Method for transmitting/receiving message and electronic device thereof

• US 10,234,951 B2
• Filed: 06/03/2013
• Issued: 03/19/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 08/16/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Hyung-Jin
• Primary Examiner(s): Ell, Matthew
• Assistant Examiner(s): El Seoud, Mohamed Abou
• Application Number:
  US13/908,222
• Publication Number:
  US 20140053082A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,115 Days
• Field of Search: 715753
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/42 Mailbox-related aspects, e.g. synchronisation of mailboxes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7243 with interactive means for internal management of messages

Abstract

An apparatus and a method for transmitting/receiving a message in an electronic device are provided. The method includes displaying a plurality of dialog windows are displayed, receiving a message via an input window, selecting at least one dialog window among the plurality of dialog windows, and transmitting the message to at least one of the plurality of dialog windows.

Claims

1. A method for transmitting/receiving a message in an electronic device, the method comprising:

displaying a first dialog window executed by a first message program on the electronic device;

receiving, while the first dialog window is displayed, an event for executing a second message program on the electronic device, the second message program different from the first message program;

displaying the first dialog window, a second dialog window executed by the second message program, and an input window of a message integration program on the electronic device, wherein the message integration program is different from the first message program and the second message program;

receiving a message input into the input window;

receiving a single gesture for selecting at least one dialog window among the first dialog window and the second dialog window and for transmitting the received message to the selected dialog window or windows after the message is received, the single gesture being received on the input window; and

selecting at least one dialog window among the first dialog window and the second dialog window based on a direction of the single gesture toward the first dialog window, the second dialog window, or to both the first dialog window and the second dialog window on the message integration program and transmitting the received message to the selected dialog window or windows,

wherein the message integration program is configured to transmit the message, based on the single gesture, to a first user of the first message program via the first dialog window, to a second user of the second message program via the second dialog window, and to both the first user and the second user via the first dialog window and the second dialog window respectively,

wherein the method further comprises;

detecting a gesture on one of the first dialog window or the second dialog window, and changing a corresponding dialog window where the gesture has been detected to another dialog window based on a direction of the gesture for the corresponding dialog window; and

detecting a gesture on both the first dialog window and the second dialog window, and scrolling a screen comprising the first dialog window and the second dialog window based on a direction of the gesture detected on the first dialog window and the second dialog window.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying of the first dialog window and the second dialog window comprises:

displaying the first dialog window for providing a first object and a message service using the first message program, when the second dialog window display event for providing a second object and a message service using the second message program occurs, reducing and displaying the first dialog window; and

displaying the first dialog window and the second dialog window.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying of the first dialog window and the second dialog window comprises:

obtaining display data from applications of the first dialog window and the second dialog window; and

displaying the first dialog window and the second dialog window based on the display data.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

when a magnify event for one of the first dialog window and the second dialog window occurs, magnifying and displaying the corresponding dialog window,

wherein when a reduce event for the corresponding magnified dialog window occurs, a process for displaying the first dialog window and the second dialog window is performed.

5. An electronic device comprising:

at least one processor;

at least one touchscreen;

a memory; and

at least one program stored in the memory and configured for being executable by the at least one processor,

wherein the program comprises at least one instruction, which, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform a method including;

displaying a first dialog window executed by a first message program on the electronic device,

receiving, while the first dialog window is displayed, an event for executing a second message program on the electronic device, the second message program different from the first message program,

displaying the first dialog window, a second dialog window executed by the second message program, and an input window of a message integration program on the electronic device, wherein the message integration program is different from the first message program and the second message program,

receiving a message input into the input window displayed on the touchscreen,

receiving a single gesture for selecting at least one dialog window among the first dialog window and the second dialog window and for transmitting the received message to the selected dialog window or windows after the message is received, the single gesture being received on the input window, and

selecting at least one dialog window among the first dialog window and the second dialog window according to a direction of the single gesture toward the first dialog window, the second dialog window, or both the first dialog window and the second dialog window on the message integration program and transmitting the received message to the selected dialog window or windows,

wherein the message integration program is configured to transmit the message, based on the single gesture, to a first user of the first message program via the first dialog window, to a second user of the second message program via the second dialog window, and to both the first user and the second user via the first dialog window and the second dialog window respectively,

wherein the at least one processor further executes an instruction for;

detecting a gesture on one of the first dialog window or the second dialog window, and changing a corresponding dialog window where the gesture has been detected to another dialog window based on a direction of the gesture for the corresponding dialog window; and

detecting a gesture on both the first dialog window and the second dialog window, and scrolling a screen comprising the first dialog window and the second dialog window based on a direction of the gesture detected on the first dialog window and the second dialog window.

6. The electronic device of claim 5, wherein an instruction for displaying the first dialog window and the second dialog window comprises:

displaying the first dialog window for providing a first object and a message service using the first message program, when the second dialog window display event for providing a second object and a message service using a second message program occurs, reducing and displaying the first dialog window; and

displaying the first dialog window and the second dialog window.

7. The electronic device of claim 5, wherein the instruction for displaying the first dialog window and the second dialog window comprises:

obtaining display data from applications of the first dialog window and the second dialog window; and

displaying the first dialog window and the second dialog window using the display data.

8. The electronic device of claim 5,

wherein the at least one processor further executes an instruction for, when a magnify event for one of the first dialog window and the second dialog window occurs, magnifying and displaying the corresponding dialog window, and

wherein when a reduce event for the corresponding magnified dialog window occurs, the first dialog window and the second dialog window are displayed.