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Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
This office action is in response to the claim invention filed on February 14, 2025, in which claims 1-20 are presented for examination.
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Double Patenting
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Claims 1-20 are rejected on the ground of non-statutory double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1-11 of U.S. Patent No. 11,157,694. Although the claims at issue are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other because claims 1-22 under examination are obvious, respectively, by claims 1-14 of the reference Patent. Every limitations in the instant application under examination claims are recited in the conflicting reference patent claims, and the differences or additional limitations between the claims are highlighted below by underlining and bolding all limitations. Therefore, it would have been obvious to one having ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify the independent claim 1, of the instant application to cause display of a presentation of the text string within the messaging interface in response to the input; emphasize the keyword within the presentation of the text string, in response to the identifying the keyword; and determine a sort order of the one or more media items from among the collection of message content based on a ranking of the media items, wherein the ranking based on relevance to the keyword, in order to allow a user to quickly and easily identify and select appropriate media content to share in a conversation without disrupting an organic and natural flow of a conversation due to a need for excessive time in identifying relevant media content, thus providing messaging suggestions. Note, such deviation would not interfere with the functionality of the claims that are already patented, and would achieve the same end result.
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Application
Patent
1. A method comprising:
receiving an input into a messaging interface presented at a client device, the input comprising a text string;
identifying a keyword from the text string; accessing a media repository comprising a plurality of collections of media items, wherein each collection is tagged with one or more index terms;
identifying a collection of media items from among the plurality of collections based on the keyword and an index term associated with the collection;
curating a subset of media items from the identified collection based on usage metrics associated with each media item in the collection; and
presenting the curated subset of media items within a suggestion carousel within the messaging interface.
1. A method comprising:
receiving an input into a messaging interface presented at a client device, the input comprising a text string;
causing display of a presentation of the text string within the messaging interface in response to the input;
identifying a keyword from the text string in response to the receiving the input;
emphasizing the keyword within the presentation of the text string, in response to the identifying the keyword;
accessing a media index that comprises a plurality of media items, each media item among the plurality of media items corresponding with index terms;
identifying one or more media items from among the plurality of media items based on the keyword and the corresponding index terms;
curating a collection of message content based on the identifying the one or more media items, the one or more media items comprising graphical content that includes an augmented reality filter element;
determining a sort order of the one or more media items from among the collection of message content based on a ranking of the media items, wherein the ranking based on relevance to the keyword; and
presenting a display of the one or more media items within a suggestion carousel displayed at a position within the messaging interface based on the sort order.
Claims 2-11 are rejected for incorporating the deficiency of their respective base claims by dependency.
Application
Patent
2. The method of claim 1, wherein presenting the curated subset of media items comprises: causing display of a graphical icon for each media item within the suggestion carousel, wherein each graphical icon comprises a depiction of the corresponding media item.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the usage metrics comprise popularity metrics associated with each media item in the collection.
4. The method of claim 1, further comprising: emphasizing the keyword within a presentation of the text string within the messaging interface, wherein the presentation of the text string comprises a first color and the emphasized keyword comprises a second color.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one media item in the curated subset comprises an augmented reality filter.
6. The method of claim 1, further comprising: receiving a selection of a media item from the curated subset; and generating a message that includes the selected media item and the text string.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the keyword comprises: receiving a request to generate a message; and identifying the keyword within the text string responsive to the request.
8. The method of claim 1, further comprising: determining a relevance score for each media item in the identified collection based on the keyword; and curating the subset of media items based on the relevance scores and the usage metrics.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein the media repository comprises a media index that includes associations between index terms and collections of media items.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein the media items comprise at least one of: images, Graphics Interchange Format images (GIFs), videos, augmented reality filters, and audio data.
11. The method of claim 1, further comprising: receiving a request to generate a message that includes the keyword and a selected media item; and associating the keyword with the selected media item within the media repository.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises: receiving a selection of a media item from among the one or more media items presented within the media carousel; and generating a message that includes the media item and the input in response to the selection of the media item from the media carousel.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the curating the collection of message content based on the keyword includes: accessing a media repository that includes a media index in response to the parsing the keyword from the text string; and curating the collection of message content from the media repository based on the keyword.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the collection of message content comprises a first media item and a second media item, and wherein the presenting the media carousel includes: causing display of a first graphical icon that represents the first media item and a second graphical icon that represents the second media item within the media carousel.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises: receiving a request to generate a message from the client device, the request to generate the message including the keyword and a media item from the media carousel; and associating the keyword with the media item within a media index in response to the receiving the request to generate the message.
