Text display terminal device and server

• US 20050156947A1
• Filed: 12/19/2003
• Published: 07/21/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sakai, Ryutaro, Kohno, Tetsuya, Nishino, Hideaki, Nagahara, Junichi
• Granted Patent: US 7,180,527 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/629
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/109 Font handling; Temporal or kinetic typography
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/12 Overlay of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of switching between the corresponding input pixels

Abstract

This invention is relative with a text displaying terminal unit used for preparation, transmission/reception and display of a text message. A text message entered by a user is collated to a keyword and, if there is a keyword in the text, displaying attributes of the text and/or the background image are added to the text to send the resulting text added by the displaying attributes to a server (400). Alternatively, the server may collate the text to the keyword to add the displaying attributes of the text and/or the background image to the text. A receiving side terminal unit receives an XML document (240b), added by the displaying attributes, from the server to display the XML document added by the displaying attributes as a motion text message. This motion text message may also be provided by the server to the user as the Web information.

Claims

1. A text displaying terminal unit comprising

means for memorizing a preset keyword;

means for receiving an input text;

display means for displaying the information on a display picture domain;

means for verifying whether or not there exists a keyword in the input text;

means for adding to said text preset displaying attributes of said text and/or a background image associated with said keyword, if such keyword exists;

means for transmitting the text information, corresponding to said text added by said preset displaying attributes, as a message, over a communication network;

means for receiving said message over said communication network; and

display control means for displaying said message on said display picture domain.

2. The text displaying terminal unit according to claim 1 wherein the preset displaying attributes of said background image include attributes determining the movements of said image.

3. The text displaying terminal unit according to claim 1 wherein said preset displaying attributes include the displaying attributes of the movements of letters or characters of said text.

4. The text displaying terminal unit according to claim 1 further comprising

means for a user registering the keyword and displaying attributes associated with said keyword.

5. A server connected to a text displaying terminal unit over a communication network, said server comprising

means for memorizing a preset keyword;

means for receiving a text message over said communication network from said text displaying terminal unit;

means for verifying whether or not there exists said keyword in the received text;

means for adding preset displaying attributes of said text and/or a background image, associated with said keyword, to said text, if such keyword exists; and

means for transmitting a message, corresponding to said text added by said preset displaying attributes, to a destination of said text message.

6. The server according to claim 5 wherein the preset displaying attributes of said background image include attributes determining the movements of said image.

7. The server according to claim 5 wherein said preset displaying attributes include the displaying attributes of the movements of letters or characters of said text.

8. The server according to claim 5 further comprising

means for accepting registration of a keyword and displaying attributes associated with said keyword, from user to user, over said communication network.

9. A server connected to a text displaying terminal unit over a communication network, said server comprising

means for memorizing a preset keyword;

means for receiving a text message over said communication network from said text displaying terminal unit;

means for verifying whether or not there exists said keyword in the received text;

means for adding preset displaying attributes of said text and/or a background image, associated with said keyword, to said text, if such keyword exists; and

means for accumulating a message, corresponding to said text added by said preset displaying attributes, in the form of the Web information, so that a user of the destination of said text message is able to browse said message.

10. The server according to claim 9 wherein the preset displaying attributes of said background image include attributes determining the movements of said image.

11. The server according to claim 9 wherein said preset displaying attributes of said text include the displaying attributes of the movements of letters or characters of said text.

12. The server according to claim 9 further comprising

means for a particular user accepting the registration of the keyword and the displaying attributes associated with the keyword over said communication network.