TW201324352A - System for storing message based on user defined storing scope and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

A system for storing a message based on a user defined storing scope and a method thereof are provided. By triggering message recoding event by user input, retrieving a second message data satisfied a message recoding condition from a first message data received by a communication software after message recoding event is triggered, and storing the second message data into a conversation history, the system and the method can store part of message data, and can achieve the effect of finding important issue in conversation history conveniently.

Description

Message storage system and method thereof for providing user-defined storage range

A message storage system and method thereof, in particular, a message storage system and a method thereof for providing a user-defined storage range.

With the development of information technology and the Internet, the way of transmitting messages has gradually changed from traditional letters to e-mails and newsletters. Recently, it has changed to instant messaging to deliver messages to the other party more instantly.

Instant messaging is a service that connects a terminal to an instant messaging network. The biggest difference between instant messaging and non-instant messaging such as email is that instant messaging conversations are instant. Most instant messaging services provide the characteristics of status information - showing a list of contacts, whether the contact is online and able to talk to the contact. When the user/contact sends the message to the contact/user, the contact/user will receive the message transmitted by the user/contact at almost the same time, and can immediately send a response to the user/contact. .

In order to prevent the user from forgetting the content communicated with the contact person, almost all the software providing the instant messaging service also provides the function of storing the message data transmitted by the contact person and the user to the other party as a dialogue record, but the fact In fact, the information provided by the user and the contact information may not all be meaningful. It may be exchanged with the contact person when talking about important matters, but the information provided by the software that provides the instant messaging service currently stores the information. Among the functions, there are only two options for storing or not storing the message data. Once the user and the contact person are transmitting the message data, most of them are chatting, and the information about important matters is very small. Causes the user to find important things in the conversation record.

In summary, it can be seen that in the prior art, there has been a problem that the current instant messaging software cannot store only part of the message data, so it is necessary to propose an improved technical means to solve this problem.

In view of the prior art, the current instant messaging software cannot store only part of the message data, and the present invention discloses a message storage system and a method thereof for providing a user-defined storage range, wherein:

The information storage system for providing a user-defined storage range includes: a data reading module for reading a first message transmitted by a contact after the connection between the user and the contact is established. The receiving module is configured to receive input from the user; the determining module is configured to determine whether the user input triggers a message recording event; and the message capturing module is configured to determine that the message recording event is triggered by the determining module And capturing, by the first message data, at least one second message data that satisfies the condition of the message recording; the storage module is configured to store the dialogue record of the corresponding contact, and the trigger is determined by the determining module by the user input After the message is recorded, the message capture module extracts the second message data that satisfies the message recording condition from the received first message data, and the storage module stores the second message data in the conversation record, thereby solving the problem. Problems with prior art.

The method for storing a message for providing a user-defined storage range includes the following steps: after the connection between the user and the contact person is established; reading the first message data transmitted by the contact person; receiving the user Input; after determining the user's input trigger message recording event, at least the second message data satisfying the message recording condition is retrieved from the first message data; and the second message data is stored in the dialogue record corresponding to the contact person, After determining that the user's input behavior triggers a message recording event, the second message data that satisfies the message recording condition is extracted from the received first message data, and the second message data is stored in the conversation record, thereby solving the prior art solution. There are problems.

The system and method disclosed by the present invention are as above, and the difference from the prior art is that the present invention provides an additional input behavior by a user to trigger a message recording event, and after the message recording event is triggered, the first is received. The second message data that satisfies the condition of the message recording is extracted from the message data, and the second message data is stored in the conversation record. Through the above technical means, the present invention can achieve the technical effect of facilitating the user to find important matters in the conversation record.

The detailed features and embodiments of the present invention are described in detail below with reference to the drawings and embodiments, which are sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to readily understand the technical means to which the present invention solves the technical problems. The achievable effect of the invention.

The communication software proposed by the present invention is generally an instant messaging software standardized by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in RFC 2778, but the communication software proposed by the present invention is not limited thereto. The present invention can be used with any communication software that can receive the message data transmitted by the contact person.

