Patent attributes
Aspects of the present invention provide an approach for managing communications. In an embodiment, a set of informational components are extracted from a received textual message received at a user device. Based on these informational components, a group of pictorial representations is generated. Each pictorial representation that is generated corresponds to one of a plurality of the informational components of the textual message. The pictorial representations are assembled into a number of potential pictorial message representations that each represent the content of the textual message. An information loss is calculated for each of the potential pictorial message representation. A pictorial message is selected from the set based on the information loss and available display space of the user device and is displayed on the user device.