With respect to claim 6, one having ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify the independent claim 6, of the instant application to cause display of a presentation of the text string within the messaging interface in response to the input; emphasize the keyword within the presentation of the text string, in response to the identifying the keyword; and determine a sort order of the one or more media items from among the collection of message content based on a ranking of the media items, wherein the ranking based on relevance to the keyword, in order to allow a user to quickly and easily identify and select appropriate media content to share in a conversation without disrupting an organic and natural flow of a conversation due to a need for excessive time in identifying relevant media content, thus providing messaging suggestions.
Note, such deviation would not interfere with the functionality of the claims that are already patented, and would achieve the same end result.
Application
Patent
12. A system comprising:
a memory; and
at least one hardware processor coupled to the memory and comprising instructions that causes the system to perform operations comprising:
receiving an input into a messaging interface presented at a client device, the input comprising a text string;
identifying a keyword from the text string;
accessing a media repository comprising a plurality of collections of media items, wherein each collection is tagged with one or more index terms;
identifying a collection of media items from among the plurality of collections based on the keyword and an index term associated with the collection;
curating a subset of media items from the identified collection based on usage metrics associated with each media item in the collection; and
presenting the curated subset of media items within a suggestion carousel within the messaging interface.
6. A system comprising:
a memory; and
at least one hardware processor coupled to the memory and comprising instructions that causes the system to perform operations comprising:
receiving an input into a messaging interface presented at a client device, the input comprising a text string;
causing display of a presentation of the text string within the messaging interface in response to the input;
identifying a keyword from the text string in response to the receiving the input;
emphasizing the keyword within the presentation of the text string, in response to the identifying the keyword;
accessing a media index that comprises a plurality of media items, each media item among the plurality of media items corresponding with index terms;
identifying one or more media items from among the plurality of media items based on the keyword and the corresponding index terms;
curating a collection of message content based on the identifying the one or more media items, the one or more media items comprising graphical content that includes an augmented reality filter element;
determining a sort order of the one or more media items from among the collection of message content based on a ranking of the media items, wherein the ranking based on relevance to the keyword; and
presenting a display of the one or more media items within a suggestion carousel displayed at a position within the messaging interface based on the sort order.
Claims 13-19 are rejected for incorporating the deficiency of their respective base claims by dependency.
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Patent
13. The system of claim 12, wherein presenting the curated subset of media items comprises: causing display of a graphical icon for each media item within the suggestion carousel, wherein each graphical icon comprises a depiction of the corresponding media item.
14. The system of claim 12, wherein the usage metrics comprise popularity metrics associated with each media item in the collection.
15. The system of claim 12, further comprising: emphasizing the keyword within a presentation of the text string within the messaging interface, wherein the presentation of the text string comprises a first color and the emphasized keyword comprises a second color.
16. The system of claim 12, wherein at least one media item in the curated subset comprises an augmented reality filter.
17. The system of claim 12, further comprising: receiving a selection of a media item from the curated subset; and generating a message that includes the selected media item and the text string.
18. The system of claim 12, wherein identifying the keyword comprises: receiving a request to generate a message; and identifying the keyword within the text string responsive to the request.
19. The system of claim 12, further comprising: determining a relevance score for each media item in the identified collection based on the keyword; and curating the subset of media items based on the relevance scores and the usage metrics.
7. The system of claim 6, wherein the instructions cause the system to perform operations further comprising: receiving a selection of a media item from among the one or more media items presented within the media carousel; and generating a message that includes the media item and the input in response to the selection of the media item from the media carousel.
8. The system of claim 6, wherein the curating the collection of message content based on the keyword includes: accessing a media repository that includes a media index in response to the parsing the keyword from the text string; and curating the collection of message content from the media repository based on the keyword.
9. The system of claim 6, wherein the collection of message content comprises a first media item and a second media item, and wherein the presenting the media carousel includes: causing display of a first graphical icon that represents the first media item and a second graphical icon that represents the second media item within the media carousel.
