JP2024009091A - Program, information processing method, and terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a new technology related to a chat service.

SOLUTION: A program to be executed by a terminal includes: displaying a first chat room including a user of the terminal on a display unit of the terminal; moving from the first chat room displayed on the display unit to a second chat room, and displaying first information about displaying the second chat room on the display unit, on the display unit; and causing a control unit of the terminal to execute first processing on displaying the second chat room, on the basis of an input to the terminal on which the first information is displayed.

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COPYRIGHT: (C)2024,JPO&INPIT

Description

The present disclosure relates to programs, information processing methods, terminals, and the like.

In recent years, opportunities for users to use chat services such as messaging services using terminals such as smartphones and personal computers have increased. For example, Patent Document 1 discloses a technology related to a messaging service.

Japanese Patent Application Publication No. 2014-160467

According to the first aspect of the present invention, a program to be executed by a terminal is configured to display a first chat room including a user of the terminal on a display section of the terminal, and to display a first chat room including a user of the terminal on a display section of the terminal; displaying on the display a first display related to moving to a second chat room and displaying the second chat room on the display; The terminal performs a first process related to the display by the control unit of the terminal.
According to a second aspect of the present invention, an information processing method for a terminal includes displaying a first chat room including a user of the terminal on a display section of the terminal, and a second chat room from the first chat room displayed on the display section. displaying on the display a first display related to moving to the chat room and displaying the second chat room on the display; and displaying the second chat room based on input to the terminal on which the first display was displayed. This includes performing a first process related to the above process by the control unit of the terminal.
According to a third aspect of the invention, the terminal displays a first chat room containing a user of the terminal, moves from the displayed first chat room to a second chat room, and displays the second chat room. and a control section that performs a first process regarding display of the second chat room based on an input to the terminal on which the first display is displayed.
According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the terminal includes a processor that reads a program stored in a storage unit and executes processing based on the program, and the processor displays a first chat room including a user of the terminal on a display of the terminal. displaying on the display a first display regarding moving from the first chat room displayed on the display to a second chat room and displaying the second chat room on the display; Based on the input to the terminal on which the first display is displayed, a first process related to displaying the second chat room is performed.

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example of a system configuration of a communication system in one aspect of an embodiment. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of functions realized by the control unit of the server according to the first embodiment. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of information stored in a storage unit of the server according to the first embodiment. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of user registration data according to the first embodiment. The figure which shows an example of friend registration data based on 1st Example. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of functions realized by the control unit of the terminal according to the first embodiment. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of information stored in a storage unit of the terminal according to the first embodiment. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a talk room pattern table according to the first embodiment. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the display unit of the terminal according to the first embodiment. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the display unit of the terminal according to the first embodiment. 5 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the flow of processing executed by the terminal according to the first embodiment. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a table for determining destination talk room candidates according to the second embodiment. FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen displayed on a display unit of a terminal according to a second embodiment. FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen displayed on a display unit of a terminal according to a second embodiment. FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen displayed on a display unit of a terminal according to a second embodiment. 7 is a flowchart showing an example of the flow of processing executed by the terminal according to the second embodiment. 7 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the flow of processing executed by each device according to the second modification. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a talk room information display condition table according to the third embodiment. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on a display unit of a terminal according to a third embodiment. 10 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the flow of processing executed by a terminal according to a third embodiment. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a talk room information display/deletion condition table according to the fourth embodiment. 12 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the flow of processing executed by a terminal according to a fourth embodiment. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on a display unit of a terminal according to a fifth embodiment. 12 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the flow of processing executed by a terminal according to a fifth embodiment. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on a display unit of a terminal according to a sixth embodiment. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on a display unit of a terminal according to a sixth embodiment. 10 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the flow of processing executed by a terminal according to a sixth embodiment. The figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of the terminal based on the 6th modification. FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on a display unit of a terminal according to a seventh embodiment. The figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of the terminal based on the 7th modification. The figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part of the terminal based on the 7th modification. A diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the display unit of a terminal according to the eighth embodiment

<System configuration>
FIG. 1-1 is a diagram showing an example of the system configuration of the communication system 1 in this embodiment.
In the communication system 1, by way of example and not limitation, a server 10 and one or more terminals 20 (terminal 20A, terminal 20B, terminal 20C, . . . ) are connected via a network 30.

The server 10 has the ability to provide a messaging service, which is an example of a chat service, by way of example and not limitation, to a terminal 20 owned by a user via the network 30. Server 10 may also be referred to as a messaging server, messaging service server, or the like. In this embodiment, by way of example and not limitation, the user of server 10 is a messaging service provider.
Note that the number of servers 10 and the number of terminals 20 connected to the network 30 are not limited.

The terminals 20 (terminal 20A, terminal 20B, terminal 20C, . . . ) may be any information processing terminal that can implement the functions described in each embodiment. Terminal 20 may include, by way of example and not limitation, a smartphone, a mobile phone (feature phone), a computer (by way of example and not limitation, a desktop, laptop, tablet, etc.), a media computer platform (by way of example and not limitation, a cable, satellite set, etc.). top boxes, digital video recorders), handheld computing devices (by way of example and not limitation, personal digital assistants, e-mail clients, etc.), wearable terminals (glass-like devices, watch-like devices, etc.), VR (Virtual Reality) including a terminal, smart speaker (speech recognition device), or other type of computer or communication platform. Further, the terminal 20 may be expressed as an information processing terminal.

By way of example and not limitation, the configurations of terminal 20A, terminal 20B, and terminal 20C may be the same. Furthermore, if necessary, the terminal used by user X may be expressed as terminal 20X, and the user information in a predetermined service associated with user You don't have to.
Note that the user information is user information associated with an account used by the user in a predetermined service. User information includes, by way of example and not limitation, the user's name, the user's icon image, the user's age, the user's gender, the user's address, and the user's hobbies, entered by the user or provided by a predetermined service. It includes information associated with the user such as preferences and user identifiers, and may be any one or a combination of these, or may not be the same.

The network 30 plays a role of connecting one or more terminals 20 and one or more servers 10. That is, the network 30 refers to a communication network that provides a connection path so that the various devices described above can transmit and receive data after being connected.

One or more portions of network 30 may or may not be a wired network or a wireless network. Network 30 may include, by way of example and not limitation, an ad hoc network, an intranet, an extranet, a virtual private network (VPN), a local area network (LAN), a wireless LAN (wireless LAN: WLAN), wide area network (WAN), wireless WAN (WWAN), metropolitan area network (MAN), part of the Internet, public switched telephone network (Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), mobile phone network, ISDN (integrated service digital networks), wireless LAN, LTE (long term evolution), CDMA (code division multiple access), Bluetooth (registered trademark), satellite communication, etc., or a combination of two or more of these. Network 30 may include one or more networks 30.

The server 10 (not limited to, but an example of a server, an information processing device, or an information management device) has a function of providing a predetermined service (messaging service in the embodiment described below) to the terminal 20. The server 10 may be any information processing device that can implement the functions described in each embodiment. Server 10 may include, by way of example and not limitation, a server device, a computer (such as, by way of example and not limitation, a desktop, laptop, tablet, etc.), a media computer platform (by way of example and not limitation, a cable, satellite set-top box, digital video recorder, etc.). ), handheld computing devices (by way of example and not limitation, PDAs, email clients, etc.), or other types of computers or communication platforms. Further, the server 10 may be expressed as an information processing device. If there is no need to distinguish between the server 10 and the terminal 20, the server 10 and the terminal 20 may or may not be each expressed as an information processing device.

[Hardware (HW) configuration of each device]
The HW configuration of each device included in the communication system 1 will be explained.

(1) HW configuration of terminal FIG. 1-1 shows an example of the HW configuration of the terminal 20.
The terminal 20 includes a control section 21 (CPU: central processing unit), a storage section 28, a communication I/F 22 (interface), an input/output section 23, a clock section 29A, and a position calculation information detection section 29B. . Each component of the HW of terminal 20 is interconnected via bus B, by way of example and not limitation. Note that it is not essential that the HW configuration of the terminal 20 includes all the components. By way of example and not limitation, terminal 20 may or may not be configured to have individual components or components removed.

The communication I/F 22 transmits and receives various data via the network 30. Communication may be performed by wire or wirelessly, and any communication protocol may be used as long as mutual communication can be performed. The communication I/F 22 has a function of communicating with various devices such as the server 10 via the network 30. The communication I/F 22 transmits various data to various devices such as the server 10 according to instructions from the control unit 21. Furthermore, the communication I/F 22 receives various data transmitted from various devices such as the server 10 and transmits the received data to the control unit 21 . Moreover, the communication I/F 22 may be simply expressed as a communication section. In addition, when the communication I/F 22 is composed of a physically structured circuit, it may be expressed as a communication circuit.

The input/output unit 23 includes a device for inputting various operations to the terminal 20, a device for outputting processing results processed by the terminal 20, and the like. In the input/output section 23, the input section and the output section may be integrated, or may be separated into an input section and an output section, or may not be.

The input unit is realized by any one or a combination of all types of devices that can receive input from the user and transmit information related to the input to the control unit 21. The input unit includes, by way of example and not limitation, a touch panel, a touch display, hardware keys such as a keyboard, a pointing device such as a mouse, a camera (operation input via moving images), and a microphone (operation input via voice).

The output unit is realized by any one of all types of devices capable of outputting the processing results processed by the control unit 21 or a combination thereof. Output units include, by way of example and not limitation, a touch panel, a touch display, a speaker (audio output), a lens (including, by way of non-limiting example, three dimensions output or hologram output), a printer, and the like.

Although this is just an example, the input/output section 23 includes a display section 24, a sound input section 25, a sound output section 26, and an imaging section 27, by way of example and not limitation.

The display unit 24 is realized by any one or a combination of all types of devices capable of displaying data according to the display data written in the frame buffer. The display unit 24 may include, by way of example and not limitation, a touch panel, a touch display, a monitor (including, but not limited to, a liquid crystal display or an OELD (organic electroluminescence display)), a head mounted display (HDM), a projection mapping, and a hologram. , devices capable of displaying images, text information, etc. in air (which may or may not be a vacuum). Note that these display units 24 may or may not be capable of displaying display data in 3D.

The sound input unit 25 is used for inputting sound data (including audio data; the same applies hereinafter). The sound input section 25 includes a microphone and the like.
The sound output section 26 is used to output sound data. The sound output unit 26 includes a speaker and the like.
The imaging unit 27 is used to obtain image data (including still image data and moving image data; the same applies hereinafter). The imaging unit 27 includes a camera and the like.

When the input/output unit 23 is a touch panel, the input/output unit 23 and the display unit 24 may have substantially the same size and shape and may be disposed facing each other.

The clock unit 29A is a built-in clock of the terminal 20, and outputs time information (timekeeping information). The clock section 29A includes, by way of example and not limitation, a clock using a crystal oscillator. The clock section 29A can also be expressed as a clock section or a time information detection section, by way of example and not limitation.

Note that the clock unit 29A may or may not have a clock to which the NITZ (Network Identity and Time Zone) standard or the like is applied.

The position calculation information detection unit 29B has a function of detecting (measuring) information (hereinafter referred to as “position calculation information”) necessary for the control unit 21 to calculate (measure) the position of its own terminal 20. Department. The position calculation information detection unit 29B can also be expressed as a position calculation sensor unit, by way of example and not limitation.

The position calculation information detection unit 29B includes, by way of example and not limitation, a satellite positioning sensor (satellite positioning sensor) which is a sensor or unit for calculating the position of the terminal 20 using a satellite positioning system such as GPS (Global Positioning System). unit), an inertial measurement sensor (IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit)) which is a sensor or unit for calculating the position of the terminal 20 using an inertial navigation system, and UWB (Ultra Wide Wireless). This includes a UWB positioning sensor (UWB positioning unit), which is a sensor or unit for calculating the position of the terminal 20 using the UWB band.

The satellite positioning unit includes, by way of example and not limitation, an RF receiving circuit that converts an RF (Radio Frequency) signal including a positioning satellite signal transmitted from a positioning satellite received by an antenna (not shown) into a digital signal; A positioning satellite signal is captured by performing correlation calculation processing on the digital signal output from the RF receiving circuit, and information such as satellite orbit data and time data extracted from the positioning satellite signal is used as position calculation information. It has a baseband processing circuit etc. for output.

The inertial measurement unit has an inertial sensor that is a sensor that detects information necessary for calculating the position of the terminal 20 by inertial navigation calculation. Inertial sensors include, by way of example and not limitation, a 3-axis acceleration sensor and a 3-axis gyro sensor, and use the acceleration detected by the acceleration sensor and the angular velocity detected by the gyro sensor as position calculation information. Output.

By way of example and not limitation, the UWB positioning unit is an ultra-wideband RF (Radio Frequency) signal that converts into a digital signal an ultra-wideband RF (Radio Frequency) signal including an ultra-wideband pulse signal for positioning transmitted from a positioning beacon that is received by an antenna (not shown). It includes a relative position calculation processing circuit that calculates the relative position between the terminal 20 and the positioning beacon based on the digital signal output from the wideband RF reception circuit and the ultra-wideband RF reception circuit.
Note that, by way of example and not limitation, the UWB positioning unit may cause the terminal 20 to function as a positioning beacon by transmitting an ultra-wideband RF signal including an ultra-wideband pulse signal for positioning from an antenna (not shown). You don't have to do that.

By way of example and not limitation, the control unit 21 calculates the position of its own terminal 20 at regular timing or at a specific timing based on the position calculation information detected by the position calculation information detection unit 29B. The position of a terminal is referred to as a "terminal position", and the calculated terminal position is referred to as a "calculated terminal position". The control unit 21 may or may not store the calculated terminal position in the storage unit 28 as calculated terminal position history data in association with the date and time when the calculated terminal position was calculated.

The control unit 21 has a physically structured circuit for executing functions realized by codes or instructions included in a program, and includes, by way of example and not limitation, a data processing device built into hardware. This is realized by Therefore, the control unit 21 may or may not be expressed as a control circuit.

The control unit 21 may include, by way of example and not limitation, a central processing unit (CPU), a microprocessor, a processor core, a multiprocessor, an ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit), and a FPGA (field programmable). gate array).

The storage unit 28 has a function of storing various programs and various data necessary for the terminal 20 to operate. The storage unit 28 includes various storage media such as, by way of example and not limitation, an HDD (hard disk drive), an SSD (solid state drive), a flash memory, a RAM (random access memory), and a ROM (read only memory). Furthermore, the storage unit 28 may or may not be expressed as a memory.

In the terminal 20, the program P is stored in the storage unit 28, and by executing the program P, the control unit 21 executes processing as each unit included in the control unit 21. That is, the program P stored in the storage unit 28 causes the terminal 20 to realize each function executed by the control unit 21. Furthermore, this program P may or may not be expressed as a program module.

(2) HW configuration of server FIG. 1-1 shows an example of the HW configuration of the server 10.
The server 10 includes a control section 11 (CPU), a storage section 15, a communication I/F 14 (interface), an input/output section 12, and a clock section 19. The HW components of server 10 are interconnected via bus B, by way of example and not limitation. Note that the HW of the server 10 does not necessarily include all the components as the HW configuration of the server 10 . By way of example and not limitation, the HW of server 10 may or may not be configured to allow removal of individual components, or multiple components.

The control unit 11 has a physically structured circuit for executing functions realized by codes or instructions included in a program, and includes, by way of example and not limitation, a data processing device built into hardware. This is realized by

The control unit 11 is typically a central processing unit (CPU), and may or may not be a microprocessor, processor core, multiprocessor, ASIC, or FPGA. In the present disclosure, the control unit 11 is not limited to these.

The storage unit 15 has a function of storing various programs and various data necessary for the operation of the server 10. The storage unit 15 is realized by various storage media such as HDD, SSD, and flash memory. However, in the present disclosure, the storage unit 15 is not limited to these. Furthermore, the storage unit 15 may or may not be expressed as a memory.

The communication I/F 14 transmits and receives various data via the network 30. Communication may be performed by wire or wirelessly, and any communication protocol may be used as long as mutual communication can be performed. The communication I/F 14 has a function of communicating with various devices such as the terminal 20 via the network 30. The communication I/F 14 transmits various data to various devices such as the terminal 20 according to instructions from the control unit 11. Further, the communication I/F 14 receives various data transmitted from various devices such as the terminal 20 and transmits the received data to the control unit 11. Moreover, the communication I/F 14 may be simply expressed as a communication section. Furthermore, when the communication I/F 14 is composed of a physically structured circuit, it may be expressed as a communication circuit.

The input/output unit 12 includes a device for inputting various operations to the server 10, a device for outputting processing results processed by the server 10, and the like. In the input/output section 12, the input section and the output section may be integrated, or may be separated into an input section and an output section, or may not be.

The input unit is realized by any one or a combination of all types of devices that can receive input from the user and transmit information related to the input to the control unit 11. The input unit is typically implemented using hardware keys such as a keyboard or a pointing device such as a mouse. Note that the input unit may or may not include, by way of example and not limitation, a touch panel, a camera (operation input via a moving image), or a microphone (operation input via voice).

The output unit is realized by any one of all types of devices capable of outputting the processing results processed by the control unit 11 or a combination thereof. Output units include, by way of example and not limitation, a touch panel, a touch display, a speaker (sound output), a lens (including, by way of non-limiting example, 3D (three dimensions) output or hologram output), a printer, and the like.

Although this is just an example, the input/output section 12 includes a display section 13 by way of example and not limitation.

The display unit 13 is realized by a display or the like. The display is typically implemented as a monitor (for example, but not limited to, a liquid crystal display or an organic electroluminescence display (OELD)). Note that the display may or may not be a head mounted display (HDM). Note that these displays may or may not be capable of displaying display data in 3D. In this disclosure, the display is not limited to these.

The clock unit 19 is a built-in clock of the server 10, and outputs time information (timekeeping information). The clock unit 19 includes, by way of example and not limitation, an RTC (Real Time Clock) as a hardware clock, a system clock, and the like. The clock section 19 can also be expressed as a timekeeping section or a time information detection section, by way of example and not limitation.

(3) Others The server 10 stores the program P in the storage unit 15, and by executing the program P, the control unit 11 executes processes as each unit included in the control unit 11. That is, the program P stored in the storage unit 15 causes the server 10 to realize each function executed by the control unit 11. This program P may or may not be expressed as a program module.
The same applies to other devices.

In each embodiment of the present disclosure, description will be made assuming that the CPU of the terminal 20 and/or the server 10 executes the program P.
The same applies to other devices.

Note that the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 and/or the control unit 11 of the server 10 may be formed not only in a CPU having a control circuit but also in an integrated circuit (IC (Integrated Circuit) chip, LSI (Large Scale Integration)), etc. Each process may or may not be realized by a dedicated logic circuit (hardware) or a dedicated circuit. Further, these circuits may be realized by one or more integrated circuits, and the plurality of processes shown in each embodiment may or may not be realized by one integrated circuit. Furthermore, LSIs are sometimes called VLSIs, super LSIs, ultra LSIs, etc. depending on the degree of integration. Therefore, the control unit 21 may or may not be expressed as a control circuit.
The same applies to other devices.

Further, the program P (by way of example, but not limitation, a software program, computer program, or program module) of each embodiment of the present disclosure may be provided in a state stored in a computer-readable storage medium, or It doesn't have to be done. The storage medium can store the program P in a "non-temporary tangible medium". Further, the program P may or may not be for realizing a part of the functions of each embodiment of the present disclosure. Furthermore, it may or may not be a so-called difference file (difference program) that can realize the functions of each embodiment of the present disclosure in combination with a program P already recorded on a storage medium.

The storage medium may include one or more semiconductor-based or other integrated circuits (ICs), such as, by way of example and not limitation, a field programmable gate array (FPGA) or an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a hard・Disk drive (HDD), hybrid hard drive (HHD), optical disk, optical disk drive (ODD), magneto-optical disk, magneto-optical drive, floppy diskette, floppy disk drive (FDD), magnetic tape, solid state (SSD), a RAM drive, a secure digital card, or any other suitable storage medium, or a suitable combination of two or more thereof. Storage media may be volatile, non-volatile, or a combination of volatile and non-volatile, where appropriate. Note that the storage medium is not limited to these examples, and may be any device or medium as long as it can store the program P. Further, the storage medium may or may not be expressed as a memory.

