KR102324200B1 - Method for providing emoticons in instant messaging service, user device, server and application implementing the method - Google Patents

Abstract

A method for a terminal to provide a user interface screen of an instant messaging application, the method comprising: displaying a user interface screen including a text input window and an emoticon button for opening an emoticon display window; checking the presence or absence of a recommended emoticon; displaying the emoticon button as a hint icon different from the default icon when there is a recommended emoticon associated with the input text; and when the hint icon is selected, an emoticon recommendation result related to the input text and displaying on the emoticon display window.

Description

A method for providing emoticons in an instant messaging service, a server, a user terminal and an application implementing the same

The present invention relates to providing an emoticon.

Various social media services such as KakaoTalk, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram exist. Users can communicate with others through social media services and express their thoughts. Users exchange messages with their friends in chat rooms through instant messaging services such as KakaoTalk. At this time, the message is various such as text, image, video, emoticon, and the like. In particular, emoticons are a communication means for conveying user emotions and intentions in a fun and effective way, and various novel emoticons are being provided in instant messaging services.

The problem to be solved is to provide a method for recommending emoticons related to input text in an instant messaging service.

An object to be solved is to provide, as a hint icon, that there is a recommended emoticon in the input text in an instant messaging service, and to provide an emoticon recommendation result of the input text.

An object to be solved is to provide an emoticon recommendation result including a related keyword, and to provide a method for searching various emoticons through the related keyword.

The task to be solved is that the server manages the recommended emoticons matched with the keyword, and provides the recommended emoticons matched with the keyword to the terminal.

The task to be solved is to provide an interface screen that provides emoticons in an instant messaging service.

A method for a terminal to provide a user interface screen of an instant messaging application according to an embodiment, the method comprising: displaying a user interface screen including a text input window and an emoticon button for opening an emoticon display window; , checking whether there is a recommended emoticon associated with the input text; if there is a recommended emoticon associated with the input text, displaying the emoticon button as a hint icon different from the default icon; and when the hint icon is selected, the input text and displaying an emoticon recommendation result related to the emoticon on the emoticon display window.

The emoticon recommendation result may include recommended emoticons matching the input text or a representative keyword of the input text.

The emoticon recommendation result may include at least one related keyword related to the input text, and may include emoticons matched to each related keyword.

The method of providing the user interface screen may further include displaying information indicating that there is a recommended emoticon in the input text when there is a recommended emoticon associated with the input text.

The method of providing the user interface screen may further include changing the hint icon to the default icon when a new word is input into the text input window without the hint icon provided in the input text being selected.

The method of providing a user interface screen may further include storing a keyword dictionary including text information with a recommended emoticon. In the checking of the presence or absence of a recommended emoticon related to the input text, the input text may be queried in the keyword dictionary, and the presence or absence of a recommended emoticon may be checked based on a response result.

The method of providing the user interface screen may further include receiving the emoticon recommendation result from a server of the instant messaging application.

The method of providing the user interface screen may further include transmitting the emoticon selected from the emoticon recommendation result to the server of the instant messaging application. In the step of transmitting to the server of the instant messaging application, the entire text input in the text input window and the selected emoticon may be transmitted together, or only the selected emoticon may be transmitted.

The hint icon may be provided differently according to the input text.

According to an embodiment, as an application executed by a computing device and stored in a computer-readable recording medium, an operation of providing a user interface screen including a text input window, an emoticon display window, and an emoticon button for opening the emoticon display window, the text When text is sequentially inputted into the input window, the operation of changing the emoticon button from the basic icon to a hint icon or maintaining the basic icon according to the presence or absence of a recommended emoticon associated with the input text, among the text input into the text input window and commands for executing an operation of displaying a text having a recommended emoticon, and an operation of displaying an emoticon recommendation result on the emoticon display window when the hint icon is selected or the text with the recommended emoticon is selected.

The emoticon recommendation result may include at least one related keyword related to the text with the recommended emoticon, and may include emoticons matched to each related keyword.

The emoticons matched to the respective related keywords may be displayed on the emoticon display window when the corresponding related keyword is selected, or may be displayed on the emoticon display window when a scroll operation is inputted from the emoticon display window.

The application may further include commands for executing an operation of receiving the emoticon recommendation result from a specified server.

The application may further include commands for managing a keyword dictionary in which text information with a recommended emoticon is stored, querying the keyword dictionary for the input text, and executing an operation for checking the presence or absence of the recommended emoticon based on a response result. have.

The application may further include commands for transmitting the emoticon selected from the emoticon recommendation result to a designated server. The entire text input into the text input window may or may not be transmitted together with the selected emoticon according to a condition.

According to an embodiment, by simply entering text into the text input window, without the need to search for an emoticon, the user can quickly check whether there is a recommended emoticon matching the text, and can easily search for the recommended emoticon matching the input text. have.

