Method and apparatus for providing intelligent service using inputted character in a user device

• US 10,359,901 B2
• Filed: 09/03/2013
• Issued: 07/23/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Sehwan, Kim, Jihoon, Park, Sungwook, Lee, Jaeyong, Lee, Jihoon, Lee, Dongyeol
• Primary Examiner(s): Casillas, Roland J
• Application Number:
  US14/017,051
• Publication Number:
  US 20140068497A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,149 Days
• Field of Search: 715780, 715810, 715835
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0237 using prediction or retrieval techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/274 Converting codes to words; Guess-ahead of partial word inputs

Abstract

A method of providing a service using a keypad is provided. The method includes displaying a text box and a keypad on an executed screen, inputting a start identifier according to a selection of a smart conversion button of the keypad, inputting a command after the identifier, inputting a termination identifier after the command, performing an intelligent service according to the command when the termination identifier is inputted, and outputting a result according to the intelligent service in the text box.

Claims

1. A method of providing a service using a keypad, the method comprising:

displaying a text input field and a keypad on an executed screen;

receiving a selection of a predetermined button of the keypad;

displaying at least one identifying character into the text input field in response to the selection of the predetermined button;

receiving an input of a command when the at least one identifying character is displayed;

displaying the inputted command after the at least one identifying character; and

in response to receiving the input of the command, executing the inputted command to produce a result, removing display of the command, and replacing the display of the command with a display of the result of the command within the text input field.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying of the command comprises:

displaying all preset commands in a command candidate group region if the at least one start identifying character is inputted;

receiving a selection of a command in the command candidate group region; and

displaying the selected command after the identifier.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

displaying at least one termination identifying character if the command is selected in the command candidate group region.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the displaying of the command comprises displaying the command according to a user'"'"'s selection using the keypad after displaying the at least one start identifying character.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the displaying of the command comprises:

receiving input of a character for the command after the at least one identifying character; and

displaying the command including the character in the command candidate region.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the displaying of the command comprises:

extracting a command candidate group including the character from the preset all command candidate group; and

substituting the all commands of the command candidate group region with commands of the extracted command candidate group, and displaying the substituted commands.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the displaying of the at least one identifying character comprises at least one of automatically inputting the at least one identifying character according to selection of the command including the character in the command candidate group region, displaying the at least one identifying character according to selection of the predetermined button of the keypad after the character is inputted.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving a selected input of the predetermined button of the keypad in a state where the searched information is outputted in the text input field; and

restoring a screen in a state before the searched information is outputted through the text input field according to selection of the predetermined button of the keypad.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying the at least one identifying character and at least one termination identifying character by a user'"'"'s direction input using the keypad.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the searching at least one information comprises:

determining whether there is a parameter in front of the at least one identifying character, and

distinguishing, if there is the parameter in front of the at least one identifying character, a parameter inputted in front of the at least one identifying character and a command after the at least one identifying character.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the searching at least one information comprises:

extracting an actual command after the at least one identifying character;

determining whether the extracted command corresponds to a command designated in a command table;

performing the command internally if the command is a command in the command table; and

executing the command corresponding to the command by being linked with an external server if the command is a command that is not in the command table.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the replacing of the display of the command comprises outputting a result according to performance of an internal command or replacing of the display of the command with a result received from the external server according to performance of the command by being linked with the external server.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the external server includes at least one of an integrated server and a content server.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

determining whether the command corresponds to a command that may be performed when receiving action information including the command from a user device;

performing a search according to the command if the command may be performed, and transmitting a result of the search to the user device;

requesting performance of the search according to the command by being linked with the content server if the command may not be performed; and

receiving the result of the performance of the search of the command from the content server, and transmitting the result to the user device.

15. A method of providing a service using a keypad, the method comprising:

displaying a keypad on a performance screen;

generating a command in a text input field in response to a user'"'"'s input using the keypad;

displaying the inputted command in the text input field;

determining a service performance according to the generated command;

determining whether there is a parameter inputted before the command when the service is performed;

performing the service according to the command based on the parameter if there is such a parameter, and removing display of the command from the text input field and replacing the display of the command with a display of a result of the performance of the service in the text input field; and

performing the service according to the command if there is no such a parameter, and removing display of the command and replacing the display of the command with a display of the result of the performance of the service,

wherein the user'"'"'s input comprises at least one start identifying character, at least one termination identifying character, and command text which is input between the at least one start identifying character and the at least one termination identifying character.

