MESSAGE PROVIDING METHODS AND APPARATUSES, DISPLAY CONTROL METHODS AND APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUMS STORING COMPUTER PROGRAMS FOR EXECUTING METHODS

• US 20170118152A1
• Filed: 06/17/2016
• Published: 04/27/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LY Corp. (A Holdings Corp.), Z Intermediate Global Corporation
• Original Assignee: LINE Corporation (A Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: LEE, Il Gu
• Granted Patent: US 10,693,822 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/345 Summarisation for human users
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0485 Scrolling or panning
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/279 Recognition of textual entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/04 Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/18 Commands or executable codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/212 using filtering or selective blocking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/216 Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers

Abstract

A message providing method includes: extracting a keyword from a message; searching a list of messages to extract a related message associated with the keyword, the messages communicated between a user and a conversational partner or between the user and a third party; and linking the related message to the keyword by a hyperlink.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to perform a message providing method comprising:

extracting a keyword from a message;

searching a list of messages to extract a related message associated with the keyword, the messages communicated between a user and a conversational partner or between the user or the conversational partner and a third party; and

linking the related message to the keyword by a hyperlink.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein

the message is a summary message;

and

the extracting of a keyword includes,

receiving, from a user terminal, identification information of one or more messages from among the list of messages,

summarizing the one or more messages based on the identification information to generate the summary message, and

extracting the keyword from the summary message.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein the message providing method further comprises:

linking the related message to the keyword extracted from the summary message to provide the summary message to the user terminal.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 3, wherein the message providing method further comprises:

receiving a correction of the summary message from the user terminal.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 3, wherein the message providing method further comprises:

receiving a message transmission request signal from the user terminal; and

transmitting the summary message including the hyperlink to another user terminal in response to the message transmission request signal.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 2, wherein the message providing method further comprises:

providing the summary message to the user terminal.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed on processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to perform a display control method comprising:

receiving a message containing at least one keyword, the at least one keyword linked to a first related message associated with the at least one keyword by a first hyperlink;

displaying the message on a screen; and

displaying the first related message in response to activation of the first hyperlink,

wherein the a first related message is extracted from a list of messages communicated between a sender of the message and a user or between the sender or the user and a third party.

8. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the displaying the first related message comprises:

scrolling, when the first related message is written by the sender of the message or the user, to a part where the first related message is present in a graphic user interface (GUI) in which a conversation has been made between the sender of the message and the user; and

highlighting the first related message.

9. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 8, wherein the displaying the first related message comprises:

displaying, on the GUI, remaining messages other than the first related message among the messages between the sender and the user, so that the remaining messages are distinct from the first related message.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the method further comprises:

performing at least one of blurring, black and white processing, and fading on the remaining messages so that the remaining messages are distinct from the first related message.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the displaying the first related message comprises:

displaying a pop-up window including the first related message.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein the displaying the first related message comprises:

sequentially displaying a plurality of related messages in order of a plurality of associated keywords in the message.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 7, wherein

the first related message includes a second hyperlink;

and

the method further includes displaying a second related message linked by the second hyperlink.

14. A message providing apparatus comprising:

processing circuitry configured to execute computer-readable instructions such that the processing circuitry is configured to

extract a keyword from a message;

search a list of messages to extract a related message associated with the keyword, the messages communicated between a user and a conversational partner or between the user or the conversational partner and a third party; and

link the related message to the keyword by a hyperlink.

15. The message providing apparatus of claim 14, wherein

the message is a summary message;

and

the processing circuitry is configured to execute computer-readable instructions such that the processing circuitry is further configured to

receive, from a user terminal, identification information of one or more messages from among the list of messages;

summarize the one or more messages based on the identification information to generate a summary message; and

extract a keyword contained in the summary message.

16. The message providing apparatus of claim 15, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to execute computer-readable instructions such that the processing circuitry is further configured to provide the summary message to the user terminal.

17. The message providing apparatus of claim 16, further comprising:

a receiver configured to receive a correction of the summary message from the user terminal.

18. The message providing apparatus of claim 17, wherein

the receiver is further configured to receive a message transmission request signal from the user terminal;

and

the processing circuitry is configured to execute computer-readable instructions such that the processing circuitry is further configured to transmit the summary message including the hyperlink to another user terminal in response to the message transmission request signal.

19. A display control apparatus comprising:

a receiver configured to receive a message containing at least one keyword, the at least one keyword linked to a related message associated with the at least one keyword by a hyperlink; and

processing circuitry configured to execute computer-readable instructions such that the processing circuitry is configured to

display the message on a screen, and

display the related message in response to activation of the hyperlink by a user, the related message having been extracted from a list of messages communicated between a sender of the message and a user or between the sender or the user and a third party.

20. A message providing method comprising:

extracting a keyword from a message;

searching a list of messages to extract a related message associated with the keyword, the messages communicated between a user and a conversational partner or between the user and a third party; and

linking the related message to the keyword by a hyperlink.

21. A display control method comprising:

receiving a message containing at least one keyword, the at least one keyword linked to a related message associated with the at least one keyword by a hyperlink;

displaying the message on a screen; and

displaying the related message in response to activation of the hyperlink,

wherein the related message is extracted from a list of messages communicated between a sender of the message and a user or between the sender or the user and a third party.