JP2009521018A - Emoticon message conversion system and conversion method - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an emoticon message conversion system that can be provided in a mobile communication system. More specifically, the present invention extracts an emoticon that is optimal according to a message size for an outgoing message or a set message tag and combines the extracted emoticon message with the outgoing message. The generated emoticon message is provided to the recipient's mobile communication terminal, and the abbreviated symbol is extracted from the outgoing message, and the message replaced with a preset word or phrase is received. The present invention relates to a technique for providing to a mobile communication terminal of a person. According to the present invention, an emoticon is extracted based on a tag inserted in a message, a preset setting value or a basic setting value, and inserted into a short message so that a user creates an emoticon by combining letters / numbers one by one. There is no need to display the emoticon easily.

Description

  The present invention relates to an emoticon message conversion system that can be provided in a mobile communication system. More specifically, the present invention extracts an emoticon that is optimum for a service subscriber's outgoing message according to a message size or a message tag set by a user. An emoticon message is generated by combining with a message, the generated emoticon message is provided to the recipient's mobile communication terminal, and a user's abbreviated symbol is further extracted from the outgoing message, and a preset word Alternatively, the present invention relates to a technique for providing a message replaced with an idiom to a mobile communication terminal of a recipient.

  In the present invention, an emoticon message generally refers to a message in which a specific emoticon is inserted into a short message in addition to a mobile communication character message created by a user. An emoticon is a general message. This means a text message used to transmit his / her feelings and intentions to the other party. However, in the present invention, the present invention is not limited to transmitting emotions and intentions. Means a text message.

  In recent years, additional services provided to mobile communication terminals by power generation of communication technology have also been developed in various ways for the convenience of users. Among them, a text message service (SMS; Short Message Service, LMS; Long Message). Service) tells the other party what he or she wants to talk to by using a message method in situations such as when voice calls are difficult.

  On the other hand, the user uses emoticons to express his / her will in a message, which is a combination of emoticons such as general characters (for example, English, Korean, etc.), special characters (for example, symbols, ruled lines), and numbers. The one created by the user himself or widely known in the public is used as an emoticon. For example, a laughing face can be represented by ":)" or ":-)". It looks like a laughing face shape. As another example, next to the sentence “feel good”, emoticons such as “^ o ^”, “^^”, “^^” are displayed together, and the feelings are very good. This can be emphasized further.

  In the short message service according to the conventional method, after the user calls the short message creation menu of the mobile communication terminal, the characters / numbers transmitted to the other party are transmitted via the key buttons of the mobile communication terminal. Type in one short message. That is, the user presses the letter / number button of the mobile communication terminal, inputs a word to be transmitted to the other party, presses the order of the letter / number button separately, and inputs an emoticon in the form of a combination of letters / numbers that is not one word. Then, one short message is created.

  In such a conventional method, when a user tries to insert an emoticon into a short message, general characters / numbers / special characters must be directly selected and combined one by one. Since all emoticons are not built in the terminal, and the user cannot know all the widely known emoticons, the emoticons that are suitable for the content of the transmission cannot be displayed correctly, which allows the other party to send a short message. The meaning of emoticons displayed in cannot be accurately grasped. In the conventional method, the size of the short message to be transmitted is limited to, for example, 80 bytes depending on the transmission method. Therefore, the more words to be transmitted to the other party, the emoticons are all represented in the limited transmission capacity of the short message. There are difficulties.

  On the other hand, when creating an emoticon by combining letters / numbers or creating a general text message, it is necessary to input various letters / numbers with limited buttons on the mobile communication terminal. In order to create a single word or sentence, a plurality of consonant button inputs and a plurality of vowel button inputs are required. Therefore, users who are not accustomed to the text message creation function of the mobile communication terminal, especially the character input by the push button type, do not use the text message service more frequently than the convenience, and the Internet can be used by using the computer keyboard. In many cases, a text message service through the Internet is used.

  Therefore, while maintaining all compatibility with the conventional text message service technology, subscribers can optimally express their feelings or intentions, and the number of button inputs of the mobile communication terminal when creating a text message or emoticon Therefore, there is an urgent need for a technology that can effectively reduce the number of users, provide convenience to users, and provide mobile carriers with revenue generation by using paid character message services.

