JP2002366498A - Chat terminal equipment, chat server, chat system and chat method - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make speeches to be noticed easily identifiable in a chat system for making conversations with character information by using a plurality of chat terminal equipment. SOLUTION: Information such as the number of times of conversations or conversations including keywords is extracted, and speakers to be noticed are ranked based on the chat history information, and display colors or fonts at the time of display or voices are set corresponding to this rank so that speeches to be noticed can be applied with more easily identifiable configurations.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a system for conducting a conversation between a plurality of terminal devices using character information via a communication line, and more particularly, to a conversation for facilitating identification of a sender of the character information. Regarding the system to do.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art The Internet is known as WWW (World).
Wide Web) has been rapidly expanding. In recent years, the interest of Internet users has been shifting from simple WWW browsing to communication between users using the Internet. A typical example of this communication is IRC (Internet
Relay Chat). This I
The number of RC users has increased many times over the past few years, and the user segment was initially mainly engineers and researchers, but now the proportion of non-technical people has increased. Is coming. In this IRC, a user enters (JOINs) a virtual room called a channel to have a conversation by exchanging character information. When exchanging character information with each other in this channel, identification between users is performed by using alphanumeric characters 9
Use a nickname consisting of a string of characters.

[0003] In this conversation (hereinafter referred to as chat), the conversation is not limited to one-to-one but proceeds between a plurality of users while reading the character information displayed on the display unit of the terminal device. . At this time, if the number of users participating in the channel for chatting is as small as a few, each user can easily identify the content of remarks by a nickname. However, when the number of participating users increases, for example, when the number of participating users reaches several tens, it becomes difficult to identify the user by the nickname.

[0004] Therefore, prior arts for making user identification easier are disclosed in JP-A-8-79243 and JP-A-11-203.
227 and JP-A-2000-207304. The technology disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 8-79243 relates to an electronic conferencing system, in order to facilitate identification of a speaker of statement data displayed on a display unit, and an identifier of the speaker and an identification corresponding to the identifier. There is disclosed an invention in which information (color information) is made to correspond to each other, and the statement data is colored and displayed in the color specified by the identification information.

The technique disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H11-203227 relates to a chat system. In order to easily identify a speaker, a background color in a balloon surrounding speech data is stored in a color table in a client. Discloses an invention in which a background color corresponding to a speaker is set and displayed.

Further, the technology disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2000-207304 relates to electronic mail, electronic chat, and the like. For example, the form and color of a balloon image are changed according to the contents of the electronic mail and the sender / sender. There is disclosed an invention that makes it easier to intuitively grasp the contents of an e-mail by changing the character font or the like in a balloon image.

In the above inventions, it is disclosed that the color of the comment data, the background color in the balloon, and the font of the character information are displayed in correspondence with the speaker.

[0008]

However, for example, when character information is colored to make it easy to identify a user, if one color is assigned to each user, tens of tens of people participate in a channel in which tens of people participate. Color will be used. For this reason, various types of colors are used, so that it becomes difficult to identify the user, or a user who wants to identify is displayed in the same system of colors and is difficult to identify.

Further, even when the number of users participating in the channel is as large as several tens, a group of a small number of the users is smaller than the case where all the tens of people frequently have conversations. They often have conversations. In this case, a situation frequently arises in which users outside this group refrain from speaking, and if the conversation of another group flies, users in this group refrain from speaking. That is, not all users participating in the channel are constantly in conversation.

Therefore, instead of assigning colors for identification to users participating in the channel, other users in the group who frequently talk are assigned colors that are easy to identify, and colors other than those in this group are assigned. It is more effective as an identification means to assign or not assign a color for identification to a user.

In addition to color identification, fonts, sounds and voices,
Also, for the identification means such as symbols such as parentheses, assigning this identification means to a specific user preferentially is effective when limited identification means is used.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a chat system and the like in which, even in a channel where a large number of users participate, emphasis is placed on other users and character information from a specific user to be identified is easily identified. And

[0013]

Therefore, in order to achieve the above object, the present invention utilizes a chat history of a user to detect another user who is emphasized and identified by this user, and By assigning easy-to-identify primary colors to the display of nicknames and text information,
Solve the above problem. In addition to using colors as identification means, this user also emphasizes other users' nicknames and fonts that display character information that they want to identify, and furthermore, when receiving character information from this user, synthesizes nicknames by voice. The above problem is solved by notifying the user.

