KR101178932B1 - Message transmitting method from computer system to mobile messenger installed mobile terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

A method of transmitting a message to a mobile terminal of a computer system is provided. In the method for transmitting a message to a mobile terminal of a computer system according to the present invention, the method may include: monitoring whether a message shortening command is input; when an input of the message shortening command is detected, selecting transmission target data; Generating message data including at least one of data and access information of the transmission target data, and generating and transmitting a mobile messenger data packet including the message data to the mobile terminal.

Description

Message transmitting method from computer system to mobile messenger installed mobile terminal}

The present invention relates to a message transmission method of a computer system. More particularly, the present invention relates to a message transmission method for installing an agent for monitoring a user's key input or a mouse input, and enabling a message transmission to a mobile terminal having a mobile messenger installed only by inputting a message shortening command.

Instant messenger is an application that allows two or more people to send and receive messages in real time using a network such as the Internet. Recently, the instant messenger has been generalized, and the use of the mobile instant messenger installed in the mobile terminal has been activated by the development of mobile communication technology.

On the other hand, unlike the SMS (Short Message Service), which charges a separate fee, the mobile instant messenger replaces SMS between mobile terminal users because a separate fee is not charged to send a message when using a flat data plan. It is activated for text communication.

The technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to install an agent for monitoring the user's key input or mouse input in the computer system, to a mobile terminal installed with a mobile messenger with a minimum operation of inputting a message shortening command to the computer system It is to provide a message transmission method capable of sending a message.

Another technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a new advertising medium by transmitting the advertising data associated with the message to be transmitted in addition to the message.

Another technical problem to be solved by the present invention is a message transmission method for generating an object other than text as a file and transmitting the object to the mobile terminal in the form of an attached file when an object other than text is selected and transmitted to the mobile terminal. To provide.

Another technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to select an object other than text and transmit it to a mobile terminal, and then create the file other than the text as a file and upload it to a data server, and then upload the uploaded file to the mobile terminal. It is to provide a message transmission method for transmitting a message on an accessible path.

The technical problems of the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned technical problems, and other technical problems not mentioned will be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of transmitting a message to a mobile terminal of a computer system, the method comprising: monitoring whether an input message shortening command is input; Selecting target data, generating message data including at least one of the transmission target data and access information of the transmission target data, and generating and transmitting a mobile messenger data packet including the message data to the mobile terminal; It includes a step.

The monitoring, the selecting, the generating and the transmitting may be performed by an agent application running in a background mode through an operating system controlling the computer system.

If the non-string data is included in the transmission target data, generating a file including the non-string data and uploading it to a data server, wherein the message data includes path information to which the file or folder is uploaded. can do. In this case, the data download time can be adjusted according to the storage capacity of the receiving terminal.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of transmitting a message to a mobile terminal of a computer system, the method including: monitoring whether an input message shortening command is input;

When the input of the message shortening command is detected, selecting transmission target data, generating message data including at least one of the transmission target data and the connection information of the transmission target data, and the mobile terminal of the mobile terminal. Inquiring whether to subscribe to a messenger service and when the mobile terminal is not in the mobile messenger service subscription state, a short message service (SMS) call request signal or a multimedia messaging service (MMS) call request including the generated message data; And transmitting a signal to the mobile terminal, and generating a mobile messenger data packet including the generated message data when the mobile terminal is in the mobile messenger service subscription state and transmitting the signal to the mobile terminal. Transmission method.

According to the message transmission method as described above, there is an effect that the message can be transmitted regardless of whether the receiver uses the mobile messenger application.

According to the present invention as described above, there is an effect that the message can be transmitted to the mobile terminal with a minimum of operations during the use of the computer system.

In addition, since the transmitted message data is received by using a message receiving function of a mobile Internet messenger application without using an SMS transmission service of a mobile communication service provider, there is an effect that a separate communication fee is not charged for sending a message.

In addition, the minimum cost of using the service according to the present invention may also be borne by the advertiser on the condition of quoting advertisement data added to the outgoing message, so that the user must pay the cost of using the service according to the present invention. There is an effect that can be minimized.

