FI111502B - Procedure for processing and transmitting data - Google Patents

Description

111502

The present invention relates to a method for editing and transmitting information. The method is suitable, for example, for use with a system 5 in which a user can create an image of a character, for example himself, and then send messages using a conventional mobile phone in which this character represents various expressions and emotions.

The user creates an image depicting the character using, for example, the web interface.

10 The captured image is stored in the system database. Once the character has been created, the user can send a short message to the system containing information for editing the stored character, preferably, for example, instructions describing the emotional state, appearance or position of the character and the telephone number of the desired recipient. Based on the message instructions, the system edits information containing the character image stored in the database 15, and thus sends the edited information, such as a new image, to the desired recipient as a picture message. Depending on the image, other information may also be attached, preferably, for example, the desired text message.

The invention also relates to a system whereby a user can create an image depicting a character, preferably for example himself, and then send it in the usual way:. mobile phone messages in which this character preferably represents, for example, various expressions and emotions, or other information preferably transmitted in image form.

There are several different ways to send electronic messages to a recipient such as e-mail and short message or SMS. Electronic picture messages may have been sent either as e-mail attachments or as multicast picture messages (GMS, Graphic Message Service). Picture messages on mobile phones contain a small image and a limited number of 30 texts. The user can order these images directly to himself or to the recipient:. paid services. Traditionally, these work by providing the service with 2,111,502 ready-made images, which can be ordered, for example, by sending an SMS with the name of the desired image. Some services also allow you to draw pictures yourself, which you can then order for yourself.

5 Emoticons, for example, are commonly used in short messaging and e-mail when describing a contributor's emotional state, which is otherwise difficult to express in short written text. However, prior to the present invention, it has not been possible to use picture messages to smileily represent the sender's state of mind in a personalized manner using only cellular phone 10 to generate the actual message. Existing systems also can't edit their own character and then send this as a picture message.

The present invention provides a novel and unique communication system for enhancing communication detection power. This invention relates to a system and method according to claim 15. In the system of the invention, the user can send visual messages, preferably for example emotional state or other visual expressive messages, to their respective terminals by means of their terminal equipment (mobile phone, handheld device, PC or the like). The invention responds to the need of users to express the emotional state of the message. Written text 20 does not convey to the recipient any part of the content intended by the sender of the message because; nonverbal communication is missing. Expression of the emotional state is necessary e.g.

to avoid misunderstandings and to increase and / or clarify the message's message power.

The invention is an SMS-based system by means of which users of a normal mobile phone can send each other messages which preferably include not only text but also images representing the tunnel loading of the message or other visual information supplementing and / or clarifying the content of the message. Emotional states are represented by a character that can be customized by the user, for example to look like himself.

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The invention and an advantageous embodiment thereof will be described in more detail below with reference to the drawings, in which Figure 1 schematically illustrates a preferred embodiment of the system of the invention as a block diagram, Figure 2 depicts a method for logging and character creation and

In the figures, the same reference numerals are used for like parts.

10 Creating and editing a character (1) and (23) takes place, for example, through an interactive web or wap-based user interface (11), or via SMS or e-mail. After registering (16) with the rigid system, the user receives a password as a short message (19). With a telephone number and a password, the user can log in to the system (20).

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Creating a character (23) via an interactive web interface is easy because the user can utilize the character to build ready-made components stored in members of the rigid system, preferably various eyes and nasals. Thus, drawing a character does not require any special skills. The user interface 20 (11) draws a basic character, generating expressions, gestures and postures. happens automatically in the system. It is also possible to edit the character by using short message messages. The message describes the character's appearance, not his appearance, for example '' long hair, big mouth, small nose '. The third user interface model is a wap site, which can be either a www or 25 sms-based model or a combination of both.

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The modified character is stored in (2) and (24) in the ice system database (12).

Once created, the user of the character can construct the picture message 30 depicting the character by sending (3), (4) and (25), (26) a message (12) and (27) to the system. The message is; preferably, for example, a short message, an e-mail, or a message sent from a wap or web page 4111502. The message preferably includes, for example, words describing emotional state, posture, situation, and / or character outfitting and / or other information intended to modify the character. This description is free form, so you don't have to memorize certain codes or keywords. In addition, the message includes the recipient's telephone number or other information about the recipient and / or other information and message text needed to convey the message. If necessary, the service identifier may be added to the beginning of the message. Message (12) and (27) as a whole could be, for example, as follows: 'I am pleased with my eyes is wearing sunglasses.

+358501234567. Hi and hello here from Italy! The holiday has started brilliantly, t.

10 Gust ”The system receives the message (12) and (27) (5) and interprets the description therein. The expressive component retrieves (6), (7) from the database (12) the message sender character and creates an image of the character that best corresponds to the description of the emotional state.

In addition to the character, other image elements may be attached to the image to illustrate the situation, preferably, for example, hearts adjacent to the character in love. After generating the image (28), the system appends the text of the original message to it and generates a GMS message (image message). The GMS message is split into three SMS messages using techniques known per se and sent to the recipient (8) -20 (10) and (29), the telephone number or other message needed to transmit. the information was provided by the user in his original post (12) and (27).

The recipient's terminal device, for example a mobile phone (15), must be capable of displaying GMS messages. On the other hand, the sender's device does not need to understand GMS messages, sending SMS messages alone is sufficient.

The following is an example of a user creating a character and sending it to the recipient of the information contained in the image.

