as required by the user In the case of electronic mailing services this feature may not be used as the subject field is present CONSEQUENCES AND IMPACT 0022 By accurately conveying emotion in an electronic message it is possible to gather the overall mood or emotion of a population using that electronic media This is further enhanced by the widespread use of social networking and electronic mail It may also be applied to mobile phone based text messaging services such as SMS and MMS The appli cation ofthese culminated statistics could be used in areas of research and analysis commercial use law and order politics etc 0023 For example the number of depressed individuals in a certain area could be found and monitored to prevent pos sible suicide Also the overall mood of a country s citizens could be analysed before during or after parliamentary elec tion and the passing of laws and bans In the field of commer cialisation customer review and satisfaction for a new prod uct onthe market can be obtained by analysing their mood on this topic to optimise sales and can have a major impact for targeted marketing 0024 Apart from the above users will be able to express themselves more effectively during messaging c
24. is feeling sad while writing a message provided that he dis closes this emotion willingly and sincerely he will select the sad emoticon by clicking on it by default it will be normal intensity i e if intensity is not specified neither high nor low and the label will be Sad If this user is very sad then he she will move the intensity bar towards the right As he she does this a prefix will be added to the emotional word label auto US 2012 0047447 Al matically and dynamically thus becoming Very sad This principle will work identically for all emotions FURTHER OPTIONS 0009 Thethird and final section of the toolbar will contain a further options drop down menu named More Once clicked four options will be made available to the user For matting Picture Options and Help FORMATTING OPTION 0010 The Formatting option enhances the mood chosen by the user by changing text formatting parameters such as font size color face style bold italic underlined striked etc and also background color This formatting will only apply to the body of the text This option expresses emotion further by appealing to our human nature of attaching feeling to color Any one font color and font face is associated with any one particular emotion For some emotions assigning color is very easy such as for anger it is usually unanimously chosen as red but others may be trickier There will be a one to one relationship betwee
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26. n color and font face with emotion so as to give each emotion a signature color and font face for easy recognition We have limited any one color and all its shades to any one particular emotion The darker and lighter shades for a color are important for specifying the intensity of the emotion when using the emotion intensity varying bar i e darker shades for higher intensities and lighter shades for lower However by limiting any one color and all its shades to only one emotion we have developed a problem it is true that there are many different colors but in fact they are mostly shades ofa handful of colors 0011 Thus we have limited the number of emotions that can be selected when the Formatting option is enabled This means that the number of emotions in the emotion dropdown menu will need to decrease to a handful These handful of emotions will be the most major emotions i e statistically those that are most used 0012 Soifauser selects an emotion that is not one of these major emotions and he she then enables the Formatting option he she will be prompted to change his her choice of emotional state If a user selects the Formatting option first and then opens the emotion dropdown menu then the menu will simply be smaller and with less option as to when the Formatting option is not chosen EMOTION RELATED PICTURE OPTION 0013 The Picture option will open a submenu Which will contain several emoti
27. n toolbar is by default placed seamlessly beside other text formatting toolbars such as those for font color size style bold underlined italic and so on 4 An emotion based electronic messaging system as claimed in claim 1 in which the user can select their emotion either directly from the emotion toolbar or from a larger variety presented as text in a drop down menu also present on the emotion toolbar 5 An emotion based electronic messaging system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the user can search the complete collection of emotions or add their own which would need Feb 23 2012 formal approval from the service provider if it does not already ezist in the collection by means ofa drop down menu on the emotion toolbar 6 An emotion based electronic messaging system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the emotion specified by the sender from the emotion toolbar is expressed to the recipient in the form of a textual label appropriately positioned in the message window above the text body of the message 7 An emotion based electronic messaging system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the emotion toolbar also contains a sliding bar with an attached pointer in order for the sender to vary the intensity of the chosen emotion at the time of com posing a message 8 An emotion based electronic messaging system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the intensity of the chosen emo tion is manifested to the recipient in the form of a prefix attached t
28. ns viz Happy Sad Angry and Unspecified The search criteria for this diagram could be All received messages over a year January 2009 January 2010 from a particular contact According to the diagram it can be seen that this particular contact is happy most of the time when messaging and is angry less of the time This is an example of how the use of the emotions toolbar when messaging can be used to derive data which can be plotted and studied for a particular reason such as in politics 0072 Pie chart representation 39 contains the various emotions 40 in proportion to each other The various emo tions 40 can also be adapted for a bar chart representation 1 An emotion based electronic messaging system in the form of a toolbar that enables users to specify their emotion and its intensity on a certain topic by choosing one of many different emotions and by moving a pointer across a sliding bar respectively the system having used a written label that would display the emotion before the body of the text to the recipient while also giving the sender additional features to enhance the chosen emotion 2 An emotion based electronic messaging system as claimed in claim 1 wherein a moveable toolbar will contain the various options menus and commands needed by the sender to specify an emotion its intensity a topic and an emotion related picture 3 An emotion based electronic messaging system as claimed in claim 1 in which the emotio