  Also, the capacity to send short messages at a time in domestic mobile communication terminals is usually limited to 80 bytes, so the service that inserts emoticons into short messages is filled with short messages within the limited 80 bytes capacity. It is a service that uses no surplus space as a space for emoticon insertion. Therefore, the larger the surplus space, the more types of emoticons that are inserted. By the way, in the conventional technology, in the process of combining emoticons with short text messages, character codes corresponding to line breaks and character codes corresponding to blanks are unconditionally used to separate the boundaries between emoticons and short text messages. There is a problem that extra space is wasted and the number of emoticons that can be inserted is reduced.

  The present invention has been proposed in order to solve the above-described problems and respond to the request, and an optimal emoticon according to the message size or the message tag set by the user for the outgoing message of the service subscriber. Is generated and combined with the outgoing message to generate an emoticon message, the generated emoticon message is provided to the mobile communication terminal of the recipient, and the user's abbreviated symbol is further extracted from the outgoing message, A message replaced with a preset word or phrase is provided to the mobile communication terminal of the recipient, and an effective emoticon insertion service is provided by making the most of the limited 80-byte short message space. There is a purpose there.

  In the present invention, the limited 80-byte short message space is utilized to provide the effective emoticon insertion service technology, and when the vertical emoticon is inserted, the emoticon is configured in places of the text. A character string will be entered, but if an emoticon character string is inserted between two characters that make up one character, such as Hangul and special symbols, the text will be garbled. However, the purpose is to provide an emoticon insertion service that can insert an emoticon character string so that the Hangul characters are not garbled even when the vertical emoticon is inserted.

  In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a plurality of emoticons having the same form and different sizes, a plurality of emoticons having the same emotional expression in different forms, various tags, and a plurality of emoticons corresponding thereto. Emoticon storage means for storing all or a part of them, subscriber information storage means for storing terminal information (transmission / reception terminal information) of the emoticon message conversion service and mobile communication terminal, and subscribers on the terminal side Message receiving means for receiving the created message, subscriber authentication means for checking the terminal information of the mobile communication terminal subject to receiving the message and the setting items related to the emoticon message conversion service, the tag is inserted by recognizing whether the tag is inserted in the message Separate the subscriber message and tag from the message Message discriminating means for analyzing the tag and calculating the surplus capacity for the message, one or more emoticons corresponding to the tag when the tag is inserted, and setting items related to the emoticon message conversion service when the tag is not inserted One or more emoticons to be extracted from the emoticon storage means, and an emoticon extracting means for selecting an optimized emoticon from one or more emoticons with reference to the surplus capacity, horizontal type according to the display specifications of the receiving mobile communication terminal Referring to the number of letters / numbers, insert an emoticon in front of the short message so that the left side is aligned on the display, insert an emoticon after the short message, or insert an emoticon in places in the short message , After a short message When inserting a moticon, the length information of the short message and the width information of the display of the mobile communication terminal to be received are obtained, and the length of the short message corresponds to an integral multiple of the display horizontal length based on this information. A line feed is inserted at the end of a short message only when it does not fall within an integer multiple, and then the subscriber message and emoticon are synthesized based on the settings or tags related to the emoticon message conversion service. Or an emoticon combining means for generating an emoticon message by replacing the message with an emoticon, and a message transmitting means for transmitting the emoticon message to the receiving mobile communication terminal side. Disclosure To do.

  Also, the emoticon storage means of the emoticon message conversion system disclosed in the present invention further stores various abbreviated base codes and a plurality of short sentences (words or idiomatic phrases) corresponding thereto, and the message discriminating means is a message short code. The emoticon message conversion system further recognizes the presence / absence of the insertion, and replaces the recognized short symbol with the extracted short sentence in the message, and a short sentence extracting means for extracting the short sentence (word or idiomatic phrase) indicated by the short symbol. Message replacement means.

  Further, the emoticon message conversion system disclosed in the present invention includes all of the emoticon message conversion service subscription reception function, the message creation function, the emoticon message conversion service related item setting function, and the abbreviated symbol setting / inquiry function via the web page. Or further comprising internet matching means for providing a part.

  Also, the emoticon extracting means of the emoticon message conversion system disclosed in the present invention extracts emoticons including a blank area that is equal to or larger than the subscriber message size from the emoticon storage means, and the emoticon combining means is the entire blank area of the extracted emoticons. Alternatively, a subscriber message is inserted into a part of the message.