} 30 First, the user logs in (20) with his phone number and password to the web service (11) provided by the system using his computer. The ice system retrieves 5 111502 databases of the user character (22) and then edits it. The user modifies (23) the character on an interactive web page and saves the details of the finished character (24) in a database, for example, by pressing the "Save" button on the page.

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To create a message, the user transmits a short message (27) via the mobile phone (14) over the communication network to the computing station, preferably including text such as emotional state, expression, position and situation, a recipient's telephone number or other identifier and message text . "I am pleased with my eyes is wearing sunglasses. +358501234567. Hi and hello here from Italy! The holiday has started brilliantly, t. Gusta '. The counting station (31) receives the message and extracts from it a description of the situation and the recipient's telephone number and message text. A database is retrieved (6) and a user-created character (7) is then edited based on the description of the message (13), in this example, the character is rendered happy and sunglasses are added to the character. Next, the computing station generates a picture message (28) consisting of a picture of the character and message text. The calculating station splits the picture message into the required number of short message messages and sends (8) them (29) over the communication network to the recipient's terminal (15) from which the recipient (10) can read the message.

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Claims (4)

111502 A system for transmitting image-containing messages, comprising: at least one message transmitting terminal (14), comprising: 5. means for wireless and / or wireless and / or wired communication; means for transmitting short message messages (27); - means for receiving short message messages (19); at least one message receiving mobile terminal (15) comprising 10 means for wireless and / or wireless and / or wired communication; means for combining received short message messages into a single picture message (Graphic Message Service) (29); characterized in that said system comprises: 15 at least one computing station (30) comprising: - all necessary means for communicating with the user (14) and the receiving terminal (15) directly or via any telecommunication network; - means (12) for storing data; means for communicating (19, 27, 29) directly with the user terminal 20 or via any wireless or wired short message network for transmitting and receiving messages regardless of the length of said information; - means for extracting from the message sent by the user a section for editing the stored image data; 25. means (28) providing an image edited from the user's message based on information for editing; - means for transmitting the image produced by the system and the text portion of the image message request as a short message message to the recipient (29); 111502, wherein said terminals (11,14,15) and a computing station (30) are mapped so that the user can send and / or receive text and / or picture messages and / or messages connected from them directly or via any telecommunication network. A method for creating a character (23), characterized in that the method produces a character description record from which images of the character's emotions, positions and / or expressions can be generated suitable for presentation on a portable terminal. 3. Förfarande enligt patentkrav 2, kännetecknat av, att användaren skapar den 30 self-assembling figure genome att field dess delar ur en Färdig databas eller bland 111502 användarens självskapade delar för att uppä en en self-figur och sparar derma i databas (23) . Method according to claim 2, characterized in that the user creates the desired character by selecting the desired appearance from the parts of the character stored in the finished database or created by himself and stores it in the database (12, 23, 24). Method (28) according to Claims 2 and 3, characterized in that the user-defined features, such as the image of the character, are formed by combining the user-selected parts of the character-forming parts desired. features such as those corresponding to the emotional state you want to express. 20: 1. Ett system för att Skicka meddelanden innehällande bilder, som inbegriper: minst en bärbar terminal (14) frän vilken man kan Skicka meddelanden, som innefattar: - medel fördlös och / eller sladdlös communication och / eller communication med hjälp av kablar ; 25. medel för att kunna sända korttextmeddelanden (27); : _ _. - medel för att kunna ta emot corttextmedeland (19); minst en emottagande bärbar terminal (15), som innefattar: - medel för trädlös och / eller sladdlös communication och / eller communication med 30 hjälp av kablar; 111502 - medel för att kurga lgga ihop de mottagna korttextmeddelandena account et bildmeddelande (Graphic Message Service) (29); kännetecknat av, att nämnda system innefattar: minst en kalkyleringsstation (30), som innefattar: 5. downloading of medel för communications mellan användaren (14) och den mottagande terminalen (15) direkt eller via vilket telekommunikationsnät som Heist; - medel (12) f spar sparande av information; - medel för korttextmeddelandesändning (19, 27, 29) direct account användarens 10 terminal eller sändning eller mottagning av meddelanden via the tradlöst eller sladdlöst korttextmeddelandenätverk som Heist oberoende av längd pä nämnda information; - medel för att ur meddelandet sänt av användaren skilja den del som and adverts for att bearbeta den sparade bildinformationen; 15. medel (28) för att producera en bearbetad bildpä basen av Informationen i användarens meddelande; - an account of the producer of the image of the producer system (29); : 20 da nämnda terminaler (11,14,15) och kalkyleringsstationen (30) and ordnade sa att användaren kan Skicka och / eller ta textmeddelanden och / eller bildmeddelanden och / eller av dessa sammansatta meddelanden direkt eller via somket telecommunications. : 25 2. Förfarande för att skapa en figur (23), kännetecknat av, att methoden producerar (en fil som beskriver figuren, frän vilken bilder av figurens sinnesstämning, ställning och / eller Miner kan genereras, som passar för att visa i en bärbar terminal. 4. Förfarande enligt patentkrav 2 och 3, kennettecknat av, att egkapkapema som 5 användaren definierat, som en bild av figuren som uttrycker en känsla, picture genome att combera de av användaren Valda delar av figuren som business account f att attilda densamma den omaskade sinnesstämningen eller känslan, som de delar som motsvarar den önskade sinnesstämningen. »