In order to solve this problem, in a chat terminal device capable of communicating with another terminal device via the communication line according to the first aspect, an input section for inputting character information, A processing unit that transmits conversation information including the user identification information to another terminal device and performs signal processing on the received conversation information including the character information and the user identification information received via the communication line; A display unit for displaying the processed received conversation information; a chat history storage unit for storing chat history information including at least user identification information of the received conversation information; and a reception displayed on the display unit based on the chat history information. The configuration includes a resource allocating unit for setting a display mode of conversation information.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a chat terminal device according to the second aspect, wherein the chat history information includes, in addition to the chat terminal device according to the first aspect, a user's statement corresponding to the user identification information. The resource allocation unit includes the number-of-speaks information indicating the number of times, and the resource allocation unit sets the display form of the conversation information in association with the number-of-speaks information.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a chat server for transmitting and receiving character information via a communication network and displaying the character information on display units of a plurality of terminal devices. A chat server program for storing chat history information indicating an update history of the character information; and a chat history information stored in the chat history storage unit. Or the display color or the typeface when displaying the speaker identification information of the character information on the display unit, or the sound information corresponding to the speaker identification information of the character information when displaying the character information, A resource allocating unit for allocating to the speaker identification information.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a chat system comprising a chat server and a plurality of terminal devices connected to the chat server via a communication line. A chat history storage unit that stores chat history information including at least user identification information in the received conversation information received by the terminal device, and based on the chat history information,
The chat server includes a resource allocating unit that sets a display mode of the received conversation information displayed on the display unit of the terminal device. Here, the terminal device transmits an input unit for inputting character information, conversation information including the character information and user identification information to a chat server, and receives the character information and user identification information received from the chat server. And a display unit that displays the received conversation information that has been subjected to the signal processing.

Further, in order to solve the above problem, in the chat system according to the fifth aspect, the chat history information includes utterance number information indicating the number of utterances of the user corresponding to the user identification information. The assignment unit is configured to set the display mode in association with the utterance count information.

As described above, in the chat terminal device, the chat server, and the chat system according to the first, third, and fourth aspects, when the conversation information is displayed on the display unit of the terminal device, the conversation is performed based on the chat history information. Since the display mode of the information can be set by the resource allocation unit, it is possible to determine the conversation information of another user to be noted based on the chat history information.

Further, in the resource allocating unit according to claim 1, based on the chat history information stored in the chat history storage unit, character information in conversation information or speaker identification information of the character information. Is assigned to the speaker identification information in the display color or the typeface used when the character information is displayed, or the voice information corresponding to the speaker identification information of the character information when the character information is displayed. May be configured.

With this configuration, display colors and fonts for displaying character information or speaker identification information and audio information corresponding to the speaker identification information are assigned. The display of character information or speaker identification information of another user is assigned an easily identifiable primary color, and the character information from another notable user is displayed by voice synthesis when this noticeable other user is displayed. Nickname and the like can be notified.

According to the second and fifth aspects, since another user is specified by the number of utterances, the display mode can be set by using the number of utterances as an index, and a user having a larger number of utterances can be set. Can be set to a display form that makes it easier to identify the statement.

Here, according to claims 2 and 5, based on the number-of-speech information, a display color and a display font for displaying the character information or the speaker identification information of the speaker specified by the speaker identification information. , Or can be assigned to notify speaker identification information or the like by voice information at the time of display.

[0024] With such a configuration, other users who make a lot of remarks can provide limited resources such as "color", "font",
“Speech” or the like is preferentially assigned, so that this user can be easily identified.

Further, in the case where the character information is not transmitted from the terminal device during a predetermined time, the utterance transmitted from another terminal device during this time is counted as the number of times of the utterance. A configuration that is not reflected in the information may be added.

As described above, when character information is not transmitted for a predetermined time, the utterances of other users are not reflected in the utterance number information during this time. Therefore, when interest or interest in the topic exchanged on the channel is low, character information is not transmitted to this topic, and the other user's remarks during this period are not reflected in the remark frequency information. The inconvenience of assigning, for example, an easily recognizable primary color or the like to a user who is not interested in the user or who speaks faintly can be avoided. Moreover,
It is possible to avoid the inconvenience of allocating limited resources such as color, typeface, and voice to other users who are not interested.

[0027] Further, according to Claims 2 and 5, display colors, display fonts, or voices in the order of other users who frequently speak information corresponding to their own speaker identification information, for example, character information including their own nicknames and names. A configuration for allocating information may be added.

Since the assignment order is set in this way, it is possible to assign, for example, a color that is more easily recognizable to another user who is interested or interested in his / her own utterance, so that the utterance of that user can be easily identified. Become.