The server 10 and/or the terminal 20 can realize the functions of the plurality of functional units shown in each embodiment by reading the program P stored in the storage medium and executing the read program P.
The same applies to other devices.

Further, the program P of the present disclosure may or may not be provided to the server 10 and/or the terminal 20 via any transmission medium (communication network, broadcast waves, etc.) that can transmit the program. . By way of example and not limitation, the server 10 and/or the terminal 20 realize the functions of the plurality of functional units shown in each embodiment by executing a program P downloaded via the Internet or the like.
The same applies to other devices.

Furthermore, each embodiment of the present disclosure may be implemented in the form of a data signal in which the program P is embodied by electronic transmission.
At least part of the processing in the server 10 and/or the terminal 20 may or may not be realized by cloud computing configured by one or more computers.
At least part or all of the processing in the terminal 20 may or may not be performed by the server 10. In this case, at least some or all of the processing of each functional unit of the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 may or may not be performed by the server 10.
At least part or all of the processing in the server 10 may be performed by the terminal 20, or may not be performed. In this case, at least some or all of the processing of each functional unit of the control unit 11 of the server 10 may or may not be performed by the terminal 20.
Unless explicitly stated, the configuration of the determination in the embodiments of the present disclosure is not essential, and a predetermined process may be performed when the determination condition is met, or a predetermined process is performed when the determination condition is not met. You may or may not.

Note that the program of this disclosure uses, by way of example and not limitation, a scripting language such as ActionScript or JavaScript (registered trademark), a compiler language such as Objective-C or Java (registered trademark), or a markup language such as HTML5. Implemented.

<Example>
Examples to which the technique of the present disclosure is applied will be described below.
In addition, each Example and each modification described in this specification are an example of this invention, and are not limited to each Example and each modification described in this specification.

As a method of switching the talk room on the terminal 20, based on the user's operation to exit the currently displayed talk room and move to the screen for selecting the next talk room to be displayed, the user selects the next talk room to be displayed. Go to the screen where you can select the talk room you want to use. A possible method is to display the next talk room based on the user's selection (designation) of the next talk room to be displayed. As an example and not a limitation, the method is to temporarily leave the currently displayed talk room and select a talk room from the talk room list screen where a list of talk rooms is displayed.
However, this method requires complicated operations to switch talk rooms, and is insufficient in terms of user convenience.

Hereinafter, using a messaging service as an example, an embodiment will be described in which the terminal 20 and the server 10 perform processing and control according to the purpose and motivation of the user.

Further, a messaging service: MS (including IMS) can also be considered as one form (one form) of a social networking service: SNS. For this reason, messaging services and social networking services may or may not be distinguished. In other words, social networking services may or may not include messaging services.

In the embodiment described below, the messaging service will be described as an instant messaging service (IMS) that performs simple message transmission and reception between a plurality of devices via the server 10. Further, an application for realizing this messaging service will be referred to as a "messaging application", and will be illustrated and explained as a "Messaging App" as appropriate.

In addition to simple text, messages include, by way of example and not limitation, image information (including at least one of still image information and moving image information), sound information (including audio information), and operation information ( (including buttons, icons, etc.), specific information, communication information, link information (URL, URI, etc.), and various types of information that can be transmitted and received between devices.

The text can include, by way of example and not limitation, at least one of the following: national characters represented by character codes, extended characters, machine-dependent characters, numbers, symbols, figures, and codes.
Note that the text does not need to include at least one of the above characters, extended characters, model-dependent characters, numbers, symbols, figures, and codes, and may include other text.

The image information (image) can include, by way of example and not limitation, at least one of various types of image information such as an icon, a button, a stamp, a pictogram, and a banner image.

Note that in this specification, information sent and received through a messaging service is referred to as a "message," but this may also be expressed as "content" in a broader sense.
In this case, the content may include, by way of example and not limitation, text, image information (including at least one of still image information and moving image information), sound information (including audio information), and operation information (button , icons, etc.), specific information, communication information, link information (URL, URI, etc.), and various other information that can be transmitted and received between devices.
Also, by way of example and not limitation, the message may be text, and the "content" may include the message and information other than the message.

The messaging service herein is an example of a chat service.
The messaging service is configured to allow users to chat using chat rooms.
In the following description, a UI (User Interface) or GUI (Graphical User Interface) that allows each user to view content transmitted and received between terminals of multiple users will be referred to as a "talk room" as appropriate.
Note that the talk room may or may not be called a chat room.

In addition, talk rooms include, by way of example and not limitation, one-on-one user talk rooms (hereinafter referred to as "one-on-one talk rooms"), as well as group talk rooms containing multiple users (hereinafter referred to as "one-on-one talk rooms"). (referred to as "group talk rooms"). In this case, the talk room refers to a UI or GUI that allows users included in the group to view content transmitted and received between terminals in a group including a plurality of users.

In addition, chat rooms include, by way of example and not limitation, chat rooms (hereinafter referred to as "open chat rooms") for anonymous chatting (hereinafter referred to as "open chats") that are separate from user accounts. .) can be included.
In this example, in the open chat room of the Messagen service, by way of example and not limitation, the user can create a group that anyone can join and chat with users other than the users who are registered as friends. shall be.

Furthermore, in this specification, a user of the terminal 20 who uses a messaging service (messaging application) is referred to as a "general user", and an account of this general user is referred to as a "general account".
On the other hand, a user of an OA provider device or terminal (not shown) that uses a messaging service is referred to as an "OA provider", and an account of this OA provider is referred to as an "official account".
That is, in this specification, messaging service accounts include general accounts and official accounts.

By way of example and not limitation, an OA business operator with an official account may also send messages to and from other devices via the server 10 using an OA business operator device or terminal, similar to the terminal 20 having a general account. can be sent and received. By way of example and not limitation, messages sent from the terminal 20 of a user with a general account to an OA company device or an OA company terminal can also be sent to the server 10, in the same way as messages sent to other terminals 20. The information is delivered to the OA provider's equipment and OA provider's terminal via the OA provider. The history of the message is then displayed as a talk room or the like on a display unit (not shown) of the OA company device or the OA company terminal.

In addition, talk rooms include, but are not limited to, "one-on-one talk rooms" that are one-on-one user talk rooms, and "group talk rooms" that are groups that include multiple users. As an example, a talk room with an OA provider (hereinafter referred to as "OA talk room") can be included.

In the embodiment described below, "talk room information" is exemplified as information used to move (transition) from a first talk room to a second talk room.
The talk room information is talk room information associated with a talk room in a messaging service.
This talk room information includes, by way of example and not limitation, the talk room name (text information), the talk room icon image (image information), the talk room identifier ( The information may include information associated with the talk room, such as identification information), and may be any one of these, a combination of two or more, or may not be the same.

The talk room information is information selected (specified) by the user of the terminal 20, and is information for moving from the first talk room to the second talk room and displaying the second talk room. Therefore, the talk room information may or may not be expressed as talk room selection information, talk room designation information, destination talk room information, or the like.

In the embodiment described below, the following two types of talk room information will be roughly divided into examples.
(1) Icon-type talk room information (hereinafter referred to as "icon-type talk room information")
(2) Switchable type (switcher type) talk room information (hereinafter referred to as "switchable type talk room information")

Furthermore, in the following embodiments, as an example and not a limitation, talk information is stored and managed in the storage unit 15 of the server 10, but talk information added and updated by the server 10 is transmitted to the terminal 20, It is assumed that the talk information is also stored and held in the storage unit 28 of the terminal 20 separately from the server 10.

In this case, due to problems such as the storage capacity of the server 10, the talk information stored and managed by the server 10 may be stored and managed by the server 10 after a certain period of time (not a limitation, but several weeks) has passed. 10 storage unit 15.
On the other hand, the talk information data stored in the storage unit 28 of the terminal 20 may be retained without being deleted unless a deletion request is made by the user of the terminal 20 via the input unit. can.

However, this is just an example and is not limited to this form.
As an example and not a limitation, the terminal 20 may not hold the talk information, and the terminal 20 may acquire and display the talk information stored and managed by the server 10, or it may not be necessary to do so. Good too.

In addition, although the following description assumes that the chat service is provided and managed by the server 10 and that the terminal 20 transmits and receives content via the server 10, the present invention is not limited to this.
The system is not limited to a system that includes the terminal 20 and the server 10, but a system that does not include the server 10 can also be applied. This is, by way of example and not limitation, a system such as:
- A system in which the terminal 20 has the functions of the server 10 (distributed system). This can be accomplished using blockchain technology, by way of example and not limitation.
- A system in which terminals 20 communicate wirelessly with each other. This can be achieved, by way of example and not limitation, by communicating in a P2P (peer-to-peer) manner using short-range wireless communication technology such as Bluetooth.

As an example and not a limitation, if a system is applied in which the terminals 20 communicate with each other wirelessly, the terminals 20 can directly transmit and receive content by wireless communication without going through the server 10.

<First example>
The first embodiment is an embodiment in which (1) icon type talk room information is applied.
In the first embodiment, when a first chat room (by way of example and not limitation, the currently displayed chat room) is displayed on the display unit 24, the terminal 20 connects the first chat room to the second chat room. Display on the display unit 24 a first display (by way of example, not limitation, icon type talk room information) regarding moving to a room (by way of example, not limitation, the next talk room to be displayed) and displaying a second chat room. do. Then, the terminal 20 performs a first process related to displaying the second chat room (by way of example and not limitation, a process of switching chat rooms) based on the input to the first display, using the control unit 21 of the terminal 20. This is an example.
By way of example and not limitation, at least one of the first chat room and the second chat room may be the open chat room described above.
The content described in the first embodiment is applicable to each of the other embodiments and other modifications.

As mentioned above, an icon is a type of image information (image). Therefore, the icon-type talk room information is a type of image-type talk room information, and is an example of image-type talk room information.

Note that although the case where icon-type talk room information is applied will be exemplified below, the present invention is not limited to this.
In addition to this, by way of example and not limitation, text-type talk room information represented by text such as characters may be applied.

[Functional configuration of each device]
(1) Server FIG. 1-2 is a diagram showing an example of functions realized by the control unit 11 of the server 10 in this embodiment.
The control unit 11 includes, by way of example and not limitation, a messaging application management processing unit 111 as a functional unit for executing messaging application management processing according to the messaging application management processing program 151 stored in the storage unit 15.

FIG. 1-3 is a diagram showing an example of information etc. stored in the storage unit 15 of the server 10 in this embodiment.
The storage unit 15 includes, by way of example and not limitation, a messaging application management processing program 151 executed as a messaging application management process, account registration data 153, friend registration data 154, an account management database 155, and a talk information management database. 159 is stored.

The account registration data 153 is registration data regarding an account for an application (messaging application in this example), and an example of its data structure is shown in FIGS. 1-4.
The account registration data 153 stores, by way of example and not limitation, a user name, an application ID, and other registration information in association with each other.

The user name is the name of the user of the terminal 20 who uses the application, and by way of example and not limitation, the name that the user of the terminal 20 registers when using the application is stored.

The application ID is information used to identify an application's account, or the account itself.
Note that the number of accounts owned by one user is not limited to one, and it is possible for one user to own multiple accounts.

This application ID is preferably a unique value for each account, and is set and stored by the server 10 as a unique value (unique value) for each account, by way of example and not limitation.
The application ID is information associated with the terminal 20 or the user of the terminal 20, and is an example of information regarding the terminal or information regarding the user of the terminal.

Other registered information includes, by way of example and not limitation, identification information for identifying the terminal 20, telephone number of the terminal 20 (terminal telephone number), email address (terminal email address), and information used for various types of authentication in applications. Various information such as authentication information such as a password (login password, authentication password, etc.) can be included.

The identification information for identifying the terminal 20 may be, by way of example and not limitation, a terminal ID (by way of example and not limitation, IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity)).
Further, the identification information for identifying the user of the terminal 20 may be an application ID, by way of example and not limitation. Note that a "user ID" may or may not be used instead of the application ID.

In addition, if the application allows only one account to be registered for one terminal 20, it is not limited, but as an example, "Identification information for identifying the terminal 20 = Identification information for identifying the user of the terminal 20 = Application ID".

Further, as an example and not a limitation, it may be possible to assign a plurality of terminal IDs to one user ID, or it may not be necessary to do so.

Furthermore, instead of using various IDs such as application IDs, it is also possible to apply a method of managing accounts using information such as terminal telephone numbers.
In this case, instead of storing ID information such as an application ID in the account registration data 153, information such as a terminal telephone number may be stored in the account registration data 153.

Note that in addition to the information exemplified above, various information can also be stored in the other registered information.
By way of example and not limitation, personal information/attribute information of the user of the terminal 20 (eg, age, gender, place of residence, occupation, hobbies, etc.) may be stored. By way of example and not limitation, the user of the terminal 20 may be required to input and register this information when using the messaging application.

Additionally, by way of example and not limitation, a history of location information of the terminal 20 (hereinafter referred to as "terminal location information") may be stored.
In this case, as an example and not a limitation, the terminal 20 may transmit terminal position information calculated based on the position calculation information detected by the position calculation information detection unit 29B to the server 10 at regular timing. Make it. Alternatively, the terminal 20 may transmit terminal position information to the server 10 in response to a request from the server 10. The server 10 can then store the history of the terminal location information received and acquired from the terminal 20 in this way as terminal location history data.

The friend registration data 154 is friend management data in an application (messaging application in this example), and an example of its data structure is shown in FIGS. 1-5.
The friend registration data 154 stores, by way of example and not limitation, an application ID, a friend application ID, and a friend user name in association with each other.

The application ID stores the application ID stored and registered in the account registration data 153.
The friend application ID stores the application ID of the account that the account with this application ID has registered as a friend.
The friend user name stores the user name stored and registered in the account registration data 153 in association with this friend application ID.

Note that since the friend user name can be identified from the friend application ID by referring to the account registration data 153, the friend user name may not be stored in the friend registration data 154.

The account management database 155 is a database for managing accounts stored in the account registration data 153, and, by way of example and not limitation, account management data is stored as management data for each application ID stored in the account registration data 153. be done.
By way of example and not limitation, each account management data stores an application ID.

The talk information management database 159 is a database for managing talk information of each account of the messaging application.
Accounts include, by way of example and not limitation, in addition to the aforementioned general accounts, the aforementioned official accounts.

Talk information includes, by way of example and not limitation, a series of talk contents including content exchanged between accounts (one-on-one, including groups) (messages, by way of example and not limitation), and a history of content exchange ( (history of sending and receiving content).

By way of example and not limitation, the server 10 receives content sent from the terminal 20 that is the source of the content, and performs a process of adding the received content to the corresponding chat room. Specifically, the received content is added and updated to the talk information of the corresponding chat room in the talk information management database 159 (talk storage unit). Then, the server 10 transmits the content added to the chat room (information on the content added to the chat room) to the destination user's terminal 20. As a result, the content of the chat room displayed on the display unit 24 of the terminal 20 is updated.

(2) Terminal FIGS. 1-6 are diagrams showing an example of functions realized by the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 in this embodiment.
Control unit 21 includes, by way of example and not limitation, a messaging application processing unit 211 as a functional unit for executing messaging application processing according to messaging application processing program 281 stored in storage unit 28 .

FIG. 1-7 is a diagram showing an example of information etc. stored in the storage unit 28 of the terminal 20 in this embodiment.
The storage unit 28 includes, by way of example and not limitation, a messaging application processing program 281 executed as a messaging application process, an application ID 283, friend data 284, terminal data 285, user data 287, and a talk-related information database 289. is memorized.

The application ID 283 stores the application ID of the messaging application of the own terminal 20 or the user of the own terminal 20.
Note that the application ID 283 may or may not be able to store a plurality of application IDs.

The friend data 284 stores the application ID of the account that the account with the application ID 283 has registered as a friend.
Note that since the friend information is stored and managed on the server 10 side as the friend management data 154, the friend data 284 may not be stored in the storage unit 28 of the terminal 20. In this case, the terminal 20 can acquire the friend's information from the server 10.

The terminal data 285 stores various data regarding the own terminal 20.
As an example and not a limitation, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 may include terminal position history data, which is data of the history of terminal position information calculated based on the position calculation information detected by the position calculation information detection unit 29B. can be included.

The user data 287 stores various data regarding the user of the own terminal 20.
By way of example, but not limitation, it is also possible to store personal information/attribute information (age, gender, place of residence, occupation, hobbies, etc., by way of example and not limitation) of the user of own terminal 20.
Note that it is not essential to store this information in the storage unit 28 of the terminal 20, and as an example and not a limitation, it is possible to acquire the data of the user's personal information/attribute information registered on the server 10 side from the server 10. You may also do so.

The talk-related information database 289 is a database that stores talk information and information related to this talk information (hereinafter collectively referred to as "talk-related information").
This talk-related information database 289 includes, by way of example and not limitation, the following data.
・Talk history data that is data on the history of talk information corresponding to the account corresponding to the application ID 283 (your own terminal 20 or the account of the user of your own terminal 20) ・Talk room data that stores information about talk rooms・Talk room display history data, which is data on the history of display in the talk room; Talk room operation history data, which is data on the history of operations in the talk room. Note that it is essential to store all of these data in the storage unit 28 of the terminal 20. Instead, by way of example and not limitation, some data may be stored and managed by the server 10, and the terminal 20 may acquire information from the server 10.

<Talk room pattern table>
In this specification, the first talk room may be a one-on-one talk room, a group talk room, or an OA talk room, by way of example and not limitation, and the second talk room may be a one-on-one talk room, a group talk room, or an OA talk room. By way of example and not limitation, there are cases where the talk room is one-on-one, cases where the talk room is a group talk room, and cases where the talk room is an OA talk room.

The first talk room is a one-to-one talk room, group talk room, or OA talk room, and the second talk room is a one-to-one talk room, group talk room, or OA talk room. An example of a talk room pattern indicating which type of talk room it is will be explained with reference to the talk room pattern table shown in FIGS. 1-8.

The talk room pattern table shows the talk room pattern name and the corresponding first talk room and second talk room.

The talk room pattern name is a name that functions as identification information for identifying the talk room pattern.

The talk room pattern name "PA-01" is a pattern in which both the first talk room and the second talk room are "one-on-one talk rooms."

The talk room pattern name "PA-02" is a pattern in which the first talk room is a "one-on-one talk room" and the second talk room is a "group talk room."

The talk room pattern name "PA-03" is a pattern in which the first talk room is a "one-on-one talk room" and the second talk room is an "OA talk room."

The talk room pattern name "PA-04" is a pattern in which the first talk room is a "group talk room" and the second talk room is a "one-on-one talk room."

The talk room pattern name "PA-05" is a pattern in which both the first talk room and the second talk room are "group talk rooms."

The talk room pattern name "PA-06" is a pattern in which the first talk room is a "group talk room" and the second talk room is an "OA talk room."

The talk room pattern name "PA-07" is a pattern in which the first talk room is an "OA talk room" and the second talk room is a "one-on-one talk room."

The talk room pattern name "PA-08" is a pattern in which the first talk room is an "OA talk room" and the second talk room is a "group talk room."

The talk room pattern name "PA-09" is a pattern in which both the first talk room and the second talk room are "OA talk rooms."

<Display screen>
Here, the talk room pattern is a talk room pattern name "PA-01" in which the first talk room is a one-on-one talk room and the second talk room is also a one-on-one talk room, by way of example and not limitation. In this case, an example of the display screen will be explained in the second talk room after switching the talk room.

(1) First example of display screen FIG. 1-9 describes an example of a display screen when the display of icon-type talk room information is deleted when the talk room is switched.

1-9 shows user A. It is a figure which shows an example of the transition of the screen displayed on the display part 24 of A's terminal 20A.

At the top center of the screen, the words "Messaging App" are displayed as the name of the messaging application. Further, at the top right of the screen, an icon image and a user name (user AA in this example) of the messaging application of the user of this terminal 20 are displayed.

In FIG. 1-9, as an example and not a limitation, one or more icon-type talk room information (not a limitation, An icon-type talk room information display area ER1 is provided in which an example of the first display) is displayed.

In addition, on the left screen in Figure 1-9, below the area at the top of the screen where the name of the messaging application, etc. is displayed, any page within the messaging application (in this example, talk A talk room name display area CLR that includes the name of the talk room (hereinafter referred to as "talk room name") is provided as a type of area indicating whether the talk room is currently displayed. The chat room name display area CLR can also be said to be an area indicating the page (in this example, the chat room) within the messaging application where the user is currently located.