According to an embodiment, the terminal may quickly display the presence or absence of a recommended emoticon matched with the input text through the keyword dictionary. In addition, according to the embodiment, since the terminal stores the keyword dictionary, it is possible to check the presence or absence of a recommended emoticon matched with the input text without being affected by a real-time communication delay with a server providing a recommended emoticon.

According to the embodiment, since the server does not need to check that there is a recommended emoticon for texts input from all terminals in real time and transmit the checked information to the corresponding terminals, the load can be reduced.

According to an embodiment, since the server provides recommended emoticons related to the input text, the user may be recommended emoticons not stored in the terminal.

1 is a block diagram of an instant messaging service system according to an embodiment.
2 is an example of a hint icon providing screen for recommending an emoticon related to text according to an exemplary embodiment.
3 to 7 are examples of an emoticon recommendation interface screen according to an embodiment.
8 is an example of a related keyword-based emoticon recommendation interface screen according to an embodiment.
9 is a flowchart of a method for providing an emoticon according to an embodiment.
10 is a flowchart of a method for providing an emoticon according to another embodiment.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail so that those of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention pertains can easily implement them. However, the present invention may be embodied in many different forms and is not limited to the embodiments described herein. And in order to clearly explain the present invention in the drawings, parts irrelevant to the description are omitted, and similar reference numerals are attached to similar parts throughout the specification.

Throughout the specification, when a part "includes" a certain element, it means that other elements may be further included, rather than excluding other elements, unless otherwise stated. In addition, terms such as “…unit”, “…group”, and “module” described in the specification mean a unit that processes at least one function or operation, which may be implemented by hardware or software or a combination of hardware and software. have.

An application is software stored in a computer-readable storage medium, and includes instructions and data for executing an operation of the present invention. The application is installed on the terminal, runs on the terminal, and communicates with a designated server through a communication network.

A terminal is a computing device including hardware such as a processor, a memory, a display, and a communication module. The processor works with the hardware to run the application. The display may display a user interface screen provided by an application and receive a user input (eg, a touch input). The terminal may receive a user input through a keyboard in addition to the touch input. The communication module is connected to the communication network. Through the communication network, the application and the server send and receive data.

The terminal may be implemented in various forms, and although a mobile terminal is described as an example, it may be implemented in the form of a pad-type terminal such as a smart pad, various types of computers such as a laptop computer, a wearable device, a TV terminal, and the like.

Hereinafter, the application will be described using an instant messaging application for an instant messaging service as an example, but may be applied to various applications that can receive text on a user interface screen and provide emoticons related to the input text. Also, the present invention can be applied to an interface screen displayed on a web browser.

The term “emoji” used in the description can be variously called images, emojis, stickers, etc., and can be replaced with text and other types of content.

1 is a block diagram of an instant messaging service system according to an embodiment.

Referring to FIG. 1 , user terminals 100 and 110 having installed an instant messaging application access the messaging server 200 and use functions provided by the instant messaging application. The instant messaging application provides the user interface screen described in the present invention. The user interface screen 10 may be a chat room interface screen, as shown in FIG. 1, and is referred to as a chat room screen in the description.

For the sake of explanation, it is assumed that user A is a user of the terminal 100 , user B is a user of the terminal 110 , and user A and user B are interlocutors in a chat room. In the description, the chat room screen 10 displayed on the terminal 100 of user A will be described as an example.

The messaging server 200 is named to indicate a server connected to an instant messaging application, and it is not necessary to be limited to the messaging server 200, and any server that performs the operations described in the present invention is sufficient.

The chat room screen 10 may include an emoticon button 13 for opening a message display window 11 in which messages exchanged in the chat room are displayed, a text input window 12 for receiving text, and an emoticon display window 14 . The chat room screen 10 may display an emoticon display window 14 showing a plurality of emoticons when the emoticon button 13 is selected while the keyboard display window 15 for inputting text is displayed.

The emoticon display window 14 may display, in the emoticon list area 17 , a list of emoticons included in the emoticon package of a specific tab among the emoticon tabs 16 in which emoticon packages (products) are listed. The emoticon list means a set consisting of a plurality of emoticons.

When user A inputs text into the text input window 12 and presses a send button (not shown), the terminal 100 transmits the input text to the messaging server 200 . The messaging server 200 checks the chat room to which the input text is transmitted, and transmits the input text to participant terminals of the chat room. Then, the text input by the user A may be displayed as a speech bubble message on the chat room screen 10 in which the user A and the user B participated.

Similarly, when user A selects an emoticon in the emoticon display window 14 and presses the transmit button, the terminal 100 transmits the emoticon to the messaging server 200 . In this case, an emoticon image may be transmitted, or identification information of the emoticon may be transmitted. The messaging server 200 checks the chat room to which the emoticon is transmitted, and transmits the emoticon to participant terminals of the chat room. Then, the emoticon input by the user A may be displayed on the chat room screen 10 in which the user A and the user B participated.

