In-Line Images in Messages

Patent №

US 9,596,206

Granted

2017-03-14

Filed 2012

Owner

FACEBOOK, INC.

AI components

3

nlp · vision · evo

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13648156

In one embodiment, a computing device detects an identifier of an object entered by a user participating in a message session. The message session includes one or more messages including text, and the text includes the identifier. The computing device accesses an image corresponding to the object based at least in part on the identifier. The computing device provides for display to a second user the image in place of the identifier within the text.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Evolutionary computation0.99
Vision0.86
Speech0.38
Machine learning0.28
AI hardware0.20
Knowledge representation0.09
Planning0.01

Ownership

FACEBOOK, INC.

assignment · 314550159

Assignors

BUENO, CARLOS M., ALLEN, JOHN R.

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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