Group messaging system and method for providing file sharing through bidirectional interlock with a cloud server

• US 9,240,962 B2
• Filed: 02/01/2013
• Issued: 01/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/01/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NHN Corporation
• Original Assignee: NHN Corporation
• Inventors: Jung, Jeanie
• Primary Examiner(s): Golabbakhsh, Ebrahim
• Application Number:
  US13/757,170
• Publication Number:
  US 20130198304A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,082 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1818 Conference organisation arrangements, e.g. handling schedules, setting up parameters needed by nodes to attend a conference, booking network resources, notifying involved parties
• 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 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a group messaging system for providing file sharing through bidirectional interlock with a cloud server, including: a messenger server receiving information requesting creation of a group chatting room including group members and instructing user terminals of the respective group members to create the group chatting room; and a cloud server interlocking with the messenger server, receiving information about the creation of the group chatting room from the messenger server, and creating a sharing group mapped to the group chatting room in a one-to-one scheme.

Claims

1. A group messaging system comprising:

a messenger server configured to receive a request to create a group chatting room for messenger group members, configured to create the group chatting room in the messenger server, and configured to instruct at least one user terminal corresponding to one or more of the messenger group members to create a group chatting window in the at least one user terminal; and

a cloud server configured to interlock with the messenger server, configured to receive information about the creation of the group chatting room from the messenger server, and configured to create a cloud sharing group mapped to the group chatting room in a one-to-one scheme,

wherein the messenger server is configured to receive from the cloud server activity information relating to a file in the cloud server, and

wherein when the cloud server receives a request to create a cloud sharing group from a user terminal in communication with the cloud server, the cloud server transmits, to the messenger server, information related to the cloud sharing group created by the cloud server in response to the request from the user terminal, and the messenger server creates the group chatting room mapped to the cloud sharing group created in response to the request from the user terminal.

2. The group messaging system of claim 1, wherein the cloud server is configured to receive the file through the group chatting window in the at least one user terminal corresponding to one or more of the messenger group members, and to store the file in a sharing group folder corresponding to the cloud sharing group of the cloud server.

3. The group messaging system of claim 2, wherein the cloud server is configured to grant authority to access the file stored in the sharing group folder to cloud sharing members of the cloud sharing group.

4. The group messaging system of claim 2, wherein the cloud server is configured to transmit the activity information relating to the file stored in the sharing group folder to the messenger server.

5. The group messaging system of claim 4, wherein the at least one user terminal corresponding to one or more of the messenger group members is configured to display the activity information in the group chatting window.

6. The group messaging system of claim 4, wherein the activity information comprises one or more of registering of the file, reading of the file, modifying of the file, registering of a reply to the file, and granting of an evaluation mark for the file.

19. The group messaging system of claim 1, further comprising a network connecting the messenger server and the cloud server,

wherein the interlock comprises bidirectional interlocking implemented over the network.

20. The group messaging system of claim 2, wherein the file is synchronized between the cloud server and the user terminal corresponding to one or more of the messenger group members.

7. A messenger server in a group messaging system, comprising:

a group chatting room managing unit configured to receive a request to create a group chatting room for messenger group members, configured to create the group chatting room, and configured to instruct at least one user terminal corresponding to one or more of the messenger group members to create a group chatting window in the at least one user terminal;

a storage configured to store the group chatting room and the messenger group members;

a cloud server interlock processing module configured to interlock with a cloud server, and configured to request the cloud server to create a cloud sharing group mapped to the created group chatting room in a one-to-one scheme, when the group chatting room is created through the group chatting room managing unit; and

a group activity notifying unit configured to receive from the cloud server activity information relating to a file stored in the cloud server,

wherein when the cloud server receives a request to create a cloud sharing group from a user terminal in communication with the cloud server, the cloud server interlock processing module is further configured to receive information related to the cloud sharing group created by the cloud server in response to the request from the user terminal, and the group chatting room managing unit is further configured to create a group chatting room mapped to the cloud sharing group created in response to the request from the user terminal.

8. The messenger server of claim 7, further comprising a file sharing processing unit configured to store the file in a sharing group folder corresponding to the cloud sharing group of the cloud server, when the file is uploaded through the group chatting window.

