METHOD, APPARATUS FOR CONVERTING GROUP MESSAGE AND SYSTEM FOR EXCHANGING GROUP MESSAGE

• US 20100250693A1
• Filed: 06/10/2010
• Published: 09/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: Wang, Ying, Zheng, Zhihao
• Application Number:
  US12/813,065
• Publication Number:
  US 20100250693A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]

Abstract

The present invention provides an apparatus and method for converting group message and a group message exchanging system. The apparatus includes: a parsing unit, adapted to obtain a group identifier of group communication information of a first type; a member information obtaining unit, adapted to obtain an address of each of at least one group member of a group for communicating group communication information of a second type according to the group identifier obtained; and a converting unit, adapted to convert the group communication information of the first type into the group communication information of the second type according to the address for communicating the group communication information of the second type obtained. The apparatus, method and system provided by the present invention enable information exchanging between different network communication systems.

Claims

1. An apparatus for converting group message, comprising:

a parsing unit, adapted to obtain a group identifier of group communication information of a first type;

a member information obtaining unit, adapted to obtain, according to the group identifier obtained, an address of each of at least one group member of a group for communicating group communication information of a second type; and

a converting unit, adapted to convert the group communication information of the first type into group communication information of the second type according to the address for communicating group communication information of the second type.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a receiving unit, adapted to receive the group communication information of the first type sent by a user and provide the group communication information of the first type to the parsing unit; and

a sending unit, adapted to send the group communication information of the second type generated by the converting unit.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the parsing unit is adapted to obtain a group identifier from a group instant message;

and

the member information obtaining unit is adapted to search group data and user data stored in a system database according to the group identifier to obtain an email address of each of the at least one group member.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the member information obtaining unit is further adapted to determine whether a group member of the group is online in an instant messaging system and obtain an email address of each group member which is offline.

5. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the parsing unit is further adapted to obtain at least one of a sender instant messaging (IM) identifier, sending time and message contents from the group instant message received;

and

the converting unit is further adapted to form a group email with one or more recipients by taking the email address of each group member as a recipient address and taking at least one of the group identifier, the sender IM identifier, the sending time and the message content as contents of the group email.

6. The apparatus of claim 3, further comprising:

a group email classifying unit, adapted to classify converted group emails by category, set a session identifier for each email session and add a session identifier for each of the group emails according to an email session to which the group email belongs.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein

the parsing unit is adapted to obtain a group identifier from a group email;

the member information obtaining unit is adapted to obtain an IM identifier of each of at least one group member of the group according to the group identifier obtained.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein

the parsing unit is further adapted to obtain from the received group email at least one of a sender email address, a title, sending time of the group email, and a hyperlink of the group email in a mailbox of each of one or more recipients of the group email;

and

the converting unit is adapted to form a group instant message with one or more recipients by taking the IM identifier obtained as a recipient identifier of a group instant message and taking at least one of the group identifier, the sender email address, the title, the sending time of the group email, and the hyperlink of the group email in the mailbox of each recipient as contents of the group instant message.

9. A method for converting group message, comprising:

obtaining a group identifier of received group communication information of a first type;

obtaining, according to the group identifier, an address of each of at least one group member of a group for communicating group communication information of a second type; and

converting the group communication information of the first type into group communication information of the second type according to the address for communicating group communication information of the second type and sending the converted group communication information of the second type.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the group communication information of the first type is a group instant message and the group communication information of the second type is a group email.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the obtaining according to the group identifier the address of each of at least one member of the group for communicating communication information of the second type comprises:

obtaining an instant messaging (IM) identifier of each of the at least one group member from group data stored in a system database according to the group identifier, and

obtaining an email address of each of the at least one group member from user data stored in the system database according to the IM identifier of the group member.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the obtaining according to the group identifier the address of each of the at least one group member for communicating the group communication information of the second type comprises:

obtaining an email address of each group member which is currently offline according to the group identifier.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

obtaining, from the group instant message received, at least one of a sender IM identifier, a sending time and a instant message content for use as contents of the group email.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the converting the group communication information of the first type into the group communication information of the second type comprises:

taking the email address of each of the at least one group member obtained as a recipient address, and combining the recipient address and the contents of the group email to form the group email with one or more recipients.

15. The method of claim 9, wherein the group communication information of the first type is a group email and the group communication information of the second type is a group instant message.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the obtaining according to the group identifier the address of each of the at least one group member for communicating the group communication information of the second type comprises:

obtaining an IM identifier of each of the at least one group member according to the group identifier.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

obtaining, from the group email received, at least one of a sender email address, a title, sending time of the group email and a hyperlink of the group email in a mailbox of each recipient of the group email for use as contents of the group instant message;

wherein the converting the group communication information of the first type into the group communication information of the second type comprises;

taking the IM identifier of each of the at least one group member obtained as a recipient identifier of the group instant message and combining the recipient identifier and the contents of the group instant message to form the group instant message with one or more recipients.

18. A group message exchanging system, comprising:

a group email converting apparatus, adapted to receive a first group instant message and convert the first group instant message into a first group email and send the first group email; and

a group message converting apparatus, adapted to receive a second group email, convert the second group email into a second group instant message and send the second group instant message.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the group email converting apparatus comprises:

a group message parsing unit, adapted to obtain a group identifier of the first group instant message;

an email address obtaining unit, adapted to obtain an email address of each of at least one group member of a group according to the group identifier; and

a group email converting unit, adapted to convert the first group instant message into the first group email according to the email address.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein the group message converting apparatus comprises:

a group email parsing unit, adapted to obtain a group identifier from the second group email;

an identity obtaining unit, adapted to obtain an IM identifier of each of at least one group member of a group according to the group identifier obtained; and

a group message converting unit, adapted to convert the second group email into the second group instant message according to the IM identifier.