In addition to text or emoticons, user A may select and transmit a video, photo, etc. from the chat room screen 10, but a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

In this way, the user A can input text or an emoticon on the chat room screen 10, and in particular, can convey his emotions and intentions to the other party in a fun and effective manner through the emoticon instead of the text. However, when user A wants to input an emoticon, the user A can select the desired emoticon only by pressing the emoticon button 13 and directly searching for the emoticon shown in the emoticon display window 14 . Accordingly, if the number of emoticons increases, it may be difficult for a user to find a desired emoticon, and it may take time to select an emoticon. In addition, even if there are various emoticons, the user may continue to use only frequently used emoticons, and it may be cumbersome to search for emoticons suitable for his/her emotions and wishes.

Next, a description will be given of a method in which the instant messaging application links the text input in the text input window 12 with the emoticons provided to the emoticon display window 14 and provides (recommends) emoticons related to the input text. An emoticon related to the input text may be referred to as a recommended emoticon.

For reference, for convenience of description, the instant messaging application may be described as the subject of the operation, or the terminal 100 executing the installed instant messaging application may be described as the subject of the operation.

2 is an example of a hint icon providing screen for recommending an emoticon related to text according to an exemplary embodiment.

Referring to Figure 2 (a), the terminal 100 displays a chat room screen. As described in FIG. 1 , the chat room screen displays a message display window 11 and a text input window 12 , and when the cursor is on the text input window 12 , the keyboard display window 15 that can input text is based on can be displayed In addition, the chat room screen displays an emoticon button 13 that opens an emoticon display window, and the emoticon button 13 may be disposed, for example, in the text input window 12 . The emoticon button 13 may be displayed as a basic icon.

Referring to FIG. 2B , text, for example, “okay”, “okay”, “ah”, and “yo” may be sequentially input into the text input window 12 . If the emoticons related to the text “okay” are provided as recommended emoticons, the terminal 100 changes the emoticon button 13 to an icon different from the default icon. From now on, an icon different from the default icon is called a hint icon. It is sufficient that the hint icon has a different shape from the default icon so that the user can know that there is a recommended emoticon associated with the text. Furthermore, the hint icon may pre-display one of the recommended emoticons associated with the text “okay”. The hint icon may be an emoticon with movement.

Also, the terminal 100 may display the text with the recommended emoticon separately from the text without the recommended emoticon. For example, the terminal 100 may highlight the text “okay” with the recommended emoticon. Alternatively, the terminal 100 may highlight a word ('it's okay') including the text "it's okay" with the recommended emoticon.

In this way, in order to change the emoticon button 13 to a hint icon according to the input text, the terminal 100 may store a keyword dictionary for confirming that there is a recommended emoticon associated with the input text. The keyword dictionary may be a data file capable of confirming the presence or absence of a recommended emoticon associated with the input text. Data files may be stored in a database structure. The keyword dictionary may be received from the messaging server 200 . The keyword dictionary stored in the terminal 100 is periodically synchronized with the keyword dictionary of the messaging server 200 . When the managed keyword dictionary is updated, the messaging server 200 may synchronize the terminal 100 and the keyword dictionary stored in the messaging server 200 by transmitting the updated keyword dictionary to the terminal 100 .

With reference to the keyword dictionary, the terminal 100 may check whether there is a recommended emoticon associated with the input text “okay” and check whether there is a recommended emoticon associated with “okay” completed with the next input text “okay”. The terminal 100 may change the emoticon button 13 to a hint icon when it is confirmed through the keyword dictionary that there is a recommended emoticon in the text “It’s okay”. When the text “ah” and “yo” connected to the text “okay” with the recommended emoticon are input, the terminal 100 may keep the emoticon button 13 as a hint icon. In addition, the terminal 100 may continue to display the highlight of the text “okay” with the recommended emoticon.

Referring to FIG. 2C , when a new word starts in the text input window 12 , the terminal 100 changes the emoticon button 13 from a hint icon to a basic icon. When a space (space bar), line break (enter key), delimiter (comma, period, exclamation point, period, colon, semicolon, etc.) is input in the text input window 12, the terminal 100 returns to the start of a new word. can recognize

When text, for example, “I” and “I” are sequentially input to the text input window 12 , as described in (b), the terminal 100 responds to the presence or absence of a recommended emoticon associated with the text “I”. You can change or keep the emoticon button 13 . When there is no recommended emoticon of the text “I”, the emoticon button 13 is maintained as a default icon.

When the emoticon button 13 of the basic icon is selected, the terminal 100 displays the stored emoticons regardless of the input test. For example, when the emoticon button 13 of the basic icon is selected, the terminal 100 may display emoticons including the last used emoticon on the emoticon display window 14 .

Referring to (d) of FIG. 2 , when new text, for example, “ㅋ” is sequentially input to the text input window 12, the terminal 100 displays an emoticon according to the presence or absence of a recommended emoticon associated with the text “ㅋ”. Button 13 can be changed or maintained.

