METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SENDING MESSAGE TO GROUP USER(S) THROUGH MICROBLOG

• US 20140289351A1
• Filed: 06/01/2012
• Published: 09/25/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: Zheng, Zhihao, Liang, Zhu, Chen, Yuteng, He, Mingming, Ji, Mingzhong, Huang, Xitong
• Application Number:
  US14/354,639
• Publication Number:
  US 20140289351A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/206
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 using selective forwarding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/48 Message addressing, e.g. address format or anonymous messages, aliases
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/22 Parsing or analysis of headers

Abstract

The present invention discloses a method and device for sending a message to group user(s) through microblog, which can simply and rapidly send the message to the group user(s) through a symbol @. In the present invention, group(s) that a user has joined is inquired for the user when the user sends a message, and the message is able to be sent to the group user(s) in the manner of “@group”, instead of being sent to each group user in the manner of “@user nickname” for many times, which improves the efficiency of sending messages by group, and brings convenience to the user.

Claims

1. A method for sending a message to group user(s) through microblog, comprising:

a service end parsing a received message, and when finding that the message contains “

@group identifier”

, acquiring the group identifier behind the “

@”

;

the service end acquiring a list of group member user(s) by the group identifier, and pushing the message to each group member user in the list of group member user(s).

2. The method of claim 1, wherein each group member user in the list of group member user(s) acquires and displays the message through a page with the latest messages, or a “

message with @me”

page, or a “

@group name”

page.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein before the service end pushes the message to each group member user in the list of group member user(s), the method also comprises:

the service end detecting whether a user sending the message is a group member user of a group indicated by the group identifier;

if the user sending the message is a group member user of the group indicated by the group identifier, the service end will perform a processing of pushing the message;

if the user sending the message is not a group member user of the group indicated by the group identifier, the service end will not perform the processing of pushing the message.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the method also comprises:

before a terminal end sends the message, it inquiring the service end about a list of group(s) that the user sending the message has joined, and the user sending the message indicating in the message a group to be mentioned by the message according to the list of the group(s).

5. The method of claim 1, wherein one or more groups to be mentioned by the message are indicated in a same message by one or more pieces of “

@group identifier”

.

10. A computer program product, containing program instructions which, when being executed on a processor, instruct the processor to perform the steps of the method of any of claims 1-5.

11. A storage medium, carrying a computer program of claim 10.

6. A device for sending a message to group user(s) through microblog, comprising:

an acquiring unit, for receiving and parsing a message and acquiring a group identifier indicated by “

@group identifier”

from the message;

a push unit, for acquiring a list of group member user(s) by the group identifier and pushing the message to each group member user in the list of group member user(s).

7. The device of claim 6, wherein the device also comprises:

an inquiry unit, for inquiring a list of group(s) that the user sending the message has joined;

a sending unit, for inputting the message and indicating the group to be mentioned by the message in the manner of “

@group identifier”

in the message according to the list of the group(s);

an exhibiting unit, for exhibiting the message to the group member user(s) in the list of group member user(s) through a page with the latest messages, or a “

message with @me”

page, or a “

@group name”

page.

8. The device of claim 6 or claim 7, wherein the device also comprises:

a judging unit, for judging whether the user sending the message is a group member user of the group indicated by the group identifier, and if the user sending the message is not a group member user of the group indicated by the group identifier, instructing the push unit to perform no push processing, otherwise instructing the push unit to perform the push processing.

9. The device of claim 7, wherein the message sent by the sending unit includes one or more pieces of “

@group identifier”

.