US Patent Issued to KAKAO on May 20 for "Method and user terminal for recommending emoticons based on conversation information" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,086, issued on May 20, was assigned to KAKAO CORP. (Jeju-si, South Korea).

"Method and user terminal for recommending emoticons based on conversation information" was invented by Yang Kyun Park (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for recommending emoticons by a user terminal is proposed. The method may include receiving, from a server, a keyword database comprising information on keywords matched with emoticons and storing the received keyword database, and displaying conversation information in a chat room. The method may also include selecting at least some of conversation information as base conversat...