1 is a system configuration diagram that can perform a message transmission method according to the present invention.
2A is a first flowchart of a message transmission method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2B is a second flowchart of a message transmission method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a conceptual diagram of a UI associated with a method for transmitting a string posted to a document editing application according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a conceptual diagram of a UI related to a method for transmitting an image posted to an internet browser application according to an embodiment of the present invention.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The advantages and features of the present invention and the manner of achieving them will become apparent with reference to the embodiments described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art. Is provided to fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art, and the invention is only defined by the scope of the claims. Like reference numerals refer to like elements throughout.

The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. In the present specification, the singular form includes plural forms unless otherwise specified in the specification. The terms " comprises "and / or" comprising "used in the specification do not exclude the presence or addition of one or more other elements in addition to the stated element.

Unless otherwise defined, all terms (including technical and scientific terms) used in the present specification may be used in a sense that can be commonly understood by those skilled in the art. Also, commonly used predefined terms are not ideally or excessively interpreted unless explicitly defined otherwise.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described with reference to a block diagram for explaining a method of uploading data through a shortcut command or drawings of a processing flowchart. At this point, it will be understood that each block of the flowchart illustrations and combinations of flowchart illustrations may be performed by computer program instructions. Since these computer program instructions may be mounted on a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing equipment, those instructions executed through the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing equipment may be described in flow chart block (s). It creates a means to perform the functions. These computer program instructions may be stored in a computer usable or computer readable memory that can be directed to a computer or other programmable data processing equipment to implement functionality in a particular manner, and thus the computer usable or computer readable memory. It is also possible for the instructions stored in to produce an article of manufacture containing instruction means for performing the functions described in the flowchart block (s). Computer program instructions may also be mounted on a computer or other programmable data processing equipment, such that a series of operating steps are performed on the computer or other programmable data processing equipment to create a computer-implemented process to generate a computer or other programmable data. Instructions for performing the processing equipment may also provide steps for performing the functions described in the flowchart block (s).

In addition, each block may represent a portion of a module, segment, or code that includes one or more executable instructions for executing a specified logical function (s). It should also be noted that in some alternative implementations, the functions noted in the blocks may occur out of order. For example, the two blocks shown in succession may in fact be executed substantially concurrently, or the blocks may sometimes be executed in the reverse order, depending on the corresponding function.

A method of transmitting a message to a mobile terminal equipped with a mobile messenger in a computer system according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4.

(1) Configuration of the system

1 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a system in which a method for transmitting a message to a mobile terminal in which a mobile messenger is installed in a computer system according to the present invention can be performed.

The user operates the computer system 100 in which the agent application 102 is installed and transmits a message to the mobile terminal 180 in which the mobile messenger application 182 is installed.

When a user inputs a message transmission short command using an input device of the computer system 100, the agent application 102 installed in the computer system 100 detects an input of the message transmission short command and activates data of an object. After generating the message data including the message data or the data of the object displayed at the location of the cursor, and generates a mobile messenger data packet including the generated message data, the mobile messenger data packet to the Internet ( 140 to the instant messenger server 120. The mobile messenger data packet may include receiver information.

The instant messenger server 120 receives the mobile messenger data packet and transmits the message data to the mobile terminal 180 through the mobile communication network by using the receiver information included in the received mobile messenger data packet. In more detail, the message data is connected to a UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN), which is an access network via a Gateway GPRS Supprot Node (GGSN) 160 and a Serving GPRS Support Node (SGSN) 162, as shown in FIG. It may be transmitted to the mobile terminal 180 through.

The connection between the Internet network and the mobile communication network shown in FIG. 1 may be different according to the configuration of the mobile communication network, and the configuration of FIG. 1 is only one example.

Hereinafter, a message transmission method according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. 2A and 2B.