As a result of referring to the keyword dictionary, when it is confirmed that there is a recommended emoticon associated with the text “lol”, the terminal 100 changes the emoticon button 13 to a hint icon. The hint icon for “blah” may be different from the hint icon for “okay”.

The terminal 100 may highlight the text “lol” with the recommended emoticon.

When the emoticon button 13 is selected in a state in which the text “blah” is input, the selected text may be displayed differently in the text input window 12 . In this case, the highlight of the selected text “blah” may be displayed differently from the highlight of “blah” before the selection. For example, a box may be displayed as a highlight in the text “blah” before selection, and an underline in the selected text “blah” may be displayed as a highlight. In addition, the highlighting method may be set in various ways, such as bold text, color, italic text, and the like.

Meanwhile, a highlight may be continuously displayed to indicate that there is a recommended emoticon that is “okay” among the text input into the text input window 12 . When the highlighted “okay” is selected, the terminal 100 may display recommended emoticons of the text “okay” instead of the recommended emoticons of the text “blah”.

When the hint icon of the text “lol” is selected or the highlighted text “okay” is selected, the terminal 100 may display the recommended emoticons received from the messaging server 200 on the emoticon display window 14 . Accordingly, emoticons not stored in the terminal 100 may also be recommended to the user.

Next, while explaining the emoticon recommendation interface screen, continuous alphabets are given to the interface screen displayed on the terminal 100 so as to have continuity with the interface screen described with reference to FIGS. 2A to 2D .

3 to 7 are examples of an emoticon recommendation interface screen according to an embodiment.

Referring to FIG. 3 , when the emoticon button 13 changed to a hint icon in FIG. 2(d) is selected, as shown in (e), the terminal 100 displays the text “ㅋ” in the emoticon display window 14 as a recommended emoticon. Displays the emoticon recommendation results including A method for displaying an emoticon recommendation result on the emoticon display window 14 and a method for arranging emoticons may be variously implemented.

The emoticon recommendation result may further include keywords related to the text “lol” (eg, “laugh”, “smile”, etc.). According to one embodiment, related keywords may be displayed on the keyword tab 18 of the emoticon display window 14 . When a related keyword is selected, recommended emoticons matching the selected related keyword may be displayed in the emoticon list area 17 . The user may select a related keyword and search for recommended emoticons matching the related keyword. This can be called a 2 depth search. The position of the keyword tab 18 may be variously determined.

According to another embodiment, at least some recommended emoticons matching each related keyword may be provided together with the recommended emoticons of the text “ㅋ” on the emoticon display window 14 . The user may search for at least some recommended emoticons matched to each related keyword while scrolling the emoticon display window 14 . This can be called scroll navigation. The user may search for a larger number of recommended emoticons through a view more button that can further check the recommended emoticons of each related keyword.

In the description, it is explained that related keywords are displayed on the keyword tab 18, and an interface screen for scrolling search for recommended emoticons of related keywords is described in FIG. 8. Referring to FIG. 3(f), (e) , the highlighted text “Okay” may be selected. The terminal 100 displays the emoticon recommendation result for the text “okay” on the emoticon display window 14 . Since the text “okay” is selected, the text “okay” is changed to a mark indicating the selected text (eg underline), and the text “blah” is changed to a display indicating text with a suggested emoticon (eg a box). can be changed. The terminal 100 may retrieve the recommended emoticons of the text “It’s okay” from the messaging server 200 and display it on the emoticon display window 14 .

The emoticon recommendation result displayed on the emoticon display window 14 displays recommended emoticons related to the text “okay”. In this case, the emoticon display window 14 may display emoticons matched to the representative keyword “it’s okay” of the text “it’s okay”. In addition, the emoticon display window 14 may display keywords related to the text “It’s okay” or the representative keyword “It’s okay”, for example, “ㅇㅋ”, “Like”, and “Up” on the keyword tab 18 . .

When there are a plurality of related keywords of the text “It’s okay” or the representative keyword “It’s okay”, the related keywords displayed in the keyword tab 18 may be sorted by the related keyword recommendation logic. The related keyword recommendation logic may include at least one condition, and the sort order of the related keywords may be determined using the plurality of conditions. For example, the related keyword recommendation logic may include the intensity of emotion represented by the keyword as a condition, and may be used as a condition for first exposing the keyword having the strong emotion. The related keyword recommendation logic may include, as a condition, the cumulative number of times each related keyword is selected from among the related keywords of the input text, and may be used as a condition for preferentially exposing popular keywords. The related keyword recommendation logic may include a condition for first exposing keywords that are frequently matched with emoticons frequently used in chat rooms. The related keyword recommendation logic may include the number of emoticons matched to the keyword as a condition, and may be used as a condition for first exposing a keyword with a large number of emoticons.

On the other hand, if the number of related keywords in the text is greater than or equal to the number (for example, three) displayed in the keyword tab 18, a more button is exposed on the keyword tab 18, and when the more button is clicked, all related keywords can be displayed have. Alternatively, when the user scrolls the keywords tab 18 , hidden keywords in the keywords tab 18 may be displayed.