Further, in each of the above-mentioned claims, it may be so arranged that the display color, typeface and voice information on the terminal device are set in the resource allocating section.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a chat method for performing a conversation based on character information between a plurality of terminal devices via a communication line, the method including character information and user identification information. Receiving conversation information;
Recording a chat history between the terminal devices in association with the user identification information; allocating a display mode of conversation information corresponding to the user identification information based on the chat history; And a step of displaying in a designated display form.

Since the chat method is configured as described above,
When the conversation information is displayed on the display unit of the terminal device, the display mode of the conversation information can be set by the resource allocation unit based on the chat history information. Can be determined based on

[0032]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS (First Embodiment) FIG. 1 shows an example of an embodiment of a chat system according to the present invention. In this chat system 1, each chat terminal device 10-1,
.. Shows an example in which an IRC client (hereinafter referred to as a chat program) in 10-N is connected to a chat server 20 via a communication line (hereinafter referred to as a network) 30.

In the present embodiment, an IRC will be described as an example of the chat system. However, the present invention is also applicable to a chat system in which a plurality of users can share a channel for conversation. Further, as shown in FIG. 1, the chat server 20 is connected to another chat terminal device 10 (hereinafter, unless otherwise specified, each chat terminal device 10-).
,..., 10-N), or may be mounted (mounted) on any of the chat terminal devices 10.

The outline of the present chat system 1 will be described below with reference to FIGS. 1 to 5, and the features of the present chat system 1 will be described in more detail with reference to FIGS.

FIG. 2 shows an example of the chat terminal device 10 shown in FIG. The chat terminal device 10 is a storage device such as a magnetic device that stores a processing unit 70 including a microcomputer in a personal computer (personal computer) 600 and a chat program 50 and chat history information 81 described later. The configured storage unit 8
0, a display 60 that displays character information and graphics, and further functions as a display unit 90 by mounting a speaker or the like.
2. Input unit 100 for inputting character information and the like
And a keyboard 601 and a mouse 603 that perform the functions of Here, communication cables, power cables, and the like connected to the chat terminal device 10 shown in FIG. 2 are not shown for simplification.

The user operates the keyboard 601 or
Using the mouse 603, a JOIN command, which is a command to join the channel, is input together with the identification information of the user, and the command is transmitted to the chat server 20 to join the channel (enter the room). FIG. 3 shows an example of a processing flow of the JOIN command, and the chat terminal 10
The JOIN command sent from the chat server 20
Is received, a command interpretation process for interpreting the contents of the command is started (step 200 in FIG. 3), and the JOI
It is determined whether or not the command is an N command and whether or not entry is permitted (step 210). This determination can be made based on, for example, whether or not the password entered by the user is registered, and if it is determined that entry of the user is permitted (YES in step 210), the entry time of the user is entered. Is recorded in a storage area of a storage device such as a magnetic disk device of the chat server 20 together with a desired channel name and a user name corresponding to the identification information of the user (steps 220 and 230).
FIGS. 4 and 5 each show an example of a table showing the recording format of the entry time recording and the correspondence between channels and users. In FIG. 4, a channel 380 indicates a channel name, a user name 385 is a user name corresponding to the user identification information, and an entry time 390 indicates a date and time when the user entered the room. In the example of FIG.
The user whose user name is "MUL" in chocolate is
This indicates that the user entered the room at 22:20:24 on December 27, 2000. In the present embodiment, when entering the room for the first time, the entry time is recorded on the server, but may be recorded on the chat terminal device 10 side. When the entry time is recorded on the chat terminal device 10 side, the user name 385 shown in FIG.

FIG. 5 shows an example of a table showing the correspondence between each channel held in the chat system 1 and the users who have entered the channel. The channel name 300 indicates the name of each channel held in the chat system 1, and the user name 310 indicates the name of a user who has entered each channel. For example, in this chat system 1,
Channels such as chocoa and #Islab are being held, and the channel #chocoa has an MU
A user with a name such as L, pine, ymastuo, etc., is in kihara, ym on channel #Islab.
It is recorded that a user having a name such as "atsumo" has entered the room. The table shown in FIG. 5 is stored in the storage unit of the chat server 20. Further, a similar table for the channel in which the chat terminal device 10 participates may be configured to be stored in each chat terminal device 10.