In this example, the chat room name display area CLR includes, by way of example and not limitation, user A. A is user B. Characters (in this example, "B.B") indicating that this is a talk room for talking with B as the other party are displayed.
Also, below that, user A. A and user B. A talk area is configured for conversation between user B and user B, and on the left side of the screen when facing user B. B's message is displayed on the right side of the screen as user A. It is configured so that the message A is displayed.

The icon type talk room information displayed in the icon type talk room information display area ER1 displays, by way of example and not limitation, users who are registered as friends by the user of the terminal 20A (user AA).
In this example, by way of example and not limitation, a plurality of icon-type talk rooms include a user name "User C.C" and an icon corresponding thereto, and a user name "User D.D" and an icon corresponding thereto. Information is displayed.

The screen in the center of Figure 1-9 shows, by way of example and not limitation, a state in which the user name "C.C" or the corresponding icon is tapped among multiple icon-type talk room information. . In this case, the person being displayed is user B. From the talk room designated as B (the first talk room), the other user C. The display switches to talk room C (second talk room). As a result, by way of example and not limitation, the screen shown on the right in FIGS. 1-9 is displayed.

This screen is for user A. A is user C. This is a talk room for talking with C as the other party, and as an example and not a limitation, characters indicating that this is a talk room with the user name "C.C" (in this example, "C") are displayed in the talk room name display area CLR. .C") is displayed.

Also, by way of example and not limitation, a plurality of pieces of icon type talk room information have been deleted from the icon type talk room information display area ER1 at the bottom of the screen.

(2) Second display screen example FIG. 1-10 describes an example of a display screen when icon-type talk room information is continued to be displayed when the talk room is switched.

FIG. 1-10 shows user A. It is a figure which shows an example of the transition of the screen displayed on the display part 24 of A's terminal 20A.
The left screen in Figure 1-10 is for user A. A is user B. This is an example of the screen of the first talk room with B as the other party.
In this example, users who are registered as friends by the user of the terminal 20A (user A.A) are displayed in the icon type talk room information display area ER1, by way of example and not limitation.
Specifically, by way of example and not limitation, the user name "C.C" and the corresponding icon, the user name "D.D" and the corresponding icon, and the user name "E.E" and this A plurality of icon-type talk room information are displayed, including icons corresponding to .

The center screen in Figure 1-10 shows, by way of example and not limitation, that the user name "C.C" or the icon corresponding to it is tapped among multiple icon-type talk room information. . In this case, the person being displayed is user B. From the talk room designated as B (the first talk room), the other user C. The display switches to talk room C (second talk room). As a result, by way of example and not limitation, the screen shown on the right of FIG. 1-10 is displayed.

This screen is for user A. A is user C. This is a talk room for talking with C as the other party, and as an example and not a limitation, characters indicating that this is a talk room with the user name "C.C" (in this example, "C") are displayed in the talk room name display area CLR. .C") is displayed.

In addition, in the icon type talk room information display area ER1 at the bottom of the screen, as an example and not a limitation, the user name "User D.D" and the corresponding icon, and the user name "User B.B" and the corresponding icon are displayed. A plurality of icon-type talk room information is displayed, including icons for.

Note that in any of the other embodiments and other modifications described below, a configuration may be adopted in which icon-type talk room information continues to be displayed when the talk room is switched. It is also possible to adopt a configuration that erases the display of talk room information.

<Processing>
FIG. 1-11 is a flowchart showing an example of the flow of processing executed by the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 in this embodiment.
Note that the processing described below is only an example of processing for realizing the technique of the present disclosure, and is not limited to this processing. Another step may be added to this process, or some steps may be omitted (deleted).
This is the same for each flowchart (process) described below.

First, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 displays the first talk room on the display unit 24 based on the user's input to the input unit (A110).

After that, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 causes the icon type talk room information to be displayed on the display unit 24 (A120). In this case, as one method, by way of example and not limitation, on the server 10 side, based on the friend management data 154, users who are registered as friends by the user of the terminal 20 are determined, and the latest user name and icon image are determined. Information such as the following information is transmitted from the server 10 to the terminal 20. Then, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 can display the icon type talk room information based on the information received from the server 10.

Note that, unlike this, information such as the user name and icon image of the user who has been registered as a friend is stored and saved in the storage unit 28 of the terminal 20, and the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 stores this information. The icon type talk room information may or may not be read out from the section 28 and displayed.

Note that the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 may cause the display unit 24 to display two or more icon type talk room information, or may cause the display unit 24 to display one icon type talk room information.

Next, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20A determines, by way of example and not limitation, whether or not the user of the terminal 20 has inputted icon-type talk room information via the input unit (A130).
If there is no input to the icon type talk room information (A130: NO), the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 ends the process.

On the other hand, if there is an input for icon type talk room information (A130: YES), the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 selects the icon type talk room information input in A130 from the first talk room displayed on the display unit 24. Control is performed to switch the display to the talk room (second talk room) corresponding to the information.
Then, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 ends the process.

Note that, similarly to the first talk room, after the second talk room is displayed, the icon type talk room information may or may not be similarly displayed in the second talk room.

<Effects of the first embodiment>
In this embodiment, the terminal 20 displays on the display unit 24 a first chat room (not limited to, but an example of a first chat room) that includes users of the terminal 20. The terminal 20 also displays icon-type talk room information (not limited to the first chat room displayed on the display unit) corresponding to the second chat room to be moved (transitioned) (not limited to, but an example of the second chat room). to the second chat room, and an example of a first display related to displaying the second chat room on the display section) is displayed on the display section 24. Then, the terminal 20 moves from the first talk room being displayed to the second talk room based on the input to the displayed icon type talk room information (not limited to, but an example of input to the terminal on which the first display is displayed). This figure shows a configuration in which the control unit 21 performs a process of switching the display to (not limited to, but an example of the first process).
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, it is possible to easily move from the first chat room to the second chat room based on input to the terminal on which the first display is displayed. Since complicated operations for switching talk rooms are not necessary, user convenience can be improved.

Further, in this case, the icon type talk room information can be displayed in the first talk room.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the user of the terminal can check the movable second chat room while displaying the first chat room.

Furthermore, in this case, the terminal 20 selects the second talk room based on an input such as a tap operation on the icon-type talk room information displayed in the first talk room (an example of an input to the first display, not a limitation). Processing for displaying on the display unit 24 can be performed.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the terminal user can easily display the second chat room by performing the second input on the first display while the first chat room is being displayed. can be done.

<Second example>
The second example is an example related to a method of determining a chat room candidate to be moved to (a second chat room to be moved to).
The content described in the second embodiment is applicable to any of the other embodiments and other modifications.
In addition, the same reference numerals are given to the same constituent elements as those already mentioned, and the explanation thereof will be omitted.

In this embodiment, a case will be exemplified in which the terminal 20 performs a process of determining a destination talk room candidate (hereinafter referred to as a "destination talk room candidate determination process").
Specifically, in this embodiment, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 acquires various information (not limited, but an example of the first information) acquired based on the input to the input unit by the user of the own terminal 20; Various types of information (not limited, but an example of first information) stored in the storage unit 28 are acquired, and a destination talk room candidate is determined based on the acquired information.

Note that, unlike this, the terminal 20 acquires various types of information (not limited, but an example of first information) stored and managed by the server 10 from the server 10. Then, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 may or may not determine a destination talk room candidate based on the information acquired from the server 10.
Among the information used to determine the destination talk room candidate (information necessary for determining the destination talk room candidate), although it is not stored in the storage unit 28 of the terminal 20, the storage unit of the server 10 Regarding the information stored in 15, the terminal 20 can determine the destination talk room candidate after acquiring the information from the server 10.

<Table for determining destination talk room candidates>
The destination talk room candidate determination table is a table that is referred to when executing the destination talk room candidate determination process, and an example of the table configuration of the destination talk room candidate determination table is shown in Figure 2-1. Shown below.

In addition to determining the destination talk room, determining the destination talk room candidate may include, by way of example and not limitation, suggesting the determined destination talk room to the user.

The destination talk room candidate determination table includes, by way of example and not limitation, the category number that is the number of the category for determining the destination talk room candidate, and the number of the destination talk room candidate included in the category of this category number. A certain number, a destination talk room candidate of this number, and a destination talk room candidate availability indicating whether or not it is possible to become a destination talk room candidate are stored in association with each other.

Note that this table is just an example, and the table is not limited to this.
It is not necessary to store all of the above information in association with each other, and some information may not be stored.
Furthermore, although a "Category No." column is provided here for ease of understanding, this column may not be provided.
Further, in determining a destination talk room candidate, this may be realized by a program instead of using the table described above.
This also applies to tables described in other embodiments.

For the destination talk room candidate availability, based on the corresponding destination talk room candidate, "〇 (possible)" indicates that the destination talk room can be a destination talk room candidate, and "〇 (possible)" indicates that it is possible to become a destination talk room candidate. Items that cannot be completed are marked with an “×” (unavailable).
In this example, "x (not allowed)" is set for No. "SP03-6", "SP04-2B", and "SP05-1B" as the transfer destination talk room candidate, and "〇()" is set for other conditions. ) is stipulated.

Hereinafter, each destination talk room candidate and its determination method will be explained in detail.

<Category No. “SP01”>
Category No. "SP01" is a category of "number of displays, number of taps", and includes, by way of example and not limitation, the conditions of No. "SP01-1" and "SP01-2".
Note that the number of displays may or may not be the display frequency. Further, the number of taps may or may not be the tap frequency.
Note that if the terminal 20 is a personal computer, the number of taps (tap frequency) can also be read as the number of clicks (click frequency).

For No. "SP01-1", "talk rooms that have been displayed many times within a set time" are defined as destination talk room candidates.
The set time is not limited to this, and as an example, an arbitrary time can be set in advance on the terminal 20 side or the server 10 side.
As an example, and not as a limitation, if a relatively short time period is set (for example, and not as a limitation, within a few hours), a chat room that has been viewed a large number of times within the set time period is considered to be a chat room that is currently viewed by the user. Since there is a possibility that the talk room has a high value, it is determined as a candidate talk room to move to.
On the other hand, as an example and not a limitation, if a relatively long time is set (for example, days), talk rooms that are displayed a large number of times within the set time are those that are used by users on a daily basis. This means that it may be a chat room that is used frequently or frequently, so it is determined as a candidate chat room to move to.

In determining the destination talk room candidate, by way of example and not limitation, the terminal 20 acquires the number of talk rooms displayed within a set time stored in the talk room display history data of the talk related information database 289. Then, destination talk room candidates can be determined in descending order of the number of times.

For No. "SP01-2", "talk rooms whose talk room information has been tapped a large number of times within a set time" are defined as destination talk room candidates. In this case as well, the set time can be set arbitrarily.
As an example, and not a limitation, if a relatively short time period is set (for example, not a limitation, within a few hours), a chat room whose talk room information is tapped a large number of times within the set time will have a relatively short period of time. This means that the user of the terminal 20 may tap this talk room information again within a short period of time and the talk room corresponding to the talk room information will be displayed, so that it is determined as a destination talk room candidate.
On the other hand, as an example and not a limitation, if a relatively long time is set (as an example and not a limitation, time in days), the talk room whose talk room information is tapped a large number of times within the set time will be This means that the chat room may be used frequently or frequently by the user, so it is determined as a candidate chat room to move to.

In determining the destination talk room candidate, by way of example and not limitation, the terminal 20 acquires the number of times the talk room information has been tapped within a set time stored in the talk room operation history data of the talk related information database 289. Then, destination talk room candidates can be determined in descending order of the number of times.

These conditions are, by way of example and not limitation, examples of conditions regarding use of a chat room by a user of a terminal.
Further, information such as the number of displays (display frequency) and the number of taps (tap frequency) is an example of information regarding the user of the terminal and information regarding use of the chat room by the user of the terminal.

<Category No. “SP02”>
Category No. "SP02" is a category of "information about currently displayed talk room," and includes, by way of example and not limitation, destination talk room candidates with No. "SP02-1" and "SP02-2."

For No. "SP02-1", a "talk room related to the context of the currently displayed talk room" is defined as a destination talk room candidate.
The "context of the currently displayed chat room" includes, by way of example and not limitation, content sent by the user of the terminal 20 in the chat room (by way of example, but not limitation, text content, image content, audio content, etc.), A user different from the 20 users (the other user in the case of a "one-on-one talk room", the group member in the case of a "group talk room", the OA operator in the case of an "OA talk room", etc.) , collectively referred to as the "other user").
If the chat room is related to the context of the currently displayed chat room, the user may be interested in it and may be asked to display this chat room. means.

In determining the destination talk room candidate, by way of example and not limitation, the terminal 20 determines the context based on the content stored in the talk history data of the talk related information database 289, and moves related to the determined context. The destination talk room candidate can be determined.

As an example and not as a limitation, if it is determined that a talk with content related to travel is taking place in the talk room, the talk room related to travel can be used to determine the destination talk room candidate. .

For No. "SP02-2", "a talk room related to another user in the currently displayed talk room" is defined as a destination talk room candidate.
"Other users in the currently displayed chat room" means, by way of example and not limitation, a user different from the user of the terminal 20 in the chat room. This "other user" includes the other user in the case of a "one-on-one talk room", the group member in the case of a "group talk room", and the OA operator in the case of an "OA talk room". is included.
A talk room related to another user in the displayed talk room is highly relevant to the user of the terminal 20, and there is a possibility that the user may be asked to display this talk room, so this talk room is determined as a destination talk room candidate. It means that.

In determining the destination talk room candidate, by way of example and not limitation, the terminal 20 acquires information related to talk rooms to which other users belong that are stored in the friend data 284, and determines the destination talk room candidate. It is possible to make a judgment.

<Category No. “SP03”>
Category No. "SP03" is a category of "attribute information of other talk rooms," and includes, by way of example and not limitation, destination talk room candidates with Nos. "SP03-1" to "SP03-6."

For No. "SP03-1", a "talk room with new messages" is determined as a destination talk room candidate.
A "talk room with a new message" means, by way of example and not limitation, a talk room in which a new message has been received.
This means that a talk room with a new message has a high viewing priority for the user, and there is a possibility that the user will be asked to display this talk room, so it is determined as a candidate talk room to move to.

In determining the destination talk room candidate, by way of example and not limitation, the terminal 20 determines the destination talk room candidate by acquiring the presence or absence of a new message stored in the talk history data of the talk related information database 289. You can do as you like.

``Talk rooms mentioned by me'' are determined as destination talk room candidates for No. ``SP03-2''.
By way of example and not limitation, "a talk room in which you are mentioned" means a talk room in which a message addressed to you (the user of the terminal 20) has been received.
This means that a talk room that has been mentioned by the user has a high viewing priority for the user, and there is a possibility that the user will be asked to display this talk room, so that the talk room is selected as a destination talk room candidate.

In determining the destination talk room candidate, by way of example and not limitation, the terminal 20 acquires the presence or absence of a message mentioning itself stored in the talk history data of the talk-related information database 289, and Talk room candidates can be determined.

For No. "SP03-3", a "talk room with unread messages" is defined as a destination talk room candidate.

Here, "read" can be defined as a term with the opposite meaning of "unread".
As a condition for a message to be read (hereinafter referred to as a "read condition"), any of the following conditions may be applied, by way of example and not limitation.
(A) A message was displayed.
(B) A certain amount of time (not limited to a few seconds to 10 seconds) has passed since the message was displayed.
(C) After the message is displayed, the displayed message is tapped (clicked).
(D) A reply was made to the message after it was displayed.
(E) If the message is a video message, the video has been played.
(F) If the message is a video message, a certain amount of time (not limited to a few seconds to 10 seconds) has passed since the video was played.

In this case, the "unread" state can be defined, by way of example and not limitation, as a state in which the above-mentioned read condition is not satisfied.
The "unread" state is a type of state where the user has not yet viewed the message (content).

By way of example and not limitation, "a talk room with unread messages" means a talk room with the above-mentioned unread messages.
This means that a talk room with unread messages has a high viewing priority for the user, and there is a possibility that the user will be asked to display this talk room, so that the talk room is selected as a destination talk room candidate.

Note that the destination talk room candidate may or may not be determined based on the number of unread messages (hereinafter referred to as "unread number").
As an example and not a limitation, talk rooms whose number of unreads is equal to or greater than a specified number or a set number (not a limitation, but an example, the number of unreads is 10 or more) may be determined as destination talk room candidates. That's fine, and you don't have to do it that way.

On the other hand, a talk room with an extremely large number of unread messages (by way of example and not limitation, a talk room with an unread count of 30 or more) may not be determined as a destination talk room candidate. This is because there is a possibility that the user intentionally (intentionally) leaves the chat room alone without viewing it.

In addition, when displaying talk room information corresponding to a destination talk room candidate that has unread messages, the number of unread messages can be displayed in a predetermined position (for example, but not limited to, in the upper right part of the talk room information). Information that can be specified by the user (for example, but not limited to, a number corresponding to the number of unread pages, an image for specifying the number of unread pages, etc.) may or may not be displayed.

In determining the destination talk room candidate, by way of example and not limitation, the terminal 20 acquires the presence or absence and number of unread messages stored in the talk history data of the talk related information database 289, and selects the destination talk room candidate. Candidates can be determined.

Information such as the number of unread items is, by way of example and not limitation, an example of information regarding the viewing of content displayed in the second chat room by the user of the terminal.

For No. "SP03-4", "talk rooms registered in favorites" are defined as destination talk room candidates.
"Talk rooms registered as favorites" refers to, by way of example and not limitation, in a messaging service where the user of terminal 20 can register any chat room as favorites, It means the talk room where you are.
This means that a talk room registered as a favorite is determined as a destination talk room candidate because it is highly important to the user and there is a possibility that the user will be asked to display this talk room.

In addition, in this embodiment, an example of a talk room that the user of the terminal 20 has registered as a favorite is shown as an example of a destination talk room candidate for No. "SP03-4", but the present invention is not limited to this form. .
As an example of the destination talk room candidate for No. "SP03-4", by way of example and not limitation, if the messaging application is configured to allow the user of the terminal 20 to pin any talk room, the terminal It may also be a chat room pinned by 20 users.
This "pin a chat room" is a type of function that allows you to pin frequently used chat rooms to a predetermined position on the screen (for example, but not limited to, at the top of the screen). .

In determining the destination talk room candidate, by way of example and not limitation, the terminal 20 may obtain information as to whether or not the talk room stored in the talk room data of the talk related information database 289 is registered as a favorite. The transfer destination talk room candidate can be determined based on the above information.

For No. "SP03-5", a "talk room in a folder" is defined as a destination talk room candidate.
"Talk rooms in folders" refers to, by way of example and not limitation, chats that the user of the terminal 20 has placed in a folder in a messaging service that allows the user of the terminal 20 to divide arbitrary chat rooms into folders. means room.
The fact that the talk room is in a folder means that it is determined as a destination talk room candidate because it is highly important to the user and there is a possibility that the user will be asked to display this talk room.

In this embodiment, it is assumed that the messaging application has a "folder" function as a type of function that allows a user to organize arbitrary talk rooms, by way of example and not limitation. Furthermore, it is assumed that the user can arbitrarily set a name for this folder, by way of example and not limitation.
Since the user can put any talk room he or she chooses into a folder with a name set by the user, multiple talk rooms can be organized to suit the user, improving convenience for the user. .
Specifically, a user puts talk rooms related to his or her work (one-on-one talk rooms, group talk rooms, OA talk rooms, etc.) into a folder named "work-related," and then puts them in a folder that is named "work-related." By putting talk rooms (one-on-one talk rooms, group talk rooms, OA talk rooms, etc.) related to unrelated private lives (family, friends, hobbies, etc.) into a folder named "Private", you can Rooms can be clearly organized.

Note that, by way of example and not limitation, predetermined attribute information is set in this folder, and by way of example and not limitation, it may have a function of automatically dividing the talk room into folders. The predetermined attribute information of a folder includes, by way of example and not limitation, "contains only talk rooms with unread messages", "contains only OA talk rooms", and the like.

In determining the destination talk room candidate, by way of example and not limitation, the terminal 20 may obtain information as to whether or not the talk room stored in the talk room data of the talk related information database 289 is in a folder. , a destination talk room candidate can be determined.

