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Microsoft Patents Emoticon (Groklaw)Microsoft Patents Emoticon (Groklaw)Posted Jul 26, 2005 1:56 UTC (Tue) by dmaxwell (guest, #14010)Parent article: Microsoft Patents Emoticon (Groklaw)
I've seen it suggested that X-Face as used on USENET for over 15 years is basically the same thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Face
X-Face itself is an outgrowth of Vismon which was used by Bell Labs in the early eighties to display a picture of whoever sent you an an email
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vismon
Both systems look at a textual header pattern and display a graphic in response.
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Microsoft Patents Emoticon (Groklaw) Posted Jul 27, 2005 10:02 UTC (Wed) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link] However you send the complete bitmap every time, whereas the idea here is to send the full bitmap only the first time, and later just send a very short text sequence.
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