Method and apparatus for providing reminder based on chat room

• US 10,706,710 B2
• Filed: 10/26/2017
• Issued: 07/07/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Jaeho Choi, Delta Pds Co., Ltd. (Jae-Ho Choi)
• Original Assignee: Delta Pds Co., Ltd. (Jae-Ho Choi)
• Inventors: Choi, Jae Ho
• Primary Examiner(s): Sheleheda, James R
• Application Number:
  US15/794,188
• Publication Number:
  US 20180130334A1
• Time in Patent Office: 985 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1097 Task assignment
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/24 Reminder alarms, e.g. anti-loss alarms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1813 for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms instant messaging H04L51/04; protocols for multimedia communication H04L65/1101; arrangements for multi-party communication H04L65/403; telephonic conference arrangements H04M3/56; television conference systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1827 Network arrangements for conference optimisation or adaptation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/02 using automatic reactions or user delegation, e.g. automatic replies or chatbot-generated messages
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/222 using geographical location information, e.g. messages transmitted or received in proximity of a certain spot or area

Abstract

A method of providing a reminder based on a chat room performed by a chat room based reminder apparatus connected to at least one user terminal, the method including: bringing a message thread corresponding to a chat room related to a user terminal and a to-do item set of at least one to-do item related to the message thread and including a to-do receiver, a to-do provider, to-do contents, a to-do status, and a deadline; generating a reminder set including at least one reminder to-do item satisfying a reminder condition in the to-do item set; generating a reminder message for each of the at least one reminder to-do item; and detecting a time zone of the to-do receiver and delaying to add the reminder message to the message thread to a receivable time of the to-do receiver.

Claims

1. A method of providing a reminder based on a chat room performed by a chat room based reminder apparatus connected to at least one user terminal, the method comprising:

managing a message thread corresponding to a chat room related to a user terminal of the at least one user terminal and a to-do item set including at least one to-do item related to the message thread and comprising a to-do receiver, to-do contents, a to-do status, a to-do provider that provides the to-do item to the to-do receiver, and a deadline;

generating a reminder set comprising at least one reminder to-do item satisfying a reminder condition in the to-do item set;

generating a reminder message for each of the at least one reminder to-do item;

detecting a time zone of the to-do receiver and delaying to add the reminder message to the message thread to a receivable time of the to-do receiver; and

selecting, from among the to-do provider and the to-do receiver and based on the to-do status, a target to which the reminder message is provided,

wherein the to-do status is at least one of a ‘

new’

status, a ‘

doing’

status, a ‘

done’

status, a ‘

confirmation’

status, and a ‘

complete’

status according to an execution status on a processing step of the to-do item,

wherein the reminder message is provided to the to-do receiver based on the selection of the to-do receiver as the target when the to-do status is one of the ‘

new’

status or the ‘

doing’

status, and

wherein the reminder message is provided to the to-do provider based on the selection of the to-do provider as the target when the to-do status is the ‘

done’

status.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the reminder condition is determined based on at least one of the to-do status and the deadline.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the generating of the reminder message comprises determining reminder urgency based on the to-do status and the deadline of each of at least one reminder to-do item satisfying the reminder condition.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the generating of the reminder message comprises determining a generation frequency of the reminder message based on the reminder urgency.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the detecting of the time zone comprises detecting the time zone based on a local time of a user terminal related to the to-do receiver, when a fixing request of the time zone received from the to-do receiver is not determined, and detecting the time zone based on the fixing request, when a fixing request of the time zone received from the to-do receiver is determined.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating of the reminder message comprises updating the reminder set based on the detected time zone of the to-do receiver.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the detecting of the time zone comprises detecting a time zone of a to-do provider, when a to-do status of the reminder to-do item is a complete status, and delaying to add the reminder message to a message thread to a receivable time of the to-do provider.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the detecting of the time zone comprises detecting the time zones of each of at least two to-do receivers and delaying to add the reminder message to the message thread to an intersection time of receivable times of the two to-do receivers, when the at least two to-do receivers are at least two persons and when the at least two to-do receivers are related to the same chat room.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the detecting of the time zone comprises delaying to add the corresponding reminder message to the message thread to a receivable time of a preferentially designated to-do receiver among the at least two to-do receivers, when the intersection time is not determined.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating of the reminder message comprises providing today to-do based on the at least one reminder to-do item to the user terminal, the today to-do including a list of the at least one reminder to-do item.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the generating of the reminder message comprises generating the reminder message comprising a status change button that changes summary information and the to-do status of each of the at least one reminder to-do item to a next to-do status.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the managing of the message thread comprises calculating a to-do processing speed based on a providing number of a reminder message already added to the message thread of each of the at least one to-do item and comprising the to-do processing speed in the to-do item.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the managing of the message thread comprises calculating an average to-do processing speed based on at least one to-do item in which at least one member is related as a to-do provider among the to-do item sets and providing the average to-do processing speed to the user terminal, when a to-do processing speed providing request related to a user and comprising at least one member is received from the user terminal.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

detecting a time zone of a to-do receiver and delaying to add a to-do item to a message thread to a receivable time of the to-do receiver, when the user terminal requests addition of a specific to-do item to a specific message thread corresponding to a chat room related to the user terminal.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the reminder message is not provided to the to-do provider and not provided to the to-do receiver based on the selection of neither of the to-do provider and the to-do receiver as the target when the to-do status is the ‘

confirmation’

status.

16. A chat room based reminder apparatus, comprising:

circuitry configured to;

manage a message thread corresponding to a chat room related to a user terminal and a to-do item set including at least one to-do item related to the message thread and comprising a to-do receiver, to-do contents, a to-do status, a to-do provider that provides the to-do item to the to-do receiver, and a deadline;

generate a reminder set comprising at least one reminder to-do item satisfying a reminder condition at the to-do item set;

generate a reminder message of each of the at least one reminder to-do item;

detect a time zone of the to-do receiver and that delays to add the reminder message to the message thread to a receivable time of the to-do receiver; and

select, from among the to-do provider and the to-do receiver and based on the to-do status, a target to which the reminder message is provided,

wherein the to-do status is at least one of a ‘

new’

status, a ‘

doing’

status, a ‘

done’

status, a ‘

confirmation’

status, and a ‘

complete’

status according to an execution status on a processing step of the to-do item,

wherein the reminder message is provided to the to-do receiver based on the selection of the to-do receiver as the target when the to-do status is one of the ‘

new’

status or the ‘

doing’

status, and

wherein the reminder message is provided to the to-do provider based on the selection of the to-do provider as the target when the to-do status is the ‘

done’

status.