10. The system of claim 6, wherein the instructions cause the system to perform operations further comprising: receiving a request to generate a message from the client device, the request to generate the message including the keyword and a media item from the media carousel; and associating the keyword with the media item within a media index in response to the receiving the request to generate the message.
With respect to claim 20, one having ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify the independent claim 20, of the instant application to cause display of a presentation of the text string within the messaging interface in response to the input; emphasize the keyword within the presentation of the text string, in response to the identifying the keyword; and determine a sort order of the one or more media items from among the collection of message content based on a ranking of the media items, wherein the ranking based on relevance to the keyword, in order to allow a user to quickly and easily identify and select appropriate media content to share in a conversation without disrupting an organic and natural flow of a conversation due to a need for excessive time in identifying relevant media content, thus providing messaging suggestions. Note, such deviation would not interfere with the functionality of the claims that are already patented, and would achieve the same end result.
Application
Patent
20. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
receiving an input into a messaging interface presented at a client device, the input comprising a text string;
identifying a keyword from the text string;
accessing a media repository comprising a plurality of collections of media items, wherein each collection is tagged with one or more index terms;
identifying a collection of media items from among the plurality of collections based on the keyword and an index term associated with the collection;
curating a subset of media items from the identified collection based on usage metrics associated with each media item in the collection; and
presenting the curated subset of media items within a suggestion carousel within the messaging interface.
11. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
receiving an input into a messaging interface presented at a client device, the input comprising a text string;
causing display of a presentation of the text string within the messaging interface in response to the input;
identifying a keyword from the text string in response to the receiving the input;
emphasizing the keyword within the presentation of the text string, in response to the identifying the keyword;
accessing a media index that comprises a plurality of media items, each media item among the plurality of media items corresponding with index terms;
identifying one or more media items from among the plurality of media items based on the keyword and the corresponding index terms;
curating a collection of message content based on the identifying the one or more media items, the one or more media items comprising graphical content that includes an augmented reality filter element;
determining a sort order of the one or more media items from among the collection of message content based on a ranking of the media items, wherein the ranking based on relevance to the keyword; and
presenting a display of the one or more media items within a suggestion carousel displayed at a position within the messaging interface based on the sort order.
Claims 1-20 are rejected on the ground of nonstatutory double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1-17 of U.S. Patent No. 11,934,780. Although the claims at issue are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other because claims 1-20 under examination are obvious, respectively, by claims 1-17 of the reference Patent. Every limitations in the instant application under examination claims are recited in the conflicting reference patent claims, and the differences or additional limitations between the claims are highlighted below by underlining and bolding all limitations. Therefore, it would have been obvious to one having ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify the independent claim 1, of the instant application to determine a sort order of the one or more media items from among the collection of message content based on a ranking of the media items, wherein the ranking is based on relevance to the text string received via the messaging interface, in order to allow a user to quickly and easily identify and select appropriate media content to share in a conversation without disrupting an organic and natural flow of a conversation due to a need for excessive time in identifying relevant media content, thus providing messaging suggestions.
Note, such deviation would not interfere with the functionality of the claims that are already patented, and would achieve the same end result.
Please, see the comparison table below:
Application
Patent
1. A method comprising:
receiving an input into a messaging interface presented at a client device, the input comprising a text string;
identifying a keyword from the text string; accessing a media repository comprising a plurality of collections of media items, wherein each collection is tagged with one or more index terms;
identifying a collection of media items from among the plurality of collections based on the keyword and an index term associated with the collection;
curating a subset of media items from the identified collection based on usage metrics associated with each media item in the collection; and
presenting the curated subset of media items within a suggestion carousel within the messaging interface.
1. A method comprising:
receiving an input into a messaging interface presented at a client device, the input comprising a text string;
accessing a media repository that comprises a collection of media items tagged with index terms;
curating a collection of message content that comprises one or more media items from among the collection of media items within the media repository based on the text string and the index terms, the one or more media items comprising graphical content;
determining a sort order of the one or more media items from among the collection of message content based on a ranking of the media items, wherein the ranking is based on relevance to the text string received via the messaging interface; and
presenting a display of the one or more media items within a suggestion carousel displayed at a position within the messaging interface of the client device based on the sort order, the suggestion carousel configured to receive a user input to scroll through the one or more media items within the suggestion carousel.
