METHOD AND DEVICE FOR SAVING CHAT RECORD OF INSTANT MESSAGING

• US 20170324692A1
• Filed: 07/27/2017
• Published: 11/09/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Advanced New Technologies Company Limited (Ant Group Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
• Inventors: ZHOU, JINGWEN
• Granted Patent: US 10,659,412 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/22 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9558 Details of hyperlinks; Management of linked annotations
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/00 User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols, e.g. e-mail
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/046 Interoperability with other network applications or services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads

Abstract

A method for saving chat records of instant messaging (IM) includes when an instant message transmitted or received by an IM chat window comprises non-text information, acquiring a content summary of the non-text information, and saving the instant message, and saving the non-text information as a data object comprising the non-text information and the content summary of the non-text information.

Claims

1. A method for saving IM chat records comprising:

when an instant message transmitted or received by an IM chat window comprises non-text information, acquiring a content summary of the non-text information;

saving the non-text information as a data object comprising the non-text information and the content summary of the non-text information.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the acquiring a content summary of the non-text information comprises:

when the non-text information is a hyperlink, activating a browser to access the webpage corresponding to the hyperlink;

generating, according to information of a webpage corresponding to the hyperlink, a content summary of the webpage corresponding to the hyperlink.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the generating, according to the information of the webpage corresponding to the hyperlink, a content summary of the webpage corresponding to the hyperlink comprises:

acquiring caption information of the webpage corresponding to the hyperlink as the content summary of the webpage corresponding to the hyperlink;

or,

extracting at least one keyword with relatively high frequency of occurrence from the information of the webpage corresponding to the hyperlink, and using the keyword as the content summary of the webpage corresponding to the hyperlink.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the acquiring a content summary of the non-text information comprises:

prompting the user to set a content summary for the non-text information;

receiving text information typed in by the user and using the text information as a content summary of the non-text information.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

setting, in the data object, a display attribute of the non-text information to visible, and a display attribute of the content summary of the non-text information to invisible.

6. A device for saving IM chat records comprising:

an acquisition unit configured to acquire, when an instant message transmitted or received by an IM chat window comprises non-text information, a content summary of the non-text information;

a saving unit configured to save the non-text information as a data object comprising the non-text information and the content summary of the non-text information

7. The device for saving IM chat records according to claim 6, wherein the acquisition unit comprises:

an activation sub-unit configured to activate, when the non-text information is a hyperlink, a browser to access a webpage corresponding to the hyperlink;

a generation sub-unit configured to generate, according to information of the webpage corresponding to the hyperlink, a content summary of the webpage corresponding to the hyperlink.

8. The device for saving IM chat records according to claim 7, wherein the generation sub-unit comprises:

a caption acquisition sub-unit configured to acquire caption information of the webpage corresponding to the hyperlink as the content summary of the webpage corresponding to the hyperlink;

or,

a keyword acquisition sub-unit configured to extract at least one keyword with relatively high frequency of occurrence from the information of the webpage corresponding to the hyperlink, and use the keyword as the content summary of the webpage corresponding to the hyperlink.

9. The device for saving IM chat records according to claim 6, wherein the acquisition unit comprises:

a prompt sub-unit configured to prompt a user to set a content summary for the non-text information;

a receiving sub-unit configured to receive text information typed in by the user and use the text information as a content summary of the non-text information.

10. The device for saving IM chat records according to claim 6, further comprising:

a setting unit configured to set, in the data object, a display attribute of the non-text information to visible, and a display attribute of the content summary of the non-text information to invisible.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage media storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method comprising:

when an instant message transmitted or received by an IM chat window comprises non-text information, acquiring a content summary of the non-text information;

saving the non-text information as a data object comprising the non-text information and the content summary of the non-text information.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage media according to claim 11, wherein the acquiring a content summary of the non-text information comprises:

when the non-text information is a hyperlink, activating a browser to access the webpage corresponding to the hyperlink;

generating, according to information of a webpage corresponding to the hyperlink, a content summary of the webpage corresponding to the hyperlink.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage media according to claim 12, wherein the generating, according to the information of the webpage corresponding to the hyperlink, a content summary of the webpage corresponding to the hyperlink comprises:

acquiring caption information of the webpage corresponding to the hyperlink as the content summary of the webpage corresponding to the hyperlink;

or,

extracting at least one keyword with relatively high frequency of occurrence from the information of the webpage corresponding to the hyperlink, and using the keyword as the content summary of the webpage corresponding to the hyperlink.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage media according to claim 11, wherein the acquiring a content summary of the non-text information comprises:

prompting the user to set a content summary for the non-text information;

receiving text information typed in by the user and using the text information as a content summary of the non-text information.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable storage media according to claim 11, further comprising:

setting, in the data object, a display attribute of the non-text information to visible, and a display attribute of the content summary of the non-text information to invisible.