The above information includes but is not limited to text, pictures, animations, etc., and the user can directly view the information of the message to be expressed by the contact person without performing additional operations.

The first message data of the present invention is the message data transmitted by the contact person to the user, and may of course include the message data transmitted by the user to the contact person; the second message data described in the present invention is set by the user to be stored to Part of the first message in the dialogue record.

The present invention actually has two types of software, one is a communication software, and the other is a plug-in attached to a conventional communication software.

The system operation diagram of the present invention, which is included in the communication software 100a, will be described below with reference to the system architecture diagram of the message storage system for providing a user-defined storage range in the "1A". As shown in FIG. 1A, the system of the present invention includes a data reading module 110, a receiving module 130, a determining module 150, a message capturing module 160, and a storage module 170.

The data reading module 110 is responsible for reading the first message data transmitted to the user by the contact person after the connection between the user and the contact person is established, and is responsible for the first message data transmitted by the contact person to the user. Read the first message sent by the user to the contact.

Since the present invention is included in the communication software 100a, the data reading module 110 reads the first message data transmitted by the contact person to the user in the buffer for receiving the network data by the communication software 100a, or from the communication. The software 100a is configured to receive the first message data transmitted by the user to the contact in a buffer of the data input by the user.

In addition, the connection between the user and the contact is established by the communication software 100a, wherein the communication software used by the contact is compatible with the communication software used by the user.

The receiving module 130 is responsible for receiving an input signal generated by the user performing an input behavior. The aforementioned input behavior includes but is not limited to inputting text, pressing a function key, clicking a mouse, and the like.

The determination module 150 is responsible for determining whether the user's input triggers a message recording event. The foregoing message recording event, for example, a specific button on an electronic device embodying the present invention is pressed by a user, or a specific image in an interface generated by the communication software of the present invention is clicked by a user using a mouse, etc., but the present invention The proposed message recording event is not limited to the above two.

The determining module 150 detects whether a message recording signal generated when a specific button is pressed or a specific image is clicked is received. If the receiving module 130 receives the message recording signal, the determining module 150 determines the message recording. The event is triggered by the user, but the manner in which the detection message is recorded by the present invention is not limited thereto.

The message capturing module 160 is responsible for determining that the module 150 determines that the message recording event is triggered, and the second message data that satisfies the message recording condition is retrieved from the first message data.

The above message recording conditions can be combined with "2nd picture" to indicate that when the message is triggered to record the event time is 08:15, if the message recording condition is before the time point when the message is triggered to be recorded, the time received is the latest. For a certain amount of the first message data, the first message data satisfying the message recording condition is the two (specific number) first message materials received before 08:15, that is, "Good Morning" and "Good Morning" If the message recording condition is a certain amount of the first message data that is received at the earliest time after the time when the message recording event is triggered, the first message data satisfying the message recording condition is received after 08:15. a (specific number) first message data, that is, "good night"; assuming that the message recording condition is the first message data received within a certain time interval of a time point including the event of triggering the message recording, if a specific time The interval is 08:13~08:17, and the first message data that satisfies the message recording conditions is "Good afternoon" and "Good night".

If the message recording condition is the first message data between the time point when the message recording event is triggered and the time point when the message recording event is stopped, the user starts the message recording event at 08:15 and triggers the stop message at 08:20. When recording an event, the first message that satisfies the message recording condition will only be "Good Night" at 08:17. The message recording conditions proposed by the present invention are not limited to the above five types.

The storage module 170 is configured to store the second message data extracted by the message capturing module 160 into the conversation record of the corresponding contact.

The above conversation record stores the first message data that satisfies the condition of the message recording, that is, only the first message data defined by the user to be stored, and usually includes the time when the first message material is received. Etc., you can even include identification information or nicknames of contacts and/or users.

