Message forwarding method and electronic device

• US 11,044,219 B2
• Filed: 09/10/2019
• Issued: 06/22/2021
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: Wang, Jun, Liu, Tingji, Li, Han, Chai, Song, Tang, Xucheng, Shan, Yi
• Primary Examiner(s): Chang, Jungwon
• Application Number:
  US16/566,767
• Publication Number:
  US 20200007481A1
• Time in Patent Office: 651 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/06 Message adaptation to terminal or network requirements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/214 using selective forwarding
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/14 Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD]

Abstract

A message forwarding method performed at an electronic device having one or more processors and memory storing a plurality of programs for forwarding messages using an instant messaging application, includes: displaying a dialog box including one or more chat messages associated with a first user account of the instant messaging application; selecting one or more chat messages in the dialog box; obtaining message content and associated information of each selected chat message, the associated information including one or more of: a message sender and a sending time of the chat message, a group name of a group corresponding to the dialog box, identifiers of participants of the group; and forwarding the message content and the associated information of each chat message to a second user account of the instant messaging application.

Claims

1. A method performed at an electronic device having one or more processors and memory storing a plurality of programs for forwarding messages using an instant messaging application, the method comprising:

displaying a dialog box including one or more chat messages associated with a first user account of the instant messaging application;

after detecting a first predefined user selection of a chat message in the dialog box, highlighting the user-selected chat message in the dialog box and displaying a popup window including a multiple-choice option;

after detecting a second predefined user selection of the multiple-choice option in the popup window, setting an attribute of each chat message in the dialog box to be selectable and displaying a forward option in the dialog box;

after detecting a third predefined user selection of at least another one of the one or more chat messages having the selectable attribute, highlighting the at least one of the one or more chat messages in the dialog box along with the user-selected chat message;

after detecting a fourth predefined user selection of the forward option in the dialog box,

generating a combined message by obtaining message content and associated information of each selected chat message, the associated information including one or more of;

a message sender and a sending time of the chat message, a group name of a group corresponding to the dialog box, identifiers of participants of the group; and

forwarding the combined message including the message content and the associated information of each chat message to a second user account of the instant messaging application, wherein the user-selected chat messages in the combined message are to be displayed in a manner similar to that in the dialog box upon a user selection of the combined message.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the operation of forwarding the combined message including the message content and the associated information of each chat message to a second user account of the instant messaging application comprises:

when a combine-and-forward instruction used for instructing to combine and forward the selected chat messages is received, combining the message content of each selected chat message and the associated information corresponding to each chat message to the combined message; and

forwarding the combined message to the second user account of the instant messaging application.

3. The method according to claim 1, the method further comprising:

when a one-by-one-forward instruction used for instructing to forward the selected chat messages one by one is received, for each user-selected chat message, determining the message content and the associated information of the chat message as message content of a to-be-forwarded chat message; and

sequentially forwarding the message content of the determined to-be-forwarded chat message to the second user account of the instant messaging application.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the popup window including the multiple-choice option is displayed when a duration during which a chat message in the dialog box is continuously selected exceeds a preset duration, or a blank area of the dialog box is selected.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the forward option in the dialog box includes a combine-and-forward option and a one-by-one-forward option and the combine-and-forward option is configured to generate the combined message from the user-selected chat messages and forward the combined message to the second user account of the instant messaging application and the one-by-one-forward option is configured to forward the user-selected chat messages to the second user account of the instant messaging application one by one.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the operation of generating a combined message by obtaining message content and associated information of each selected chat message comprises:

for each chat message, adding the message content of the chat message and the associated information of the chat message, as a unit of integrated content, to the combined message.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein a topic name of the combined message comprises user names of two users relating to the dialog box, or the group name of the group corresponding to the dialog box.

8. An electronic device, comprising:

one or more processors;

memory; and

one or more programs stored in the memory, wherein the one or more programs, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the electronic device to perform operations in association with an instant messaging application including;

displaying a dialog box including one or more chat messages associated with a first user account of the instant messaging application;

after detecting a first predefined user selection of a chat message in the dialog box, highlighting the user-selected chat message in the dialog box and displaying a popup window including a multiple-choice option;

after detecting a second predefined user selection of the multiple-choice option in the popup window, setting an attribute of each chat message in the dialog box to be selectable and displaying a forward option in the dialog box;

after detecting a third predefined user selection of at least another one of the one or more chat messages having the selectable attribute, highlighting the at least one of the one or more chat messages in the dialog box along with the user-selected chat message;

after detecting a fourth predefined user selection of the forward option in the dialog box,

generating a combined message by obtaining message content and associated information of each selected chat message, the associated information including one or more of;

a message sender and a sending time of the chat message, a group name of a group corresponding to the dialog box, identifiers of participants of the group; and

forwarding the combined message including the message content and the associated information of each chat message to a second user account of the instant messaging application, wherein the user-selected chat messages in the combined message are to be displayed in a manner similar to that in the dialog box upon a user selection of the combined message.