9. The messenger server of claim 8, wherein the group activity notifying unit is configured to receive the activity information for the file stored in the sharing group folder from the cloud server and configured to process the activity information so as to display the activity information in the group chatting window.

10. The messenger server of claim 9, wherein the activity information comprises one or more of registering of the file, reading of the file, modifying of the file, registering of a reply to the file, and granting of an evaluation mark for the file.

11. The messenger server of claim 7, further comprising a cloud server accessing unit configured to access the cloud server through the created group chatting window.

21. The messenger server of claim 7, further comprising a network connecting the messenger server and the cloud server,

wherein the interlock comprises bidirectional interlocking implemented over the network.

22. The messenger server of claim 8, wherein the file is synchronized between the cloud server and the user terminal corresponding to one or more of the messenger group members.

12. A cloud server in a group messaging system, comprising:

a group sharing folder managing unit configured to create a cloud sharing group according to a request from a user terminal, wherein the user terminal corresponds to one of a cloud sharing members of the cloud sharing group;

a storage configured to store files accessible by the cloud sharing group; and

a messenger server interlock processing module configured to interlock with a messenger server, and configured to request the messenger server to create a group chatting room mapped to the cloud sharing group, in response to a request received from the user terminal, in a one-to-one scheme, when the cloud sharing group is created through the group sharing folder managing unit.

13. A group messaging method performed by a messenger server, the group messaging method comprising:

receiving a request to create a group chatting room for messenger group members;

creating the group chatting room in the messenger server;

instructing at least one user terminal corresponding to one or more of the messenger group members to create a group chatting window;

interlocking with a cloud server and requesting the cloud server to create a cloud sharing group mapped to the group chatting room in a one-to-one scheme;

receiving from the cloud server activity information relating to a file stored in the cloud server;

receiving information related to a cloud sharing group created by the cloud server, the cloud sharing group being created in response to a request from a user terminal in communication with the cloud server; and

creating the group chatting room mapped to the cloud sharing group created in response to the request from the user terminal.

14. The group messaging method of claim 13, further comprising:

receiving in the group chatting room a file uploaded by a user terminal; and

transmitting the file to be stored in a sharing group folder corresponding to the cloud sharing group of the cloud server.

15. The group messaging method of claim 13, wherein the messenger server receives the activity information for the file stored in the sharing group folder from the cloud server and the activity information is displayed on the group chatting window.

16. The group messaging method of claim 15, wherein the activity information comprises one or more of registering of the file, reading of the file, modifying of the file, registering of a reply to the file, and granting of an evaluation mark for the file.

17. A group messaging method performed by a user terminal in communication with a messenger server, the group messaging method comprising:

receiving information related to creation of a group chatting room including messenger group members from the messenger server and creating a group chatting window based on the information; and

receiving selection of a file and uploading the selected file through the group chatting window,

wherein the uploaded file is stored in a sharing group folder corresponding to a cloud sharing group of a cloud server, wherein the cloud sharing group and the group chatting room are mapped in a one-to-one scheme, and

wherein when activity information for the file stored in the sharing group folder is generated, the activity information is received and displayed on the created group chatting window,

wherein when the cloud server receives a request to create a cloud sharing group from the user terminal in communication with the cloud server, the cloud server transmits information related to the cloud sharing group created by the cloud server in response to the request from the user terminal, and the messenger server creates the group chatting room mapped to the cloud sharing group created in response to the request from the user terminal.

18. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing an executable program which, when executed, instructs a messenger server in a group messaging system to perform the method comprising:

receiving, at the messenger server, a request to create a group chatting room for messenger group members;

creating the group chatting room in the messenger server;

instructing at least one user terminal corresponding to one or more of the messenger group members to create the group chatting window in the user terminal;

interlocking with a cloud server and requesting the cloud server to create a cloud sharing group mapped to the group chatting room in a one-to-one scheme;

receiving from the cloud server activity information relating to a file stored in the cloud server;

receiving information related to a cloud sharing group created by the cloud server, the cloud sharing group being created in response to a request from a user terminal in communication with the cloud server; and

creating the group chatting room mapped to the cloud sharing group created in response to the request from the user terminal.