  Also, the emoticon combining means of the emoticon message conversion system disclosed in the present invention replaces the subscriber message with a specific emoticon and synthesizes it with the emoticon.

  On the other hand, according to the present invention, the message conversion server determines whether the length of the input short message body is less than K bytes. If the length of the body is not less than K bytes, a horizontal emoticon of one line is inserted. If the length of the text is less than K bytes, the step of filling up to K bytes of the short message text with blanks, the number N of lines on the display screen of the mobile communication terminal and the byte M at the position where the emoticon is inserted are initialized. The step of setting by value, the step of checking the number of ASCII characters between the 8 * (N + 1) -Mth bytes in the 8 * N-Mth byte of the body, whether the number of ASCII characters in the section is odd If the number of ASCII characters in the section is an odd number, increase M by “1” (M = M + 1), if the number of ASCII characters in the section is odd, ASCII in the section If the number of characters is not an odd number or M is increased by “1”, the step of setting the 8 * (N + 1) -Mth byte to the (N + 1) th emoticon character string insertion position, N being “1” Step of determining whether N is greater than 4 after increasing (N = N + 1) (N> 4), if N is not greater than “4”, set the insertion position of the next emoticon string, If N is greater than “4”, the step of determining whether the length of the text is shorter than KM bytes, and if the length of the text is not shorter than KM bytes, insert a horizontal emoticon of one line and finish. An emoticon message conversion method is disclosed that includes a step of removing blank characters added from (K-M) to K bytes of the text if the length of the text is shorter than KM bytes.

  In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides an emoticon storage means for storing a plurality of emoticons, a subscriber information storage means for storing message conversion settings and various mobile communication terminal information, and a user message from a transmitting terminal. Message receiving means for receiving, subscriber authentication means for confirming terminal information and message conversion settings of the receiving terminal, message discrimination means for analyzing the user message and calculating a surplus capacity of a short message for the user message, the surplus capacity The emoticon extracting means for extracting the emoticon used for the user message from the emoticon storage means corresponding to the message conversion setting, the message conversion setting, the user message and the extracted Emoticon The emoticon message is generated by combining and arranging the user message and the emoticon so that the left side is aligned on the display with reference to the number of horizontal bytes according to the display specifications of the receiving terminal. When the emoticon is inserted after, it is determined whether the length of the user message corresponds to an integral multiple of the horizontal width of the display of the receiving terminal. An emoticon message conversion system comprising: an emoticon combining unit that inserts a line feed at the end of a user message to generate the emoticon message; and a message transmission unit that transmits the emoticon message to the receiving terminal side is disclosed. To do.

  Further, the emoticon combining means of the emoticon message conversion system disclosed in the present invention includes first combining means for inserting the emoticon before the user message, second combining means for inserting the emoticon after the user message, Third combining means for inserting the part of the emoticon in places of the user message, fourth combining means for replacing the user message with the emoticon, and fifth combining means for replacing part of the emoticon with the part of the user message , And sixth combining means for combining the user message and the emoticon so that they are vertically arranged in parallel on the display of the receiving terminal.

  The sixth combining means of the emoticon message conversion system disclosed in the present invention divides the emoticon message space vertically into two, arranges the user messages in a first vertical space, and arranges the emoticon message in the second vertical space. However, the number of remaining bytes is checked for each line of the first vertical space, and processing is performed so that a 2-byte character is not garbled at the right end of the first vertical space.

  Further, the emoticon extraction means of the emoticon message conversion system disclosed in the present invention extracts one or more emoticons corresponding to the message conversion setting from the emoticon storage means, and extracts the one or more emoticons from the extracted one or more emoticons. The optimized emoticon is selected with reference to the surplus capacity.

  Also, the emoticon extracting means of the emoticon message conversion system disclosed in the present invention extracts an emoticon including a blank area larger than the user message size from the emoticon storage means, and the emoticon combining means is a blank area of the extracted emoticon. The user message is inserted and replaced inside.