Next, entry processing such as notifying the newly entered user to other users participating in the entered channel is performed (step 230). Then, the chat server 20 performs other processing, for example,
When a list of the names of the users participating in the channel is sent to the terminal device of a user who is newly permitted to enter the room, or when conversation information from another terminal device is received, the conversation information is appended with the name of the speaker, and Then, processing such as transmission to the user is performed (step 240).

On the other hand, if it is determined in step 210 that the command from the chat terminal device 10 is not a JOIN command (NO in step 210), the process proceeds to step 240 and the command from the chat terminal device 10 is handled. For example, if the JOIN command includes a channel name that is not held in this chat system 1, a new channel with that channel name is created, or only the IRC server administrator If you can create a channel, send an error message to this user, such as "The channel with this name is not currently running. Please check the channel name and send again." I do.

In the following, in this chat system 1,
Description will be made by taking as an example a case where the channel name is composed of only one channel #chocoa. An example in which a display color of a user name is used as identification means for easily identifying a user name and a statement will be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 6 to 11.

The character information, which is a comment from the user, is input using a keyboard 601 of the input unit 100, which is an input device such as a keyboard. Chat terminal device 1
The information input to 0 is subjected to predetermined signal processing in the processing unit 70, and together with channel identification information indicating which channel the message is addressed to, and user identification information of this user,
It is transmitted to the chat server 20. Then, as described above, the chat server 20 attaches the user's name (nickname or the like) to the received character information and transmits a comment to another user who has entered the channel.

In the present embodiment, the user sets in advance the display colors for facilitating the identification of the user name and the utterance in an easy-to-identify order, and assigns the user name and the precedence color to the utterance of the user. Is performed based on the chat program 50. One example of the configuration of the chat program 50 is shown in FIG. The chat program 50 includes a program for communication with the chat server 20 and the like, but FIG. 6 shows only the resource allocating unit 60 in order to briefly show the gist of the present invention. This resource allocation unit 60 includes:
It comprises an identification means setting section 61, a speech measurement section 65, an identification means start setting section 75, and other programs 76.

The identification means setting section 61 is a program portion for setting means for facilitating identification of a user name or a statement. In the present embodiment for facilitating identification by display colors, a coloring 62 is selected. I have. The other font 63 is used for identifying a message by a font, and the voice 64 is used for using a voice (a notification of a user name by a ring tone or a synthesized voice) when a message to be identified is received.
Note that a plurality of the coloring 62, the font 63, the sound 64, and the like may be set. However, as described above, the case where only the coloring 62 is used will be described in the present embodiment.

With this coloring 62, a table indicating the correspondence of the color setting order shown in FIG. 8 is stored in the storage unit 80 of the chat terminal device 10. As shown in FIG. 8, a color name 340 is set for each color order 330 considered to be easier for the user to identify, and stored in the storage unit 80. With this setting, for example, it is possible to set a color that is easy to identify with respect to the background color selected by the user.

Next, the comment measurement unit 65 of the resource allocation unit 60
Will be described. The main function of the utterance measurement unit 65 is to set a parameter for measuring the order added to the identification means (display color in this embodiment) set by the identification means setting unit 61.

The number-of-utterances counting section 66 is a program part for measuring the number of utterances of the user. FIG. 10 shows an example of the chat history table when recording the number of utterances obtained by this program part. 1 shows an example of the table. This table is an example of the chat history information, and in the present embodiment, the storage unit 80 of the chat terminal device 10
, But may be configured to be stored in the chat server 20. This utterance count table stores the number of utterances 420 made by the user corresponding to the nickname 410 which is the user name.
0 is updated.

In FIG. 10, for the first time, this channel #ch
Since the chat history information of the user who has participated in ococo is shown, “pine” and “ymatsumo” are still displayed.
For example, the number of remarks of each user is recorded as 0. Or later,
Each time another user speaks, the number of times that user speaks is updated. When a new user participates in channel #chocoa, the new user name is added to nickname 410.

As another example of the chat history information, FIG. 11 shows an example of the chat history information table when the function of the keyword measuring unit 68 of the resource allocating unit 60 (see FIG. 6) is used.
Shown in The keyword “PC” set in the column of the keyword 411 is recorded in the chat history information, and the number of times 421 in which the word “PC” is uttered is stored in association with the nickname 410.

The number-of-languages-of-speech measuring unit 67 is a program part for measuring the number of languages of the user, and the keyword measuring unit 68 determines whether a specific word is included in the user's utterance, and the number of appearances of this word. This is a program part including a function of measuring the number of words and setting this specific word, and may set a plurality of words or a plurality of pairs of words.
The proper noun measurement unit 69 is a program part including a function of setting a user name and measuring the number of appearances during a comment.

