DIGITAL DEVICE FOR PROVIDING TEXT MESSAGING SERVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME

• US 20140173460A1
• Filed: 02/26/2013
• Published: 06/19/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: KIM, Jihyun
• Granted Patent: US 9,319,366 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/753
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/131 Fragmentation of text files, e.g. creating reusable text-blocks; Linking to fragments, e.g. using XInclude; Namespaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/20 Natural language analysis semantic analysis of natural language G06F40/30
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/18 Commands or executable codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a digital device and a method for controlling the same, which displays an application related to a text message, extracts additional information from the application and inserts the extracted additional information to the text message, in order to provide additional information associated with a text message.

Claims

1. A digital device providing a text messaging service, comprising:

a display unit configured to display a text messaging interface;

a sensor unit configured to sense a user input inputted to the digital device and delivering a signal according to a sensed result to a processor;

a communication unit configured to transmit and receive text messages to and from an external device; and

the processor configured to control the display unit, the sensor unit, and the communication unit,

wherein the processor;

designates at least one word included in the text message as a text block, wherein the text message is displayed through the text messaging interface,

extracts at least one application providing additional information associated with the text block,

displays an application interface including at least one icon representing the at least one application,

detects a first input signal to the at least one icon in the application interface, and

inserts additional information to the text message, wherein the additional information is provided by an application corresponding to an icon from which the first input signal is detected.

2. The digital device of claim 1, wherein the processor detects a second input signal to at least one word included in the text message and designates the at least one word, from which the second input signal is detected, as a text block.

3. The digital device of claim 1, wherein the processor extracts at least one keyword from the text message and designates the at least one keyword as at least one text block.

4. The digital device of claim 1, wherein the processor adds a graphic effect to the text block.

5. The digital device of claim 1, wherein the processor extracts the at least one application according to a priority level, and wherein the priority level is decided by using at least one of transmission information and reception information related to the text message, history information of the text message, and Social Network Service (SNS) usage information related to the transmission information or the reception information.

6. The digital device of claim 1, wherein the processor displays the application interface in a surrounding area of the text message.

7. The digital device of claim 1, wherein the processor displays the text messaging interface overlaid with the application interface.

8. The digital device of claim 7, wherein, when a third input signal is detected, the processor hides the application interface overlaying the text messaging interface, and wherein, when a fourth input signal is detected, the processor displays the hidden application interface.

9. The digital device of claim 1, wherein the additional information includes information related to an execution result of an application, wherein the application is executed by using the at least one word included in the text block.

10. The digital device of claim 1, wherein, when the additional information is inserted in the text message, the processor deletes the text block related to the additional information.

11. The digital device of claim 10, wherein the processor inserts the additional information in a location of the text block that is to be deleted.

12. The digital device of claim 1, wherein the processor generates metadata for transmitting the text message to the external device, and

wherein the metadata include at least one of at least one word included in the text block, additional information associated with the text block, application information providing the additional information, and link information to the additional information.

13. The digital device of claim 12, wherein the metadata further includes at least one of location information of the digital device and authority information for tracking a location of the digital device.

14. The digital device of claim 1, wherein, when the first input signal is detected, the processor displays preview information of the additional information, and wherein, when a fifth input signal to the preview information is detected, the processor inserts the additional information to the text message.

15. A digital device providing a text messaging service, comprising:

a display unit configured to display a text messaging interface;

a sensor unit configured to sense a user input inputted to the digital device and delivering an input signal according to a sensed result to a processor;

a communication unit configured to transmit and receive data to and from an external device; and

the processor configured to control the display unit, the sensor unit, and the communication unit,

wherein the processor;

receives a message file including a text message and metadata related to the text message from the external device, wherein the metadata include link information for providing additional information associated with at least one word included in the text message,

designates the at least one word as a text block, wherein the at least one word is related to the link information,

displays the text message through the text messaging interface, and

adds a graphic effect to the text block.

16. The digital device of claim 15, wherein the additional information includes information related to an execution result of an application, wherein the application is executed by using at least one word included in the text block.

17. The digital device of claim 15, wherein the processor designates the text block as a hypertext by connecting the text block with the link information.

18. The digital device of claim 15, wherein, when a first input signal to the text block is detected, the processor extracts at least one application according to the link information, and wherein the processor displays an application interface including at least one icon representing the at least one application.

19. The digital device of claim 18, wherein the processor detects a second input signal to an icon in the application interface and inserts additional information provided by an application to the text message, wherein the application corresponds to the icon from which the second input signal is detected.

20. The digital device of claim 19, wherein, when the second input signal to the icon is detected, the processor displays preview information of the additional information, and wherein, when a third input signal to the preview information is detected, the processor inserts the additional information to the text message.

21. The digital device of claim 19, wherein the processor inserts additional information in a location of a text block associated with the additional information and deletes the text block.

22. The digital device of claim 19, wherein the metadata further include at least one of location information of the external device transmitting the message file and authority information for tracking a location of the external device.

23. The digital device of claim 22, wherein, when a word related to a location is designated as a text block, the processor inserts location information of the external device in the text message by using the metadata, and

wherein, when the metadata include authority information for tracking the location of the external device, the location information of the external device corresponds to information on a currently tracked location of the external device.

24. The digital device of claim 23, wherein the processor inserts location information of the external device in a location of the word designated as the text block and deletes the word designated as the text block.

25. A method for controlling a digital device providing a text messaging service, comprising:

displaying a text message through a text messaging interface;

designating at least one word included in the text message as a text block, wherein the text message is displayed through the text messaging interface;

extracting at least one application providing additional information associated with the text block;

displaying an application interface including at least one icon representing the at least one application;

detecting a first input signal to the at least one icon in the application interface; and

inserting additional information to the text message, wherein the additional information is provided by an application corresponding to an icon from which the first input signal is detected.

26. A method for controlling a digital device providing a text messaging service, comprising:

receiving a message file including a text message and metadata related to the text message from an external device, wherein the metadata include link information for providing additional information associated with at least one word included in the text message;

designating the at least one word as a text block, wherein the at least one word is related to the link information; and

displaying the text message through the text messaging interface,

wherein, in the step of displaying the text message, a graphic effect is added to the text block.