Service apparatus and method for providing deferred message, and storage medium

• US 10,389,665 B2
• Filed: 12/12/2014
• Issued: 08/20/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: Pan, Lin, Dang, Jianguo, Zhang, Yasheng, Ma, Tongxing, Jiang, Kailiang
• Primary Examiner(s): Lazaro, David R
• Assistant Examiner(s): Khurshid, Zia
• Application Number:
  US14/569,273
• Publication Number:
  US 20150100656A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,712 Days
• Field of Search: 709206
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/043 using or handling presence information
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 using selective forwarding

Abstract

A service apparatus and method for providing a deferred message, and a storage medium. The service method for providing a deferred message comprises: receiving a message parameter sent by a first client and to be forwarded to a second client (S1); determining whether a user associated with the second client is online (S2); if the user associated with the second client is not online, determining that the message parameter to be forwarded is a message parameter of a deferred message, and saving the message parameter into a database of a server (S3); and when receiving an online prompt of the user associated with the second client, delivering the message parameter to the second client (S4). The method can significantly reduce the network traffic and occupation of the storage space.

Claims

1. A service system for providing a deferred instant message from a first user to a second user, comprising a processor and a memory storing program codes, wherein the processor is configured to execute the program codes to:

receive a message parameter of the deferred instant message sent by a first client and to be forwarded to a second client, wherein the deferred instant message is reconstructed by the second client by inserting the message parameter into content of a message template that is stored in a local message template storage of the second client, the message parameter including text of the deferred instant message;

determine whether the second user associated with the second client is online;

when the second user associated with the second client is determined to be online,

deliver the message parameter to the second client, and

store the message parameter into a database of the service system; and

when the second user associated with the second client is determined not to be online,

store the message parameter into the database of the service system, and

deliver the message parameter stored into the database of the service system to the second client when the second user associated with the second client is determined to be online;

wherein

the message parameter is not deleted from the database of the service system after the message parameter is delivered to the second client to provide an instant message history that is viewable on another client.

2. The service system for providing the deferred instant message according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to execute the program codes to:

check, when the second user associated with the second client is determined to be online, whether a newer version of the message template stored in the local message template storage of the second client is stored in the server system;

update, when the newer version of the message template stored in the local message template storage of the second client is stored in the server system, the message template stored in the local message template storage of the second client based on an updated message template stored in a message template storage of the service system; and

deliver, when the newer version of the message template stored in the local message template storage of the second client is not stored in the server system or has been updated, the message parameter to the second client so that the second client presents the deferred instant message based on the message parameter and the message template stored in the local message template storage of the second client.

3. The service system for providing the deferred instant message according to claim 2, wherein the processor is further configured to execute the program codes to:

modify a status of the deferred instant message after the message parameter is delivered to the second client.

4. The service system for providing the deferred instant message according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to execute the program codes to:

determine whether the message template corresponding to the deferred instant message is stored in the local message template storage of the second client;

download, when the message template corresponding to the deferred instant message is determined not to be stored in the local message template storage of the second client, the message template corresponding to the deferred instant message to the second client from a message template storage of the server system; and

present the deferred instant message based on the message parameter and the message template stored in the local message template storage of the second client.

5. The service system for providing the deferred instant message according to claim 1, wherein

the deferred instant message comprises an individual message and a group message, and

the message parameter comprises an individual message parameter and a group message parameter, the individual message parameter being directed to a single user and the group message parameter being directed to a group of users.

6. The service system for providing the deferred instant message according to claim 5, wherein the database comprises an individual message storage for storing the individual message parameter and a group message storage for storing the group message parameter.

7. The service system for providing the deferred instant message according to claim 1, wherein the message template comprises a format template and a content template.

8. The service system for providing the deferred instant message according to claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to execute the program codes to:

classify a plurality of deferred instant messages in advance to extract a text portion, which is common to the plurality of deferred instant messages in format and/or content, as the message template, and

store the message template in a message template storage of the server system and the local message template storage of the second client.