For No. "SP03-6", a "talk room set to be hidden" is defined as a destination talk room candidate. In the condition of No. "SP03-6", "no (x)" is defined as whether or not the destination talk room candidate is possible.
"Talk room set to be hidden" refers to, by way of example and not limitation, in a messaging service where the user of the terminal 20 can set any chat room to be hidden, the user of the terminal 20 has set the chat room to be hidden. means a talk room where
A talk room that is set to be hidden may not be a talk room that the user desires to display, so it means that it is not determined as a destination talk room candidate.

In determining the destination talk room candidate, by way of example and not limitation, the terminal 20 may obtain information as to whether or not the talk room stored in the talk room data of the talk related information database 289 is set to be hidden. The transfer destination talk room candidate can be determined based on the above information.

<Category No. “SP04”>
Category No. "SP04" is a category of "user attribute information", and as an example and not a limitation, destination talk room candidates for No. "SP04-1", "SP04-2A", and "SP04-2B" are in this category. included.

For No. "SP04-1", a "talk room related to the user's hobbies and preferences" is defined as a destination talk room candidate.
"Talk room related to the user's hobbies and preferences" means, by way of example and not limitation, a talk room related to the type of talk room of the official account of the OA company with which the user of the terminal 20 has already registered as a friend. . As an example and not a limitation, if the chat room type of the official account of an OA company (for example, cafe A) that the user of the terminal 20 has already registered as a friend is of the cafe type. This includes a talk room related to a talk room in which a talk room of an official account of another OA business (for example, but not limited to, Cafe B) is determined as a destination talk room candidate.
A chat room related to the user's hobbies and preferences is highly likely to match the user's hobbies and preferences, and there is a possibility that the user may be asked to display this chat room, so it is recommended that the chat room be selected as a destination chat room candidate. means.

In determining the destination talk room candidate, by way of example and not limitation, the terminal 20 acquires information related to the type of talk room of the official account by the OA company stored in the friend data 284, and Talk room candidates can be determined.

For No. "SP04-2A", a "talk room related to the user's location information" is defined as a destination talk room candidate.
"Talk room related to user's location information" means, by way of example and not limitation, a talk room related to the location information of the terminal 20 in a terminal that can acquire the location information. As an example and not a limitation, an official account by an OA business operator of a store that obtains the location information of the user of the terminal 20 and is within a predetermined range from the location information of the terminal 20 (as an example and not a limitation, within a range of 500 mm) This includes determining the OA talk room of as a destination talk room candidate.
It can be predicted that users will be interested in chat rooms related to the user's location information, and there is a high possibility that the user will display this chat room. It means being proposed as a candidate.

In determining the destination talk room candidate, by way of example and not limitation, the terminal 20 may acquire position information detected by the position calculation information detection unit 29B and determine the destination talk room candidate. Can be done.

For No. "SP04-2B", a "talk room related to the user's location information" is defined as a destination talk room candidate.
As an example, but not a limitation, if the location information of the user of the terminal 20 is acquired and the location information of the terminal 20 is outside a predetermined range (as an example, not a limitation, if the user is 100 km or more away from his or her home), he or she may be unable to work. There is a possibility that the person is outside the normal range of activities that are considered to be active, that is, he or she is not working (spending leisure time). For this reason, this includes cases where work-related talk rooms are not determined as destination talk room candidates.
Since the talk room in this example may have a low priority for the user, it can be avoided from being determined as a destination talk room candidate.

<Category No. “SP05”>
Category No. "SP05" is a category of "Others," and includes, by way of example and not limitation, destination talk room candidates with No. "SP05-1A,""SP05-1B," and "SP05-2."

For No. "SP05-1A", a "work-related talk room on weekdays" is defined as a destination talk room candidate.
"Work-related talk rooms on weekdays" refers to, by way of example and not limitation, talk rooms related to work during weekdays (Monday to Friday) when the user of the terminal 20 is considered to be working. It means a group talk room made up of members.
If it is a weekday, a talk room related to work is highly important to the user during weekdays, and there is a possibility that this talk room will be displayed, so this means that it is determined as a candidate talk room to move to. .

In determining the destination talk room candidate, by way of example and not limitation, the terminal 20 acquires clock information (timekeeping information) output from the clock unit 29A, and by way of example, but not limitation, Information on whether the talk room stored in the talk room data of the information database 289 is a talk room related to work can be obtained to determine a destination talk room candidate.

For No. "SP05-1B", "a talk room related to work when it is a holiday" is defined as a destination talk room candidate.
By way of example and not limitation, "talk room related to work when it is a holiday" means a talk room related to work during a holiday period (Saturday and Sunday) when the user of the terminal 20 is considered not to be working. It means a group talk room made up of members.
If it is a holiday, a talk room related to work is of low importance to the user during the holiday period, and there is a low possibility that this talk room will be displayed, so it should not be determined as a destination talk room candidate. Can be done.

In determining the destination talk room candidate, by way of example and not limitation, the terminal 20 acquires clock information (timekeeping information) output from the clock unit 29A, and by way of example, but not limitation, Information on whether the talk room stored in the talk room data of the information database 289 is a talk room related to work can be obtained to determine a destination talk room candidate.

For No. "SP05-2", "a talk room related to another app when specific information is received in another app" is defined as a destination talk room candidate.
"Other applications" means, by way of example and not limitation, an application for implementing a service different from a messaging application for implementing a messaging service. The other application may be, by way of example and not limitation, a "weather application" for implementing a weather forecast service (hereinafter referred to as "weather service").

Moreover, the "specific information" may be information useful to the user of the terminal 20, by way of example and not limitation. By way of example and not limitation, when applying the above weather application, the specific information may be information indicating that the probability of rain within one hour is 50% or more in the weather application.

Further, the term "talk room related to the application" means, by way of example and not limitation, an OA talk room of an official account of an OA business that provides services realized by other applications. By way of example and not limitation, when applying the above weather application, the "talk room related to that application" is, by way of example and not limitation, the OA talk room of the official account of the OA business providing the weather application. be able to.

In this way, when specific information is received in another app, the chat room related to that app is highly important to the user and there is a possibility that this chat room will be displayed, so it is determined as a candidate chat room to move to. It means to do.

<Display screen>
2-2, 2-3, and 2-4 show user A. It is a figure which shows an example of the transition of the screen displayed on the display part 24 of A's terminal 20A.

(1) Example of the first display screen Figure 2-2 shows the screen related to the context of the currently displayed chat room of No. “SP02-1” as the destination talk room candidate in the first destination talk room candidate determination process. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a display screen when a "talk room" is determined.
Here, as an example and not a limitation, based on the fact that the term "travel" was included in the message sent by the user of the terminal 20 in the first talk room, a talk room related to the term "travel" will be described. As an example, a chat room of an official account of a travel-related OA business (for example, but not limited to, "domestic travel,""overseastravel,""hot spring inn," etc.) is determined as the destination chat room candidate. do.

At the top center of the screen, the words "Messaging App" are displayed as the name of the messaging application. Further, at the top right of the screen, an icon image and a user name (user AA in this example) of the messaging application of the user of this terminal 20 are displayed.

In the left screen of FIG. 2-2, the talk room name display area CLR includes user A. A is user B. Characters (in this example, "B.B") indicating that this is a talk room for talking with B as the other party are displayed.

Also, below that, user A. A and user B. A talk area is configured for conversation between user B and user B, and on the left side of the screen when facing user B. B's message is displayed on the right side of the screen as user A. It is configured so that the message A is displayed.
In this example, user A. A message MS1 containing the term "travel" sent by A is displayed.

In addition, at the bottom of the talk area, one or more icon-type talk rooms are displayed that allow the user to select the destination talk room (this is not a limitation, but is an example of the first display). A room information display area ER1 is provided.

The icon type talk room information displayed in the icon type talk room information display area ER1 includes, by way of example and not limitation, an icon type talk corresponding to the destination talk room candidate determined in the first destination talk room candidate determination process. Room information is displayed.
In this example, by way of example and not limitation, the user name "domestic travel" and the corresponding icon, the user name "overseas travel" and the corresponding icon, and the user name "hot spring inn" and the corresponding icon A plurality of icon-type talk room information is displayed, including.

In addition, in this example, the icon-type talk room information that is displayed is the icon-type talk room information that corresponds to the talk room of the official account of the OA company, so it is associated with the icon-type talk room information, and the OA company's official account Information that allows the user to identify the account's chat room is displayed. Specifically, by way of example and not limitation, an icon including the characters "OA" is displayed superimposed on the lower right corner of the icon type talk room information.

The center screen in Figure 2-2 shows, by way of example and not limitation, a state in which the OA company name "Domestic Travel" or the corresponding icon is tapped among multiple icon-type talk room information. There is. In this case, the person being displayed is user B. The display switches from the talk room B (first talk room) to the talk room (second talk room) in which the other party is the OA company "Domestic Travel". As a result, by way of example and not limitation, the screen shown on the right of FIG. 2-2 is displayed.

This screen is for user A. A is the screen of a talk room for talking with the OA company "Domestic Travel", and as an example and not a limitation, in the talk room name display area CLR, it is displayed in the talk room with the OA company name "Domestic Travel". Characters (in this example, an icon containing the characters "OA" and "domestic travel") indicating that there are are displayed.

This talk room screen displays an explanatory text, a registered URL, a banner image with a link based on the registered URL, etc. as information indicating that the user can receive the "20% OFF domestic travel" service.

By way of example and not limitation, when a user performs an operation (tap operation, by way of example and not limitation) on the above-mentioned registration URL or banner image, a request to add a registration message associated with the registration URL is sent from the terminal 20 to the server. It will be held on 10th.

In addition, in the icon type talk room information display area ER1 at the bottom of the screen, as an example and not a limitation, the OA company name "Overseas Travel" and the corresponding icon, and the OA company name "Hot Spring Inn" and the corresponding icon are displayed. A plurality of icon-type talk room information is displayed, including icons for.

(2) Second display screen example Figure 2-3 shows that in the first destination talk room candidate determination process, the “talk room with unread messages” with No. “SP03-3” is determined as the destination talk room candidate. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a display screen when the screen is displayed.
Here, as an example and not a limitation, a talk room whose unread count is equal to or greater than a set number (the unread count is "1 or more" as an example and not a limitation) is determined as a destination talk room candidate. User C. whose number is "5". C's talk room, user D. whose unread count is "2". D's talk room, user E. whose unread count is "1". A case is illustrated in which the talk room of E is determined as a destination talk room candidate.

The left screen in Figure 2-3 shows user A. A is user B. This is an example of the screen of the first talk room with B as the other party.
In the icon type talk room information display area ER1, icon type talk room information corresponding to the destination talk room candidate determined in the first destination talk room candidate determination process is displayed, by way of example and not limitation.
In this example, by way of example and not limitation, user name "C.C" and the corresponding icon, user name "D.D" and the corresponding icon, user name "E.E" and the corresponding icon, and user name "E.E" and the corresponding icon. A plurality of icon type talk room information including corresponding icons are displayed.

In addition, in this example, in a predetermined position of each icon (by way of example and not limitation, in the upper right corner of the icon-type talk room information), the number of unread items is provided as information that allows the user to specify the number of unread items. The corresponding numerical information is displayed.
Specifically, user C. In the upper right corner of the icon corresponding to user D. In the upper right corner of the icon corresponding to D, the number "2" corresponding to the number of unread items is 2. At the upper right of the icon corresponding to E, the number "1" corresponding to the unread number of 1 is displayed.

The screen in the center of Figure 2-3 shows, by way of example and not limitation, a state in which the user name "C.C" or the corresponding icon is tapped among multiple icon-type talk room information. . In this case, the person being displayed is user B. From the talk room designated as B (the first talk room), the other user C. The display switches to talk room C (second talk room). As a result, by way of example and not limitation, the screen shown on the right in FIGS. 2-3 is displayed.

This screen is for user A. A is user C. This is a talk room for talking with C as the other party, and as an example and not a limitation, characters indicating that it is a talk room with the user name "C.C" (in this example, " C.C”) is displayed.
Also, below that, user A. A and user C. A talk area is configured for conversation between C and C, and on the left side of the screen is the other user C. C's message is displayed on the right side of the screen, which is user A.C's message. It is configured so that the message A is displayed.

In addition, in the icon type talk room information display area ER1 at the bottom of the screen, as an example and not a limitation, the user name "D.D" and the corresponding icon, and the user name "E.E" and the corresponding icon are displayed. A plurality of icon-type talk room information is displayed, including.

(3) Third display screen example Figure 2-4 shows the "talk room related to the user's hobbies and preferences" with No. "SP04-1" as the destination talk room candidate in the first destination talk room candidate determination process. FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a display screen when the .
Here, as an example and not a limitation, based on the fact that the type of talk room of the official account of an OA company (by way of example and not limitation, Cafe A) that the user of the terminal 20 has registered as a friend is a cafe type. As a talk room related to this talk room, there are talk rooms of official accounts of other cafe-type OA operators (for example, but not limited to, Cafe B Company, Cafe C Company, Cafe D Company, etc.). An example of a case where a chat room is determined as a destination talk room candidate will be exemplified.

In FIG. 2-4, the talk room name display area CLR displays user A. as the talk room name. Characters (in this example, an icon including the characters "OA" and "Cafe A") indicating that A is a talk room for talking with the OA company "Cafe A Company" are displayed.
Also, below that, user A. A talk area is configured for conversation between A and OA company "Cafe A Company", and a message from the other party, OA company "Cafe A Company", is displayed on the left side of the screen. On the right side is user A. It is configured so that the message A is displayed.

This talk room screen displays an explanatory text, a registered URL, and a banner image with a link based on the registered URL as advertising information indicating that "new product coffee is on sale for 399 yen." .

By way of example and not limitation, when a user performs an operation (tap, by way of example and not limitation) on the above-mentioned registration URL or banner image, a request to add a registration message associated with the registration URL is sent from the terminal 20 to the server 10. It will be held on.

In the icon type talk room information display area ER1, icon type talk room information corresponding to the destination talk room candidate determined in the first destination talk room candidate determination process is displayed, by way of example and not limitation.
In this example, the OA business name "Cafe B" and the corresponding icon, the OA business name "Cafe C" and the corresponding icon, and the OA business name "Cafe D" and the corresponding icon. A plurality of icon-type talk room information is displayed, including.

In addition, in this example, when displaying icon-type talk room information corresponding to a talk room of an official account by an OA company, the predetermined position (as an example and not a limitation) is set to the right of the icon-type talk room information. At the bottom), information that allows the user to identify that it is a talk room of an official account by an OA company (as an example and not a limitation, an icon containing the characters "OA") is displayed.

The center screen in Figure 2-4 shows, by way of example and not limitation, a state in which the OA company name "Cafe B" or the corresponding icon is tapped among multiple icon-type talk room information. There is. In this case, the person being displayed is user B. The display switches from the talk room with B (the first talk room) to the talk room with the other party's OA provider "Cafe Company B" (the second talk room). As a result, by way of example and not limitation, the screen shown on the right of FIG. 2-4 is displayed.

This screen is for user A. This is a talk room for A to have a talk with the OA company "Cafe B Company", and as an example and not a limitation, the talk room name display area CLR shows a talk room with the OA company name "Cafe B Company". Characters (in this example, an icon including the characters "OA" and "Cafe B") indicating that the item exists are displayed.

This talk room screen displays an explanatory text, a registered URL, and a banner image with a link based on the registered URL as information indicating that you can receive a service of "100 yen off your bill." .

By way of example and not limitation, when a user performs an operation (tap, by way of example and not limitation) on a displayed registration URL or banner image, a request to add a registration message associated with the registration URL is sent from the terminal 20 to the server. It will be held on 10th.

In addition, in the icon type talk room information display area ER1 at the bottom of the screen, as an example and not a limitation, the OA company name "Cafe C Company" and the corresponding icon, and the OA company name "Cafe D Company" and this A plurality of icon-type talk room information are displayed, including icons corresponding to .

<Processing>
In this embodiment, when the first talk room is displayed, the destination talk room candidate determination process is executed by the terminal 20. For convenience, the destination talk room candidate determination process executed by the terminal 20 will be referred to as "first destination talk room candidate determination process."

FIG. 2-5 is a flowchart showing an example of the flow of processing executed by the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 in this embodiment.
Note that steps that are the same as those in the flowcharts that have already been provided are given the same reference numerals, and repeated explanations will be omitted.

After A110, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 executes a first destination talk room candidate determination process (A115).
In this first destination talk room candidate determination process, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 determines a destination talk room candidate based on the destination talk room candidate determination table described above.

Thereafter, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 causes the display unit 24 to display icon type talk room information corresponding to the determined destination talk room candidate (A120). That is, icon-type talk room information corresponding to the determined destination talk room candidate is displayed using a method similar to that described in step A120 of FIG. 1-11.
Then, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 advances the process to A130.

<Effects of the second embodiment>
In this embodiment, the terminal 20 selects a destination chat room candidate (not limited, but an example of a second chat room to which to move) based on information acquired by the terminal 20 (not limited, but an example of first information). This figure shows a configuration in which the control unit 21 determines.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, a second chat room to be moved (a candidate for a second chat room to be moved) can be appropriately determined based on the first information acquired by the terminal. can.

Also, in this case, the information acquired by the terminal 20 may include, by way of example and not limitation, information regarding the user of the terminal 20.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the second chat room to which to move can be appropriately determined based on information regarding the user of the terminal.

In this case, the information regarding the user of the terminal 20 may include, by way of example and not limitation, information regarding the number of chat room displays (display frequency) and the number of taps (tap frequency) by the user of the terminal 20 (not limited to the terminal (an example of information regarding use of the chat room by users).
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the second chat room to which to move can be appropriately determined based on information regarding the use of the chat room by the user of the terminal. As an example and not a limitation, by determining a chat room that has been displayed many times/frequently or a chat room whose first display has been tapped (clicked) many times/frequently as the second chat room to be moved, It becomes possible to reflect the user's needs and the status of use of the chat room, and it is possible to improve user convenience.

In this case, the information regarding the user of the terminal 20 may include, by way of example and not limitation, information regarding unread content and information regarding the number of unread contents (without limitation, information regarding the number of unread contents). An example of information regarding viewing by a user of a terminal) can be included.
As an example of the effects of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the second chat room to which to move can be appropriately determined based on information regarding the viewing of content displayed in the second chat room by the user of the terminal. can. As an example and not a limitation, by determining a chat room with unread content or a chat room with a certain amount of unread content as the second chat room to be moved, the status of chat room viewing by the user of the device can be reflected. This makes it possible to improve user convenience.

Further, in this case, the information acquired by the terminal 20 can include information regarding the chat room.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the second chat room to which to move can be appropriately determined based on information regarding the chat room.

Further, in this case, the information regarding the chat room can include information on a message (not limited, but an example of content) displayed in the source talk room (not limited, but an example of the first chat room).
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the second chat room to which to move can be appropriately determined based on the information of the content displayed in the first chat room.

Further, in this case, the source talk room is a group talk room (not limited to, but an example of a group chat room) including the user of the terminal 20 and a plurality of users different from the user of the terminal 20, Information about the chat room can include information about users included in this group.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, a second chat room to be moved is configured based on information of users included in a group including a user of the terminal and a plurality of users different from the user of the terminal. be able to make appropriate decisions.

Furthermore, in this case, the information regarding the talk room is a message displayed in the second chat room, and includes content in which the user of the terminal 20 is mentioned (not limited to content associated with information indicating the user of the terminal). example).
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, a second chat room that moves through the second chat room, which includes content displayed in the second chat room and associated with information indicating the user of the terminal. 2 can be determined as a chat room candidate.

In addition, in this embodiment, a talk room that is not determined as a destination talk room candidate (an example of a second chat room that is not subject to the first display, but is not limited to this) is provided with the location information of the user of the terminal 20 (or the terminal 20). The configuration is determined based on information on the work of the user of the terminal 20 (not limited to this, but an example of information regarding the user of the terminal 20).
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, it is possible to appropriately determine a second chat room that is not to be displayed in the first display based on information regarding the user of the terminal. By not displaying the first display corresponding to the second chat room that the terminal user does not wish to display, convenience for the terminal user can be improved.

<Second modification (1)>
Although the second embodiment shows an example in which the destination talk room candidate determination process is executed by the terminal 20, the present invention is not limited thereto.
By way of example and not limitation, the destination talk room candidate determination process may or may not be executed by the server 10.