The storage module 170 is further responsible for determining whether the second message data to be stored has been stored in the dialogue record of the corresponding contact. Since the user can define the range to be stored, the user may repeat the first part of the definition. The message data is to be stored, so the second message data retrieved by the message capture module 160 may have been stored in the conversation record. Therefore, the storage module 170 will compare the second message data in the message record one by one. And the time and content of the second message data to be stored. If the time and content are the same, it means that the second message data to be saved has been stored, so the storage module 170 will not store the stored second message again. The information, but the storage module 170 determines whether the second message data to be stored has been stored in the conversation record is not limited to the above.

In addition to the above modules, the present invention may further include a display module 120. The display module 120 is responsible for displaying the first message data between the user and the contact person, that is, completing the user and the contact person in the communication software 100a. After the connection, the contact sends the first message to the user, or the first message sent by the user to the contact. In a normal case, the display module 120 displays the first message data according to the time when the first message material is received or transmitted.

Since part of the communication software can provide the user to communicate with multiple contacts at the same time, the display module 120 will not display the information of each contact when the first message data is displayed, that is, It is said that the display module 120 uses different screens to respectively display different first message materials received from the respective contacts. When the user performs multi-party communication with multiple contacts, the display module 120 displays the first message data of the user and all contacts who perform multi-party communication on the same screen.

In the case that the display module 120 is included in the present invention, the message recording condition may also be a part of the first message data selected by the user from the first message data displayed by the display module 120, and the message recording is triggered. After the event, the user uses a input device including but not limited to a mouse, a keyboard, a stylus, etc. to mark a part of the first message data received at 08:18 "just test" (usually reversed, but the present invention If it is not limited to this, it means that the first message data that satisfies the message recording condition is the "just test" selected by the user. Thus, the second message data extracted by the message capture module 160 is " Just testing."

The system architecture of the message storage system for providing a user-defined storage range according to the present invention will be described below with reference to the system architecture of the present invention for providing a user-defined storage area. As shown in FIG. 1B, the system of the present invention also includes a data reading module 110, a receiving module 130, a determining module 150, a message capturing module 160, and a storage module 170. The receiving module 130, the determining module 150, the message capturing module 160, and the storage module 170 are all the same as described above, and thus the description is not repeated.

In the case where the present invention is included in the plug-in 100b, the data reading module 110 captures the first message data received by the communication software 400 or the first transmission of the communication software 400 by means of a hook. The message data is used to provide the first message material to each module that is subsequently executed.

In addition, if the message recording condition is a part of the first message data selected by the user from the first message data displayed by the display module 120, the message is displayed after the user displays part of the first message data by using the input device. The capture module 160 also captures part of the first message data indicated by the user as a second message data by means of a hook.

Next, the operation system and method of the present invention will be explained in the first embodiment, and please refer to the "3rd drawing" flowchart of the method for providing a message storage method for the user's custom storage range.

In this embodiment, it is assumed that the user communicates with the contact person using the communication software 100a including the present invention. In addition, in this embodiment, the instant message service is taken as an example, so the first message data and the second message proposed by the present invention are The data will be referred to as an instant message in this embodiment, but the present invention is not limited to the instant messaging service.

When the user uses the instant messaging service, the user needs to log in to the instant messaging service using the personal identification data (such as the account password or the hardware identification code of the electronic device) on the communication software 100a that provides the instant messaging service. The instant message (first message data) is for the contact person who logs in to the same instant message service, wherein the user's contact person is set by the user.

When a user's contact person wants to send an instant message to the user, the contact person first selects the instant message to be transmitted to the user on the communication software 100a that provides the instant message service, and then inputs the message to be sent to the user. In the instant message, when the contact person confirms to send the instant message to the user, the communication software 100a providing the instant message service transmits the control signal requesting the connection to the electronic device used by the user through the electronic device used by the contact person.

Since the user has logged in to the instant messaging service through the communication software 100a providing the instant messaging service, the communication software of the instant messaging service used by the user communicates with the communication software 100a of the instant messaging service used by the contact person to establish the use. The connection between the person and the contact person.

