SYSTEM FOR EFFECTIVELY COMMUNICATING CONCEPTS

摘要

Described herein are various examples of systems and methods to aid effectively communicating a meaning. In some embodiments, content units may be provided to a user of a system to assist that user in communicating a meaning. Each of the content units may be suggestive of a single concept and will be understood by a viewer to suggest that single concept. Any suitable concept may be conveyed by such a content unit, as embodiments are not limited in this respect. In some cases, some or all of the content units may be suggestive of an emotion and intended to trigger the emotion in a person viewing or listening to the content unit, such that a conversation partner receiving the content unit will feel the emotion when viewing or listening to the content unit or understand that the sender is feeling that emotion.

主权项

1. A method of operating an interpersonal messaging system, the interpersonal messaging system enabling a user to exchange messages with one or more other users in a communication session, at least some of the messages comprising text, the method comprising:
displaying, via a user interface, a keyboard of a set of media content units available for inclusion in messages transmitted via the interpersonal messaging system, each media content unit comprising audio and/or visual content and being associated with at least one unit of metadata describing a content of the media content unit, wherein one or more of the at least one unit of metadata for each media content unit describing the content identifies a concept expressed by the media content unit and/or an emotion to be triggered in a person viewing or listening to the media content unit, and wherein displaying the keyboard comprises displaying an array of images, each image of the array being associated with one of the set of media content units; in response to a single input of a user indicating one of the array of images of the keyboard, adding a first media content unit corresponding to the indicated one image to a message to be transmitted via the interpersonal messaging system; and in response to a user input instructing sending of the message, transmitting the message comprising the first media content unit to a computing device operated by a second user.