<Processing>
In this modification, when the first talk room is displayed, the server 10 executes a destination talk room candidate determination process for determining a destination talk room candidate. For convenience, the destination talk room candidate determination process executed by the server 10 will be referred to as "second destination talk room candidate determination process."

FIG. 2-6 is a flowchart showing an example of the flow of processing executed by each device in this modification. In this figure, the left side shows the process executed by the control unit 21 of the terminal 20, and the right side shows the process executed by the control unit 11 of the server 10.
Here, explanation will be given assuming that the user of the terminal 20 has already been registered in the first talk room and the second talk room in the messaging application.

Note that steps that are the same as those in the flowcharts that have already been provided are given the same reference numerals and will not be described again.
This also applies to each of the other embodiments and modifications.

After A110, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 sends a destination talk room candidate request to the server 10 via the communication I/F 22 to request a destination talk room candidate (information on the destination talk room candidate) from the server 10 ( A112).

In response to this request, the control unit 11 of the server 10 executes a second destination talk room candidate determination process (S110).
In this second destination talk room candidate determination process, the control unit 11 of the server 10 determines a destination talk room candidate based on the destination talk room candidate determination table described above.
In this case, on the server 10 side, by way of example and not limitation, information regarding the user of the terminal 20 and information regarding the terminal 20 can be stored and managed in the account registration data 153 or the like, as described above. In this case, the control unit 11 of the server 10 can acquire information from these data and determine a destination talk room candidate using the same method as the terminal 20 based on the acquired information.

Note that among the information used to determine the destination talk room candidate (information necessary for determining the destination talk room candidate), although it is not stored in the storage unit 15 of the server 10, the information on the terminal 20 is If there is information stored in the storage unit 28, the server 10 can acquire the information from the terminal 20 and then determine the destination talk room candidate.

Next, the control unit 11 of the server 10 transmits destination talk room candidate determination information including the destination talk room candidates determined in the second destination talk room candidate determination process to the terminal 20 via the communication I/F 22 (S120 ).

When receiving the destination talk room candidate information from the server 10 through the communication I/F 22, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 causes the display unit 24 to display icon type talk room information based on the received destination talk room candidate determination information. (A125). In other words, the icon type talk room information corresponding to the destination talk room candidate included in the destination talk room candidate determination information received from the server 10 is displayed using a method similar to that described in step A120 of FIG. 1-11. let
Then, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 advances the process to A130.

Note that in this process, the destination talk room candidate determination information including the determined destination talk room candidate is transmitted from the server 10 to the terminal 20, but the present invention is not limited thereto.
By way of example and not limitation, icon type talk room information corresponding to the determined destination talk room candidate is transmitted from the server 10 to the terminal 20, and the icon type talk room information is displayed on the display unit 24 of the terminal 20. You can do it like this.

In addition, the user may not want the server 10 to refer to or use information regarding the terminal 20, information regarding the user, information on the content of chats between users, etc. without permission.
Therefore, by way of example and not limitation, the server 10 may request that the information be referenced and used on the server 10 side through the terms of service, etc., and if the user's consent (approval) is obtained, the server 10 may use the information. It can be made available for reference and use.
Also, by way of example and not limitation, information such as the chat content in the open chat described above may be made available to the server 10 without requiring user approval.

To give one example, by way of example and not limitation, if it is determined that saunas are being discussed in an open chat room (first talk room), the control unit 11 of the server 10 executes a context determination process. , it is determined that the theme is sauna. Then, the control unit 11 of the server 10 can determine an open chat room with a sauna theme, an OA talk room of a sauna OA business, etc. as the destination talk room.

According to this modification, the destination talk room candidates are determined by the server, so it is not necessary to determine the destination talk room candidates on the terminal side, and the processing load on the terminal can be reduced.

These contents also include other embodiments and modifications related to the display of icon type talk room information, and each embodiment and each modification related to the display of switchable talk room information, which will be described in detail later. Similarly applicable.

<Second modification (2)>
In addition to the method described in the second embodiment, by way of example and not limitation, a destination talk room candidate may be determined based on information input via the input unit of the terminal 20. As an example and not a limitation, a destination talk room candidate may be determined based on sound information (including audio information) input from the sound input section 25 and image information captured by the imaging section 27. good.

Specifically, by way of example and not limitation, when the user name of a specific user, the group name of a specific group, or information related thereto is input by the sound input unit 25, the user's talk room, The group talk room of that group may be determined as the destination talk room candidate. Similarly, when a specific user is imaged by the imaging unit 27, a talk room of that user or a group talk room including the user may be determined as a destination talk room candidate.

Further, by way of example and not limitation, when a term related to the work of the user of the terminal 20 is input from the sound input unit 25 or an object related to the work of the user of the terminal 20 is captured by the imaging unit 27, the terminal Talk rooms related to the work of the 20 users may be determined as destination talk room candidates.

These can be realized by the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 performing sound recognition processing (including speech recognition processing) or image recognition processing on input information, by way of example and not limitation.

<Third Example>
The third example is an example regarding conditions and timing for displaying talk room information.
The content described in the third embodiment is applicable to any of the other embodiments and other modifications.
In addition, the same reference numerals are given to the same constituent elements as those already mentioned, and the explanation thereof will be omitted.

In this embodiment, a case will be exemplified in which the terminal 20 performs a process of determining whether or not to display talk room information (hereinafter referred to as "talk room information display determination process").

<Talk room information display condition table>
The talk room information display condition table is a table that is referred to when executing the talk room information display determination process, and an example of the table configuration of the talk room information display condition table is shown in FIG. 3-1.

The talk room information display condition table stores, by way of example and not limitation, a condition number that is the number of the talk room information display condition and the talk room information display condition of this No. in association with each other.

Hereinafter, each talk room information display condition and its determination method will be explained in detail.

<Condition No. “SP11-1” to “SP11-4”>
Condition Nos. "SP11-1" to "SP11-4" are "conditions related to the first talk room."

Condition No. "SP11-1" defines "a specific context was detected" as a talk room information display condition.
Context refers to the context, context, context, etc. of content displayed in a chat room.

As one method, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 can determine the end of the talk using an algorithm that recognizes the context.

Alternatively, as another method, content suggesting the end of the talk is registered in advance on the terminal 20 side or the server 10 side, and the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 determines the end of the talk based on the registered content. You can do as you like.
By way of example and not limitation, specific text content such as "goodbye", "see you", and "understood" may be registered.

This condition means that when a specific context is detected in the first talk room, it is determined that the talk room information is to be displayed because there is a possibility that the talk in the first talk room has ended.

In determining whether or not to display this talk room information, by way of example and not limitation, whether or not to display talk room information is determined based on the history of content stored in the talk history data of the talk related information database 289. can be determined.

Condition No. "SP11-2" specifies that "the stamp is pressed a set number of times or more in succession" as a talk room information display condition.
The number of times to be set is not limited, and for example, an arbitrary number of times can be set in advance on the terminal 20 side or the server 10 side.

This condition is such that if the stamp is pressed consecutively more than the set number of times in the first talk room (for example, 5 or more times), the talk in the first talk room may have ended. This means that it is determined that room information will be displayed.

In determining whether or not to display this talk room information, by way of example and not limitation, based on the history of content stored in the talk history data of the talk related information database 289, from the user of the own terminal 20 to the other party's user. If the content of stamps sent in 2 consecutive times is equal to or greater than a set number, it can be determined that the talk room information is to be displayed.

Condition No. "SP11-3" defines "a set time has elapsed without any message input" as a talk room information display condition.
The set time is not limited to this, and as an example, an arbitrary time can be set in advance on the terminal 20 side or the server 10 side.
This condition is such that if the set time (5 minutes, as an example and not a limitation) has passed without any message input in the first talk room, the talk in the first talk room may have ended. This means that it is determined that room information will be displayed.

In determining whether or not to display this talk room information, by way of example and not limitation, the terminal 20 acquires clock information (timekeeping information) output from the clock section 29A. However, based on the message input history specified from the talk history data of the talk related information database 289, if a set time has passed with no input since the latest message was input, the talk room information It is possible to make a determination by displaying .

In the condition number "SP11-4", "a set time has elapsed without any message being sent or received" is defined as a talk room information display condition.
The set time is not limited to this, and as an example, an arbitrary time can be set in advance on the terminal 20 side or the server 10 side.
This condition means that if the set time (5 minutes, as an example, not a limitation) has passed without any messages being sent or received in the first talk room, the talk in the first talk room may have ended. This means that it is determined that room information will be displayed.

In determining whether or not to display this talk room information, by way of example and not limitation, the terminal 20 acquires clock information (timekeeping information) output from the clock section 29A. However, based on the message sending/receiving history stored in the talk history data of the talk related information database 289, if a set time has elapsed without sending or receiving any messages since the latest message was sent/received, the talk room It can be determined that the information is to be displayed.

<Condition No. “SP11-5” to “SP11-8”>
Condition Nos. "SP11-5" to "SP11-8" are "conditions related to the second talk room."

Condition No. "SP11-5" defines "a new message has been received" as a condition for displaying talk room information.
This condition means that when a new message is received, it is determined that the chat room information is displayed because the chat room in which the new message is displayed may have a high viewing priority for the user.
In this case, by way of example and not limitation, talk room information that includes at least talk room information corresponding to a talk room that satisfies this condition may be displayed.

In determining whether or not to display the talk room information, by way of example and not limitation, if it is determined that a new message has been received from the server 10 via the communication I/F 22, it may be determined that the talk room information is to be displayed. Can be done.

Condition No. "SP11-6" defines the talk room information display condition as "a set time has elapsed while there is a talk room in which you are mentioned."
The set time is not limited to this, and as an example, an arbitrary time can be set in advance on the terminal 20 side or the server 10 side.
This condition means that if a set time (for example, 10 minutes) has elapsed while there is a chat room that has been mentioned to the user, that chat room will be viewed with high priority for the user. This means that it is determined that the talk room information should be displayed because there is a possibility that the talk room has not been viewed for a while.
In this case, by way of example and not limitation, talk room information that includes at least talk room information corresponding to a talk room that satisfies this condition may be displayed.

In determining whether or not to display this talk room information, by way of example and not limitation, the terminal 20 acquires clock information (timekeeping information) output from the clock unit 29A, By referring to the talk information data in the information database 289, if there is a message in which you are mentioned and a set time has passed since the message was received, it will be determined that the talk room information will be displayed. can do.

In the condition No. "SP11-7", "a set time has elapsed while there is a talk room with an unread message" is defined as a talk room information display condition. In this case as well, the set time can be set arbitrarily.
This condition means that if there is a talk room with unread messages and the set time (for example, 10 minutes, not a limitation) has passed, the message will be viewed for a while even though the user has a high priority for viewing it. This means that it is determined that the chat room information should be displayed because there is a possibility that the chat room does not have a previous chat room.
In this case, by way of example and not limitation, talk room information that includes at least talk room information corresponding to a talk room that satisfies this condition may be displayed.

Note that it may be determined whether or not to display the talk room information based on the number of unread messages, or it may not be necessary to do so.
As an example and not a limitation, a talk room in which the number of unreads is equal to or greater than the first specified number (or the first set number) (not as a limitation, but as an example, the number of unreads is 10 or more) is the second specified number (or the second set number) If the number is 3 or more (by way of example and not limitation), it may be determined that the talk room information is to be displayed, or it may not be necessary to do so.

In determining whether or not to display this talk room information, by way of example and not limitation, the terminal 20 acquires clock information (timekeeping information) output from the clock section 29A. However, the existence and number of unread messages stored in the talk history data can be acquired to determine whether or not to display talk room information.

In the condition No. "SP11-8", "a set time has elapsed while there is a talk room registered as a favorite" is defined as a talk room information display condition. In this case as well, the set time can be set arbitrarily.
As an example, and not as a limitation, if a talk room is registered as a favorite and a set time has elapsed (10 minutes, as an example, not a limitation), the talk room will be marked as a favorite for a while, even though it is of high importance to the user. This means that it is determined that the talk room information should be displayed because there is a possibility that the talk room has not been viewed for a while.
In this case, by way of example and not limitation, talk room information that includes at least talk room information corresponding to a talk room that satisfies this condition may be displayed.

In determining whether or not to display this talk room information, by way of example and not limitation, the terminal 20 acquires clock information (timekeeping information) output from the clock section 29A. However, information on whether or not the talk room stored in the talk room information data of the talk related information database 289 is registered as a favorite is acquired to determine whether or not to display the talk room information. be able to.

Condition No. "SP11-9" defines the talk room information display condition as "a set time has elapsed while there is a talk room in the folder." In this case as well, the set time can be set arbitrarily.
This condition means that if there is a talk room in the folder and the set time (10 minutes, as an example, not a limitation) has passed, it will be viewed for a while even though it is of high importance to the user. This means that it is determined that the chat room information should be displayed because there is a possibility that the chat room does not have a previous chat room.
In this case, by way of example and not limitation, talk room information that includes at least talk room information corresponding to a talk room that satisfies this condition may be displayed.

In determining whether or not to display this talk room information, by way of example and not limitation, the terminal 20 acquires clock information (timekeeping information) output from the clock section 29A. However, information on whether or not the talk room stored in the talk room information data of the talk related information database 289 is included in a folder is acquired to determine whether or not to display the talk room information. Can be done.

<Display screen>
FIG. 3-2 shows user A. It is a figure which shows an example of the transition of the screen displayed on the display part 24 of A's terminal 20A.

Here, in the talk room information display determination process, the talk room An example of a display screen when it is determined that information is to be displayed will be described.
In this example, it is assumed that it is determined that the talk room information is to be displayed when the stamp is pressed a set number of times or more (by way of example, not limitation, five or more times) in the first talk room.

In addition, in this example, in the first destination talk room candidate determination process, it is assumed that the ``talk room that has been displayed most times within the set time'' with No. "SP01-1" is determined as the destination talk room candidate. explain. Specifically, in the first destination talk room candidate determination process, talk rooms that have been displayed the most times within a set time (for example, not as a limitation, one hour) are selected (as an example, not a limitation). , a talk room for talking with user C.C, a talk room for talking with user D.D, a talk room for talking with user E.E) is the destination talk. It is assumed that the room has been determined as a candidate.

In the left screen of FIG. 3-2, the talk room name display area CLR shows user A. A is user B. Characters (in this example, "B.B") indicating that this is a talk room for talking with B as the other party are displayed.
Also, below that, user A. A and user B. A talk area is configured for conversation between user B and user B, and on the left side of the screen when facing user B. B's message is displayed on the right side of the screen as user A. It is configured so that the message A is displayed.

In the left screen of FIG. 3-2, the icon-type talk room information is not displayed because the talk room information display condition is not satisfied.

In the center screen of FIG. 3-2, by way of example and not limitation, user B. A state in which a stamp has been received from B once is shown. Specifically, user B. Stamp ST1 is displayed as the first stamp received from B.

After that, user B. Assume that stamps have been received from B four times in a row. Specifically, user B. Stamp ST4 and stamp ST5 are displayed as the fourth and fifth stamps of the five stamps consecutively received from B.
In this case, the other user, user B. This means that the stamp has been received from B five times in a row, and the talk room information display condition is satisfied. As a result, by way of example and not limitation, the screen shown in the right screen of FIG. 3-2 is displayed.

In this case, based on the fact that the talk room information display condition (in this example, condition No. "11-2") is satisfied, the icon type talk room information display area ER1 at the bottom of the screen displays the user's A plurality of user names including a user name "User C.C" and an icon corresponding thereto, a user name "User D.D" and an icon corresponding thereto, and a user name "User E.E" and an icon corresponding thereto. Icon type talk room information is displayed.

<Processing>
In this embodiment, when the first talk room is displayed and the first destination talk room candidate determination process for determining the destination talk room candidate is executed, it is determined whether or not to display icon-type talk room information. A chat room information display determination process to be determined is executed by the terminal 20.

FIG. 3-3 is a flowchart showing an example of the flow of processing executed by the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 in this embodiment.
Here, explanation will be given assuming that the user of the terminal 20 has already been registered in the first talk room and the second talk room in the messaging application.

After A115, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 determines whether icon type talk room information is being displayed in the first talk room (A116). If the icon type talk room information is being displayed (A116: YES), the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 advances the process to A130.

If the icon type talk room information is not being displayed (A116: NO), the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 executes a talk room information display determination process (A117a).
In this talk room information display determination process, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 determines whether or not to display icon type talk room information based on the talk room information display condition table described above.

If it is determined that the icon type talk room information is not to be displayed (A118a: NO), the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 advances the process to A142.
On the other hand, if it is determined that icon type talk room information is to be displayed (A118a: YES), the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 advances the process to A130.

Further, after A140, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 determines whether the first talk room is being displayed (A142). If the first talk room is not being displayed (A142: NO), the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 ends the process.
On the other hand, if the first talk room is being displayed (A142: YES), the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 returns the process to A116.

<Effects of the third embodiment>
This embodiment shows a configuration in which icon type talk room information is displayed on the display unit 24 of the terminal 20 based on the talk room information display condition (not limited, but an example of the set first condition). There is.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the first display can be displayed on the display section of the terminal based on the set first condition.

Further, in this case, the talk room information display conditions can include conditions related to the talk room (not limited to, but an example of conditions related to the chat room).
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the first display can be appropriately displayed on the display section of the terminal based on the set conditions regarding the chat room.

In addition, in this case, the talk room information display conditions are conditions related to the context of the message displayed in the first talk room, which is the source talk room (not limited to, but related to the relationship between multiple contents displayed in the first chat room). example of the condition).
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the first display is appropriately displayed on the display section of the terminal based on the relationship between the plurality of contents displayed in the first chat room. Can be done. By way of example and not limitation, if the chat in the first chat room is presumed to have ended based on the context of multiple contents displayed in the first chat room, the first display may appear on the display of the device. By displaying the chat room, the user of the terminal can easily move to another chat room, which improves user convenience.

Additionally, in this case, the chat room information display conditions are conditions such as the stamp being pressed consecutively in the first chat room, which is the source chat room (not limited to, but the content displayed in the first chat room). (an example of conditions regarding input).
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the first display is appropriately displayed on the display section of the terminal based on the conditions regarding input of content to be displayed in the first chat room. Can be done. As an example and not a limitation, if specific content is continuously input as the content displayed in the first chat room, it is assumed that the chat in the first chat room has ended, and the first display is displayed on the terminal. By displaying the chat room on the display section of the chat room, the user of the terminal can easily move to another chat room, which improves user convenience.

In this case, the chat room information display condition may include conditions such as receiving a new message from a chat room different from the first chat room (not limited to conditions related to receiving content displayed in the second chat room). example).
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the first display is appropriately displayed on the display section of the terminal based on the conditions regarding reception of the content displayed in the second chat room. Can be done. By way of example and not limitation, when new content is received as content to be displayed in the second chat room, the first display may be displayed on the display of the terminal, so that the user of the terminal can It becomes possible to easily move to a chat room in which new content has been received, improving convenience for the user.

<Third modification (1)>
Similar to the second modification, in the third embodiment, the server 10 may or may not determine whether the talk room information display condition is met.
In this case, the control unit 11 of the server 10 performs talk room information display determination processing based on the talk room information display conditions. Then, when it is determined that the talk room information display condition is satisfied, the control unit 11 of the server 10 may notify the terminal 20 via the communication I/F 14 to display the talk room information. can.

<Third modification (2)>
In the third embodiment, when the terminal 20 detects that messages are being sent and received frequently while displaying the first talk room, the terminal 20 proposes to the user to switch to a telephone or video call. A process for displaying information (telephone and video call icon images, etc.) in the first talk room may or may not be performed.

Further, in this case, a telephone function may be associated with the information suggesting a telephone call, so that when the information suggesting a telephone call is tapped, the telephone function may be called up and a call can be made with the other user. The same applies to video calls.
Note that this also applies when the second talk room is displayed.

<Fourth Example>
The fourth embodiment is an embodiment related to erasing the display of talk room information.
The content described in the fourth embodiment is applicable to any of the other embodiments and other modifications.
In addition, the same reference numerals are given to the same constituent elements as those already mentioned, and the explanation thereof will be omitted.

In this embodiment, a case will be exemplified in which the terminal 20 performs a process of determining whether or not to delete the display of talk room information (hereinafter referred to as "talk room information display deletion determination process"). Erasing the display of talk room information can also be said to hide the currently displayed talk room information.