Here, a plurality of programs 66 to 69 in the comment measuring section 65 may be set and made to function. For example, the number-of-speech counting section 66 and the proper noun measuring section 69 are made to function, and May be combined so that a voice notification is given when the proper noun measurement unit 69 receives a statement including its own name.

The identification means start setting section 75 will be described later. Next, the processing of the chat program 50 will be described with reference to FIG. 7 which shows an example of the processing flow of the resource allocation unit. The entry process in step 110 corresponds to the process including step 230 in FIG. 3. When the user enters the room, the list of users who have entered #chocoa is transmitted from the chat server 20 to the chat terminal device 10 as described above. Come on. In this embodiment, a display color is selected as the identification means, and the speech measurement uses the function of the speech frequency measurement unit 66 (step 120). When joining a chat for the first time, since there is no past chat history, a table for the user is created. In this embodiment, as an example of the chat history information, the number of times of the user's utterance shown in FIG. 10 described above is used as the history information (step 125). This history information may be stored for each chat terminal device 10 or may be stored in the chat server 20. Next, when conversation information is transmitted from the chat server 20, conversation processing such as identification of the sender of this conversation is performed (step 130), and measurement processing of the number of utterances set in step 120 is performed (step 130). Step 140). In the case of counting the number of utterances, in FIG. 10, the number of utterances is updated and recorded in association with the nickname 410 of the utterer (step 145), and according to the rank of the number of utterances of the utterer (FIG. 8). ), And the name of the speaker or the content of the comment is displayed in the corresponding display color (step 150).

Next, it is determined whether or not to continue the chat based on the presence or absence of the interruption of the end processing (step 16).
0), end (YES in step 160),
The chat ending process is performed (step 170). If the chat is not to be ended (NO in step 160), the process returns to step 130 to continue the process.

As another example of the present embodiment, after the user starts chatting, the identification means start setting section 75 (FIG. 10) is set in the resource allocating section 60 so as to set the time until coloring is performed as the identification means. 6).

Immediately after entering the channel, it is unclear whether or not a conversation that is interesting to the user is being made by the identification means start setting unit 75. It is not necessary to pay attention, but rather, it is possible to determine which measuring means of the utterance measurement unit 65 can be used to extract a user who makes a noticeable utterance.

Instead of setting the time until the identification means functions after the start of the chat, the coloring is started when the total number of words of the conversation communicated on the channel after the start of the chat reaches a predetermined number of words. Alternatively, in this case, the user may set a predetermined number of words in advance.

The time setting and the set value of the predetermined number of words are also stored in the storage unit 80. FIG. 9 is an example of a color display start condition setting table stored in the storage unit 80. FIG. 9 shows a case where the start of coloring is set by “time” after the start of chatting. “Time” is designated as the designation method 360 and “7” is designated as the value 370 of the coloring start time.
2 hours "is shown.

When the setting is made in this way and the measurement is performed by the number-of-utterances counting section 66, the elapsed time is measured by a timer (not shown) or the like. When the incoming conversation information is displayed on the display unit 90 (see FIG. 1), it is displayed in a specified color according to the order specified in FIG.

As described above, the identification means start setting section 75 may be configured in the resource allocating section 60 so as to set the time until the coloring as the identification means after the user starts the chat. An example of a processing flow for identifying a user's utterance in this case will be described with reference to FIG. This process may be performed on the chat server 20 side, or may be performed on each chat terminal device 10. Hereinafter, a case where this process is performed by the chat terminal device 10 will be described. In addition, the description of the setting of the identification means setting unit 61 and the comment measurement unit 65 of the resource allocation unit 60 is omitted.

Entry into the channel shown in FIG. 12 (step 51)
0) The process corresponds to a procedure for transmitting a JOIN command to the chat server 20 and participating in a channel, and corresponds to steps 200 and 210 in FIG. When entry to this channel is permitted, register the entry time (record)
(Step 520).

Next, when a comment from another user is received (step 530), the number of utterances of the corresponding user in the table shown in FIG. 10 is updated (step 540). Then, in step 550, it is determined whether or not the other user's statement has passed the coloring start time from the time of entering the channel (see FIG. 4) and the preset coloring start time shown in FIG. . If the time to start coloring has elapsed (YES in step 550), FIG.
The utterance number ranking of this user is searched from the chat history table shown in 0 (step 560). Then, the color of the order corresponding to the order is searched from the color setting order table shown in FIG. 8 (step 570), and the user name and the message of the user are displayed in the searched color (step 580).