9. The service system for providing the deferred instant message according to claim 1, wherein

the message parameter is a name of the first user associated with the first client or the second user associated with the second client, and

the message template indicates that the first user associated with the first client intends to add the second user associated with the second client.

10. A service method for providing a deferred instant message from a first user to a second user, comprising:

receiving, by a processor of a service system, a message parameter of the deferred instant message sent by a first client and to be forwarded to a second client, wherein the deferred instant message is reconstructed by the second client by inserting the message parameter into content of a message template that is stored in a local message template storage of the second client, the message parameter including text of the deferred instant message;

determining whether the second user associated with the second client is online;

when the second user associated with the second client is determined to be online,

delivering the message parameter to the second client, and

storing the message parameter into a database of the service system; and

when the second user associated with the second client is determined not to be online,

storing the message parameter into the database of the service system, and

delivering the message parameter stored into the database of the service system to the second client when the second user associated with the second client is determined to be online;

wherein

the message parameter is not deleted from the database of the service system after the message parameter is delivered to the second client to provide an instant message history that is viewable on another client.

11. The service method for providing the deferred instant message according to claim 10, further comprising:

checking, when the second user associated with the second client is determined to be online, whether a newer version of the message template stored in the local message template storage of the second client is stored in the server system;

updating, when the newer version of the message template stored in the local message template storage of the second client is stored in the server system, the message template stored in the local message template storage of the second client based on an updated message template stored in a message template storage of the service system; and

delivering, when the newer version of the message template stored in the local message template storage of the second client is not stored in the server system or has been updated, the message parameter to the second client so that the second client presents the deferred instant message based on the message parameter and the message template stored in the local message template storage of the second client.

12. The service method for providing the deferred instant message according to claim 11, further comprising, after the delivering the message parameter stored into the database of the service system to the second client:

modifying a status of the deferred instant message.

13. The service method for providing the deferred instant message according to claim 10, wherein the second client is further configured to, after receiving the delivered message parameter:

determine whether the message template corresponding to the deferred instant message is stored in the local message template storage of the second client;

download, when the message template corresponding to the deferred instant message is determined not to be stored in the local message template storage of the second client, the message template corresponding to the deferred instant message to the second client from a message template storage of the service system; and

present the deferred instant message based on the message parameter and the message template stored in the local message template storage of the second client.

14. The service method for providing the deferred instant message according to claim 10, wherein

the deferred instant message comprises an individual message and a group message, and

the message parameter comprises an individual message parameter and a group message parameter, the individual message parameter being directed to a single user and the group message parameter being directed to a group of users.

15. The service method for providing the deferred instant message according to claim 14, wherein the individual message parameter is stored in an individual message storage in the database of the service system, and the group message parameter is stored in a group message storage in the database of the service system.

16. The service method for providing the deferred instant message according to claim 10, wherein the message template comprises a format template and a content template.

17. The service method for providing the deferred instant message according to claim 10, further comprising:

classifying a plurality of deferred instant messages in advance to extract a text portion, which is common to the plurality of deferred instant messages in format and/or content, as the message template, and

storing the message template in a message template storage of the server system and the local message template storage of the second client.

18. A non-transitory storage medium including computer-executable instructions which when executed by a computer of a service system cause the computer to perform a service method for providing a deferred instant message from a first user to a second user, the service method for providing the deferred instant message comprising:

receiving a message parameter of the deferred instant message sent by a first client and to be forwarded to a second client, wherein the deferred instant message is reconstructed by the second client by inserting the message parameter into content of a message template that is stored in a local message template storage of the second client, the message parameter including text of the deferred instant message;

determining whether the second user associated with the second client is online;

when the second user associated with the second client is determined to be online,

delivering the message parameter to the second client, and

storing the message parameter into a database of the service system; and

when the second user associated with the second client is determined not to be online,

storing the message parameter into the database of the service system, and

delivering the message parameter stored into the database of the service system to the second client when the second user associated with the second client is determined to be online;

wherein

the message parameter is not deleted from the database of the service system after the message parameter is delivered to the second client to provide an instant message history that is viewable on another client.