  In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, the first step of confirming that the length of the margin is not less than (L * B) bytes with respect to the input user message ("L" is vertical). The number of lines of the type emoticon, “B” is the number of bytes of the vertical type emoticon, and the emoticon message space is divided into two vertically, and all or part of the first vertical space in which the user message is arranged is blank. Step 503 for filling, Step 504 for setting the line variable i on the display screen of the mobile communication terminal and the byte variable f at the position where the emoticon is inserted as an initial value, (MB) * if of the message body Step 505 to check the number of ASCII characters between bytes (MB) * (i + 1) -f bytes ("M" is one line of short message) (The number of bytes constituting), as a result of the step 505, it is determined whether or not the number of ASCII characters in the section is an odd number. If the number is an odd number, the variable i is incremented by “1”, step 506, (MB) ) * Step 508 for setting the (i + 1) -f-th byte to the insertion position of the (i + 1) -th emoticon character string, and whether i is increased by "1" or not is greater than (L-1). And when the answer is “No”, the emoticon message conversion method is disclosed, which includes the 510th step which proceeds to the 505th step and is repeated.

  Also, the emoticon message conversion method disclosed in the present invention determines whether the margin length is equal to or greater than L * B + f in the case of “Yes” in step 510 after step 510. If the result of step 511 is “No”, the method further includes a step 512 of inserting one row of horizontal emoticons.

  According to the present invention, the emoticon is extracted from the tag inserted in the message, the setting value specified by the user or the basic setting value, and the user is able to select the emoticon by combining letters / numbers one by one for insertion into the short message. There is an effect that the emoticon can be displayed easily without having to create it.

  In addition, according to the present invention, in order to combine the template-type emoticon and the sentence created by the subscriber, the user does not have to pay attention to the character / number arrangement order, and the emotional expression is expressed to the other party by the emoticon having the maximum size. This has the effect of enabling the user to create a short message freely regardless of the volume of the text intended by the user.

  In addition, according to the present invention, it is possible to display an emoticon suitable for emotional expression by the user in order to extract and provide the most suitable emoticon based on the tag inserted in the short message and the set value of the subscriber. It has the effect of making it possible to accurately recognize the emotional expression effect shown by emoticons.

  Further, according to the present invention, since the short message is divided into a plurality of pieces by the subscriber-created text inserted in the short message and each emoticon is combined, it is possible to prevent the emoticon from being garbled due to the limited size of the short message. effective.

  In addition, according to the present invention, since the emoticon message conversion function is performed while maintaining the conventional short message service method, it is possible to create a short message according to a method that the user is accustomed to, and a mobile communication terminal that has been widely used in the past The service can be provided to the machine.

  In addition, according to the present invention, since there is a function of replacing a shortened symbol designated by the user with a word or an idiomatic phrase, there is an effect that it is possible to create a character message by pressing the terminal of the terminal much fewer times.

  In addition, according to the present invention, an effective emoticon insertion service can be provided by making maximum use of the limited 80-byte short message space.

  Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description of the present invention, if it is determined that a specific description of related known functions or configurations may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted. The terms described below are terms defined in consideration of the functions in the present invention, which may vary depending on the intention of the user, operator, or customs, and the meaning of each term is defined in this specification. It should be interpreted based on the entire contents of the book.

  FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of a communication network to which the present invention is applied. Hereinafter, a communication network that provides a short message service (SMS) will be described as an example in the present invention. However, the scope of the present invention is not limited to this, and can be applied to a communication network that provides a general text message service such as LMS and MMS.

  As shown in the figure, a communication network to which the present invention is applied is a mobile communication that transmits a short message created by a user (hereinafter referred to as “subscriber”) subscribed to an emoticon message conversion service to an SMS center 12 (SMSC). Terminal 10, base station 11 (BTS) that relays transmission / reception preferences between mobile communication terminal 10 and SMS center 12, if a short message is received from mobile communication terminal 10, message conversion server 13 is requested to convert the short message. The SMS center 12 that transmits the emoticon message returned to the mobile communication terminal at the destination (the other party), extracts the user's abbreviated symbol from the outgoing message, and sets this in a short sentence (word or common usage) If a short message conversion request is received from the SMS center 12, the mobile communication terminal The emoticon to be inserted into the short message of the machine 10 is extracted from the emoticon / short text DB 14, the short message of the mobile communication terminal 10 is divided into one or more short messages according to the message size, and combined with the extracted emoticon Message conversion server 13 for generating an emoticon message, emoticon / short sentence DB 14 for storing various tags and a plurality of emoticons corresponding to each tag, abbreviated symbols, and words or idioms corresponding to each abbreviated symbols, subscriber's personal information A subscriber DB 15 for storing related setting items of the emoticon message conversion service, and a computer 16.

