GENERATING AN INFORMATIVE COMPOSITE IMAGE CONTAINING AN OFFER FOR A GOOD OR SERVICE

摘要

A messaging scheme that generates composite images suitable for providing a notification to a user of an electronic device. Specifically, the scheme starts with a generation of a message by sender device (100). An image can be selected from a database of images (106). The image can be associated with a sender of the message. A stencil can be selected from a database of stencils (108). The stencil can be representative of an application or service associated with the message. The stencil can be applied or layered over the image to mask portions of the image to form an informative composite image related to the message.