When the keyword “like” is selected in the keyword tab 18 , the terminal 100 may display emoticons matching the keyword “like” in the emoticon list area 17 as shown in FIG. 3 ( g ).

When the terminal 100 retrieves the recommended emoticons of the text “okay” from the messaging server 200, the emoticons matched to the related keywords (eg, “ㅇㅋ”, “like”, “up”) are brought at once. Or, at least some of the emoticons matched to the related keywords may be brought, or emoticons matched to some of the related keywords may be brought. Alternatively, when the keyword “like” is selected, the terminal 100 may bring emoticons matched to the selected keyword “like”. The recommended emoticons brought by the terminal 100 from the messaging server 200 may be stored in a designated place for a certain period of time and deleted.

In this way, the emoticon recommendation result of the text is displayed on the emoticon display window 14, and may consist of 2 depths. That is, the emoticon recommendation result may display a keyword tab 18 for recommending a plurality of related keywords, and display emoticons of a keyword selected in the keyword tab 18 in the emoticon list area 17 . As such, as the emoticon recommendation result, keywords in the keyword tab 18 may be set to depth 1 , emoticons matching the selected keyword may be set to depth 2 , and a recommendation result set to depth 1 and depth 2 may be provided. The user can do a 2-depth search in the emoticon recommendation result, and through this, various emoticon recommendations related to the input text can be received, and as a result, the use of emoticons can be increased.

Meanwhile, referring to FIG. 4 , in (e), even if the terminal 100 displays the emoticon recommendation result of the text “lol” on the emoticon display window 14 , the user can select the emoticon in the emoticon tab 16 .

Then, as shown in (h) of FIG. 4 , the emoticon list of the emoticon package (product) 19 selected in the emoticon tab 16 may be displayed in the emoticon list area 17 . In this case, the text “blah” in the text input window 12 may be changed from an underline display to a highlight display. Accordingly, the text “okay” and the text “blah” are highlighted in the text input window 12 . If the user A selects the text “okay” from the highlighted text “okay” and the text “blah” in the text input window 12, the screen (f) of FIG. 3 may be displayed on the terminal 100, If the text “ㅋ” is selected, the screen (e) may be displayed on the terminal 100 .

Referring to FIG. 5 , in (e), when the terminal 100 displays the emoticon recommendation result of the text “lol” on the emoticon display window, the user can select the emoticon 20 in the emoticon list area 17 .

Then, as shown in (i) of FIG. 5 , the terminal 100 displays the selected emoticon 20 on the preview screen 21 . The preview screen 21 may be displayed in an upper layer of the message display window 11 to overlap at least a part of the message display window 11 . The preview screen 21 may be displayed on the text input window 12 .

When the send button 22 is selected, the selected emoticon 20 is transmitted to the messaging server 200 . Then, the selected emoticon 20 is displayed on the message display window 11 as shown in FIG. 5 ( j ). When the transmit button 22 is selected, the text “It’s okay, I am lol” input into the text input window 12 may be transmitted together with the emoticon 20 .

Meanwhile, in a state in which the entire text input into the text input window 12 is a keyword managed in the keyword dictionary, any emoticon may be selected from among the recommended emoticons. In the case of such full matching, the terminal 100 may transmit only the selected emoticon to the messaging server 200 without transmitting the input text (eg, "lol"). Then, only the selected emoticon is displayed in the message window of the chat room. Alternatively, the terminal 100 transmits the input text and the selected emoticon to the messaging server 200, but the messaging server 200 confirms that the input text is a keyword managed in the keyword dictionary (full matching check), and only receives the received emoticon. You can send it to the chat room.

Referring to (k) of FIG. 6 , “Oh, that’s great!” is input into the text input window 12 . “Oh, that’s great!” Among them, it is assumed that there is a recommended emoticon for the text “Oh”. When the text “Wow” is selected, the selected text “Wow” is underlined, and the emoticon recommendation result of the text “Wow” is displayed.

As described above, the emoticon recommendation result may be provided in 2 depth. In the emoticon recommendation result, related keywords of the text “wow” are displayed on the keyword tab 18 , and the number of related keywords may be greater than or equal to the number (eg, three) displayed on the keyword tab 18 . Then, the more button 23 may be exposed on the keyword tab 18 .

When the more button 23 is clicked, as shown in (l) of FIG. 6 , keywords related to the text “oh wow” may be displayed on the expanded screen. In the extended screen, the related keyword “envy” can be selected.

Then, the related keyword “envy” may be displayed on the keyword tab 18 as shown in FIG. 6(m) . The selected keyword “envy” may be disposed at the front of the keyword tab 18, but the order may be variously changed. In addition, when a related keyword is selected in the extended screen, at least some of the initially suggested keywords (eg, the keyword “wow”) may be replaced with a new keyword (eg, the keyword “impression”) (new related keyword recommendations).

