USER INTERFACE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING SUBGROUP OF CONVERSATION GROUP

• US 20140068468A1
• Filed: 08/26/2013
• Published: 03/06/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pantech Corporation (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Pantech Corporation (Ideahub, Inc.)
• Inventors: YOON, Ji-Sun
• Application Number:
  US13/975,913
• Publication Number:
  US 20140068468A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/758
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1822 Conducting the conference, e.g. admission, detection, selection or grouping of participants, correlating users to one or more conference sessions, prioritising transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15

Abstract

A new interface specialized in a group conversation and/or a group chatting, a user interface apparatus, and a method for efficiently generating a new conversation window during a group conversation using a subgroup of a conversation group are provided. A method includes displaying a group conversation window on a display screen of an apparatus, the group conversation window being associated with a plurality of participants, in response to receiving a selection input, selecting a subgroup from among the plurality of participants, the selection input being received when at least part of the group conversation window is displayed on the display screen, and displaying a subgroup conversation window associated with the selected subgroup.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

displaying a group conversation window on a display screen of an apparatus, the group conversation window being associated with a plurality of participants;

in response to receiving a selection input, selecting a subgroup from among the plurality of participants, the selection input being received when at least part of the group conversation window is displayed on the display screen; and

displaying a subgroup conversation window associated with the selected subgroup.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the subgroup conversation window provides a message communication among the selected subgroup and a user of the apparatus.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

relocating the group conversation window in a first area of the display screen; and

displaying information of the selected subgroup in a second area of the display screen.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the subgroup conversation window is displayed in the second area if the second area is expanded to at least part of the first area.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein a boundary between the first area and the second area is configured to be relocated by a user input associated with the boundary.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying information of the selected subgroup comprising a profile of a participant of the selected subgroup.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the profile of the participant is displayed on the display screen if a touch input associated with a speech bubble of the participant is received.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

retrieving one or more subgroups, each subgroup being a subgroup of the plurality of the participants and being linked to the group conversation window; and

selecting one subgroup from among the retrieved one or more subgroups.

9. An apparatus, comprising:

a touch screen display to display a group conversation window, the group conversation window being associated with a plurality of participants, and to receive a selection input, the selection input being received when at least part of the group conversation window is displayed on the touch screen display; and

a processor, in response to receiving the selection input, configured to select a subgroup from among the plurality of participants,

wherein the touch screen display displays a subgroup conversation window associated with the selected subgroup.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the subgroup conversation window provides a message communication among the selected subgroup and a user of the apparatus.

11. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the group conversation window is relocated in a first area of the touch screen display;

and

the touch screen display displays information of the selected subgroup in a second area of the touch screen display.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the subgroup conversation window is displayed in the second area if the second area is expanded to at least part of the first area.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein a boundary between the first area and the second area is configured to be relocated by a user input associated with the boundary.

14. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the touch screen display displays information of the selected subgroup comprising a profile of a participant of the selected subgroup.

15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the profile of the participant is displayed on the touch screen display if a touch input associated with a speech bubble of the participant is received.

16. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the processor retrieves one or more subgroups, each subgroup being a subgroup of the plurality of the participants and being linked to the group conversation window, and

the processor selects one subgroup from among the retrieved one or more subgroups.

17. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs for instructing a computer, when executed by a processor, to perform:

displaying a group conversation window on a display screen of an apparatus, the group conversation window being associated with a plurality of participants;

in response to receiving a selection input, selecting a subgroup from among the plurality of participants, the selection input being received when at least part of the group conversation window is displayed on the display screen; and

displaying a subgroup conversation window associated with the selected subgroup.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the subgroup conversation window provides a message communication among the selected subgroup and a user of the apparatus.

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17, further comprising:

relocating the group conversation window in a first area of the display screen; and

displaying information of the selected subgroup in a second area of the display screen.

20. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17, further comprising:

displaying information of the selected subgroup comprising a profile of a participant of the selected subgroup.