STORAGE MEDIUM, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, AND DISPLAY METHOD

• US 20160234149A1
• Filed: 06/22/2015
• Published: 08/11/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: TSUDA, Munetaka, IIDA, Yui, KAWAMOTO, Kouichi, HARA, Taiyo, AOKI, Ryoma, OONISHI, Naonori, UMEHARA, Akihiro, KAMEI, Ginga, HIRUMA, Hiroaki, OKADA, Masayuki, KAKIMOTO, Yasuto, YANAGI, Arisa, SOMA, Hayuru
• Granted Patent: US 10,097,492 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

An exemplary group selection screen shows groups in which users share a message, so that any of the groups is selectable. In an avatar display area (Ar12) for each group, avatars (Av1) of not more than five users belonging to a group, who have recently posted a message, are displayed. An arrangement of the avatars (Av1) is determined based on a posting time and date of a latest message posted by each user represented by an avatar (Av1). In an avatar display area (Ar12), a message included in a balloon is displayed, which message has been posted by a user represented by a displayed avatar (Av1).

Claims

1. A non-transitory storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a process, the process comprising:

causing a display unit to display a list of groups, each of the groups including users that share a message, the list showing message information for each of the groups, the message information indicating a message posted in a group, the message satisfying a predetermined condition, or indicating a user who has posted the message;

accepting a selection of one of the groups included in the list displayed on the display unit; and

causing, in response to the selection of a group, the display unit to display at least part of messages shared in the group.

2. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the section of causing the display unit to display the list of groups comprises repeatedly updating the message information displayed on the display unit.

3. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 2, wherein:

the process further comprises obtaining a posting notice that reports that a new message has been posted in one of the groups; and

the section of causing the display unit to display the list of groups comprises updating, in response to obtaining of the posting notice, message information displayed relative to the group in which the new message has been posted.

4. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the section of causing the display unit to display the list of groups comprises causing the display unit to display plural items of message information for each of the groups in an order of posting of messages corresponding to message information.

5. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 4, wherein the section of causing the display unit to display the list of groups comprises causing the display unit to display plural items of message information for each of the groups, the plural items of message information being arranged in the order of posting of messages corresponding to message information.

6. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 1, wherein the section of causing the display unit to display the list of groups comprises causing the display unit to display, for each of the groups, a message that satisfies the predetermined condition and information indicative of a user who has posted the message in association with each other.

7. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 6, wherein the information indicative of a user who has posted the message that satisfies the predetermined condition comprises an avatar representing the user.

8. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 7, wherein the section of causing the display unit to display the list of groups comprises causing the display unit to display the message that satisfies the predetermined condition in a balloon corresponding to the avatar.

9. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 7, wherein the avatar is an animated image.

10. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 7, wherein the avatar is a three-dimensional image.

11. The non-transitory storage medium according to claim 7, wherein the section of causing the display unit to display the list of groups comprises changing the avatar according to a situation of message posting of a group corresponding to the avatar.

12. A communication terminal, comprising:

a display control unit that causes a display unit to display a list of groups, each of the groups including users that share a message, the list showing message information for each of the groups, the message information indicating a message posted in a group, the message satisfying a predetermined condition, or indicating a user who has posted the message; and

an accepting unit that accepts a selection of one of the groups included in the list displayed on the display unit, the display control unit causing, in response to the selection of a group, the display unit to display at least part of messages shared in the group.

13. A display method carried out by a communication terminal, the method comprising:

causing a display unit to display a list of groups, each of the groups including users that share a message, the list showing message information for each of the groups, the message information indicating a message posted in a group, the message satisfying a predetermined condition, or indicating a user who has posted the message;

accepting a selection of one of the groups included in the list displayed on the display unit; and

causing, in response to the selection of a group, the display unit to display at least part of messages shared in the group.

14. A non-transitory storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a process, the process comprising:

causing a display unit to display a list of groups, each of the groups including users that share an image, the list showing image information for each of the groups, the image information indicating an image posted in a group, the image satisfying a predetermined condition, or indicating a user who has posted the image;

accepting a selection of one of the groups included in the list displayed on the display unit; and

causing, in response to the selection of a group, the display unit to display at least part of images shared in the group.