Referring to FIG. 7 , the terminal 100 may preferentially expose a favorite emoticon to a text emoticon recommendation result.

Referring to (n) of FIG. 7 , an emoticon 25 may be selected as a favorite from among the recommended emoticons of the input text (eg, “ㅋ”).

Thereafter, as shown in (o) of FIG. 7 , when the user inputs the text “ㅋ” in the text input window, since there is a recommended emoticon, a hint icon is displayed.

When the hint icon is selected, recommended emoticons are displayed on the emoticon display window as shown in FIG. 7(p). In this case, since there is a favorite emoticon 25 for the text “ㅋ”, the terminal 100 may first expose the favorite emoticon 25 in the emoticon display window.

The recommended emoticons may be sorted by the emoticon recommendation logic. The emoticon recommendation logic may include at least one condition. Conditions are set in various ways, such as the user's favorite emoticon, the user's downloaded emoticon, the latest emoticon, popular emoticon used by the user's age group, emoticon similar to the user's purchased or preferred (favorite) emoticon, emoticon frequently sent in chat rooms, etc. can be

8 is an example of a related keyword-based emoticon recommendation interface screen according to an embodiment.

Referring to FIG. 8 , the emoticon recommendation result provides related keywords and recommended emoticons matched to them. Unlike the 2 depth search screen described for example in FIGS. 3 to 7 , a scroll search screen may be provided.

Referring to (A), it is assumed that the text “dislike” is input to the text input window 12 , and the text “dislike” is input text with a recommended emoticon. Then, when the text “dislike” is selected or a hint icon is selected, an emoticon recommendation result of the text “dislike” is displayed on the emoticon display window 14 .

The emoticon display window 14 includes an emoticon tab 16 and an emoticon list area 17 . Recommended emoticons and related keywords are displayed in the emoticon list area 17 , and it is composed of a scrollable screen. A scroll bar 26 may be displayed at a designated position (eg, a right edge) of the emoticon list area 17 .

The arrangement of the emoticons provided in the emoticon list area 17 may be defined in various ways. The emoticons arranged in the emoticon list area 17 may be exposed on the screen according to the user's scrolling operation.

For example, at the top of the emoticon list area 17 , recently used emoticons among emoticons matched to the text “dislike” may be located. Under the recently used emoticons, recommended emoticons matching the text “dislike” may be located. In this case, the representative keyword “dislike” of the text “dislike” may be displayed together with the recommended emoticons. As for the recommended emoticons matching the text “dislike”, a specified number of emoticons is displayed, and when there are more recommended emoticons, a more button 27 may be displayed. Instead of recently used emoticons, user preferred emoticons may be located.

Recommended emoticons matched to a related keyword (eg, “warning”) of the text “dislike” may be located under the recommended emoticons matched to the text “dislike”. In this case, the keyword “warning” may be displayed together with the recommended emoticons.

When the more button 26 is selected, as shown in (B), recommended emoticons matching “dislike” are displayed in the expanded area. If there are recommended emoticons that are not displayed even in the expanded area, a more button 28 may be displayed. An area in which recommended emoticons are displayed may be expanded through the more button 28 .

Meanwhile, a folding button (not shown) may be provided, and when the folding button is selected, the unfolded area may be closed and returned to the original area.

9 is a flowchart of a method for providing an emoticon according to an embodiment.

Referring to FIG. 9 , when the instant messaging application is executed, the terminal 100 displays a user interface screen provided by the instant messaging application ( S110 ). As the user interface screen is described for example in FIGS. 2 to 8, the user interface screen may be a chat room screen, and the chat room screen is an emoticon button ( 13) may be included.

When text is input into the text input window 12, the terminal 100 checks whether there is a recommended emoticon associated with the input text, and if there is a recommended emoticon, changes the emoticon button 13 to a hint icon different from the default icon ( S120). A method of displaying the presence of a recommended emoticon may be a hint icon, but in addition to the hint icon, it may be displayed in various ways in a chat room. The terminal 100 may store a keyword dictionary capable of confirming the presence or absence of a recommended emoticon associated with the input text, and may check the presence or absence of a recommended emoticon associated with the input text through the keyword dictionary. The terminal 100 may distinguish and display the input text having the recommended emoticon, for example, may highlight the input text.

When the hint icon is selected, the terminal 100 displays an emoticon recommendation result related to the input text on the emoticon display window 14 (S130). Alternatively, when the highlighted input text is selected, the terminal 100 may display an emoticon recommendation result related to the input text on the emoticon display window 14 . The emoticon recommendation result includes emoticons matching the input text or a representative keyword of the input text. Also, the emoticon recommendation result may include related keywords related to the input text and emoticons matched to the related keyword. If the hint icon is not selected and a new word is input, the terminal 100 may change the hint icon back to the default icon and maintain the highlight display of the text with the recommended emoticon. The text with the recommended emoticon may be selected at any time before transmission, and the emoticon recommendation result related to the selected text is displayed on the emoticon display window 14 as in step S130.