  In addition, the communication network includes basic components for providing a mobile communication function and an Internet connection function, such as a base station controller, a mobile communication switch, a packet data service node, a router, a home location register, a visit However, it is easily understood by those skilled in the art of the present invention that other different components are further provided.

  In the present invention, a mobile communication subscriber can create a short message via the interface means of the mobile communication terminal 10 or the computer 16, and the short message created thereby can be converted into a message via the SMS center 10. It is transmitted to the server 13 or immediately transmitted to the message conversion server 13 side. That is, the short message created by the short message creation menu installed in the mobile communication terminal 10 passes through the base station 11 and the SMS center 12 and is transmitted to the message conversion server 13 to the mobile communication terminal 10. According to the Internet function installed or installed in the computer 16, the subscriber can immediately create the corresponding short message on the short message creation web page of the message conversion server 13.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the emoticon message conversion system according to the present invention.
As shown in the figure, the emoticon message conversion system according to the present invention determines whether the subscriber is subscribed to the emoticon message conversion service by the message receiver 20 that receives the short message of the subscriber from the SMS center 12 and the subscriber DB 15. The subscriber authentication unit 21 confirms the setting information related to the emoticon message conversion service designated by the subscriber and confirms the terminal information of the mobile communication terminal to receive the short message. Characters / numbers corresponding to the content that the subscriber wants to transmit to the other party among the short messages replaced by the message replacement unit 28 by recognizing whether or not a tag is inserted in the short message. Written in (hereinafter referred to as "subscriber message") and The message discriminating unit 22 for separating the tag, parsing the separated tag, calculating the size of the separated subscriber message, and calculating the surplus capacity (size of the remaining space) of the short message, the confirmation The emoticon message conversion service related setting item or the emoticon extracting unit 23 that extracts the emoticon indicated by the analyzed tag result value from the emoticon / short sentence DB 14, and the short sentence (word or idiomatic phrase) indicated by the recognized short symbol The short text extraction unit 27 for extracting from the emoticon / short text DB 14, the message replacement unit 28 for replacing a short symbol in the recognized short text message with the extracted short text, the size of the separated subscriber message and the extracted emoticon Result value combined with size That is, it is checked whether the expected size of the emoticon message exceeds a short message transmission limit value (eg, 80 bytes), and the subscriber message is divided into one or more subscriber messages according to the result. An emoticon combining unit 24 for combining the divided subscriber message and the extracted emoticon, a message transmitting unit 25 for transmitting the combined emoticon message to the SMS center 12, and / or the mobile communication terminal 10 and / or Various applications related to emoticon message conversion skills and emoticon message conversion skills received from a mobile communication subscriber via the computer 16 and the Internet and receiving an emoticon message conversion service subscription application from the web site. It includes an internet matching unit 26 that provides an item setting function and a setting / query function for abbreviated symbols and corresponding short sentences (words or idiomatic phrases).

  In the present invention, a template-type emoticon (hereinafter referred to as a template) corresponding to a tag or an emoticon message conversion service-related setting item inserted into a short message of the mobile communication terminal 10 within a limited size allowed in the short message service. , "Template emoticon") and the subscriber-created message content inserted into the short message are combined by various methods to be converted into an emoticon message. Here, the process of combining the subscriber message and the emoticon and the template emoticon will be described later in relation to the corresponding components.

  In the present invention, terminal information [UA (User Agent) Profile] (eg, LCD pixel and screen size, message transmission method, presence / absence of MMS support, manufacturer information, etc.) of the mobile communication terminal that receives the short message is determined. When the reception target mobile communication terminal has a limited message reception capacity, it checks whether or not a short message transmission limit value (eg, 80 bytes) is exceeded, and a multimedia support terminal (eg, MMS phone) When there is no limit on the message reception capacity, the short message created by the subscriber and the emoticon are combined without being restricted by the short message transmission limit value.

  The SMS center 12 transmits the short message of the mobile communication terminal 10 to the message receiving unit 20 of the message conversion server 13 and requests conversion of the short message to an emoticon message, and the returned emoticon message is transferred to the destination. The data is transmitted to the communication terminal 10 side.