Claims 2-11 are rejected for incorporating the deficiency of their respective base claims by dependency.
Application
Patent
2. The method of claim 1, wherein presenting the curated subset of media items comprises: causing display of a graphical icon for each media item within the suggestion carousel, wherein each graphical icon comprises a depiction of the corresponding media item.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the usage metrics comprise popularity metrics associated with each media item in the collection.
4. The method of claim 1, further comprising: emphasizing the keyword within a presentation of the text string within the messaging interface, wherein the presentation of the text string comprises a first color and the emphasized keyword comprises a second color.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one media item in the curated subset comprises an augmented reality filter.
6. The method of claim 1, further comprising: receiving a selection of a media item from the curated subset; and generating a message that includes the selected media item and the text string.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the keyword comprises: receiving a request to generate a message; and identifying the keyword within the text string responsive to the request.
8. The method of claim 1, further comprising: determining a relevance score for each media item in the identified collection based on the keyword; and curating the subset of media items based on the relevance scores and the usage metrics.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein the media repository comprises a media index that includes associations between index terms and collections of media items.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein the media items comprise at least one of: images, Graphics Interchange Format images (GIFs), videos, augmented reality filters, and audio data.
11. The method of claim 1, further comprising: receiving a request to generate a message that includes the keyword and a selected media item; and associating the keyword with the selected media item within the media repository.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises: receiving a selection of a media item from among the one or more media items presented within the media carousel; and generating a message that includes the media item and the input in response to the selection of the media item from the media carousel.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the graphical content of the one or more media items comprise augmented-reality filters.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the collection of message content comprises a first media item and a second media item, and wherein the presenting the media carousel includes: causing display of a first graphical icon that represents the first media item and a second graphical icon that represents the second media item within the media carousel.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises: receiving a request to generate a message from the client device, the request to generate the message including the keyword and a media item from the media carousel; and associating the keyword with the media item within a media index in response to the receiving the request to generate the message.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining the sort order of the one or more media items based on the ranking of the media items further comprises: determining a usage metric associated with each of the one or more media items; and determining the sort order based on the relevance and the usage metric.
With respect to claim 12, one having ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify the independent claim 12, of the instant application to determine a sort order of the one or more media items from among the collection of message content based on a ranking of the media items, wherein the ranking is based on relevance to the text string received via the messaging interface, in order to allow a user to quickly and easily identify and select appropriate media content to share in a conversation without disrupting an organic and natural flow of a conversation due to a need for excessive time in identifying relevant media content, thus providing messaging suggestions.
Note, such deviation would not interfere with the functionality of the claims that are already patented, and would achieve the same end result.
Application
Patent
12. A system comprising:
a memory; and
at least one hardware processor coupled to the memory and comprising instructions that causes the system to perform operations comprising:
receiving an input into a messaging interface presented at a client device, the input comprising a text string;
identifying a keyword from the text string;
accessing a media repository comprising a plurality of collections of media items, wherein each collection is tagged with one or more index terms;
identifying a collection of media items from among the plurality of collections based on the keyword and an index term associated with the collection;
curating a subset of media items from the identified collection based on usage metrics associated with each media item in the collection; and
presenting the curated subset of media items within a suggestion carousel within the messaging interface.
7. A system comprising:
a memory; and
at least one hardware processor coupled to the memory and comprising instructions that causes the system to perform operations comprising:
receiving an input into a messaging interface presented at a client device, the input comprising a text string;
accessing a media repository that comprises a collection of media items tagged with index terms;
curating a collection of message content that comprises one or more media items from among the collection of media items within the media repository based on the text string and the index terms, the one or more media items comprising graphical content;
determining a sort order of the one or more media items from among the collection of message content based on a ranking of the media items, wherein the ranking is based on relevance to the text string received via the messaging interface; and
presenting a display of the one or more media items within a suggestion carousel displayed at a position within the messaging interface of the client device based on the sort order, the suggestion carousel configured to receive a user input to scroll through the one or more media items within the suggestion carousel.
Claims 13-19 are rejected for incorporating the deficiency of their respective base claims by dependency.
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Patent
13. The system of claim 12, wherein presenting the curated subset of media items comprises: causing display of a graphical icon for each media item within the suggestion carousel, wherein each graphical icon comprises a depiction of the corresponding media item.