<Talk room information display deletion condition table>
The talk room information display deletion condition table is a table that is referred to when executing the talk room information display deletion determination process, and an example of the table configuration of the talk room information display deletion condition table is shown in FIG. 4-1. .

In the talk room information display deletion condition table, by way of example and not limitation, a condition No. which is the number of the talk room information display condition and the talk room information display deletion condition of this number are stored in association with each other.

Hereinafter, each talk room information display condition and its determination method will be explained in detail.

<Condition No. "SP12-1" to "SP12-4">
Condition Nos. "SP12-1" to "SP12-4" are "conditions related to the first talk room."

Condition Nos. "SP12-1" to "SP12-3" are conditions when "an input by the user is detected while the first talk room is being displayed."

Condition No. "SP12-1" defines "a tap operation, scroll operation, etc. was detected" as a condition for erasing the display of talk room information.
As an example and not a limitation, the chat room where the tap operation or scroll operation was performed may be a chat room where the user currently has a high need to view the content in the chat room (first chat room), so This means that visibility of content in the talk room (first talk room) is improved by hiding the talk room information.

In determining whether to erase the display of this talk room information, the terminal 20 acquires the presence or absence of an input by the user of the terminal 20 to the input section (by way of example, but not limitation, a tap operation or a scroll operation by the user). , it may be determined whether or not to erase the display of talk room information.

In the condition number "SP12-2", "message input operation was detected" is defined as a talk room information display deletion condition.
As an example and not as a limitation, the chat room where the message input operation occurred may be the chat room in which the user is currently chatting, so hide the currently displayed chat room information. This means improving the visibility and operability of the message input section in the talk room (first talk room).

In determining whether or not to erase the display of the talk room information, the terminal 20 acquires whether or not the user of the terminal 20 has made an input to the input section (by way of example, but not limited to, inputting a message), and It may be determined whether or not to erase the display of information.

Condition Nos. "SP12-3" to "SP12-4" are conditions related to "sending and receiving messages while the first talk room is displayed."

In the condition number "SP12-3", "a message sending operation was detected" is defined as a talk room information display deletion condition.
As an example and not as a limitation, the chat room where the message was sent may be the same room where the user is currently chatting, so hide the currently displayed chat room information. This means improving the visibility of the transmitted message in the talk room (first talk room).

In determining whether or not to erase the display of the talk room information, the terminal 20 acquires whether or not the user of the terminal 20 has made an input to the input section (by way of example, but not limited to, a message sending operation), and It may be determined whether or not to erase the display of information.

In the condition No. "SP12-4", "a message was sent and received while the first talk room was displayed" is defined as a talk room information display deletion condition.
As an example and not as a limitation, the chat room where the message was sent is a chat room where it is highly necessary for the user to confirm the contents of the message sent in the current chat room (first chat room) and wait for a reply from the other user. There is a possibility that it is. In addition, by way of example and not limitation, the talk room where the message was received is a talk room in which the user currently has a high need to check the content of the message received in the talk room (first talk room) and to reply to the other user. There is a possibility that it is.
Therefore, by hiding the currently displayed talk room information, this means improving the visibility of messages sent and received in the talk room (first talk room).

In determining whether or not to erase the display of the talk room information, the terminal 20 acquires the presence or absence of new sent/received messages stored in the talk history data of the talk-related information database 289, and deletes the display of the talk room information. It is possible to determine whether or not to erase.

Note that the talk room information display deletion conditions may include not only conditions regarding input by the user of the own terminal 20 but also conditions regarding input by the other party's user.
As an example and not a limitation, when the first talk room is displayed on the display unit 24 of the user's own terminal 20 and an input is made to the other user's terminal 20 by the other user, the display of talk room information may be performed. It may also be deleted.
In this case, by way of example and not limitation, the terminal 20 may acquire information regarding the other user's input on the terminal 20 via the server 10, and then determine whether the talk room information display condition is met. can.

<Processing>
In this embodiment, when the first talk room is displayed and the first destination talk room candidate determination process for determining a destination talk room candidate is executed, it is determined whether or not to display talk room information. A chat room information display determination process is executed by the terminal 20, and a chat room information display deletion determination process is executed by the terminal 20, which determines whether or not to delete the display of the talk room information.

FIG. 4-2 is a flowchart showing an example of the flow of processing executed by the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 in this embodiment.

If it is determined in A116 that the talk room information is being displayed (A1116: YES), the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 executes a talk room information display deletion determination process (A117b).
In this talk room information display deletion determination process, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 determines whether or not to erase the display of the talk room information based on the talk room information display deletion condition table described above.

If it is determined that the display of the talk room information is not to be deleted (A118b: NO), the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 advances the process to A130.
On the other hand, if it is determined that the display of the talk room information should be erased (A118b: YES), the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 erases the display of the talk room information from the display unit 24 (A120b). Then, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 advances the process to A142.

<Effects of the fourth embodiment>
In this embodiment, the terminal 20 performs control ( This is not a limitation, but shows a configuration in which the control unit 21 performs an example of control to hide the first display.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the first display displayed on the display section of the terminal can be hidden based on the set second condition.

Further, in this case, the talk room information display deletion conditions can include conditions regarding transmission and reception of messages displayed in the first talk room, which is the source talk room.
As an example of the effects of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the first display displayed on the display section of the terminal can be appropriately hidden based on the conditions regarding input of content by the user of the terminal in the first chat room. It can be done.

Further, in this case, the talk room information display deletion conditions can include conditions regarding input of a message by the user of the terminal 20 in the first talk room, which is the source talk room.
As an example of the effects of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the first display displayed on the display section of the terminal can be appropriately hidden based on the conditions regarding input of content by the user of the terminal in the first chat room. It can be done.

<Fourth variation>
Similar to the third modification, in the fourth embodiment, the server 10 may or may not determine whether the talk room information display deletion condition is met.
In this case, the control unit 11 of the server 10 performs a talk room information display deletion determination process based on the talk room information display deletion condition. Then, when it is determined that the talk room information display deletion condition is satisfied, the control unit 11 of the server 10 notifies the terminal 20 via the communication I/F 14 to erase the display of the talk room information. can do.

<Fifth example>
The fifth example is an example regarding input to talk room information.
The contents described in the fifth embodiment can be applied to any of the other embodiments and other modifications.
In addition, the same reference numerals are given to the same constituent elements as those already mentioned, and the explanation thereof will be omitted.

In this embodiment, information regarding the destination talk room (second talk room) is input as input for the talk room information (for example, but not limited to, a preview display of the destination talk room, the reason why the destination talk room was selected as a destination talk room candidate, etc.) ) for displaying a user name or an icon corresponding thereto (hereinafter referred to as a "first icon").
In addition, as an input for other talk room information, as mentioned above, the user name for switching the display from the currently displayed talk room (first talk room) to the destination talk room (second talk room) Or input to the icon corresponding to this (hereinafter referred to as "second input") will be exemplified.

In addition, in this embodiment, when displaying talk room information, the reason why the talk room was selected as a destination talk room candidate is displayed as information regarding the destination talk room (second talk room) in association with the talk room information. A case will be illustrated in which a first icon (as an example, not a limitation, an icon including the character "?") for the purpose is displayed.
By way of example and not limitation, the first icon is displayed at a predetermined position of the talk room information (by way of example and not limitation, at the upper left corner of the talk room information).

Note that it is also possible to use different inputs as the first input and the second input.
By way of example and not limitation, when the input is an operation input, the first input is a long press operation on the input object. On the other hand, it is also possible that the second input is a tap operation on the input object.

<Display screen>
FIG. 5-1 shows user A. It is a figure which shows an example of the transition of the screen displayed on the display part 24 of A's terminal 20A.

Figure 5-1 shows the case where "the talk room that has been displayed many times within the set time" with No. "SP01-1" is determined as the destination talk room candidate in the first destination talk room candidate determination process. It is a figure showing an example of a display screen.
Specifically, in the first destination talk room candidate determination process, as an example, not a limitation, talk rooms that have been displayed the most times within a set time (one hour, for example, not a limitation) are selected (as an example, not a limitation). , a talk room for talking with user C.C, a talk room for talking with user D.D, a talk room for talking with user E.E) is the destination talk. It is assumed that the room has been determined as a candidate.

In FIG. 5-1, the chat room name display area CLR includes, by way of example and not limitation, user A. A is user B. Characters (in this example, "B.B") indicating that this is a talk room for talking with B as the other party are displayed.

In the talk room information display area ER1, talk room information corresponding to the destination talk room candidate determined in the first destination talk room candidate determination process is displayed, by way of example and not limitation.
In this example, the user name "C.C" and the corresponding icon, the user name "D.D" and the corresponding icon, and the user name "E.E" and the corresponding icon are included. , multiple talk room information is displayed.

In addition, in this example, information regarding the destination talk room (second talk room) (as an example and not a limitation, the information about the destination talk room The first icon for displaying the reason why the user C. The icon that includes the character "?" in the upper left corner of the icon corresponding to user D. The icon that includes the character "?" in the upper left corner of the icon corresponding to D is user E. Icons containing the character "?" are displayed at the upper left of the icon corresponding to E.

On the center screen of FIG. 5-1, among the plurality of first icons, user C. A state in which the icon containing the character "?" at the upper left of the icon corresponding to C is tapped is shown. In this case, user C. The reason why the talk room C (second talk room) was determined as the destination talk room candidate is displayed.
Specifically, as shown in the right screen of FIG. 5-1, user C. From the icon containing the character "?" in the upper left part of the icon corresponding to C, there is a speech bubble SB1 indicating the reason why the destination talk room was selected as a candidate for the destination talk room (not as a limitation but as an example). A speech bubble containing the words "Most frequent chat rooms" is displayed.

<Processing>
FIG. 5-2 is a flowchart showing an example of the flow of processing executed by the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 in this embodiment.
After A120, the control unit 21 determines whether the first input to the icon type talk room information has been made (A530). If it is determined that this has been done (A530: YES), the control unit 21 displays information regarding the second talk room (for example, not limited to, information on the reason why it has become a destination talk room candidate, etc.) on the display unit 24. Display it (A540).

On the other hand, if it is determined that the first input to the icon type talk room information has not been made (A530: NO), the control unit 21 determines whether or not the second input to the icon type talk room information has been made (A550). . If it is determined that this has been done (A550: YES), the control unit 21 moves the process to A140.

<Effects of the fifth embodiment>
In this embodiment, the icon-type talk room information is displayed in the first talk room.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the user of the terminal can check the movable second chat room while displaying the first chat room.

Additionally, in this case, the terminal 20 previews the destination talk room based on an input such as a long press operation (an example of the first input, not limited to) on the icon type talk room information displayed in the first talk room. The icon-type talk room displayed in the first talk room is displayed on the display unit 24, and a display such as a display of the reason why the talk room was selected as a destination talk room candidate (an example of a display related to the second chat room, not limited to) is displayed on the display unit 24. The process of displaying the second talk room on the display unit 24 can be performed based on an input such as a tap operation on information (an example of a second input, not limited).
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the user of the terminal can check information regarding the second chat room by performing the first input on the first display while the first chat room is being displayed. can be made possible. On the other hand, by performing the second input on the first display while the first chat room is being displayed, the user of the terminal can easily display the second chat room.

<Sixth Example>
The sixth embodiment is an embodiment to which (B) switching type talk room information is applied.
The content described in the sixth embodiment is applicable to any of the other embodiments and other modifications.
In addition, the same reference numerals are given to the same constituent elements as those already mentioned, and the explanation thereof will be omitted.

In the above-described embodiment, when the first chat room (by way of example and not limitation, the currently displayed chat room) is displayed on the display unit 24, the terminal 20 can display the second chat room from the first chat room. A first display regarding moving to a room (by way of example, but not limitation, the next chat room to be displayed) and displaying a second chat room (by way of example, not limitation, the chat room information corresponding to the next chat room to be displayed) ) As an example, the explanation has been made assuming that icon-type talk room information is displayed.

In this embodiment, the above-mentioned switching type talk room information is displayed instead of the icon type talk room information. Then, the terminal 20 causes the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 to perform the first process related to displaying the second chat room (by way of example and not limitation, the process of switching the talk room). This is an example.

Switchable chat room information includes, by way of example and not limitation, the chat room name (text information), the chat room icon image (image information), and the chat room identifier input by the user or provided by the messaging service. (identification information), a preview image (image information) of the talk room, and other information associated with the talk room, and can be any one of these or a combination of two or more.

Note that the preview image of the talk room may or may not include, by way of example and not limitation, the name of the application, the talk area for conducting the talk, and the like.

In this embodiment, the switching type talk room information is information selected (designated) by the user of the terminal 20, and information for moving from the first talk room to the second talk room and displaying the second talk room. It is.

In this embodiment, by way of example and not limitation, the terminal 20 does not perform a process for determining whether or not to display switchable talk room information (talk room information display determination process). It is assumed that talk room information can be displayed at any timing based on predetermined actions of 20 users.
As an example and not as a limitation, the user of the terminal 20 performs a predetermined operation (as an example and not as a limitation, an operation of swiping upward from the bottom of the display) at an arbitrary timing in any chat room of a messaging application. In this case, switchable talk room information can be displayed in the talk room information display area.

In this embodiment, the state in which switchable talk room information is displayed in the talk room information display area by a user's predetermined operation is different from the state in which the switchable talk room information is displayed or selected ( specified). Therefore, this state can be expressed as talk room information display mode (state), talk room information selection mode (state), talk room information switcher mode (state), etc.

In this embodiment, it is assumed that the user of the terminal 20 can select arbitrary talk room information by swiping the switchable talk room information in the talk room information display area in the left/right direction.

Note that when displaying switchable chat room information in the chat room information display area based on the user's operation of the terminal 20, by way of example and not limitation, the first chat room may be displayed in an area different from the chat room information display area. The corresponding switching type transfer source talk room information may or may not be displayed.

Hereinafter, the area where the switching type source talk room information is displayed will be referred to as the "source talk room information display area." By way of example and not limitation, the source talk room information display area can be displayed on the right side of the talk room information display area where the switchable talk room information is displayed.

In this embodiment, when switchable talk room information is displayed in the talk room information display area, the visibility of the talk area of the preview image in the switchable talk room information is reduced so that the user of the terminal 20 can recognize the talk content. shall be displayed in a manner that makes it difficult to do so.
By way of example and not limitation, visibility may be reduced by performing mosaic processing, hatching processing, etc. on the talk area of the preview image in the switchable talk room information.

Note that when reducing the visibility of the talk area of the preview image in switchable talk room information, the visibility of the talk area of the preview image in all switchable talk room information may be reduced, or the visibility of the talk area of the preview image in all switchable talk room information may be reduced, or the visibility of the talk area of the preview image in all switchable talk room information may be reduced. The visibility of the talk area of the preview image in some of the switchable talk room information of the room information may be reduced.
As an example and not a limitation, reducing the visibility of the talk area of the preview image in switchable talk room information corresponding to a talk room with unread messages, while reducing the visibility of the talk area of the preview image in switchable talk room information corresponding to a talk room with no unread messages. The visibility of the talk area of the preview image may not be reduced.

In this embodiment, when the switchable source talk room information is displayed in the source talk room information display area, the visibility of the talk area of the preview image in the switchable source talk room information is not reduced, and the The content of the talk shall be displayed in a manner that allows users to recognize the content of the talk.
Note that the visibility of the talk area of the preview image in the switchable source talk room information may be reduced, and the display may be made in a manner that makes it difficult for the user of the terminal 20 to recognize the talk content.

Even when applying switching type talk room information, by way of example and not limitation, a destination talk room candidate is determined by a method similar to the method described in the second embodiment, and switching corresponding to the determined destination talk room candidate is performed. Type talk room information can be displayed.
As one method, as described in the second embodiment, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 can perform the destination talk room candidate determination process (first destination talk room candidate determination process).
Further, as another method, the control unit 11 of the server 10 can perform a destination talk room candidate determination process (second destination talk room candidate determination process).

Specifically, when applying switching type talk room information, as well as when applying icon type talk room information, as an example and not a limitation, such as shown in Figure 2-5 and Figure 2-6. It is possible to execute a process including a destination talk room candidate determination process.
A specific example of this process will be described later.

<Display screen>
6-1 and 6-2 show user A. It is a figure which shows an example of the transition of the screen displayed on the display part 24 of A's terminal 20A.

Here, in the first destination talk room candidate determination process, the display screen when the destination talk room candidate No. "SP01-1" is determined as "the talk room that has been displayed many times within the set time" is shown. It is a figure showing an example.
Specifically, in the first destination talk room candidate determination process, as an example, not a limitation, talk rooms that have been displayed the most times within a set time (one hour, for example, not a limitation) are selected (as an example, not a limitation). , a talk room for talking with user C.C, a talk room for talking with user D.D, a talk room for talking with user E.E) is the destination talk. It is assumed that the room has been determined as a candidate.

In the left screen of FIG. 6-1, the chat room name display area includes user A. A is user B. Characters (in this example, "B.B") indicating that this is a talk room for talking with B as the other party are displayed.

On this screen, as an example of an input for displaying switchable talk room information (hereinafter referred to as "switchable talk room information display input"), the user of the terminal 20 swipes upward from the bottom of the display section. The state where the operation to do is performed is shown. In this case, it is controlled to talk room information switcher mode. As a result, by way of example and not limitation, the screen shown in the center of FIG. 6-1 is displayed.

Specifically, in the talk room information display area ER2, by way of example and not limitation, switching type talk room information corresponding to the destination talk room candidate determined in the first destination talk room candidate determination process is displayed. There is.
In this example, by way of example and not limitation, the user name "C.C", the corresponding icon, and the corresponding preview image, and the user name "D.D", the corresponding icon, and the corresponding preview image are shown. A plurality of pieces of switching type talk room information are displayed, including a corresponding preview image, a user name "E.E", a corresponding icon, and a corresponding preview image.

In this example, since the switchable talk room information corresponding to the user name "C.C" is displayed in the center of the screen of the display unit 24, the switchable talk room information corresponding to the user name "D.D" It has higher visibility than the room information and the switchable talk room information corresponding to the user name "E.E", and is displayed in a position that is easy for the user to select.

Also, in the source talk room information display area ER3, by way of example and not limitation, switching source talk room information corresponding to the first chat room is displayed.
In this example, by way of example and not limitation, switching source talk room information including the user name "B.B", a corresponding icon, and a corresponding preview image is displayed.

The screen on the right of Figure 6-1 shows the input for switching the display of switchable talk room information, the position where switchable talk room information is displayed (the area where switchable talk room information is displayed, as an example and not a limitation). ) (hereinafter referred to as "switchable talk room information display change input"), by way of example and not limitation, user C. A state in which the switchable talk room information corresponding to C is swiped to the right is shown. In this case, user C. The switchable talk room information corresponding to C moves to the right, and other switchable talk room information that was displayed on the left side of the talk room information display area ER2 (as an example and not a limitation, Switchable talk room information (switchable talk room information corresponding to user E.E) moves to the right. As a result, by way of example and not limitation, the screen shown on the left of FIG. 6-2 is displayed.

Specifically, the talk room information display area ER2 displays switchable talk room information moved by the user's swipe operation, by way of example and not limitation.
In this example, by way of example and not limitation, the user name "C.C", the corresponding icon, and the corresponding preview image, and the user name "D.D", the corresponding icon, and the corresponding preview image are shown. A plurality of pieces of switching type talk room information are displayed, including a corresponding preview image, a user name "E.E", a corresponding icon, and a corresponding preview image.

In this example, since the switchable talk room information corresponding to the user name "D.D" is displayed in the center of the display section 24, the switchable talk room information corresponding to the user name "C.C." This information has higher visibility than the switching type talk room information corresponding to the user name "E.E", and is displayed in a position that is easy for the user to select.

Also, by way of example and not limitation, user D. A state in which the switchable talk room information corresponding to D is tapped is shown.
In this case, control of the talk room information switcher mode is terminated, and the other party is changed to user B. From the talk room designated as B (first talk room), the other user D. The display switches to the talk room D (second talk room). As a result, by way of example and not limitation, the screen shown on the right of FIG. 6-2 is displayed.