29. o indicate a picture has been selected 0063 FIG 12 shows the same example as in FIG 7 Asin FIG 11 emotion had been specified as seen by the emotion label 24 and an emotion related picture had also been assigned as visual aid as seen by the small colored icon 25 Here seen is a feature whereby emotion qualifying words 26 are displayed in a small popup window whenever the user hovers the mouse over the emotion label 24 or clicks it The purpose of these words is to describe the emotion from different perspectives These words are hence synonymous and will show different aspects of the emotion These quali fying words will change with change in emotion and emotion intensity This means that when the intensity of a particular emotion is varied the words will become harder or softer based on the increase or decrease respectively For example a soft qualifying word for angry could be upset a normal qualifying word could be cross and a hard qualifying word could be infuriated Here three normal intensity qualifying words have been shown for happy The purpose of these qualifying words is to enhance the effect by explaining the emotion more deeply When the mouse is moved away from the emotion label 24 the emotion qualifying words 26 will disappear Please note that no mouse pointer has been drawn here 0064 FIG 13 shows the same example as in FIG 7 As in FIG 11 an emotion and a picture had be
30. o the emotion label 9 An emotion based electronic messaging system as claimed in claim 1 in which the sender is provided the feature of enabling emotion specific text formatting to the text body of the message to accompany and hence to further enrich and enhance the emotion label and its relating intensity 10 An emotion based electronic messaging system as claimed in claim 1 in which the text formatting involves the change of the font face size color style bold italic under lined striked etc and background color of the body of the message 11 An emotion based electronic messaging system as claimed in claim 1 in which the text formatting applies a strict one to one relationship between font color and face with emotion i e any one signature color to any one emotion without repeats 12 An emotion based electronic messaging system as claimed in claim 1 in which the text formatting feature can also vary the signature color of an emotion to different shades of that color to manifest a different intensity of an emotion to the recipient 13 An emotion based electronic messaging system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the sender can select a topic contemporary issues events news and subjects to which he has chosen an emotion from a drop down menu which can be opened from the emotion toolbar directly or from the More drop down menu 14 An emotion based electronic messaging system as claimed in claim 1 in which the use
31. of the Topic feature by the sender is manifested in the form of an icon to the recipient viewer which can be activated by the recipient viewer to display the topic 15 An emotion based electronic messaging system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the sender is also presented with an additional enhancement whereby he she can select an emotion related picture to accompany the emotion label 16 An emotion based electronic messaging system as claimed in claim 1 in wherein the emotion related picture can also be animated short duration or uploaded by the user from their own collection 17 An emotion based electronic messaging system as claimed in claim 1 in which the use of an emotion related picture by the sender is manifested in the form of a small colored icon to the recipient viewer which can be activated by the recipient viewer to display the picture US 2012 0047447 Al 18 An emotion based electronic messaging system as claimed in claim 1 wherein qualifying words which are syn onymous are used to further elaborate an emotion more deeply to the recipient 19 An emotion based electronic messaging system as claimed in claim 1 in which the user can view the emotion related picture the qualifying words and the topic by hover ing the mouse pointer over the small colored icon the emo tion label and the topic icon respectively 20 An emotion based electronic messaging system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the user can view the emo
32. ollection of pictures from the devel opers depending on that specific emotion Please note that the pictures may also be slightly animated short duration animations The Browse option will allow the user to select a picture from one ofthe computer drives i e those that are not from the toolbar developers 0051 FIG 5 shows the active window 10 that will open when the Options sub option of the More menu is clicked on This window will be used to personalise position and color of the various toolbar constituents It will also be used to file suggestions complaints electronically in another one of the tabs 11 A search feature will also be present 0052 The various tabs 11 deal with different option which will be explained in turn The Colors tab will be open by default and the tab order will be from left to right The Colors tab once clicked on if not already open will display tab options 13 which will deal with changing the color aspect of the emotion toolbar constituents The Positions tab will deal with changing the positioning of various toolbar constituents such as emoticons order default order angry then sad then happy and the emotions menu the sliding bar and lastly the More options label and its icon for each others positions on the emotion toolbar The orientation of the slid ing bar and or toolbar as a whole may also be changed from horizontal to vertical and vice versa The
33. ommunica tion There will be less ambiguity when messaging and the richness of emotion is being harnessed The field of emotion in messaging can be used as a search criterion enabling people or governments to filter and search a population based on mood and emotion this could lead to targeted advertising and door to door sales A user who depicts more of a certain emotion than other emotions would show more interest and would be more inclined to buy or inguire about a certain product that invokes that certain emotion Thus emailing websites and social networking websites could display user Feb 23 2012 based advertising depending on that specific user s mood so that the effectiveness of that advertisement could be further enhanced 0025 Themood emotion or feeling of a population on any given topic at any given time could be plotted on a map to show the distribution where each emotion appears as a dif ferent color Currently mapping of moods exists but it is run using a key word search technique which as has been dis cussed is inaccurate and can actually be misleading Thus the use of emotion labels during messaging could provide a more accurate alternative EXAMPLE 0026 Here will be explained an example of how this emo tion based system will work for an emailing service In this example a user is sad that he was not notified about an employment promotion but others in his department were despite him working as hard he is