When the contact person transmits the instant message to the user, the communication software 100a receives the instant message transmitted by the contact person to the user, and the data reading module 110 reads the instant message received by the communication software 100a (step 310).

When the present invention includes the display module 120, the display module 120 displays the instant message received by the communication module 110 (step 320). For example, "Figure 2" shows the interface provided by the instant messaging software. It is assumed that the contact person transmitted "Good Morning" and "Noon" at 08:11, 08:14, 08:16 and 08:18 respectively. Four instant messages, such as Ann, "Good Night" and "In fact, this is just a test", are displayed to the user. After the communication software receives the above four instant messages, the display module 120 displays the instant message received by the communication software. The display area 220 is given to the user.

If the user receives the instant message "Good Morning" sent by the contact, at 08:12, the image 230 indicating that the instant message is stored is clicked, so that the receiving module 130 receives the image pressed by the user. The message of 230 records the signal (step 330). Thus, the decision module 150 determines that the user's input triggered the message recording event (step 350).

Assume that the message recording condition is to store a last received instant message at a time when the received time is earlier than the time when the message recording event is triggered, and two first received instants when the received time is later than the time when the message recording event is triggered. The message triggers the message recording event when the user is at 08:12. Therefore, the last instant message received before 08:12, that is, the instant message "Good Morning" received at 08:11 will satisfy the message. Recording conditions, at the same time, the first two instant messages received after 08:12, that is, the "Good afternoon" received at 08:14 and the "Good night" received at 08:16 will satisfy the message recording conditions, so The message capture module 160 retrieves an instant message that satisfies the message recording condition (step 360), that is, extracts three instant messages (second message data) such as "Good Morning", "Good Morning", and "Good Night".

After the message capture module 160 extracts the instant message (second message data) that satisfies the message recording condition from all the instant messages (the first message data), the storage module 170 will be used by the message capture module 160. The captured instant message is stored in the conversation record corresponding to the contact person who transmits the instant message to the user (step 370), so that the user can define the instant message to be stored without storing all the received instant message. .

In the above embodiment, after the message recording condition is that the instant message received within three minutes before and after the event including the trigger message recording is stored, when the user clicks the button 320 at 08:12 to trigger the message recording event, 08:09 to 08 : 15 The instant messages received, that is, "Good Morning" and "Good Morning" will meet the message recording conditions. Therefore, the message capture module 160 will retrieve the instant message "Good Morning" received at 08:11. And when the instant message "Good afternoon" is received at 08:14, the instant message "Good afternoon" is taken out (step 360), and the storage module 170 will take out the instant message "Good Morning" when the message capture module 160 picks up the instant message. The instant message "Good Morning" is stored and the instant message "Good afternoon" is stored when the message capture module 160 retrieves the instant message "Good afternoon" (step 370).

If the message recording condition of the above embodiment is to store the instant message received between the time when the message recording event is triggered and the time when the ending message recording event is triggered, it is assumed that the user triggers the button 320 at 08:12. The message was recorded, and the button 320 was clicked again at 08:20 to trigger the end message recording event. Therefore, the instant message "Good afternoon" received at 08:14 and the instant message received at 08:16 "Good night" And the instant message "In fact, this is just a test" received at 08:18 falls between 08:12 and 08:20. Therefore, the communication module 110 receives the above three instant messages "Noon" After the "good night" and "in fact, this is only a test", the message capture module 160 will retrieve the three instant messages that satisfy the message recording conditions (step 360) and store them by the storage module 170 (step 370). ).

If the message recording condition of the above embodiment is to store the instant message selected by the user, after the user clicks the button 230 to trigger the message recording event at 08:12, the user can use the mouse to the display area 220 at any time to include However, it is not limited to the white way to indicate the instant message that the user wants to be stored. For example, the user has indicated the instant message "Good Morning" received at 08:12 and the latter part of the instant message received at 08:18. "This is just a test", the message capture module 160 will retrieve the instant message that satisfies the message recording condition, that is, the instant message "Good Morning" and "This is just a test" and is stored by the storage module 170.