(1) Installation and execution of the agent application (S200)

The agent application 102 monitors whether a message transmission short command is input, generates a message data to be transmitted when an input of the message transmission short command is detected, and generates a mobile messenger data packet including the generated message data. Is a software module that performs the function of transmitting to the mobile terminal 180.

The agent application 102 may be executed through the computer system 100 after downloading the installation file, or may be executed in the computer system 100 by installing a COM (Component Object Model) module from the Internet site (S200). Agent application 102 is preferably performed in the background after installation. That is, only the agent application process may be performed, but may not have a graphical user interface (GUI) of the agent application 102 itself. Alternatively, even if the agent application 102 has its own user interface, the agent application 102 may have an interface for setting only whether the environment settings and functions are activated.

The agent application 102 may be installed to be automatically executed when the computer system 100 on which the agent application 102 is installed is booted. Whether or not to automatically execute may be confirmed by the user in the installation step.

The computer system 100, which is an installation target of the agent application 102, that is, a target on which the message transmission method according to the present embodiment is implemented, may be a device capable of TCP / IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol) communication. The TCP / IP communication may use a wired communication network or a wireless communication network. For example, the computer system 100 may mean a personal computer (PC), a personal digital assistant (PDA), a smartphone, a notebook computer.

When the agent application 102 is executed, a login operation may be performed (S202). The login information may be based on pre-entered member registration information. The membership registration information may include at least one of a phone number of the mobile terminal and model information of the mobile terminal.

The agent application 102 installed in the computer system 100 starts monitoring (S204) a message transmission short command input in the background. Since the message transmission short command may be a message transmission item selected from an input or pop-up menu of a predetermined shortcut key, it should be noted that the agent application should monitor not only key input but also mouse input. The mouse input may include a touch input to a touch screen or an input to a touch pad.

The monitoring of the key input and the mouse input may be performed by message hooking and processing an input generation message provided by an operating system installed in a computer system on which the agent application 102 is executed. The operating system preferably supports a Graphical User Interface (GUI).

The message hooking may include registering a callback function, which is called when the operating system generates the input generation URL information, with a kernel of the operating system; Invoking the callback function by the kernel when an input signal is generated through an input device; Determining, by the callback function, whether the input signal is related to a data upload function; And if the input signal is related to a URL information transmission function as a result of the determination, executing the URL information transmission function.

(2) Selection of transmission target data when inputting short message sending instruction

When the message transmission short instruction is input (S206), the agent application 102 selects transmission target data.

It is determined whether the activated object exists when the message transmission short command is input (S208). Hereinafter, 'object' refers to a data set to be transmitted to the mobile terminal, and may be, for example, a character string, image data, video data, a file, or a folder.

The activated object may mean, for example, a block designation or an object currently selected through a click. 3 illustrates a pop-up menu displayed by right-clicking a part of a character string displayed in a document editing program by activating by specifying a block. For example, when selecting 'save in my mobile phone' 300 from among the items of the pop-up menu, the block-activated character string is transmitted to the user's mobile phone. As shown in FIG. 3, a message may be transmitted to a mobile terminal of another predetermined person (302), or a message may be transmitted by directly inputting a recipient number (304).

Although FIG. 3 illustrates a case of transmitting a message through a pop-up menu, the message may be transmitted only by inputting a shortcut key, not a pop-up menu. For example, if a user wants to send a message to his mobile terminal (300), as shown in FIG. 3, the message can be transmitted by simultaneously pressing the 'Alt' key and the '1' key. In addition, when a message is to be transmitted to a mobile terminal of a predetermined person (302), the message can be transmitted by simultaneously pressing the 'Alt' key and the '2' key as shown in FIG. Shortcuts can also be assigned to the ability to send a message by directly entering the recipient number.

The activated object may be a file or a folder. That is, the user may block or select a file or folder and then input the message transmission short command. In this case

If there is an activated object, the agent application 102 may generate message data including data of the activated object (S210). For example, when a string is block-designated as shown in FIG. 3, the agent application 102 may generate message data composed of the block-designated string. When embedded content other than a string is block-designated, message data composed of a string and the embedded content may be generated. The embedded content may be content such as an image or a flash.

