Microsoft has been granted a patent by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for: "Methods and devices for creating and transferring custom emoticons allow a user to adopt an arbitrary image as an emoticon, which can then be represented by a character sequence in real-time communication." In other words, Microsoft now owns the idea of emoticons.
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