In the above description of the processing for identifying the user's remark, the processing flow in the chat terminal device 10 has been described. The channel entry time of each user is recorded on the chat server 20 side, and the color setting order shown in FIG. 8, the colored display start condition shown in FIG. 9, and the chat history table shown in FIG. With this, the same processing as described above may be performed on the chat server 20 side. Further, the color setting order and the display start condition shown in FIG. 8 and FIG. 9 may be common to each user.

The display unit 90 of the chat terminal device 10
(See FIG. 1), a list of user names may be displayed, and a display color may be set for each user.

(Second Embodiment) The chat system 2 shown in FIG. 13 differs from the chat system 1 of the first embodiment in that a chat server 20 having a chat server program 25 has a resource allocation unit and chat history information. Is stored in the chat history information storage unit 21. 1 have the same functions as those described in the first embodiment except for the chat server 20, the chat program 50, and the storage unit 80.

As described above, since the chat server 20 is provided with the resource allocation unit and the chat history information storage unit 21,
Even if each chat terminal device 10 is a terminal device having a simple function, it is possible to chat.

(Third Embodiment) Chat Terminal Device 10
The last time that this user did not speak is recorded, and if the time during which this user did not speak is longer than a predetermined time, the number of times that another user has spoken during the time when this user did not speak is counted. A function to be ignored may be added to the first and second embodiments. FIG. 14 shows an example of the setting information of the speech ignoring period in the third embodiment. This setting information is recorded in the storage unit 80 of the chat system 1 or the chat system 2 as a table shown in FIG. The elapsed time 430 before being ignored in FIG. 14 is such that if the user does not speak for more than this elapsed time, the other user's statements during that time are not reflected in the chat history information.
That is, when the number of utterances is measured, the number of utterances in the chat history shown in FIG. 10 is not updated.

Referring to FIG. 15, a description will be given of a processing flow of the number-of-utterances update process when the number of times of utterance is ignored. In step 710, the time set in FIG. 14 is set. When a speech is made, the speech time is recorded in the table shown in FIG. 14 (step 720).

Next, a message from another user is received and displayed (step 730), and it is determined whether or not this other user's message is a message after a time to be ignored (step 74).
0). If it should be ignored (YES in step 740), the utterance count table in the chat history is not updated (step 7).
60) If not ignored (NO in step 740), the comment count table in the chat history is updated (step 750). Then, in step 770, it is determined whether or not the user has made a statement. If the user has made a statement (YES in step 770), the process returns to step 720 to record this statement time. On the other hand, when no speech is made (step 77)
If 0 (NO), the process returns to step 730 and waits for a statement from another user.

As described above, the effect of the function of ignoring a comment will be described. A user who is not interested in the conversation content of the chat refrain from speaking, and a person who actively speaks during this period is not worthy of attention to this user. Therefore, by adding this function, it is possible to avoid the absurdity of assigning display colors to speakers who do not need to pay attention, or assigning colors that are more easily recognizable (for example, yellow with higher rank in the example of FIG. 8). Becomes possible. Further, even when the function of ignoring the comment is added, it is preferable to update the number of utterances of the speaker including the nickname when the nickname of the user is included. For this purpose, the determination condition of step 740 in FIG. 15 includes “whether or not to include a nickname”, and if the nickname is included even at the rejection time, the process proceeds to step 750. it can.

As described above, when a nickname is included,
This is a case where another speaker is paying attention to the user of the nickname, and it is useful to display the speaker with a higher degree of interest even if the subject is not interested in the topic.

(Supplementary Note 1) A chat terminal device capable of communicating with another terminal device via a communication line, comprising: an input unit for inputting character information; and conversation information including the character information and user identification information. To the other terminal device, and a signal processing unit performs a signal processing of received conversation information including character information and user identification information received via the communication line; and the received conversation information processed by the processing unit. A chat history storage unit that stores chat history information including at least the user identification information of the received conversation information; and a display unit that is displayed on the display unit of the terminal device based on the chat history information. A chat terminal device having a resource allocating unit for setting a display mode of the received conversation information.

(Supplementary Note 2) The chat history information includes utterance count information indicating the utterance count of the user corresponding to the user identification information, and the resource allocator associates the display with the utterance count information. The chat terminal device according to Supplementary Note 1, wherein a mode is set.

(Supplementary Note 3) The chat history information described in Supplementary Note 1 includes name count information corresponding to the speaker identification information used by a user of the chat terminal device, 2. The chat terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the display mode is set in association with information.