If there is no activated object, the agent application 102 may generate message data including data of the object displayed at the position of the cursor on the graphical user interface (S212).

FIG. 5 illustrates a case in which data of the display image A.JPG should be transmitted as message data at the position of the cursor 400 when there is no activated object. As shown in FIG. 5, when there is no activated object, web document embedded image data, which is an object displayed at the position of the cursor, may be selected as the message data. In this case, the file name of the embedded image data provided by calling an API (Application Programming Interface) of the web browser application may be written together in an item of a pop-up menu (402 and 404).

Meanwhile, when the message transmission short command is input while the Internet browser application is activated, URL information may be selected as the message data. That is, instead of transmitting the content itself included in the web document to the receiving terminal, the URL information may be transmitted so that the receiver can easily access the selected URL. At this time, the agent application 102 selects at least one of a web document published in the currently active Internet browser application and the embedded content included in the web document as a URL extraction target object, and the API provided by the Internet browser application ( An application programming interface may be used to generate URL information of the selected URL extraction target object, and may be selected as transmission target data including the URL information.

(3) Format conversion of non-string data, especially video data or music data

If the non-string data is not included in the transmission target data (S214), the agent application 102 may transmit the string. However, even though the non-string data is included in the transmission target data, the receiving mobile terminal 180 may not recognize the non-string data and may not publish or reproduce it through a connection program. In order to prevent such a case, the agent application 102 may convert the format of the non-string data when the transmission target data includes non-string data of a specific format that is not recognized by the receiving mobile terminal 180 ( S216, S218).

For example, in case of Apple's 'i-phone' model, Microsoft's 'asf' format video cannot be played back, so if the data to be sent contains 'asf' format video data can be converted to the 'mp4' format. In this case, the user can download the file from the data server 300 using the iPhone and can play the file immediately without conversion.

The model information of the receiving mobile terminal 180 may be provided from a telecommunication company subscriber information server through a receiver phone number or may be stored in advance in the case of a predetermined receiver.

In addition, information about a format unavailable and a format to be converted for each mobile terminal model may be stored in the computer system 100 in advance. In other words, when the upload file is a file of the unavailable format, the agent application 102 may automatically convert the file into a file of the conversion target format.

(4) non-string data processing

If the non-string data such as an image, a video, a file, etc. is included in the transmission target data, the agent application 102 processes according to the setting for the non-string data processing (S218).

First, when the non-string data is set to be uploaded to the data server, the agent application 102 may upload the non-string data to the data server (S220). In this case, when the non-string data is not a file, data for generating the non-string data into a file may be obtained by calling an API of an application in which the transmission target data is posted. For example, when the Internet browser application is activated and the user blocks a string and an embedded image included in the web document, the API of the internet browser application is called to obtain URL information of the embedded image. The embedded image file may be downloaded based on the URL information.

Agent application 102 may include information on the upload path in the transmission message (S221), the information on the upload path may be link information for accessing the uploaded data. In this case, the receiver can download the uploaded non-string data only by selecting the link information posted through the mobile messenger application 182 installed in the mobile terminal 180.

Next, when the non-string data is set as an attachment, the agent application 102 may generate a messenger data packet for transmitting the non-string data as an attachment (S230). As in the case of uploading to the data server, if the non-string data is not a file, the non-string is obtained by calling the API of the application in which the transmission target data is posted to generate the non-string data in a file. The operation of generating data to a file can be performed.

Next, when the non-string data is an image, a messenger data packet may be generated to post the image in a messenger window (S230). As in the case of uploading to the data server, after calling the API of the application to which the transmission target data is posted, data for generating the image data into a file is generated, and the non-string data is generated as an image file. It may include the information of the, and may generate a messenger data packet to be posted on the mobile messenger application (S230).

(5) addition of advertising data

The agent application 102 may add the advertisement data S226 related to the string data of the transmission target data to the string data of the transmission target data (S228). For example, when the company name of a predetermined company is included in the character string data, advertisement data S226 corresponding to the company name may be added (S228). In addition, when a keyword preset by an advertiser is included in the content, advertisement data S226 corresponding to the keyword may be added (S228).