14. The system of claim 12, wherein the usage metrics comprise popularity metrics associated with each media item in the collection.
15. The system of claim 12, further comprising: emphasizing the keyword within a presentation of the text string within the messaging interface, wherein the presentation of the text string comprises a first color and the emphasized keyword comprises a second color.
16. The system of claim 12, wherein at least one media item in the curated subset comprises an augmented reality filter.
17. The system of claim 12, further comprising: receiving a selection of a media item from the curated subset; and generating a message that includes the selected media item and the text string.
18. The system of claim 12, wherein identifying the keyword comprises: receiving a request to generate a message; and identifying the keyword within the text string responsive to the request.
19. The system of claim 12, further comprising: determining a relevance score for each media item in the identified collection based on the keyword; and curating the subset of media items based on the relevance scores and the usage metrics.
8. The system of claim 7, wherein the operations further comprise: receiving a selection of a media item from among the one or more media items presented within the media carousel; and generating a message that includes the media item and the input in response to the selection of the media item from the media carousel.
9. The system of claim 7, wherein the graphical content of the one or more media items comprise augmented-reality filters.
10. The system of claim 7, wherein the collection of message content comprises a first media item and a second media item, and wherein the presenting the media carousel includes: causing display of a first graphical icon that represents the first media item and a second graphical icon that represents the second media item within the media carousel.
11. The system of claim 7, wherein the operations further comprise: receiving a request to generate a message from the client device, the request to generate the message including the keyword and a media item from the media carousel; and associating the keyword with the media item within a media index in response to the receiving the request to generate the message.
12. The system of claim 7, wherein the determining the sort order of the one or more media items based on the ranking of the media items further comprises: determining a usage metric associated with each of the one or more media items; and determining the sort order based on the relevance and the usage metric.
With respect to claim 20, one having ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify the independent claim 20, of the instant application to determine a sort order of the one or more media items from among the collection of message content based on a ranking of the media items, wherein the ranking is based on relevance to the text string received via the messaging interface, in order to allow a user to quickly and easily identify and select appropriate media content to share in a conversation without disrupting an organic and natural flow of a conversation due to a need for excessive time in identifying relevant media content, thus providing messaging suggestions.
Note, such deviation would not interfere with the functionality of the claims that are already patented, and would achieve the same end result.
Application
Patent
20. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
receiving an input into a messaging interface presented at a client device, the input comprising a text string;
identifying a keyword from the text string;
accessing a media repository comprising a plurality of collections of media items, wherein each collection is tagged with one or more index terms;
identifying a collection of media items from among the plurality of collections based on the keyword and an index term associated with the collection;
curating a subset of media items from the identified collection based on usage metrics associated with each media item in the collection; and
presenting the curated subset of media items within a suggestion carousel within the messaging interface.
13. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
receiving an input into a messaging interface presented at a client device, the input comprising a text string;
accessing a media repository that comprises a collection of media items tagged with index terms;
curating a collection of message content that comprises one or more media items from among the collection of media items within the media repository based on the text string and the index terms, the one or more media items comprising graphical content;
determining a sort order of the one or more media items from among the collection of message content based on a ranking of the media items, wherein the ranking is based on relevance to the text string received via the messaging interface; and
presenting a display of the one or more media items within a suggestion carousel displayed at a position within the messaging interface of the client device based on the sort order, the suggestion carousel configured to receive a user input to scroll through the one or more media items within the suggestion carousel.
Claims 1-20 are rejected on the ground of non-statutory double patenting as being unpatentable over claims 1-17 of U.S. Patent No. 12,277,388. Although the claims at issue are not identical, they are not patentably distinct from each other because claims 1-20 under examination are obvious, respectively, by claims 1-17 of the reference Patent. Every limitations in the instant application under examination claims are recited in the conflicting reference patent claims, and the differences or additional limitations between the claims are highlighted below by underlining and bolding all limitations. Therefore, it would have been obvious to one having ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify the independent claim 1, of the instant application to cause display of a presentation of the text string within the messaging interface, the presentation of the text string including an emphasized display of the index term within the presentation of the text string, the presentation of the text string comprising a first color, and the emphasized display of the index term comprising a second color, in order to allow a user to quickly and easily identify and select appropriate media content to share in a conversation without disrupting an organic and natural flow of a conversation due to a need for excessive time in identifying relevant media content, thus providing messaging suggestions.