  The emoticon / short sentence DB 14 has one or more emoticons of different sizes (eg, 1, 2, 3,..., 78, 79, 80 bytes, etc.) and different forms from each other to provide the same emotional expression effect. Multiple emoticons to represent, tags specified by the subscriber and multiple emoticons created by the subscriber for each tag, and short sentences (words or idioms) specified by the subscriber and each short symbol ) Etc. are stored.

  The subscriber DB 15 includes a mobile communication terminal telephone number, a mobile communication subscriber name, a tag activation option (or emoticon insertion prohibition option), an emoticon automatic insertion option, a short message division option, and an emoticon specified by the subscriber in advance. Stores setting values and terminal information of each mobile communication terminal (transmission / reception terminal information of mobile communication terminal) (for example, presence / absence of multimedia message service support function, terminal display specification information, etc.) Yes.

  The subscriber authentication unit 21 receives the personal information of the mobile communication subscriber stored in the subscriber DB 15 (for example, mobile communication terminal telephone number, presence / absence of subscription to the emoticon message conversion service, subscriber ID, and password). Check whether the mobile subscriber subscribes to the Emoticon Message Conversion Service. Further, the subscriber authentication unit 21 sets items related to the emoticon message conversion service stored in the subscriber DB 15 [eg, emoticon insertion prohibition option (or tag deactivation option), emoticon automatic insertion option, short message split option, subscription The emoticon setting value specified by the user and the terminal information of the mobile communication terminal to receive the short message are confirmed, and thereafter, the information necessary for the emoticon message conversion process is provided to the corresponding component.

  For example, if the tag activation option is not set among the related setting items of the emoticon message conversion service, even if a combination of letters / numbers (eg, {@@}) that conforms to the tag convention is inserted in the short message The tag is not recognized as a tag so that the process of converting to an emoticon message corresponding to the tag is not performed thereafter. That is, the text of the character / number combination that is the same as the tag but is actually transmitted to the other party is prevented from being converted to emoticon and transmitted to the other party. Here, the setting items related to the emoticon message conversion service are web pages provided by the Internet matching unit 26 of the message conversion server 13 via the mobile communication terminal 10 and / or the computer 16 by the subscriber. Is set. Here, the personal information of the mobile communication subscriber is preferably submitted from the mobile communication service provider side. In particular, the mobile communication subscriber provides the mobile communication service provider or the emoticon message conversion service provider with the emoticon conversion service. You can apply.

  In addition, the subscriber authentication unit 21 determines that the corresponding component is a short message when the mobile communication terminal that is a short message reception target is not limited in the message reception capacity such as a multimedia support terminal (eg, MMS phone). The short text message created by the subscriber without being bound by the transmission limit value and the emoticon are immediately combined.

  If the SMS subscriber 12 receives a short message from the mobile communication terminal 10 side and the mobile communication subscriber has subscribed to the emoticon message conversion service, the SMS center 12 requests the short message to be converted to an emoticon message, If the communication subscriber is not subscribed to the emoticon message conversion service, it is preferable to transmit the short message to the destination mobile communication terminal side by the conventional method.

  The message conversion server 13 may not check whether the mobile communication subscriber has subscribed to the emoticon message conversion service by the authentication by the SMS center 12 as described above, but via the web page operated by the message conversion server 13 It is preferable to perform a process of authenticating a web page access ID and a personal identification number for supporting creation of a short message, and to perform two authentication processes to protect subscriber information.

  The message determination unit 22 executes a message conversion pre-processing process. That is, the message determination unit 22 checks whether a tag and / or a short symbol is inserted in the short message on the mobile communication terminal 10 side, and recognizes the corresponding tag and / or the short symbol. Thereafter, if a short symbol is inserted in the short message received by the message receiving unit 20, the message discriminating unit 22 extracts a short sentence corresponding to the short symbol by the short sentence extracting unit 27 and replaces it by the message replacing unit 28. Execute the function to analyze short messages. On the other hand, if the short message is not inserted into the short message received by the message receiving unit 20, the message determination unit 22 immediately executes the function of analyzing the short message. That is, the short text extraction and short message replacement functions are selectively performed depending on whether or not the short symbols are inserted in the short message.