In addition, the agent application 102 may add advertisement data S226 related to at least one of the transmitting user information and the receiving user information to the string data of the transmission target data (S228). That is, the advertisement data S226 corresponding to the personal information of the transmitting user or the receiving user may be added (S228).

In this case, the minimum cost of using the service according to the present invention may also be borne by the advertiser on the condition of quoting the advertisement data added to the outgoing message, so that the user must bear the use of the service according to the present invention. This has the effect of minimizing costs.

Although embodiments of the present invention have been described above with reference to the accompanying drawings, those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains may implement the present invention in other specific forms without changing the technical spirit or essential features thereof. I can understand that. It is therefore to be understood that the above-described embodiments are illustrative in all aspects and not restrictive.

Computer systems 100
Agent Application 102
Mobile terminal 180
Mobile Messenger Application 182

Claims (10)

In the message transmission method to a mobile terminal of a computer system,
Monitoring, by an agent application running in a background mode through a Graphical User Interface (GUI) supported operating system controlling the computer system, whether a message transmission short command is input;
Selecting, by the agent application, transmission target data when an input of the message shortening command is detected;
Generating, by the agent application, message data including at least one of the transmission target data and access information of the transmission target data; And
Generating, by the agent application, a mobile messenger data packet including the message data and transmitting the generated mobile messenger data packet to the mobile terminal;
The step of selecting,
Selecting data of an object activated on the graphical user interface as the transmission target data, or selecting data of an object displayed at a cursor position on the graphical user interface as the transmission target data when there is no activated object. ,
The object is posted to a different application than the agent application. The method according to claim 1,
The monitoring step,
And monitoring at least one of whether a predetermined shortcut key is input and whether a message transmission item is selected in a pop-up menu. delete delete The method according to claim 1,
If the non-string data is included in the transmission target data, generating a file including the non-string data and uploading it to a data server,
And the message data includes path information to which the file or folder is uploaded. The method according to claim 1,
When the non-string data is included in the transmission target data, a non-available format and a conversion target format designated for the model of the mobile terminal are inquired, and when the non-string data is the data of the unavailable format, the conversion target Converting the file to a file format. The method according to claim 1,
If the transmission target data includes non-string data, generating an attached file including the non-string data;
The transmitting step,
Generating the mobile messenger data packet further including a transmission request signal of the attachment file and transmitting the generated mobile messenger data packet to the mobile terminal. The method according to claim 1,
The step of selecting,
Selecting at least one of a web document posted on a currently activated internet browser application and embedded content included in the web document as a URL extraction target object;
Generating URL information of the selected URL extraction target object by using an application programming interface (API) provided by the internet browser application; And
Selecting the URL information as the transmission target data. The method according to claim 1,
Selecting advertisement data based on at least one of the transmission target data and user information; And
Adding the advertisement data to the message data. In the message transmission method to a mobile terminal of a computer system,
Monitoring, by an agent application running in a background mode through a Graphical User Interface (GUI) supported operating system controlling the computer system, whether a message transmission short command is input;
Selecting, by the agent application, transmission target data when an input of the message shortening command is detected;
Generating, by the agent application, message data including at least one of the transmission target data and access information of the transmission target data;
Querying, by the agent application, whether the mobile terminal subscribes to the mobile messenger service; And
The agent application moves the short message service (SMS) origination request signal or the multimedia messaging service (MMS) origination request signal including the generated message data when the mobile terminal is in the non-subscription state of the mobile messenger service. Transmitting to the mobile terminal and generating a mobile messenger data packet including the generated message data when the mobile terminal is in the mobile messenger service subscription state as a result of the inquiry;
The step of selecting,
Selecting data of an object activated on the graphical user interface as the transmission target data, or selecting data of an object displayed at a cursor position on the graphical user interface as the transmission target data when there is no activated object. ,
The object is posted to a different application than the agent application.

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