Specifically, user A. A is user D. This is a talk room for talking with D as the other party, and as an example and not a limitation, characters indicating that this is a talk room with the user name "D.D" are displayed in the talk room name display area CLR (in this example, " D.D”) is displayed.
Also, below that, user A. A and user D. A talk area is configured for conversation with user D. on the left side when facing the screen. D's message is displayed on the right side of the screen as user A. It is configured so that the message A is displayed.

<Processing>
FIG. 6-3 is a flowchart showing an example of the flow of processing executed by the terminal 20 in this embodiment.
After A110, the control unit 21 determines whether the switchable talk room information display condition is satisfied (A620).
The switchable talk room information display condition may be, by way of example and not limitation, that the above-described switchable talk room information display input is made via the input unit.

If it is determined that the switchable talk room information display condition is satisfied (A620: YES), the control unit 21 executes a first destination talk room candidate determination process (A115). In this case, by way of example and not limitation, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 performs the movement using the same method as described above based on the movement destination talk room candidate determination table (see FIG. 2-1). A destination talk room candidate may be determined.
Then, the control unit 21 causes the display unit 24 to display switchable talk room information corresponding to the determined destination talk room candidate (A630).
In this case, as one method, by way of example and not limitation, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 responds to the determined destination talk room candidate based on the talk history and talk room information stored in the storage unit 28. Switchable talk room information can be generated and displayed.

Note that, unlike this, the terminal 20 transmits information on the determined destination talk room candidate to the server 10, and receives from the server 10 the talk history and talk room information corresponding to the destination talk room candidate. The control unit 21 of the terminal 20 may or may not generate and display switching type talk room information based on the received information.

Next, the control unit 21 determines whether the switchable talk room information display switching condition is satisfied (A640).
The switchable talk room information display switching condition may be, by way of example and not limitation, that the above-described switchable talk room information display switching input has been made via the input unit.

If it is determined that the switchable talk room information display switching condition is satisfied (A640: YES), the control unit 21 performs switchable talk room information display switching processing (A650).
Specifically, control is performed to change the display position (display area) of the switchable talk room information on the display unit 24.

After that, the control unit 21 determines whether an input (by way of example and not limitation, a tap) has been made to the displayed switching type talk room information (A660). If it is determined that this has been done (A660: YES), the control unit 21 performs control to switch the display from the first talk room being displayed to the second talk room corresponding to the input switching type talk room information. (A670). Then, the control unit 21 ends the process.

If it is determined in A660 that the switching type talk room information has not been input (A660: NO), the control unit 21 determines whether or not to end the process (A690). If it is determined that the process should be continued (A690: NO), the control unit 21 returns the process to A640. On the other hand, if it is determined that the process should be ended (A690: YES), the control unit 21 ends the process.

If it is determined in A620 that the switchable talk room information display condition is not satisfied (A620: NO), the control unit 21 determines whether or not to end the process (A695). If it is determined that the process should be continued (A695: NO), the control unit 21 returns the process to A620. On the other hand, if it is determined that the process should be ended (A695: YES), the control unit 21 ends the process.

Note that, as described in the second modification, the server 10 can also determine the destination talk room candidate.
In this case, by way of example and not limitation, the process in FIG. 6-3 described above can be rewritten to follow the process in FIG. 2-6 described above.
Specifically, as an example and not a limitation, if it is determined that the switchable talk room information display condition is satisfied in A620 of FIG. 6-3 (A620: YES), the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 will Step A112 is executed.
Accordingly, the control unit 11 of the server 10 executes steps S110 and S120 in FIG. 2-6.
Then, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 may proceed to step A640 in FIG. 6-3 after displaying the switching type talk room information based on the destination talk room candidate determination information received from the server 10. can.

Note that these contents are similarly applicable to each of the other embodiments and modifications related to the display of switchable talk room information.

<Effects of the sixth embodiment>
In this embodiment, the terminal 20 displays a display (not a limitation, but an example of a first display) of switchable talk room information on the display unit 24. In this case, the switchable talk room information is displayed in an area of the display unit 24 of the terminal 20 that is different from the area where the first talk room, which is the source talk room, is displayed.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, a second chat room is displayed based on an input to a first display that is displayed in an area different from the area where the first chat room is displayed on the display section of the terminal. can be easily displayed.

Furthermore, in this case, the display of switchable talk room information corresponds to the first talk room displayed in the source talk room information display area (not limited to, but an example of the first display area) of the display unit 24 of the terminal 20. Displayed in the switching source talk room information (not limited, but an example of the display regarding the first chat room) and the talk room information display area of the display unit 24 of the terminal 20 (not limited, but an example of the second display area) It is possible to include switching type talk room information (not limited to, but an example of a display related to the second chat room) corresponding to the second talk room to which the user is moved.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, since a display regarding the first chat room is displayed in the first display area of the display section of the terminal, information regarding the first chat room from which the movement is made is displayed on the terminal. The user can confirm this and also be able to return the display to the first chat room. In addition, since a display related to the second chat room is displayed in the second display area of the display section of the terminal, the terminal user can confirm information regarding the second chat room to which the user has moved, and also It is also possible to move to a chat room.

In this case, the terminal 20 changes the display position of the switchable talk room information based on the switchable talk room information display position change input by the user of the terminal 20 (not limited to this, but an example of an input by the terminal user). The control unit 21 can perform control to change the display area (not limited to this, but an example of control to display a display related to the second chat room in the first display area).
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, it is possible to display a display related to the second chat room in the first display area, by way of example and not limitation, based on input by the user of the terminal. . Conversely, based on input by the user of the terminal, by way of example and not limitation, it is also possible to display a display related to the first chat room in the second display area.

In addition, in this case, if there is an unread message (not limited to, but an example of content that has not been viewed by the terminal user) among the messages displayed in the second talk room, the switchable talk room information will be displayed in the switchable talk room. The chat area of the preview image in the talk room information can be displayed in a manner in which mosaic processing, hatching processing, etc. are applied (as an example, not a limitation, as an example of a manner in which the content cannot be viewed).
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, if there is content displayed in the second chat room that the user of the terminal has not viewed, the content may be displayed in the first display in a manner that the user of the terminal cannot view the content. By displaying this, it is possible to prevent the terminal user from viewing or viewing unviewed content.

<Sixth modification (1)>
In the sixth embodiment, when switchable talk room information is displayed in the talk room information display area of the display unit 24, the first chat room is displayed in the source talk room information display area different from the talk room information display area. Although an example has been shown in which the corresponding switching type transfer source talk room information is displayed, the present invention is not limited to this.
As an example and not a limitation, the switching type transfer source talk room information corresponding to the first chat room may not be displayed in the transfer source talk room information display area.

In addition, in this case, while the switching source talk room information is not displayed in the source talk room information display area, the background image of the talk room corresponding to the first talk room (hereinafter referred to as the "source talk room background image") ) may or may not be displayed as a background image on the display unit 24.

Furthermore, when displaying the move source talk room background image as a background image on the display unit 24 in this way, the visibility of the move source talk room background image may be lowered than that of the switchable talk room information. You don't have to do it like this.
As an example and not a limitation, the background image of the source talk room as a background image has a lower display priority than the switchable talk room information (the display layer is lower and is displayed at the back). The visibility may be lowered than that of the switchable talk room information by making the image look like a Visibility may be lowered.

<Display screen>
FIG. 6-4 shows user A. It is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the display unit 24 of the terminal 20A of A, and when switching type talk room information is displayed, the background image of the source talk room is displayed as the background image of the display unit 24. It is a figure which shows an example of a screen.

Here, in the first destination talk room candidate determination process, the display screen when the destination talk room candidate No. "SP01-1" is determined as "the talk room that has been displayed many times within the set time" is shown. An example is shown.
Specifically, in the first destination talk room candidate determination process, as an example, not a limitation, talk rooms that have been displayed the most times within a set time (one hour, for example, not a limitation) are selected (as an example, not a limitation). , a talk room for talking with user C.C, a talk room for talking with user D.D, a talk room for talking with user E.E) is the destination talk. It is assumed that the room has been determined as a candidate.

In the screen of FIG. 6-4, the talk room information display area ER2 includes switching type talk room information corresponding to the destination talk room candidate determined in the first destination talk room candidate determination process, by way of example and not limitation. Displayed.
In this example, by way of example and not limitation, the user name "C.C", the corresponding icon, and the corresponding preview image, and the user name "D.D", the corresponding icon, and the corresponding preview image are shown. A plurality of pieces of switching type talk room information are displayed, including a corresponding preview image, a user name "E.E", a corresponding icon, and a corresponding preview image.

Also, on this screen, as a background image displayed on the entire screen of the display unit 24, a background image of the movement source talk room corresponding to the first talk room is displayed, by way of example and not limitation.
In this example, the text "Messaging App" is displayed as the name of the messaging application at the top center of the image as the background image of the source talk room, by way of example and not limitation, and the name of the messaging application is displayed at the top right of the image. An icon image and a user name (user A.A in this example) in the user's messaging application are displayed, and a chat room name (“B.B” in this example) is displayed in the chat room name display area CLR.
Also, below that, user A. A and user B. A talk area is configured for conversation between user B and user B, and on the left side of the screen when facing user B. B's message is displayed on the right side of the screen as user A. It is configured so that the message A is displayed.

In this case, as an example and not a limitation, the background image of the source talk room as the background image has a lower display priority than the switchable talk room information (the display layer is lower and is displayed at the back). The image is hatched as an example, not a limitation. As a result, the source talk room background image is displayed with lower visibility than the switchable talk room information.

<Sixth modification (2)>
In the sixth embodiment, the terminal 20 displays switchable talk room information at an arbitrary timing based on a predetermined action of the user of the terminal 20, by way of example and not limitation, without performing a talk room information display determination process. However, it is not limited to this.
As an example and not a limitation, the terminal 20 performs the talk room information display determination process using the same method as in the third embodiment based on the talk room information display condition table (FIG. 3-1) described in the third embodiment. Make sure to do the following. Then, when it is determined that talk room information is to be displayed, switchable talk room information may be displayed.

Similarly, the terminal 20 performs the talk room information display deletion determination process using the same method as in the fourth embodiment based on the talk room information display deletion condition table (FIG. 4-1) described in the fourth embodiment. Let's do it. Then, when it is determined that the display of the talk room information should be erased, the display of the switchable talk room information can also be erased.

Note that, as described in the third modification and the fourth modification, it is also possible to perform the chat room information display determination process and the chat room information display deletion determination process on the server 10 side.

<Seventh Example>
The seventh embodiment is an embodiment related to a method for preventing misidentification of a switched talk room.
The content described in the seventh embodiment is applicable to any of the other embodiments and other modifications.
In addition, the same reference numerals are given to the same constituent elements as those already mentioned, and the explanation thereof will be omitted.

In this embodiment, when the user of the terminal 20 switches from the first talk room (one-on-one talk room, group talk room) to the second talk room (one-on-one talk room, group talk room), the second talk room An example in which at least some of the users belonging to the group are displayed in different display modes on the display unit 24 will be exemplified.

In this embodiment, by way of example and not limitation, the users belonging to the second talk room are the users belonging to the first talk room among the users belonging to the second talk room (hereinafter referred to as "first users"), Among the users who belong to the second talk room, users who do not belong to the first talk room (hereinafter referred to as "second users") are included.
By way of example and not limitation, a member belonging to "Group X" (first talk room: group talk room) is user A. A. User B. B, and user C. C and a member belonging to "Group Y" (second talk room: group talk room) is user A.C. A. User B. B, and user D. D, the first user is user A.D. A and user B. B, and the second user is user D.B. It is D.

As one method to prevent misidentification of the second talk room, when switching to the second talk room, as an example and not a limitation, the display mode of the first user and the second user among the members belonging to the second talk room may be changed. It can be displayed differently.
By way of example and not limitation, the username and corresponding icon corresponding to the first user may be displayed in a normal manner (by way of example and not limitation, username: fine print, icon: no highlighting icon), while displaying the username and corresponding icon corresponding to the first user The user name corresponding to the user name and the icon corresponding to the user name are displayed in a special manner (by way of example and not limitation, user name: bold, icon: with emphasis icon).

In addition, when displaying the icon corresponding to the second user in a special manner (as an example, not a limitation, icon: with emphasis icon), a predetermined position (as an example, not a limitation) at a predetermined position (as an example, not a limitation) As information that emphasizes to the user that the user does not belong to the first talk room but belongs to the second talk room, an emphasis icon (as an example, but not a limitation) is used. You can also display the type icon).

Further, as another method for preventing misidentification of the second talk room to which the user is scheduled to move, the following method can be applied.
As input for talk room information, information about the destination talk room (second talk room) (for example, but not limited to, preview display of the destination talk room, provisional movement when temporarily switching to the destination talk room described later) An example of an input to a user name or an icon corresponding thereto (hereinafter referred to as "third input") for displaying a previous talk room, etc.) is shown below.
In addition, as an input for other talk room information, as mentioned above, the user name for switching the display from the currently displayed talk room (first talk room) to the destination talk room (second talk room) Or input to the icon corresponding to this (hereinafter referred to as "second input") will be exemplified.

As an example and not a limitation, when the input is an operation input, the third input is a long press operation on the input object. On the other hand, the second input is a tap operation on the input object.

In this embodiment, when a third input is made for talk room information (by way of example, not limitation, long press operation), information regarding the destination talk room (second talk room) is input, by way of example and not limitation. An example in which a preview display of the destination talk room is displayed will be illustrated.
By way of example and not limitation, a preview of the destination talk room will display the name of the talk room and, if the talk room is a group talk room, the number of members belonging to that group in parentheses to the right of the talk room name. , the names of members belonging to the group, icons corresponding to the names, and a talk area.

In addition, not limited to this form, if the third input is made to the talk room information, it is possible to temporarily switch to the destination talk room, and it is possible to switch to the destination talk room or not. When temporarily switching to a destination talk room in a messaging service that can be selected, the temporary destination talk room corresponding to the destination talk room will be displayed as information regarding the destination talk room (second talk room). You may.

In this embodiment, by performing mosaic processing or hatching processing on the talk area, the visibility of the talk area is reduced, making it difficult for the user to recognize the content of the talk.

In addition, this is not the only form; by not performing mosaic processing or hatching on the talk area, it is possible for the user to easily recognize the content of the talk without reducing the visibility of the talk area. You can also use it as

<Display screen>
FIG. 7-1 shows user A. It is a figure which shows an example of the transition of the screen displayed on the display part 24 of A's terminal 20A.

Here, in the first destination talk room candidate determination process, the display screen when the destination talk room candidate No. "SP01-1" is determined as "the talk room that has been displayed many times within the set time" is shown. It is a figure showing an example.
Specifically, in the first destination talk room candidate determination process, as an example, not a limitation, talk rooms that have been displayed the most times within a set time (one hour, for example, not a limitation) are selected (as an example, not a limitation). , a talk room for talking with the group "Work", a talk room for talking with the group "Family", a talk room for talking with user E.E) are the destination talk. It is assumed that the room has been determined as a candidate.

In the left screen of FIG. 7-1, the chat room name display area CLR includes user A. A is user B. Characters (in this example, "B.B") indicating that this is a talk room for talking with B as the other party are displayed.

In this example, the talk room information display area ER1 includes, by way of example and not limitation, a group name "Work" and a corresponding icon, a group name "Family" and a corresponding icon, and a user name "E. A plurality of talk room information including "E" and corresponding icons are displayed.

Furthermore, in this example, if the talk room is a group talk room, the number of members belonging to the group is displayed in parentheses to the right of the talk room name.
Specifically, the number "4" is shown in parentheses to the right of the group name "Work", indicating that the number of members in this group is four, and the number "4" in parentheses to the right of the group name "Family" is shown. The number "5" indicating that the number of members of this group is five is shown within the box.

The right screen in FIG. 7A shows, by way of example and not limitation, a state in which the group name "Work" or an icon corresponding to the group name "Work" among a plurality of pieces of talk room information is pressed and held. In this case, a preview display PV1 of the destination talk room is displayed from the bottom of the display section 24 upward.

In this preview display PV1, as an example and not a limitation, characters indicating that it is a talk room with the group name "Job" (in this example, "Job") are displayed at the top of the preview display, and on the right side of the A number indicating the number of members of this group (in this example, the number "4") is displayed in parentheses.
Also, below that are the names of the members belonging to this group (in this example, "A.A", "B.B", "X.X", "Y.Y") and the corresponding icons. is displayed.
Furthermore, below that, there is a talk area where members of this talk room can talk, and on the left side of the screen is the other party, user B. B. User X. X, user Y. Y's message is displayed on the right side of the screen as user A.Y. It is configured so that the message A is displayed.

In this example, by way of example and not limitation, the first user is user A. A and user B. B, and the second user is user X.B. X and user Y. Y, by way of example and not limitation, the user name corresponding to the first user (user A.A and user B.B) and the corresponding icon in the normal form (by way of example and not limitation, user name: fine print) , icon: no highlighting icon), while displaying the username and corresponding icon corresponding to the second user (User X.X and User Y.Y) in a special form (by way of example and not limitation, : Bold, Icon : Displayed with emphasis icon).

In addition, in this example, hatching is applied to the talk area where members of the talk room talk, which reduces the visibility of the talk area and makes it difficult for users to recognize the content of the talk. It becomes.

<Effects of the seventh embodiment>
In this embodiment, the terminal 20 displays a second talk room including a plurality of users including the user of its own terminal 20 on the display unit 24 based on an input to the terminal 20 on which talk room information is displayed. In this case, the terminal 20 has a configuration in which at least some of the users included in the second talk room are displayed in different display modes.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, it is possible to prevent the user of the terminal from misrecognizing the moved second talk room.

Further, in this case, the plurality of users includes a first user included in the first talk room and a second user not included in the first talk room, and the terminal 20 is configured to communicate with the first user and the second user. It is possible to perform processing to change the display mode.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the user of the terminal can easily identify the first user included in the first chat room and the second user not included in the first chat room. It can be done.

Further, in this embodiment, the terminal 20 enters the second talk room without moving from the first talk room based on the input (not limited to, an example of the fourth input) to the terminal 20 on which the talk room information is displayed. The configuration is shown in which the second talk room is displayed on the display unit 24 in a display mode different from that in which the second talk room is displayed.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the user of the terminal can easily identify the second chat room to which the user is scheduled to move without moving from the first chat room.

Further, in this embodiment, the terminal 20 performs a long press operation (not a limitation, but an example of the fifth input to the first display) on the displayed talk room information (an example of the first display, not a limitation). , a preview display of the destination chat room (not limited, but an example of the display related to the second chat room to be moved) is displayed on the display unit 24, and information such as the name of the user included in the second chat room (not limited, A configuration in which an example of users included in the second chat room is displayed on the display unit 24 is shown.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the second chat room to be moved and the users included in the second chat room to be moved can be connected to the terminal without moving from the first chat room. It can be easily identified by the user.

<Seventh modification (1)>
In the seventh embodiment, an example has been shown in which the user belonging to the second talk room is displayed differently to prevent misidentification of the second talk room to which the user has moved, but the present invention is not limited thereto.
By way of example and not limitation, misidentification may be prevented by including in the talk room information information related to the second talk room that is different from information identifying the second talk room.

In this modification, by way of example and not limitation, the talk room information may include a talk room name and a corresponding icon as information for identifying the second talk room, and may also include information related to the second talk room. shall be taken as a thing.
Specifically, information related to the second talk room includes, by way of example and not limitation,
- Information that identifies a second talk room that is different from the talk room name and the corresponding icon (for example, but not limited to, the background image of the talk room, etc.)
・Attribute information of the talk room (for example, not limited to, information indicating that it is registered as a favorite, information indicating that it is placed in a folder, etc.)
etc. can be included.

<Display screen>
(1) First display screen example FIG. 7-2 shows user A. It is a figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part 24 of A's terminal 20A.
Here, an example of a screen is shown where the talk room information includes (1) the background image of the talk room described above, by way of example and not limitation, as information related to the second talk room.

Here, in the first destination talk room candidate determination process, the display screen when the destination talk room candidate No. "SP01-1" is determined as "the talk room that has been displayed many times within the set time" is shown. It is a figure showing an example.
Specifically, in the first destination talk room candidate determination process, as an example, not a limitation, talk rooms that have been displayed the most times within a set time (one hour, for example, not a limitation) are selected (as an example, not a limitation). , a talk room for talking with the group "Work", a talk room for talking with the group "Family", a talk room for talking with user E.E) are the destination talk. It is assumed that the room has been determined as a candidate.