  The short sentence extraction unit 27 extracts the short sentence (word or idiomatic phrase) indicated by the abbreviated symbol recognized by the message determination unit 22 from the emoticon / short sentence DB 14, and the message replacement unit 28 recognizes the short message (or the message recognized by the message determination unit 22). The short symbols in the short message received by the message receiving unit 20 are replaced with the short text extracted from the short text extracting unit 27.

  The following [Table 1] shows the abbreviations and corresponding short sentences (words or idiomatic phrases).

一方、メッセージ判別部２２は、短文メッセージに挿入されている加入者メッセージとタグを分離する。ここで、短文メッセージに短縮記号が挿入されていない場合には、メッセージ判別部２２がメッセージ受信部２０で受信した短文メッセージに挿入されている加入者メッセージおよびタグを分離することが好ましい。そして、メッセージ判別部２２は、前記分離したタグを分析して、該当エモーティコン抽出過程に必要な情報をエモーティコン抽出部２３に提供して、前記分離した加入紙メッセージのサイズ（およびタグのサイズ）を計算して、短文メッセージの余剰容量を算出する。ここで、余剰容量は短文メッセージ伝送制限値（例、８０バイト）で加入者メッセージのサイズを除いた結果値として算出される。一方、メッセージ受信対象移動通信端末機がマルチメディア支援端末機（例、ＭＭＳフォンなど）のようにメッセージ受信容量に制限がない場合には、短文メッセージ伝送制限値に束縛されずに加入者が作成した短文メッセージとエモーティコンを結合し、前述したメッセージ判別部２２の加入者メッセージサイズの計算および余剰容量算出機能は実行されないことが好ましい。

On the other hand, the message determination unit 22 separates the subscriber message inserted in the short message and the tag. Here, when no short symbol is inserted in the short message, it is preferable that the message determination unit 22 separates the subscriber message and the tag inserted in the short message received by the message receiving unit 20. Then, the message discriminating unit 22 analyzes the separated tag and provides the emoticon extracting unit 23 with information necessary for the corresponding emoticon extraction process, and determines the size (and tag size) of the separated subscriber paper message. Calculate the surplus capacity of the short message. Here, the surplus capacity is calculated as a result value obtained by excluding the size of the subscriber message from the short message transmission limit value (eg, 80 bytes). On the other hand, if the message reception target mobile communication terminal is not limited in message reception capacity, such as a multimedia support terminal (eg, MMS phone), the subscriber can create it without being bound by the short message transmission limit value. It is preferable that the short message and the emoticon are combined, and the above-described subscriber message size calculation and surplus capacity calculation functions of the message determination unit 22 are not executed.

  On the other hand, the message discriminating unit 22 checks whether a tag is inserted in the short message on the mobile communication terminal 10 side. If no tag is inserted, the emoticon setting value confirmed by the subscriber authentication unit 21 or emoticon automatic The emoticon extraction unit 23 executes the corresponding emoticon extraction process according to an insertion option or the like. On the other hand, the tag is a script type emoticon indicator, which can be defined by the provider of the emoticon message conversion service or directly defined by the mobile communication subscriber. Next, [Table 2] shows some of the tag rules.

一方、タグ活性化オプションが設定されていなかったり、短文メッセージにタグが挿入されていない場合に、エモーティコン抽出部２３は加入者認証部２１でエモーティコン設定値が指定されていることを確認すれば、エモーティコン設定値が指示する該当エモーティコンをエモーティコン／短文ＤＢｌ４から抽出したり、加入者認証部２１でエモーティコン設定値が指定されていないことを確認してエモーティコン自動挿入オプションが活性化していることを確認すれば、該当基本エモーティコンをエモーティコン／短文ＤＢｌ４から抽出する。

On the other hand, if the tag activation option is not set or the tag is not inserted in the short message, the emoticon extraction unit 23 confirms that the emoticon setting value is designated by the subscriber authentication unit 21. The corresponding emoticon indicated by the emoticon setting value is extracted from the emoticon / short text DB 14, or it is confirmed that the emoticon automatic insertion option is activated by confirming that the emoticon setting value is not designated by the subscriber authentication unit 21. For example, the corresponding basic emoticon is extracted from the emoticon / short sentence DB14.

  On the other hand, when the tag activation option is set and the tag is inserted in the short message, the emoticon extraction unit 23 selects the corresponding emoticon indicated by the tag result value analyzed by the message determination unit 22 from the emoticon / short sentence DB 14. