Text display terminal device and server

• US 7,180,527 B2
• Filed: 12/19/2003
• Issued: 02/20/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Electronics Inc. (Sony Group Corp.), Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Japan Incorporated (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kohno, Tetsuya, Sakai, Ryutaro, Nagahara, Junichi, Nishino, Hideaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Tung; Kee M.
• Assistant Examiner(s): AMINI, JAVID A
• Application Number:
  US10/505,203
• Publication Number:
  US 20050156947A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,159 Days
• Field of Search: 345/629, 345/636
• US Class Current: 345/629
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/109 Font handling; Temporal or kinetic typography
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/12 Overlay of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of switching between the corresponding input pixels

Abstract

This invention is relative with a text displaying terminal unit used for preparation, transmission/reception and display of a text message. A text message entered by a user is collated to a keyword and, if there is a keyword in the text, displaying attributes of the text and/or the background image are added to the text to send the resulting text added by the displaying attributes to a server (400). Alternatively, the server may collate the text to the keyword to add the displaying attributes of the text and/or the background image to the text. A receiving side terminal unit receives an XML document (240b), added by the displaying attributes, from the server to display the XML document added by the displaying attributes as a motion text message. This motion text message may also be provided by the server to the user as the Web information.

Claims

1. A text displaying terminal unit comprising

means for memorizing a table of preset keywords and corresponding preset displaying attributes;

wherein said preset displaying attributes include background information, background movements, and input text movements;

means for receiving an input text;

display means for displaying information corresponding to said input text on a display picture domain;

means for verifying whether or not there exists a keyword in the input text;

means for adding to said input text preset displaying attributes associated with said keyword, if such keyword exists in said table of present keywords;

means for transmitting the information, corresponding to said input text added to by said preset displaying attributes, as a message, over a communication network;

means for receiving said message over said communication network; and

display control means for displaying said message on said display picture domain.

2. The text displaying terminal unit according to claim 1 further comprising means for a user registering the keyword and displaying attributes associated with said keyword in said table.

3. A server connected to a text displaying terminal unit over a communication network, said server comprising

means for memorizing a table of preset keywords and corresponding preset displaying attributes;

wherein said preset displaying attributes include background information, background movements, and input text movements;

means for receiving a text message over said communication network from said text displaying terminal unit;

means for verifying whether or not there exists a keyword in the received text message;

means for adding preset displaying attributes associated with said preset keyword to said text message, if such keyword exists in said table of present keywords; and

means for transmitting a message, corresponding to said text message added to by said preset displaying attributes, to a destination of said text message.

4. The server according to claim 3 further comprising means for accepting registration in said table of a keyword and displaying attributes associated with said keyword, from user to user, over said communication network.

5. A server connected to a text displaying terminal unit over a communication network, said server comprising means for memorizing a table of preset keywords and corresponding preset displaying attributes;

wherein said preset displaying attributes include background information, background movements, and input text movements;

means for receiving a text message over said communication network from said text displaying terminal unit;

means for verifying whether or not there exists a keyword in the received text message;

means for adding preset displaying attributes associated with said preset keyword to said text message, if such keyword exists in said table of present keywords; and

means for accumulating a message, corresponding to said text message added to by said preset displaying attributes, in the form of Web information, so that a user at a destination of said message is able to browse said message.

6. The server according to claim 5 further comprising means for a particular user accepting registration in said table of the keyword and the displaying attributes associated with the keyword over said communication network.