Remember mood stamps in Notes? Apparently Microsoft patented them now under emotiflags
Tags :Emotiflags Emoticons
Ok, this has me laughing and I had to share. I still use some of the mood stamps in mail messages, they actually draw attention since so many users are 'new'. But Microsoft has now taken them on in patent under the name emotiflags An emotiflag is made up of a graphical icon and a text tag, and may also include a textual representation of the graphical icon. A collection of emotiflags is maintained by an email application and made available to users. Users can modify existing emotiflags and create custom emotiflags. Users can also add an emotiflag to an email message they are composing so that when the email message is sent, the emotiflag is sent with the email message
So this old product piece once again becomes a patent for someone else. There is supposed to be images attached but they would not load for some reason.
In the patent I liked this little section from the 'background" assumptions: Many existing email applications enable users to apply color-coded flags to received email messages. These flags are frequently used to represent a status of the email messages (e.g., red for follow up; orange for reply; yellow for to do; and so on). Some email applications also enable users to mark a message as important (e.g., with a "!") or unimportant (e.g., with a ".dwnarw.") before the message is sent, so that when a user receives the message, the importance of the message is clearly indicated
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On Monday, December 18th, 2006 by Chris Miller