In summary, it can be seen that the difference between the present invention and the prior art is that it provides a user to perform an input behavior to trigger a message recording event, and when the message recording event is triggered, the satisfaction message is extracted from the received first message data. Recording the second message data of the condition, and storing the second message data in the conversation record, by using a technical means, the problem that the current instant message software cannot store only part of the message data can be solved by the prior art, thereby achieving convenience The user finds the power of important things in the conversation log.

In addition, in the above embodiment, if the present invention includes the display module 120, the display module 120 can further establish a dialogue with the contact person after the communication module 110 establishes a connection between the user and the contact person. The record display includes, but is not limited to, display area 220 (step 302) so that the user can know the important message transmitted by the previous contact.

Next, the operation system and method of the present invention will be described with reference to the second embodiment. Please continue to refer to the flowchart of the method for storing a message storage method for a user-defined storage range according to the present invention.

In the present embodiment, it is assumed that the user uses the plug-in 100b including the present invention, and the plug-in 100b is attached to the communication software 400 that communicates with the contact.

When the contact person sends the instant message to the user, the communication software 400 receives the instant message transmitted by the contact person to the user, and the data reading module 110 reads the instant message received by the communication software 400 by hooking. (Step 310).

Thereafter, the user can click on the image 230, so that the receiving module 130 receives the message recording signal of the user pressing the image 230 (step 330), and the determining module 150 determines that the user's input triggers the message recording. Event (step 350).

Then, when the message recording condition message is received within three minutes before and after the event containing the trigger message recording, or between the time point when the message recording event is triggered and the time when the ending message recording event is triggered, the message is received. When the instant message arrives, the capture module 160 can retrieve the instant message that satisfies the message recording condition in the manner mentioned in the first embodiment (step 360), and the storage module 170 captures the message. The instant message retrieved by the module 160 is stored in a conversation record corresponding to the contact that transmitted the instant message to the user (step 370).

If the message recording condition is to store the instant message selected by the user, the user can use the mouse to display the instant message that the user wants to be stored in the display area 220 of the communication software 400 at any time after triggering the message recording event. The message capture module 160 will detect by the hook that the user has indicated the instant message "Good Morning" received at 08:12 and the latter part of the instant message received at 08:18 "This is only The test is performed and the instant message indicated by the user is retrieved (step 360), that is, the instant message "Good Morning" and "This is just a test" and provided to the storage module 170 for storage (step 370).

In addition, in the first embodiment and the second embodiment, in order to prevent the second message data from being repeatedly stored, the storage module 170 can further store the second message data captured by the message capturing module 160. Determining whether the second message data to be stored has been stored in the conversation record of the corresponding contact, for example, assuming that the message recording condition is the last received instant message and the trigger message record before the city is built. The message, so when the user triggers the message recording event at 08:12, the message capture module 160 will capture the instant message "Good Morning" received at 08:11 and the instant message "Good afternoon" received at 08:14. (Step 360), and stored in the dialog record of the corresponding contact by the storage module 170 (step 370), and if the user triggers the message recording event again at 08:15, the message capturing module 160 will extract the message. 08:14 Received the instant message "Good afternoon" and the instant message "Good night" received at 08:16 (Step 360). At this time, the storage module 170 will receive the instant message "Good afternoon" and 08:08 respectively: 08:14: 16 The received instant message "Good Night" is compared with the instant message "Good Morning" received at 08:11 in the dialogue record and the instant message "Good Morning" received at 08:14. The instant message received at 08:14 is "Noon". The storage module 170 will not store the instant message "Good afternoon" received at 08:14, but only the instant message "Good night" received at 08:16.

Furthermore, the message storage method of the present invention for providing a user-defined storage range can be implemented in hardware, software or a combination of hardware and software, or can be implemented in a centralized manner in a computer system or distributed in different components. The decentralized implementation of several interconnected computer systems.

While the embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the above description is not intended to limit the scope of the invention. Any changes or modifications in the form and details of the embodiments of the present invention are intended to be within the scope of the invention. Therefore, the scope of the invention is to be determined by the scope of the appended claims.

