The present invention relates to the isolation of novel glucan particles but also to mannoprotein from natural sources such as yeast cell walls, novel isolation methods, and the use of products thereof. Additionally, new APIs and implementation methods to support the new method are disclosed. In one aspect, the artificial words are provided for use with a letter-to-sound conversion model, which may be used to generate artificial phonemes from a source of words, such as in conjunction with other models. In essence, a geocast network cloud is established, allowing any device within the cloud to communicate with any other device in the cloud. The dynamic visual representations may be simultaneously displayed for multiple users and may be used to create a visual component in a contact application such as an address book application.