9. The electronic device according to claim 8, wherein the one or more programs further comprise instructions used for performing the following operations:

when a combine-and-forward instruction used for instructing to combine and forward the selected chat messages is received, combining the message content of each selected chat message and the associated information corresponding to each chat message to the combined message; and

forwarding the combined message to the second user account of the instant messaging application.

10. The electronic device according to claim 8, wherein the one or more programs further comprise instructions used for performing the following operations:

when a one-by-one-forward instruction used for instructing to forward the selected chat messages one by one is received, for each user-selected chat message, determining the message content and the associated information of the chat message as message content of a to-be-forwarded chat message; and

sequentially forwarding the message content of the determined to-be-forwarded chat message to the second user account of the instant messaging application.

11. The electronic device according to claim 8, wherein the popup window including the multiple-choice option is displayed when a duration during which a chat message in the dialog box is continuously selected exceeds a preset duration, or a blank area of the dialog box is selected.

12. The electronic device according to claim 8, wherein the forward option in the dialog box includes a combine-and-forward option and a one-by-one-forward option and the combine-and-forward option is configured to generate the combined message from the user-selected chat messages and forward the combined message to the second user account of the instant messaging application and the one-by-one-forward option is configured to forward the user-selected chat messages to the second user account of the instant messaging application one by one.

13. The electronic device according to claim 8, wherein the operation of generating a combined message by obtaining message content and associated information of each selected chat message comprises:

for each chat message, adding the message content of the chat message and the associated information of the chat message, as a unit of integrated content, to the combined message.

14. The electronic device according to claim 8, wherein a topic name of the combined message comprises user names of two users relating to the dialog box, or the group name of the group corresponding to the dialog box.

15. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing one or more programs in conjunction with an electronic device having one or more processors for forwarding messages using an instant messaging application, wherein the one or more programs, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the electronic device to perform operations including:

displaying a dialog box including one or more chat messages associated with a first user account of the instant messaging application;

after detecting a first predefined user selection of a chat message in the dialog box, highlighting the user-selected chat message in the dialog box and displaying a popup window including a multiple-choice option;

after detecting a second predefined user selection of the multiple-choice option in the popup window, setting an attribute of each chat message in the dialog box to be selectable and displaying a forward option in the dialog box;

after detecting a third predefined user selection of at least another one of the one or more chat messages having the selectable attribute, highlighting the at least one of the one or more chat messages in the dialog box along with the user-selected chat message;

after detecting a fourth predefined user selection of the forward option in the dialog box,

generating a combined message by obtaining message content and associated information of each selected chat message, the associated information including one or more of;

a message sender and a sending time of the chat message, a group name of a group corresponding to the dialog box, identifiers of participants of the group; and

forwarding the combined message including the message content and the associated information of each chat message to a second user account of the instant messaging application, wherein the user-selected chat messages in the combined message are to be displayed in a manner similar to that in the dialog box upon a user selection of the combined message.

16. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 15, wherein the one or more programs further comprise instructions used for performing the following operations:

when a combine-and-forward instruction used for instructing to combine and forward the selected chat messages is received, combining the message content of each selected chat message and the associated information corresponding to each chat message to the combined message; and

forwarding the combined message to the second user account of the instant messaging application.

17. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 15, wherein the one or more programs further comprise instructions used for performing the following operations:

when a one-by-one-forward instruction used for instructing to forward the selected chat messages one by one is received, for each user-selected chat message, determining the message content and the associated information of the chat message as message content of a to-be-forwarded chat message; and

sequentially forwarding the message content of the determined to-be-forwarded chat message to the second user account of the instant messaging application.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 15, wherein the popup window including the multiple-choice option is displayed when a duration during which a chat message in the dialog box is continuously selected exceeds a preset duration, or a blank area of the dialog box is selected.

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 15, wherein the operation of generating a combined message by obtaining message content and associated information of each selected chat message comprises:

for each chat message, adding the message content of the chat message and the associated information of the chat message, as a unit of integrated content, to the combined message.

20. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 15, wherein a topic name of the combined message comprises user names of two users relating to the dialog box, or the group name of the group corresponding to the dialog box.