(Supplementary Note 4) The resource allocation unit sets the display mode by associating the number-of-speakers information or the number-of-calls information with the display color, font, and / or voice information. The chat terminal device according to Supplementary Note 2 or 3.

(Supplementary Note 5) The resource allocating unit includes a resource setting unit for associating the number-of-speakers information or the number-of-calls information with the display color, font, and / or voice information. Supplementary notes 2, 3, or 4, wherein the display mode is set by associating with the resource setting unit.
A chat terminal device according to item 1.

(Supplementary Note 6) A storage unit that stores a chat server program for transmitting and receiving character information via a communication network and displaying the character information on display units of a plurality of terminal devices, and updating the character information. A chat history storage unit that stores chat history information indicating a history, and a display that displays the character information or the speaker identification information of the character information on the display unit based on the chat history information stored in the chat history storage unit. A resource allocating unit that assigns, to the speaker identification information, voice information corresponding to the speaker identification information of the character information when displaying the color information or the character information when displaying the character information. And a chat server.

(Supplementary Note 7) A chat system including a chat server and a plurality of terminal devices connected to the chat server via a communication line, wherein the terminal device includes an input unit for inputting character information, A processing unit that transmits conversation information including the character information and user identification information to the chat server, and performs signal processing on received conversation information including the character information and user identification information received from the chat server; and the signal processing. A display section for displaying received conversation information, wherein the chat server stores chat history information including at least the user identification information of the received conversation information received by the terminal device. And a resource allocating unit that sets a display mode of the received conversation information displayed on the display unit based on the chat history information. Chat system that butterflies.

(Supplementary Note 8) The chat history information of supplementary note 7 is updated each time the conversation information is received, and based on the updated chat history information, the resource allocation unit is displayed on the display unit. Appendix 7 is characterized in that a display mode such as a display color of the received conversation information, a font, or a display mode such as voice information corresponding to user identification information included in the received conversation information is displayed when the received conversation information is displayed. The described chat system.

(Supplementary Note 9) A chat program for transmitting and receiving character information via a communication network and displaying the character information on display units of a plurality of terminal devices, and chat history information indicating a communication history of the character information are stored. A chat history storage unit, based on the chat history information recorded in the chat history storage unit, a display color or a typeface for displaying the character information or the speaker identification information of the character information on the display unit, A chat system comprising: a resource allocating unit that allocates voice information associated with the speaker identification information of the character information to the speaker identification information when displaying the character information.

(Supplementary Note 10) The chat history information stored in the chat history storage unit includes speaker identification information and information on the number of times the speaker corresponding to the speaker identification information,
10. The chat system according to Supplementary Note 7 or 9, wherein the resource allocating unit assigns one of the display color, the display font, and the voice information based on the number-of-speech information.

(Supplementary Note 11) The chat history information includes information corresponding to the speaker identification information used by a user of the terminal device in the character information received by the terminal device, 11. The chat system according to claim 10, wherein the display color, the display font, or the voice information is assigned based on the number of times of the chat.

(Supplementary Note 12) If the character information is not transmitted from the terminal device during a predetermined time, the utterance from another terminal device during the time is not reflected in the utterance count information. 11. The chat system according to supplementary note 10, wherein

(Supplementary Note 13) The terminal device may include a display frequency and a display color of name information corresponding to the speaker identification information used by a user of the terminal device in the speaker count information or the received conversation information. 13. The chat system according to any one of supplementary notes 10, 11 or 12, further comprising a resource setting unit for setting correspondence with a typeface and / or voice information.

(Supplementary Note 14) In a chat method for performing a conversation based on character information between a plurality of terminal devices via a communication line, a first step of receiving conversation information including character information and user identification information; A second step of recording a chat history between the terminal devices in association with the user identification information, and allocating a display form of the conversation information corresponding to the user identification information based on the conversation history.
And a fourth step of displaying the conversation information in the assigned display form.

(Supplementary Note 15) In the second step, the chat history information includes utterance count information indicating the utterance count of a user corresponding to the user identification information,
15. The chat method according to claim 14, wherein the display mode is set in the resource allocating unit of the third step in association with the utterance count information.

(Supplementary Note 16) In the second step, the chat history information includes the number of talkers information or the number of times of information corresponding to the talker identification information used by a user of the chat terminal device. 15. The chat method according to claim 14, wherein the resource allocating unit of the third step sets correspondence with the display color, font, and / or audio information.

