| CPC G06T 13/80 (2013.01) [G06Q 20/123 (2013.01); G06T 13/205 (2013.01); G06T 15/205 (2013.01)] | 3 Claims |
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1. A system for permitting large scale user defined communications comprising animated scenes rendered in real-time, said system comprising:
user devices, comprising sending user devices and recipient user devices;
one or more content databases comprising content items for animated scenes, said content items comprising: avatars, images, sounds, and text, and a plurality of sponsored or premium ones of said animated scenes, each comprising a pre-selected of one or more of the content items which are accessible only with the sponsored or premium ones of said animated scenes;
one or more servers comprising software instructions, which when executed, configure one or more processors to:
receive user preferences from certain of said user devices, including said a first one of said sending user devices and a first one of said recipient user devices, regarding a recipient user;
receive indication from said first one of said sending user devices regarding desire to create one of said user defined communications;
generate a user selection template at said first one of said sending user devices, wherein said user selection template is personalized based on said user preferences and comprises suggested ones of the content items, including suggested avatars, images, sounds, and text;
receive user selections made at said user selection template from said first one of said sending user devices, said user selections comprising at least one of each of the suggested avatars, images, sounds, and text, provided at the user selection template and identifying information for a first subset of said recipient user devices;
retrieve particular ones of the content items from said one or more content databases in accordance with said user selections, said particular ones of content items comprising said avatars, images, sounds, text indicated in said user selections;
transmit metadata to the first subset of said recipient user devices indicated at said user selections at said user template, wherein said metadata is sufficient to, when selected by a viewing one of said first subset of said recipient user devices, cause said viewing one of said user devices to generate custom one of said animated scenes comprising said particular one of the content items in real-time at said viewing one of said viewing one of said user devices such that said text is overlaid to said images while said avatars are electronically animated and the sound is played such that a distinct, respective selection of the text is overlaid to a distinct, respective subset of the images such that all of the text and all of the images of the custom animated scene are sequentially generated in a non-repeated fashion during display of the custom animated scene, where said text comprises a plurality of multi-letter words, and each of the distinct, respective selection of the text comprises a subset of words of the plurality of multi-letter words;
automatically assign a lifecycle to said custom animated scene, wherein said lifecycle comprises a defined window of time opening at a time of creating and ending a predetermined length from said time of creation;
receive a second set of user selections made from a second one of said sending user devices, said second set of user selections comprising a selection of one of said plurality of sponsored or premium ones of said animated scenes and one or more user defined content items comprising one or more of the content items not predefined by the selected one of the plurality of sponsored or premium ones of said animated scenes;
retrieve a second set of particular ones of the content items from said one or more content databases in accordance with said second set of user selections;
transmit met a second subset of said receipt user devices indicated at said user selections, wherein said metadata is sufficient to, when selected by a viewing one of said second subset of said recipient user devices, cause said viewing one of said user devices to generate a second custom one of said animated scenes comprising the a second set of particular ones of the content items at said viewing one of said user devices such that said text is overlaid to said images while said avatars are electronically animated and the sound is played such that a distinct, respective selection of the text is overlaid to a distinct, respective subset of the predefined images such that all of the text and all of the images of the second set of particular ones of the content items are sequentially generated during display de second custom one of said animated scenes; and
automatically rights management criteria to the second custom one of said animated scenes, said rights management criteria including a predetermined, limited lifecycle a restricted reproduction permission for the second custom one of said animated scenes; and
a real-time three-dimensional animation engine associated with said one or more servers and configured to generate said custom animated scene and permit viewing of said custom animated scene only during the window of time;
a gifting module, wherein said user selection comprise gifting options, and wherein said gifting module is configured to, where said use elections include selection of at least one of said gifting options, accept payment from said sending user device and cause said animated scene to include electronic notification of said selected one of said gifting options.
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