Note, such deviation would not interfere with the functionality of the claims that are already patented, and would achieve the same end result.
Please, see the comparison table below:
Application
Patent
1. A method comprising:
receiving an input into a messaging interface presented at a client device, the input comprising a text string;
identifying a keyword from the text string; accessing a media repository comprising a plurality of collections of media items, wherein each collection is tagged with one or more index terms;
identifying a collection of media items from among the plurality of collections based on the keyword and an index term associated with the collection;
curating a subset of media items from the identified collection based on usage metrics associated with each media item in the collection; and
presenting the curated subset of media items within a suggestion carousel within the messaging interface.
1. A method comprising:
receiving an input into a messaging interface presented at a client device, the input comprising a text string;
identifying an index term within the text string, the index term corresponding with a collection of media content within a media repository; and
causing display of a presentation of the text string within the messaging interface, the presentation of the text string including an emphasized display of the index term within the presentation of the text string, the presentation of the text string comprising a first color, and the emphasized display of the index term comprising a second color.
Claims 2-11 are rejected for incorporating the deficiency of their respective base claims by dependency.
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Patent
2. The method of claim 1, wherein presenting the curated subset of media items comprises: causing display of a graphical icon for each media item within the suggestion carousel, wherein each graphical icon comprises a depiction of the corresponding media item.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the usage metrics comprise popularity metrics associated with each media item in the collection.
4. The method of claim 1, further comprising: emphasizing the keyword within a presentation of the text string within the messaging interface, wherein the presentation of the text string comprises a first color and the emphasized keyword comprises a second color.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one media item in the curated subset comprises an augmented reality filter.
6. The method of claim 1, further comprising: receiving a selection of a media item from the curated subset; and generating a message that includes the selected media item and the text string.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the keyword comprises: receiving a request to generate a message; and identifying the keyword within the text string responsive to the request.
The method of claim 1, further comprising: determining a relevance score for each media item in the identified collection based on the keyword; and curating the subset of media items based on the relevance scores and the usage metrics.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein the media repository comprises a media index that includes associations between index terms and collections of media items.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein the media items comprise at least one of: images, Graphics Interchange Format images (GIFs), videos, augmented reality filters, and audio data.
11. The method of claim 1, further comprising: receiving a request to generate a message that includes the keyword and a selected media item; and associating the keyword with the selected media item within the media repository.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the causing display of the presentation of the text string within the messaging interface further comprises: accessing the collection of media content based on the index term; and causing display of one or more media items from among the collection of media content at the client device.
3. The method of claim 2, further comprising: determining a ranking the one or more media items from among the collection of message content based on a relevance to the text string; and presenting the one or more media items based on the ranking.
4. The method of claim 2, further comprising: determining a usage metric associated with each of the one or more media items; determining a ranking of the one or more media items based on the usage metric; and presenting the one or more media items based on the ranking.
5. The method of claim 2, wherein the one or more media items include an augmented-reality filter.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the identifying the index term within the text string further comprises: receiving a request to generate a message; and identifying the index term within the text string responsive to the request.
With respect to claim 12, one having ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify the independent claim 12, of the instant application to cause display of a presentation of the text string within the messaging interface, the presentation of the text string including an emphasized display of the index term within the presentation of the text string, the presentation of the text string comprising a first color, and the emphasized display of the index term comprising a second color, in order to allow a user to quickly and easily identify and select appropriate media content to share in a conversation without disrupting an organic and natural flow of a conversation due to a need for excessive time in identifying relevant media content, thus providing messaging suggestions.
Note, such deviation would not interfere with the functionality of the claims that are already patented, and would achieve the same end result.
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Patent
12. A system comprising:
a memory; and
at least one hardware processor coupled to the memory and comprising instructions that causes the system to perform operations comprising:
receiving an input into a messaging interface presented at a client device, the input comprising a text string;
identifying a keyword from the text string;
accessing a media repository comprising a plurality of collections of media items, wherein each collection is tagged with one or more index terms;
identifying a collection of media items from among the plurality of collections based on the keyword and an index term associated with the collection;
curating a subset of media items from the identified collection based on usage metrics associated with each media item in the collection; and
presenting the curated subset of media items within a suggestion carousel within the messaging interface.
