US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 11 for "Method of system of providing local personalized emoticon recommendation" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,122, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Method of system of providing local personalized emoticon recommendation" was invented by Rajat Aggarwal (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing local emoticon recommendations includes receiving an indication of a need for a user to utilize an emoticon in a communication between the user and one or more other users, the indication being received via a user interface screen of an application installed on the client device and retrieving a text segment for which the emoticon will be used, and contextual d...