When a certain emoticon is selected from the emoticon recommendation result and the send button is selected, the terminal 100 transmits the selected emoticon to the messaging server 200 (S140). The terminal 100 may transmit the text input to the text input window 12 and the selected emoticon together. Alternatively, when the entire text input in the text input window 12 is a keyword managed by the keyword dictionary (full matching), the terminal 100 may transmit only the selected emoticon.

The terminal 100 receives the text and emoticon transmitted from the messaging server 200 and displays the received text and emoticon on the chat room screen (S150).

10 is a flowchart of a method for providing an emoticon according to another embodiment.

Referring to FIG. 10 , the terminal 100 stores a keyword dictionary in which it is possible to check whether there is a recommended emoticon associated with the input text (S210). The keyword dictionary stores keywords with recommended emoticons, and each keyword has at least one related text as a member. That is, the keyword may be referred to as a representative keyword representing various texts classified as members. On the other hand, any input text may belong to several keywords.

When text is input into the text input window 12 , the terminal 100 queries the keyword dictionary to determine whether there is a recommended emoticon associated with the input text ( S220 ). The terminal 100 may query a keyword corresponding to the input text from the keyword dictionary, and check the presence or absence of a recommended emoticon based on the response result.

When there is a recommended emoticon in the input text, the terminal 100 changes the emoticon button 13 to a hint icon different from the basic icon (S230). The terminal 100 may distinguish and display the input text having the recommended emoticon, for example, may highlight the input text.

When the hint icon is selected, the terminal 100 displays an emoticon recommendation result related to the input text on the emoticon display window 14 (S240). Alternatively, when the highlighted input text is selected, the terminal 100 may display an emoticon recommendation result related to the input text on the emoticon display window 14 . The terminal 100 may transmit keyword information (eg, a keyword identifier) matched to the input text to the messaging server 200 , and may receive an emoticon recommendation result matched with the keyword from the messaging server 200 . Here, the keyword information may be included in the response result of the keyword dictionary. When a hint icon is selected or a highlighted input text is selected, the terminal 100 may request an emoticon recommendation result related to the input text from the messaging server 200 . Alternatively, when it is confirmed that there is a keyword matching the input text, the terminal 100 may bring an emoticon recommendation result in advance before selecting a hint icon or highlighted input text. Alternatively, the terminal 100 may store the emoticon recommendation result of the keyword for a predetermined time and use the stored emoticon recommendation result.

When the hint icon is not selected and a new word is input, the terminal 100 changes the hint icon back to the default icon and checks whether there is a recommended emoticon associated with the new input text (S250).

When a certain emoticon is selected from the emoticon recommendation result and the send button is selected, the terminal 100 transmits the selected emoticon to the messaging server 200 . Naturally, no emoticon is selected from the emoticon recommendation result, and the send button may be selected, and the terminal 100 transmits the text input in the text input window to the messaging server 200 .

As such, when, for example, "I'm okay I" is sequentially input to the text input window, the terminal 100 continues to check whether there is a recommended emoticon associated with the input text until a transmission button for the input text is selected. The terminal 100 displays a hint icon if there is a text with a recommended emoticon to notify the user that there is a recommended emoticon, and displays an emoticon recommendation result when the hint icon is selected. can provide When there are a plurality of texts having a recommended emoticon in the text input window 12 , the terminal 100 may highlight the text so that any one of the plurality can be selected, and provide an emoticon recommendation result of the selected text.

The terminal 100 may receive the emoticon recommendation result from the messaging server 200 . Accordingly, the user may be recommended an emoticon that is not stored in the terminal.

The emoticon recommendation result may include a list of emoticons matched to the input text, and may further include related keywords. Keywords related to the keyword representing the input text may be matched to the messaging server 200 . A list of emoticons to be provided for each keyword may be matched to the messaging server 200 .

Relevant keywords included in the emoticon recommendation result may be selected based on various statistical information reflecting user usage patterns, correlation information analyzed by an artificial intelligence model, and the like. The sort order of the related keywords may be determined by the related keyword recommendation logic.

The emoticons included in the emoticon recommendation result may be selected based on various statistical information reflecting user usage patterns, correlation information analyzed by an artificial intelligence model, up-to-dateness, popularity, and the like. The emoticon sort order may be determined by emoticon recommendation logic. If there is a user's favorite emoticon among the emoticons matched to the keyword, the favorite emoticon may be first exposed.

As described above, according to the embodiment, the user can quickly check the presence or absence of a recommended emoticon matched with the text by simply entering text into the text input window without having to search for the emoticon, and conveniently select the recommended emoticons matching the input text. can explore.

According to an embodiment, the terminal may quickly display the presence or absence of a recommended emoticon matched with the input text through the keyword dictionary. In addition, according to the embodiment, since the terminal stores the keyword dictionary, it is possible to check the presence or absence of a recommended emoticon matched with the input text without being affected by a real-time communication delay with a server providing a recommended emoticon.