34. on related pictures These pictures images will feature people displaying a certain emotion by their facial expression body language and or by implication These pictures will also work with the emotion intensity slid ing bar by intensifying the facial expressions or body lan guage of the people Images of objects that invoke particular emotions may also be used The emotion related pictures images will be standard and may also be slightly animated The use of pictures will further enhance the user s ability to relay his her emotion to the recipient by acting as visual aid This picture would incite deeper feeling into the recipient than just merely mentioning an emotion this implies that the use of sound or even video would have an even greater effect on the recipient Although these would greatly enhance the expressing of an emotion their use will be limited due to today s internet bandwidth The use of these may cause much Feb 23 2012 time spent in waiting for these messages to be opened or displayed However it will be a great tool in the near future 0014 Within this submenu the user will also be given the option to view a larger collection of pictures whereby a small window will open up If the user is still unsatisfied with the choices they may upload their own image by browsing for its location on the hard drive The standard built in pictures will be stored on the client or server depending on the application SETTINGS
35. ranet extranet and telecommunication networks are wide spread and are becoming increasingly common because of the increasing ease and advantages of accessing the internet in our daily life i e cheaper connection costs and rates Moreover communication over the internet has many forms namely electronic mail instant messaging blogs forums and commenting systems These methods of expressing one s self to another make up the mechanism of social networking which too has increasing influence and importance in our daily life In this patent the word messag ing will be used to encompass all of the above forms These methods involve typing text characters symbols and or attaching multimedia files In this invention we will concen trate on text which usually forms the bulk of these messages 0003 The problem with such conventional messaging is the user s inability to fully express their emotion mood or feeling without otherwise explicitly mentioning it It is true then that emotion can thus be expressed by text if the emotion is mentioned within the body of the text but on a large scale this method of reading each message to ascertain the per ceived emotion is cumbersome Searching for keywords seems to provide a solution But this method of identifying emotion related words like happy is in fact inaccurate as that particular word may not have been employed to describe the sender s emotion For example consider the following
36. tional history ofthemselves a contact the received messages folder or the sent messages folder 21 An emotion based electronic messaging system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the emotional history refers to the statistics of messages received or sent based on the emotion label 22 An emotion based electronic messaging system as claimed in claim 1 wherein commercial businesses may use Feb 23 2012 the statistical information about the emotion of users in a country in order to carry out targeted advertising on messag ing websites electronic mailing websites social networking instant messaging blogging websites where the emotion toolbar may be used 23 An emotion based electronic messaging system as claimed in claim 1 wherein commercial businesses can carry out targeted advertising of those goods that invoke a certain emotion oriented at those users who use that specific emotion more frequently than all other emotions thus increasing the chance of sale 24 An emotion based electronic messaging system as claimed in claim 1 in which the statistical data about user emotion emotional history gathered from different servers can be used to carry out statistical research analysis and comparison over time periods for emotions provoked by cer tain topics and events ak ak ak ak ak
37. user ID 20 and ID picture 19 are shown together with the message content 21 and message posting time 22 to form the basic layout and features for blogs comments and instant messaging The emotion label 24 shows the senders feelings on either the subject written within the pop up window 42 as is in this case or if this feature is not selected then the relevant and perceived subject specified in the message body 0066 If the Topic feature icon 41 is not visible and there is an emotion label present then the viewing user will know that the sender s emotion is implied or mentioned in the message body 0067 FIG 15 shows a search window 28 from which the user can search and filter sent or received messages based on emotion as the major search criteria The user can also filter his her contacts based on the same criteria From the servers end it will be possible to search and filter all emotion based messaging system users based on the emotion criteria such as for all the approximately one billion users of Facebook or other such social networking websites 0068 For filtering sent messages the user can achieve several results he she can view all messages sent according to emotion he she can view all sent messages to a particular contact s according to emotion and finally he she can view all sent messages and its relating emotion according to a particular contact For filtering received messages the user can achie
38. ve several results he she can view all messages received according to emotion he she can view all messages received from a particular contact according to emotion and finally he she can view all messages received with its relating emotion according to a particular contact For filtering con tacts the user can achieve the following result he she can view all contacts that have been sent messages or from which messages have been received according to emotion Please note that the above achievable results have only included destination folder contact name and emotion as criteria the remaining criteria include emotion intensity and whether the sender had assigned an emotion related picture to the message or not These two other criteria will further increase the achievable results these results will not further be discussed as the above discussion summarises the topic 0069 Search criteria Folder 30 and its drop down menu 29 will contain the following destination folder choices Sent messages Received messages or All fold ers Search criteria Name 31 and its drop down menu 29 will contain the following option All contacts contact 1 by name or ID contact 2 by name or ID contact 3 by name or ID and so on for all the contacts The Emotion search criteria 32 and its drop down menu 29 will contain all emotions in the collection of emotions the Unspecified emo tion and also

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