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Server device for exchanging messages

  • US 9,819,503 B2
  • Filed: 08/07/2013
  • Issued: 11/14/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/07/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A server apparatus for controlling a message exchanged between registered users who are registered in a chatting service and controlling a message exchanged between a registered user and an unregistered user, the server apparatus comprising:

  • a server memory configured to upload and manage user information of users other than registered users stored in user terminals of the respective registered users;

    a friend list management unit configured to manage a friend list of the registered user in the server memory;

    a suggest unit configured to determine other user to be added to the friend list with respect to the registered user; and

    a control unit configured to notify the other user determined by the suggest unit to the user terminal of the registered user, wherein the suggest unit determines the other user to be recommended to the registered user among the user information managed in the server memory by using a predetermined condition set according to presence or absence of registration in the chatting service;

    wherein when an unregistered user who is not registered in the chatting service and user information of the unregistered user are included in user information uploaded from the registered user, the suggest unit determines the unregistered user as other user to be recommended to the registered user;

    wherein when unregistered user information of the unregistered user is included in the user information uploaded from the registered user and mobile contact information is included in the unregistered user information, the suggest unit determines the unregistered user as other user to be recommended to the registered user;

    wherein the chatting service is an application configured to facilitate real time chat for a mobile terminal, and wherein the server apparatus is configured to exchange messages between a mobile terminal of the registered user and a mobile terminal of the unregistered user in real time, wherein the server apparatus is configured to retrieve mobile contact information of the unregistered user from the registered user; and

    the server apparatus further comprising;

    a group setting unit configured to set a plurality of groups each having particular characteristic; and

    a group management unit configured to manage the groups by associating groups selected by the registered user among the plurality of groups set by the group setting unit with the registered user, wherein when a user is registered in the chatting service and the user and the registered user are associated in the same group managed by the group management unit, the suggest unit determines the user as other user to be recommended to the registered user.

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