100a. . . Communication software

100b. . . Plugin

110. . . Data reading module

120. . . Display module

130. . . Receiving module

150. . . Judging module

160. . . Message capture module

170. . . Storage module

220. . . Display area

230. . . button

400. . . Communication software

Step 302 displays the conversation record of the corresponding contact

Step 310: reading the first message data sent by the contact

Step 320 displays the first message data

Step 330 receives user input

Step 350: User input triggers a message recording event

Step 360: Extracting the second message data that satisfies the message recording condition from the first message data

Step 370: storing the second message data in the conversation record of the corresponding contact

FIG. 1A is a structural diagram of a message storage system provided by the present invention to provide a user-defined storage range.

FIG. 1B is a structural diagram of a message storage system provided by the present invention to provide a user-defined storage range.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an interface provided by a software for receiving an instant message according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart of a message storage method for providing a user-defined storage range according to the present invention.

Step 302 displays the conversation record of the corresponding contact

Step 310: reading the first message data sent by the contact

Step 320 displays the first message data

Step 330 receives user input

Step 350: User input triggers a message recording event

Step 360: Extracting the second message data that satisfies the message recording condition from the first message data

Step 370: storing the second message data in the conversation record of the corresponding contact

Claims (10)

A message storage method for providing a user-defined storage range, the message storage method comprising the steps of: reading at least one first message data transmitted by the contact person after establishing a connection between a user and a contact person; Receiving the input of the user; determining that the input of the user triggers a message recording event, extracting at least one second message data that satisfies a message recording condition from the first message data; and storing the second message The information is in the dialogue record of one of the correspondents. The method for storing a message for providing a user-defined storage range as described in claim 1, wherein the step of determining that the user's input triggers the message recording event determines whether the user is pressed to press a specific button. Or click on a message generated by a particular image to record the signal. The method for storing a message for providing a user-defined storage range as described in claim 1, wherein the step of capturing the second message data that satisfies the message recording condition is to capture a certain number of the A message material, wherein the first captured message data is received earlier or later than the time at which the message recording event was generated. The method for storing a message for providing a user-defined storage range as described in claim 1, wherein the step of capturing the second message data that satisfies the message recording condition is that the message recording event is generated. The first message data received between the time point and the time point when the message recording event ends is the second message data, and the first message data is selected from the first message data. After the message data, the first captured message data is stored as the second message data, or the message data received in a time interval is included, wherein the time interval includes the message record event is The point in time at which it was produced. The method for storing a message for providing a user-defined storage range as described in claim 1 wherein the step of storing the second message data satisfying the message recording condition further comprises determining whether the conversation record has been stored. One of the second message materials, if any, does not store the stored second message data. A message storage system for providing a user-defined storage range, the message storage system comprising: a data reading module for reading a connection between a user and a contact person, and reading the contact transmitted by the contact person At least one first message data; a receiving module for receiving input from the user; a determining module for determining whether the user input triggers a message recording event; and a message capturing module for After the determining module determines that the message recording event is triggered, at least one second message data that satisfies a message recording condition is captured from the first message data; and a storage module is configured to store the corresponding contact information. One of the people in the conversation record. A message storage system for providing a user-defined storage range as described in claim 6 wherein the message recording event is when a particular button is pressed or a particular image is clicked. A message storage system for providing a user-defined storage range as described in claim 6 wherein the message recording condition is received earlier than/after a time when the message recording event is generated. In the message data, the first amount of the first message data at the latest/first time. A message storage system for providing a user-defined storage range as described in claim 6 wherein the message recording condition is the first received in a time interval including a time point at which the message recording event is generated. The message data, the first message data received between the time when the event is recorded and the time when the message recording event ends, or the first display by the user by a display module Some of the first message data selected in the message data. A message storage system for providing a user-defined storage area as described in claim 6, wherein the storage module is further configured to determine whether one of the second message materials is stored in the conversation record, if any The storage module does not store the stored second message data.