In the screen of FIG. 7-2, the chat room name display area CLR includes, by way of example and not limitation, user A. A is user B. Characters (in this example, "B.B") indicating that this is a talk room for talking with B as the other party are displayed.
Also, below that, user A. A and user B. A talk area is configured for conversation between user B and user B, and on the left side of the screen when facing user B. B's message is displayed on the right side of the screen as user A. It is configured so that the message A is displayed.
In addition, at the bottom of the talk area, there is a talk room information display area where one or more talk room information (not limited, but an example of the first display) is displayed, which allows the user to select the destination talk room. ER1 is provided.

In this example, in the talk room information display area ER1 where talk room information is displayed, from the left, there are a first talk room information display area ER11, a second talk room information display area ER12, and a third talk room information display area ER12. A display area ER13 is provided.

On this screen, the talk room information display area ER1 (first talk room information display area ER11, second talk room information display area ER12, third talk room information display area ER13) includes, by way of example and not limitation, the first Talk room information corresponding to the destination talk room candidate determined in the destination talk room candidate determination process is displayed.
Specifically, as a plurality of talk room information, by way of example and not limitation, a group name "work" and a corresponding icon are displayed in the first talk room information display area ER11, and a group name "work" is displayed in the second talk room information display area ER12. A plurality of talk room information is displayed including the user name "Family" and the corresponding icon, and the user name "E.E" and the corresponding icon in the third talk room information display area ER13.

Also, in this example, as talk room information, by way of example and not limitation, the background image of the second talk room, which is information related to the second talk room, is displayed together with the talk room name and the corresponding icon. .
Specifically, the background image of the talk room corresponding to the group name "Work" is displayed in the first talk room information display area ER11 together with the group name "Work" and the corresponding icon, and the second talk room information The background image of the talk room corresponding to the group name "Family" is displayed in the display area ER12 together with the group name "Family" and the corresponding icon, and the user name "EE" is displayed in the third talk room information display area ER13. ” is displayed together with the user name “E.E” and the corresponding icon.

Furthermore, in this example, if the talk room is a group talk room, the number of members belonging to the group is displayed in parentheses to the right of the talk room name.
Specifically, the number "4" is shown in parentheses to the right of the group name "Work", indicating that the number of members in this group is four, and the number "4" in parentheses to the right of the group name "Family" is shown. The number "5" indicating that the number of members of this group is five is shown within the box.

(2) Second display screen example FIG. 7-3 shows user A. It is a figure which shows an example of the screen displayed on the display part 24 of A's terminal 20A.
Here, an example of a screen when the talk room information includes the above-mentioned (2) attribute information (information indicating that it is registered as a favorite) is shown as an example, not a limitation, as information related to the second talk room. show.

Here, in the first destination talk room candidate determination process, the display screen when the destination talk room candidate No. "SP01-1" is determined as "the talk room that has been displayed many times within the set time" is shown. It is a figure showing an example.
Specifically, in the first destination talk room candidate determination process, as an example, not a limitation, talk rooms that have been displayed the most times within a set time (one hour, for example, not a limitation) are selected (as an example, not a limitation). , a talk room for talking with the group "Work", a talk room for talking with the group "Family", a talk room for talking with user E.E) are the destination talk. It is assumed that the room has been determined as a candidate.

In addition, here, in a messaging service that allows the user of the terminal 20 to register any talk room as favorites, the user of the terminal 20 registers a talk room for chatting with a group "family" as favorites. It is assumed that

In the screen of FIG. 7-3, the chat room name display area CLR includes user A. A is user B. Characters (in this example, "B.B") indicating that this is a talk room for talking with B as the other party are displayed.
Also, below that, user A. A and user B. A talk area is configured for conversation between user B and user B, and on the left side of the screen when facing user B. B's message is displayed on the right side of the screen as user A. It is configured so that the message A is displayed.

On this screen, talk room information corresponding to the destination talk room candidate determined in the first destination talk room candidate determination process is displayed in the talk room information display area ER1, by way of example and not limitation.
Specifically, multiple talk room information includes, by way of example and not limitation, a group name "Work" and a corresponding icon, a group name "Family" and a corresponding icon, and a user name "E.E. '' and corresponding icons are displayed.

Also, in this example, as talk room information, by way of example and not limitation, information related to the second talk room, which indicates that it has been registered as a favorite, is displayed along with the talk room name and the corresponding icon. ing.
Specifically, a star-shaped icon indicating that the icon corresponding to the group name "Family" has been registered as a favorite is displayed in the upper left corner of the icon.

Furthermore, in this example, if the talk room is a group talk room, the number of members belonging to the group is displayed in parentheses to the right of the talk room name.
Specifically, the number "4" is shown in parentheses to the right of the group name "Work", indicating that the number of members in this group is four, and the number "4" in parentheses to the right of the group name "Family" is shown. The number "5" indicating that the number of members of this group is five is shown within the box.

This modification shows a configuration in which the control unit 21 controls the terminal 20 to display information related to the second talk room in association with the talk room information.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, by displaying information related to the second chat room in association with the first display, the user of the terminal may misidentify the second chat room to which the user is scheduled to move. This can be prevented.

Further, in this case, the talk room information includes an icon image of the second talk room (not limited to this, but is an example of first image information for identifying the second chat room), and information related to the second talk room includes , the background image of the second talk room and a mark indicating that the second talk room is registered as a favorite (not limited to this, but an example of second image information different from the first image information) may be included. can.
As an example of the effects of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the first image information allows the user of the terminal to identify the second chat room, and the second image information different from the first image information allows the user to identify the second chat room. It is possible to prevent the user of the terminal from misrecognizing the second chat room to which the user is scheduled to move.

<Seventh modification (2)>
In the seventh embodiment, when switching to the second talk room, the user belonging to the second talk room is displayed in a different manner to prevent misidentification of the switched talk room, but the present invention is not limited thereto.
As an example and not a limitation, as a method to prevent misidentification of the switched talk room, when switching to a second talk room, information about the second talk room that is different from users belonging to the second talk room is displayed in a different manner. You may or may not have to do so.

By way of example and not limitation, when switching to the second talk room, the talk room image of the second talk room may be displayed in an emphasized manner, by way of example and not limitation. Specifically, as an example and not a limitation, the name of the second talk room may be displayed in bold, the background image of the second talk room may be displayed with animation, and the outer frame of the second talk room may be displayed with a thick line. It can be displayed, etc.

<Eighth Example>
The eighth embodiment is an example of a method for enabling the user to recognize the source (before movement) chat room and a method for allowing the user to return to the source chat room when switching chat rooms.
The contents described in the eighth embodiment can be applied to any of the other embodiments and other modifications.
In addition, the same reference numerals are given to the same constituent elements as those already mentioned, and the explanation thereof will be omitted.

In this embodiment, after the terminal 20 displays the second chat room (the currently displayed chat room, by way of example and not limitation) on the display unit 24, the terminal 20 changes the second chat room from the first chat room (by way of example and not limitation). The second display related to displaying the first chat room (as an example, but not limited to, the source chat room information corresponding to the next chat room to be displayed) ) is displayed on the display section 24. Then, the terminal 20 performs a second process related to the display of the first chat room (by way of example and not limitation, a process of switching chat rooms) based on the input to the second display by the control unit 21 of the terminal 20. This is an example.

In this embodiment, "source talk room information" will be described as an example of the second display. The source talk room information is a type of talk room information associated with a talk room in a messaging service, and particularly is a type of talk room information associated with a move source talk room.
This source talk room information includes, by way of example and not limitation, the name of the talk room (text information), the icon image of the talk room (image information), the chat room icon image (image information), and It includes information associated with the talk room, such as an identifier (identification information), and may or may not be any one of these, or a combination of two or more.

In this embodiment, the movement source talk room information is information selected (specified) by the user of the terminal 20, and is information that is selected (specified) by the user of the terminal 20, and is used to move (return) from the second talk room to the first talk room and display the first talk room again. This is information to help you. Therefore, the source talk room information may or may not be expressed as source talk room selection information, source talk room designation information, or the like.

In this embodiment, when displaying source talk room information, a message corresponding to the source talk room is displayed at a predetermined position (by way of example and not limitation, at the top left of the source talk room information). Information that allows the user to identify that it is a type of room information (for example, but not limited to, returning to the source chat room by tapping) is displayed (for example, not limited to, an icon containing a left-pointing arrow). There is.

In this embodiment, by way of example and not limitation, one or more talk room information (not limited to, the first display A talk room information display area is provided where (for example) is displayed.
A source talk room information display area ER4 in which source talk room information can be displayed is provided in the leftmost area of the talk room information display area ER1.

<Display screen>
FIG. 8-1 shows user A. It is a figure which shows an example of the transition of the screen displayed on the display part 24 of A's terminal 20A.

Here, in the first destination talk room candidate determination process, the display screen when the destination talk room candidate No. "SP01-1" is determined as "the talk room that has been displayed many times within the set time" is shown. It is a figure showing an example.
Specifically, in the first destination talk room candidate determination process, as an example, not a limitation, talk rooms that have been displayed the most times within a set time (one hour, for example, not a limitation) are selected (as an example, not a limitation). , a talk room for talking with user C.C, a talk room for talking with user D.D, a talk room for talking with user E.E) is the destination talk. It is assumed that the room has been determined as a candidate.

The left screen of FIG. 8-1 shows user A. A is user B. Characters (in this example, "B.B") indicating that this is a talk room for talking with B as the other party are displayed.
Further, in this example, the talk room information display area ER1 displays, by way of example and not limitation, talk room information corresponding to the destination talk room candidate determined in the first destination talk room candidate determination process. .
Specifically, the user name "C.C" and the corresponding icon, the user name "D.D" and the corresponding icon, and the user name "E.E" and the corresponding icon. Multiple talk room information is displayed, including:
Also, below that, user A. A and user B. A talk area is configured for conversation between user B and user B, and on the left side of the screen when facing user B. B's message is displayed on the right side of the screen as user A. It is configured so that the message A is displayed.

Furthermore, this screen shows, by way of example and not limitation, that the user name "C.C" or an icon corresponding thereto among a plurality of pieces of talk room information has been tapped. In this case, the other party is user B. From the talk room designated as B (the first talk room), the other user C. The display switches to talk room C (second talk room). As a result, by way of example and not limitation, the screen shown in the center of FIG. 8-1 is displayed.

This screen is for user A. A is user C. This is a talk room for talking with C as the other party, and as an example and not a limitation, the talk room name display area CLR has characters (in this example, "C.C") is displayed.
Also, below that, user A. A and user C. A talk area is configured for conversation between C and C, and on the left side of the screen is the other user C. C's message is displayed on the right side of the screen, which is user A.C's message. It is configured so that the message A is displayed.

Further, in the talk room information display area ER1 at the bottom of the screen, a plurality of icon type talk room information is displayed, by way of example and not limitation.
Specifically, the source talk room information display area ER4 of the talk room information display area ER1 includes, by way of example and not limitation, source talk room information including the user name "B.B" and an icon corresponding thereto. In the area to the right of the source talk room information display area ER4 in the talk room information display area ER1, the user name "D.D" and the corresponding icon, and the user name "E.E. A plurality of icon-type talk room information, including "" and corresponding icons, are displayed.

In addition, in this example, the predetermined position of the icon corresponding to the source talk room information (by way of example and not limitation, the upper left corner of the source talk room information) contains information that can identify the source talk room. Additionally, information that allows the user to specify that the user is returning to the original talk room is displayed.
Specifically, user B. At the upper left of the icon corresponding to B, an icon containing a leftward arrow indicating returning to the original talk room is displayed.

Also, this screen shows, by way of example and not limitation, that the user name "B.B" or the corresponding icon (source talk room information) is tapped among multiple talk room information. There is. In this case, the other party is user C. From the talk room designated as C (second talk room), the other user B. The display switches to the talk room B (first talk room). As a result, by way of example and not limitation, the screen shown on the right of FIG. 8-1 is displayed.

This screen is for user A. A is user B. This is a talk room for talking with B as the other party, and as an example and not a limitation, characters indicating that this is a talk room with the user name "B.B" (in this example, " B.B”) is displayed.
Also, below that, user A. A and user B. A talk area is configured for conversation between user B and user B, and on the left side of the screen when facing user B. B's message is displayed on the right side of the screen as user A. It is configured so that the message A is displayed.

Furthermore, a plurality of pieces of talk room information are displayed in the talk room information display area ER1 at the bottom of the screen, by way of example and not limitation.
Specifically, the source talk room information display area ER4 of the talk room information display area ER1 includes, by way of example and not limitation, source talk room information including the user name "C.C" and an icon corresponding thereto. In the area to the right of the source talk room information display area ER4 in the talk room information display area ER1, the user name "D.D" and the corresponding icon, and the user name "E.E. '' and corresponding icons are displayed.

In addition, in this example, the predetermined position of the icon corresponding to the source talk room information (by way of example and not limitation, the upper left corner of the source talk room information) contains information that can identify the source talk room. Additionally, information that allows the user to specify that the user is returning to the original talk room is displayed.
Specifically, user C. At the upper left of the icon corresponding to C, an icon containing a leftward arrow indicating returning to the original talk room is displayed.

Note that when the screen changes in the order of the left screen in FIG. 8-1 → the center screen in FIG. 8-1 → the right screen in FIG. After moving from the room (talk room on the left screen in Figure 8-1) to the second talk room (talk room on the center screen in Figure 8-1), ) to the first talk room (the talk room on the left screen in Figure 8-1) may be displayed in the first talk room (the talk room on the right screen in Figure 8-1). .
In this case, as an example and not a limitation, you can display text such as "You have returned to the original chat room" in the center of the screen in a pop-up format, or display it at the top of the screen in the form of a push notification. can.

Further, the notification is not limited to display, and may be performed by another method.
As an example and not a limitation, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 may control a vibration unit (not shown) of the terminal 20 to vibrate the housing (vibration function), or generate a specific sound ( By way of example, and not limitation, control may be performed to output a voice informing that the user has returned to the original talk room, a specific sound effect, etc.), control to cause a light emitting unit (not shown) of the terminal 20 to emit light, etc. , the user of the terminal 20 may be notified that the user has returned to the original talk room, or may not be required to do so.

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In this embodiment, the terminal 20 displays the second talk room on the display unit 24. Then, the terminal 20 adds the movement source talk room information (not limited to, information regarding moving from the second chat room to the first chat room and displaying the first chat room on the display section) to the displayed second talk room. 2) is displayed on the display unit 24. The terminal 20 also shows a configuration in which the control unit 21 performs a process of switching the display from the second talk room to the first talk room based on the input to the source talk room information.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, when moving from a first chat room to a second chat room, the first chat room from which the move was made can be easily recognized by the second display. be able to. Furthermore, it is possible to easily return to the first chat room from which the user moved based on input to the terminal on which the second display is displayed.

Furthermore, in this case, when the terminal 20 switches the display from the second talk room to the first talk room based on the input to the source talk room information, after moving from the first talk room to the second talk room, Messages indicating that you have moved from the second chat room to the first chat room, etc. (This is not limited to messages related to moving from the second chat room to the first chat room after moving from the first chat room to the second chat room.) An example of a notification) can be displayed on the display unit 24.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, after moving from the first chat room to the second chat room, the user of the terminal easily recognizes that the user has moved from the second chat room to the first chat room. can be made possible.

In addition, in this case, the terminal 20 transfers the source talk room information (not limited to, an example of information related to the first chat room) to the second talk room based on the input for the talk room information displayed in the first talk room. can be displayed on the screen.
As an example of the effect of the embodiment obtained by such a configuration, the user of the terminal can confirm the first chat room from which the user has moved in the second chat room based on the input to the first display. .

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A program executed by a terminal that performs processing related to a service having at least a chat function,
Displaying a first chat room including a user of the terminal on a display section of the terminal;
If the predetermined condition is met, a first display prompting to display one or more second chat rooms different from the first chat room on the display section is displayed on the display section, and when the predetermined condition is not met. If the terminal does not display the first display on the display unit,
The predetermined condition is a condition that includes at least one of posting content to the first chat room or relating to the content;
program. The program according to claim 1,
the first display includes an image set as an image showing the second chat room;
program. The program according to claim 1 or claim 2,
The content includes text;
The predetermined condition is that the text of the content posted to the first chat room includes a specific word;
program. 4. The program according to claim 3,
The specific word is a word that is registered in the service and is related to an account different from the account of the user of the terminal,
If the predetermined condition is met, the terminal displays the first display indicating that the chat room of the different account is the second chat room, on the display unit;
program. The program according to claim 1 or claim 2,
The predetermined condition is that the context based on the content posted to the first chat room is a specific context;
program. 6. The program according to claim 5,
The specific context is a context that is registered in the service and is related to an account different from the account of the user of the terminal,
If the predetermined condition is met, the terminal displays the first display indicating that the chat room of the different account is the second chat room, on the display unit;
program. The program according to claim 4 or claim 6,
the first display includes information regarding the different accounts;
program. The program according to claim 1,
The content includes a stamp;
The predetermined condition includes that the stamp is continuously posted in the first chat room a predetermined number of times or more.
program. The program according to claim 1,
The predetermined condition includes that a predetermined time has elapsed without any content being input in the first chat room.
program. The program according to claim 1,
The predetermined condition includes that a predetermined period of time has elapsed without any content being posted to the first chat room.
program. The program according to any one of claims 1 to 10,
when displaying the first display, the terminal displays a second display regarding the reason for displaying the first display on the display;
program. 12. The program according to claim 11,
The second display is displayed near the first display,
program. The program according to any one of claims 1 to 12,
Displaying information regarding the second chat room superimposed on at least a portion of the first chat room based on an input by a user of the terminal on the first display is performed by the terminal;
program. A program executed by a terminal that performs processing related to a service having at least a chat function,
Displaying a first chat room including a user of the terminal on a display section of the terminal;
If the predetermined condition is met, a first display prompting to display one or more second chat rooms different from the first chat room on the display section is displayed on the display section, and when the predetermined condition is not met. If the terminal does not display the first display on the display unit,
The predetermined condition is a condition including at least one of newly received content in the second chat room and posting of a mention of the user of the terminal in the second chat room.
program. 15. The program according to claim 14,
when displaying the first display, the terminal displays a second display regarding the reason for displaying the first display on the display;
program. 16. The program according to claim 15,
The second display is displayed near the first display,
program. The program according to claim 15 or 16,
Displaying information regarding the second chat room superimposed on at least a portion of the first chat room based on an input by a user of the terminal on the first display is performed by the terminal;
program. An information processing method for a terminal that performs processing related to a service having at least a chat function, the method comprising:
Displaying a first chat room including a user of the terminal on a display section of the terminal;
If the predetermined condition is met, a first display prompting to display one or more second chat rooms different from the first chat room on the display section is displayed on the display section, and when the predetermined condition is not met. In the case, the first display is not displayed on the display section,
The predetermined condition is a condition that includes at least one of posting content to the first chat room or relating to the content;
Information processing method. An information processing method for a terminal that performs processing related to a service having at least a chat function, the method comprising:
Displaying a first chat room including a user of the terminal on a display section of the terminal;
If the predetermined condition is met, a first display prompting to display one or more second chat rooms different from the first chat room on the display section is displayed on the display section, and when the predetermined condition is not met. In the case, the first display is not displayed on the display section,
The predetermined condition is a condition including at least one of newly received content in the second chat room and posting of a mention of the user of the terminal in the second chat room.
Information processing method. A terminal that performs processing related to a service that has at least a chat function,
A display section;
a first display that prompts to display a first chat room including a user of the terminal on the display section, and to display one or more second chat rooms different from the first chat room when a predetermined condition is satisfied; a control unit that performs control to display the first display on the display unit and not display the first display on the display unit if the predetermined condition is not satisfied,
The predetermined condition is a condition that includes at least one of posting content to the first chat room or relating to the content;
terminal. A terminal that performs processing related to a service that has at least a chat function,
A display section;
A first chat room including a user of the terminal is displayed on the display section, and when a predetermined condition is satisfied, one or more second chat rooms different from the first chat room are displayed on the display section. a control unit that performs control to display a first display prompting the user on the display unit and not display the first display on the display unit if the predetermined condition is not satisfied;
The predetermined condition is a condition including at least one of newly received content in the second chat room and posting of a mention of the user of the terminal in the second chat room.
terminal.

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