USER TERMINAL APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING USER TERMINAL APPARATUS

• US 20150350123A1
• Filed: 06/01/2015
• Published: 12/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KIM, Kyu-ho, PARK, Kyung-eun, KIM, Chul-seung, HAN, Myung-hee
• Granted Patent: US 10,637,804 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]

Abstract

A user terminal apparatus including: a display configured to provide a messenger service image of a messenger service; a user interface unit user interface configured to receive user interaction with respect to the messenger service image; and a processor configured to control the user terminal apparatus to transmit, in response to a user command for execution of an application being input in the messenger service image, identifier information of corresponding to the application and participant information corresponding to participants of the messenger service image to an app application providing server in response to a user command for app execution in the messenger service image being input, and to control the user terminal apparatus to receive app application execution information configured based on the participant information from the app application providing server, and to provide the app application execution information as an input message of the messenger service.

Claims

1. A user terminal apparatus comprising:

a display configured to provide a messenger service image of a messenger service;

a user interface configured to receive user interaction with respect to the messenger service image; and

a processor configured to control the user terminal apparatus to transmit, in response to a user command for execution of an application being input in the messenger service image, identifier information corresponding to the application and participant information corresponding to participants of the messenger service to an application providing server, to control the user terminal apparatus to receive application execution information configured based on the participant information from the application providing server, and to provide the application execution information as an input message of the messenger service.

2. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to control the user terminal apparatus to receive an application list from an application management server, to control the display to display the application list in response to a preset event, and to control the user terminal apparatus to transmit, in response to a user command selecting one application from the application list, identifier information corresponding to the one application and the participant information to the application providing server.

3. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the processor is further configured to control the user terminal apparatus to communicate with the application providing server and the application management server through pre-installed application launcher software.

4. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the preset event comprises receiving a user command selecting a present item provided in the messenger service image.

5. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the user command for execution of the application comprises a user input of information identifying the application in a chat window of the messenger service.

6. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to control the display to display an icon corresponding to the application in a chat window of the messenger service based on the received application execution information.

7. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the processor is further configured to automatically execute, in response to the received application execution information being provided as the input message, the application.

8. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 6, wherein the processor is further configured to execute the application according to a user command selecting the icon provided in the chat window.

9. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the application execution information received from the application providing server comprises application configuration information for configuring an application execution image for receiving real-time interaction by a participant of the messenger service image.

10. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 9, wherein the processor is further configured to control the user terminal apparatus to receive an application use result corresponding to the real-time interaction by the participant of the messenger service image, and to provide the application use result as an input message of the messenger service.

11. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to control, in response to application being executed, the display to display an application execution image as the messenger service image, and to control, in response to application being terminated, the display to restore the messenger service image to a previous image.

12. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein:

the application comprises a web application,

the application management server manages Uniform Resource Locator (URL) information and an execution command of the web application, and

the application providing server manages a resource and code of the web application corresponding to URL information.

13. A communication system comprising a user terminal apparatus and an application management server, comprising:

an application management server configured to manage information of a web application executable in a messenger service image of a messaging service; and

a user terminal apparatus configured to, in response to a user command for execution of the web application being input in the messenger service image, acquire information corresponding to the web application, to transmit the acquired information and participant information corresponding to participants of the messenger service to an application providing server, to receive application execution information based on the participant information, and to provide, in response to the application execution information being received, the received application execution information as an input message of the messenger service.

14. A method of controlling a user terminal apparatus, the method comprising:

displaying a messenger service image of a messenger service;

transmitting, in response to a user command for execution of an application being input in the messenger service image, identifier information corresponding to the application and participant information corresponding to participants of the messenger service to an application providing server;

receiving application execution information configured based on the participant information from the application providing server; and

providing the application execution information as an input message of the messenger service.

15. The method as claimed in claim 14, further comprising:

receiving an application list from an application management server; and

displaying the application list in response to a preset event,

wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting, in response to a user command selecting one application from the application list, identifier information corresponding to the one application and the participant information to the application providing server.

16. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the user terminal apparatus communicates with the application providing server and the application management server through pre-installed application launcher software.

17. The method as claimed in claim 15, wherein the preset event comprises an event of receiving a user command selecting a present item provided in the messenger service image.

18. The method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the user command for execution of the application comprises a user input of information identifying the application in a chat window of the messenger service.

19. The method as claimed in claim 14, further comprising providing an icon corresponding to the application in a chat window of the messenger service based on the received application execution information.

20. The method as claimed in claim 19, further comprising automatically executing, in response to the received application execution information being provided as the input message, the application.

21. The method as claimed in claim 19, further comprising executing the application according to a user command selecting the icon provided in the chat window.

22. The method as claimed in claim 14, wherein the application execution information received from the application providing server comprises application configuration information for configuring an application execution image for receiving real-time interaction by a participant of the messenger service image.

23. A user terminal apparatus comprising:

a display;

a communicator; and

a controller configured to;

execute a messenger service,

control the display to display a messenger service image of the messenger service,

control the communicator to transmit identifier information corresponding to a web application and participant information corresponding to users of the messenger service to an application providing server,

control the communicator to receive application execution information based on the participant information from the application providing server, and

provide the application execution information as an input message to the messenger service.

24. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 23, wherein the controller is further configured to, in response to the application execution information being provided as an input message to the messenger service, control the display to display an icon corresponding to the web application in a chat window of the messaging service image.

25. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 23, wherein the controller is further configured to control the communicator to receive an application result corresponding to an execution of the web application, and to provide the application result as an input message of the messenger service.

26. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 23, wherein the web application comprises an application requesting user input from the users of the messaging service.

27. The user terminal apparatus as claimed in claim 26, wherein the controller is further configured to control the communicator to receive an application result corresponding to the user input, and to provide the application result as an input message of the messenger service.