A system comprising: a memory; and at least one hardware processor coupled to the memory and comprising instructions that causes the system to perform operations comprising:
receiving an input into a messaging interface presented at a client device, the input comprising a text string;
identifying an index term within the text string, the index term corresponding with a collection of media content within a media repository; and
causing display of a presentation of the text string within the messaging interface, the presentation of the text string including an emphasized display of the index term within the presentation of the text string, the presentation of the text string comprising a first color, and the emphasized display of the index term comprising a second color.
Claims 13-19 are rejected for incorporating the deficiency of their respective base claims by dependency.
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13. The system of claim 12, wherein presenting the curated subset of media items comprises: causing display of a graphical icon for each media item within the suggestion carousel, wherein each graphical icon comprises a depiction of the corresponding media item.
14. The system of claim 12, wherein the usage metrics comprise popularity metrics associated with each media item in the collection.
15. The system of claim 12, further comprising: emphasizing the keyword within a presentation of the text string within the messaging interface, wherein the presentation of the text string comprises a first color and the emphasized keyword comprises a second color.
16. The system of claim 12, wherein at least one media item in the curated subset comprises an augmented reality filter.
17. The system of claim 12, further comprising: receiving a selection of a media item from the curated subset; and generating a message that includes the selected media item and the text string.
18. The system of claim 12, wherein identifying the keyword comprises: receiving a request to generate a message; and identifying the keyword within the text string responsive to the request.
19. The system of claim 12, further comprising: determining a relevance score for each media item in the identified collection based on the keyword; and curating the subset of media items based on the relevance scores and the usage metrics.
8. The system of claim 7, wherein the causing display of the presentation of the text string within the messaging interface further comprises: accessing a collection of media content based on the index term; and causing display of one or more media items from among the collection of media content at the client device.
9. The system of claim 8, further comprising: determining a ranking the one or more media items from among the collection of message content based on a relevance to the text string; and presenting the one or more media items based on the ranking.
10. The system of claim 8, further comprising: determining a usage metric associated with each of the one or more media items; determining a ranking of the one or more media items based on the usage metric; and presenting the one or more media items based on the ranking.
11. The system of claim 8, wherein the one or more media items include an augmented-reality filter.
12. The system of claim 7, wherein the identifying the index term within the text string further comprises: receiving a request to generate a message, and identifying the index term within the text string responsive to the request.
With respect to claim 20, one having ordinary skill in the art before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to modify the independent claim 20, of the instant application to cause display of a presentation of the text string within the messaging interface, the presentation of the text string including an emphasized display of the index term within the presentation of the text string, the presentation of the text string comprising a first color, and the emphasized display of the index term comprising a second color, in order to allow a user to quickly and easily identify and select appropriate media content to share in a conversation without disrupting an organic and natural flow of a conversation due to a need for excessive time in identifying relevant media content, thus providing messaging suggestions.
Note, such deviation would not interfere with the functionality of the claims that are already patented, and would achieve the same end result.
Application
Patent
20. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
receiving an input into a messaging interface presented at a client device, the input comprising a text string;
identifying a keyword from the text string;
accessing a media repository comprising a plurality of collections of media items, wherein each collection is tagged with one or more index terms;
identifying a collection of media items from among the plurality of collections based on the keyword and an index term associated with the collection;
curating a subset of media items from the identified collection based on usage metrics associated with each media item in the collection; and
presenting the curated subset of media items within a suggestion carousel within the messaging interface.
13. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:
receiving an input into a messaging interface presented at a client device, the input comprising a text string;
identifying an index term within the text string, the index term corresponding with a collection of media content within a media repository; and
causing display of a presentation of the text string within the messaging interface, the presentation of the text string including an emphasized display of the index term within the presentation of the text string, the presentation of the text string comprising a first color, and the emphasized display of the index term comprising a second color.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure.
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US 20170075873 (involved in providing a user interface for displaying a form and providing editing features usable to add content to fields of form. The form or portion of form is categorized by a processor into a context based on form features for non-text field characteristics or field-specific text characteristics of form or portion of form. A form field suggestion is identified by the processor for a field based on context of form or portion of form containing field. The field content suggestion is provided by processor for field for display in the user interface.)
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