According to the embodiment, since the server does not need to confirm that there is a recommended emoticon for texts input from all terminals in real time and transmit the checked information to the corresponding terminals, the load can be reduced.

According to an embodiment, since the server provides recommended emoticons related to the input text, the user may be recommended emoticons not stored in the terminal.

The embodiment of the present invention described above is not implemented only through the apparatus and method, and may be implemented through a program for realizing a function corresponding to the configuration of the embodiment of the present invention or a recording medium in which the program is recorded.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above, the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and various modifications and improved forms of the present invention are also provided by those skilled in the art using the basic concept of the present invention as defined in the following claims. is within the scope of the right.

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A method for a terminal to provide a user interface screen of an instant messaging application, comprising:
displaying a user interface screen including an emoticon button for opening a text input window and an emoticon display window;
when text is input into the text input window, checking whether there is a recommended emoticon associated with the input text;
If there is a recommended emoticon associated with the input text, displaying the emoticon button as a hint icon different from the default icon; and
When the hint icon is selected, displaying an emoticon recommendation result related to the input text on the emoticon display window,
The emoticon recommendation result is
at least one related keyword associated with the input text;
A method for providing a user interface screen, including emoticons matched to each relevant keyword. In claim 1,
The emoticon recommendation result is
A method for providing a user interface screen, including recommended emoticons matching the input text or a representative keyword of the input text. delete In claim 1,
If there is a recommended emoticon associated with the input text, displaying information indicating that there is a recommended emoticon in the input text;
A method of providing a user interface screen further comprising a. A method for a terminal to provide a user interface screen of an instant messaging application, comprising:
displaying a user interface screen including an emoticon button for opening a text input window and an emoticon display window;
when text is input into the text input window, checking whether there is a recommended emoticon associated with the input text;
If there is a recommended emoticon associated with the input text, displaying the emoticon button as a hint icon different from the default icon; and
When the hint icon is selected, displaying an emoticon recommendation result related to the input text on the emoticon display window,
changing the hint icon to the default icon when the hint icon provided in the input text is not selected and a new word is input in the text input window;
A method of providing a user interface screen further comprising a. In claim 5,
The method further comprising the step of storing a keyword dictionary including text information with a recommended emoticon;
The step of checking whether there is a recommended emoticon associated with the input text is
A method of providing a user interface screen by querying the input text to the keyword dictionary and checking the presence or absence of a recommended emoticon based on a response result. In claim 5,
The method further comprising the step of receiving the emoticon recommendation result from the server of the instant messaging application, the user interface screen providing method. In claim 5,
Further comprising the step of transmitting the emoticon selected from the emoticon recommendation result to the server of the instant messaging application,
The step of transmitting to the server of the instant messaging application is
A method for providing a user interface screen, wherein the entire text input in the text input window and the selected emoticon are transmitted together or only the selected emoticon is transmitted. A method for a terminal to provide a user interface screen of an instant messaging application, comprising:
displaying a user interface screen including an emoticon button for opening a text input window and an emoticon display window;
when text is input into the text input window, checking whether there is a recommended emoticon associated with the input text;
If there is a recommended emoticon associated with the input text, displaying the emoticon button as a hint icon different from the default icon; and
When the hint icon is selected, displaying an emoticon recommendation result related to the input text on the emoticon display window,
The hint icon is
A method for providing a user interface screen, which is provided differently according to the input text. delete An application executed by a computing device and stored in a computer-readable recording medium, comprising:
An operation of providing a user interface screen including a text input window, an emoticon display window, and an emoticon button for opening the emoticon display window;
When text is sequentially inputted into the text input window, changing the emoticon button from a basic icon to a hint icon or maintaining the basic icon according to the presence or absence of a recommended emoticon associated with the input text;
displaying text having a recommended emoticon among the text input in the text input window; and
When the hint icon is selected or the text with the recommended emoticon is selected, displaying an emoticon recommendation result on the emoticon display window
contains commands to run
The emoticon recommendation result is
An application comprising at least one related keyword related to the text with the recommended emoticon, and including emoticons matched to each related keyword. In claim 11,
The emoticons matched to each of the relevant keywords are
An application that is displayed on the emoticon display window when a corresponding related keyword is selected, or is displayed on the emoticon display window when a scroll operation is input in the emoticon display window. In claim 11,
Receiving the emoticon recommendation result from a specified server
Further comprising instructions for executing the application. In claim 11,
Further comprising commands for managing a keyword dictionary in which text information with a recommended emoticon is stored, querying the input text to the keyword dictionary, and executing an operation of confirming the presence or absence of the recommended emoticon based on a response result. In claim 11,
Further comprising commands for transmitting the emoticon selected from the emoticon recommendation result to a designated server,
The entire text input in the text input window may or may not be transmitted along with the selected emoticon according to a condition, the application.

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