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According to the first aspect of the present invention, the speakers are ranked based on the chat history information, and the display of the conversation information from the speakers is displayed in a color or font that is more easily identified in accordance with the ranking. Since it is configured to be displayed or notified by voice or the like that is easy to identify, there is an effect that the display of a noticeable utterance becomes easy to identify.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, in addition to the effect of the first aspect of the present invention, since the order of noticeable speakers is set according to the number of times of speech, the speech which is the center of conversation can be easily identified. .

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the speakers are ranked based on the chat history information, and the display of the conversation information from the speakers is displayed in a color or font that is more easily identified in accordance with the ranking. , Or the notification is made with an easily identifiable voice, etc., so that the display of the noticeable remark is made easy to be identified.

According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, the speakers are ranked based on the chat history information, and the display of the conversation information from the speaker is displayed in a color or font that is more easily identified in accordance with the ranking. , Or the notification is made with an easily identifiable voice, etc., so that the display of the noticeable remark is made easy to be identified.

According to the fifth aspect of the present invention, in addition to the effect of the fourth aspect of the present invention, since the order of noticeable speakers is set according to the number of times of speech, the speech which is the center of conversation can be easily identified. .

According to the sixth aspect of the present invention, the speakers are ranked based on the chat history information, and the display of the conversation information from the speakers is displayed in a color or font that is more easily identified in accordance with the ranking. Or a method of notifying with a voice or the like that is easy to identify, has an effect that the display of a noticeable utterance becomes easy to identify.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an example of a chat system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a chat terminal device.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a processing flow of a JOIN process.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of channel entry time recording information.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a table showing a correspondence between channels and users.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a configuration of a chat program.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a processing flow of a resource allocation unit.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of a table indicating a correspondence relationship between color setting orders.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of a start condition setting table for colored display.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of a chat history table.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing another example of the chat history table.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an example of a flow for processing a user's statement.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an example of a chat system according to the present invention.

FIG. 14 is a diagram illustrating an example of setting information of a speech ignoring period.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing another processing flow of the number-of-utterances update processing.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Chat system 10 Chat terminal device 20 Chat server 50 Chat program 60 Resource allocation unit 81 Chat history information 105 Resource allocation processing 300 Channel name 310 User name 340 Color name 420 Number of remarks

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Claims (6)

[Claims] 1. A chat terminal device capable of communicating with another terminal device via a communication line, comprising: an input unit for inputting character information; and conversation information including the character information and user identification information. A processing unit for transmitting received conversation information including character information and user identification information transmitted to the other terminal device and received via the communication line, and displaying the received conversation information processed by the processing unit; A chat history storage unit that stores chat history information including at least the user identification information of the received conversation information; and the reception displayed on the display unit of the terminal device based on the chat history information. A chat terminal device comprising: a resource allocating unit for setting a display mode of conversation information. 2. The chat history information includes utterance number information indicating the number of utterances of a user corresponding to the user identification information, and the resource allocating unit associates the display form with the utterance number information. The chat terminal device according to claim 1, wherein the chat terminal device is set. 3. Character information is transmitted and received via a communication network.
A storage unit storing a chat server program for displaying the character information on display units of a plurality of terminal devices; a chat history storage unit storing chat history information indicating an update history of the character information; and the chat history storage. Based on the chat history information stored in the display unit, the character information or the speaker identification information of the character information is displayed on the display unit in a display color or a display typeface, or the character information is displayed when the character information is displayed. A chat server comprising: a resource allocating unit that allocates voice information associated with the speaker identification information of the information to the speaker identification information. 4. A chat system comprising: a chat server; and a plurality of terminal devices connected to the chat server via a communication line, wherein the terminal device includes an input unit for inputting text information, A processing unit that transmits conversation information including information and user identification information to the chat server, and performs signal processing on received conversation information including character information and user identification information received from the chat server.
A display unit for displaying the received conversation information on which the signal processing has been performed, wherein the chat server stores chat history information including at least the user identification information of the received conversation information received by the terminal device. A chat system, comprising: a history storage unit; and a resource allocation unit that sets a display mode of the received conversation information displayed on the display unit based on the chat history information. 5. The chat history information includes utterance count information indicating the utterance count of a user corresponding to the user identification information, and the resource allocating unit associates the display form with the utterance count information. The chat system according to claim 4, wherein the chat system is set. 6. A chat method for performing a conversation based on character information between a plurality of terminal devices via a communication line, the method comprising: receiving conversation information including character information and user identification information; Recording a conversation history between the terminal devices in association with, and, based on the conversation history, allocating a display form of the conversation information corresponding to the user identification information; and Displaying in a displayed form.