16. A user device comprising:

a display;

a memory configured to store a command table for an intelligent service; and

at least one processor configured to;

control a selection of a predetermined button of a keypad displayed on the display,

in response to the selection of the predetermined button of the keypad, cause the display to display at least one identifying character into the text input field,

in response to receiving an input of a command when the at least one identifying character is displayed, cause the display to display the inputted command after the at least one identifying character, and

control the execution according to the inputted command after the at least one identifying character so that a result of the executed command is inputted and displayed in the text input field,

wherein the at least one processor is further configured to replace the display of the command on the display when the result of the command is displayed in the text input field.

17. The user device of claim 16, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to display at least one command candidate group to be displayed on the command candidate region in response to the at least one identifying character or the command input.

18. The user device of claim 16, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

determine performance of the command if at least one termination identifying characters is inputted,

extract the command between the at least one identifying character and the at least one termination identifying character when the performance of the command is determined, and

control the performance of the command in response to the extracted command.

19. The user device of claim 18, wherein the at least one processor is further configured to:

determine whether the extracted command corresponds to a command designated in the command table,

control background performance of the command if the command is a command that is in the command table, and

control performance of the command corresponding to the command by being linked with an external server if the command is a command that is not in the command table.

20. The user device of claim 18, wherein, if the predetermined button is selected in a state where a result according to the search is outputted in the text input field, the at least one processor is further configured to restore a screen in a state before the result is outputted through the text input field.

21. An apparatus for supporting an intelligent service, the apparatus comprising:

a display;

a touch panel layered on the display;

a keypad user interface configured to provide a keypad on a performance screen of the display;

an input manager configured to;

support a character input by the keypad,

input a result transmitted from at least one processor to a text input field of the performance screen, and

remove and replace a character of a command type of a previously inputted start identifier, command and termination identifier displayed in the text input field with a text of the result when the result is inputted in the text input field;

the at least one processor configured to;

obtain a result by performance of an internal service or an external service for the command according to a result of analysis on the command of a command parser, and

control an output of the obtained result, if an input of a text of the command type of the start identifier, the command, and the termination identifier;

the command parser configured to;

extract a command between the start identifier and the termination identifier if the text is transmitted,

analyze whether the extracted command corresponds to a command designated in a command table, and

provide a result of the analysis to the at least one processor;

a network binder configured to obtain a dynamic result for the command from the external service through a service application program interface or web parsing if the command is transmitted from the at least one processor; and

the command table configured to store preset commands and service information corresponding to each of the commands.

22. A system for supporting an intelligent service, the system comprising:

a user device configured to;

control an input of at least one start identifying character, a command, and at least one termination identifying character according to a user'"'"'s input or a selection of a smart conversion button of a keypad,

display the input of the at least one start identifying character, the command, and the at least one termination identifying character according to the user'"'"'s input or the selection of the smart conversion button of the keypad,

perform an intelligent service according to a command between the at least one start identifying character and a least one termination identifying character through an internal or external server, and

display a result of the performance of the intelligent service in the text input field; and

an integrated server configured to;

generate a result by performing an intelligent service according to the command, and

provide the generated result to the user device when performance of the intelligent service is requested from the user device,

wherein the user device is further configured to remove display of the command and replace the display of the command with a display of the result of the performance of the intelligent service in the text input field when the result of the performance of the intelligent service is displayed in the text input field.

23. The system of claim 22, wherein the integrated server is further configured to:

determine whether the command may be performed,

perform the intelligent service,

transmit a result of the performance to the user device if the command may be performed,

determine a content server that may perform the intelligent service if the command may not be performed,

obtain a result for the intelligent service by being linked with the determined content server, and

transmit the obtained result to the user device.

24. A non-transitory computer readable recording medium with instructions stored thereon, said instructions, when executed by a processor of a user device, direct the user device to:

process a display of a text input field and a keypad on a performance screen of an application,

control an input of at least one start identifying character, a command, and at least one termination identifying character according to a user'"'"'s input or a selection of a smart conversion button using the keypad,

display the input of the at least one start identifying character, the command, and the at least one termination identifying character according to the user'"'"'s input or the selection of the smart conversion button of the keypad,

extract a command between the at least one start identifying character and the at least one termination identifying character when the termination identifier is inputted,

obtain a result after performing a service according to the extracted command, and

remove display of the command and replace the display of the command with a display of the obtained result in the text input field.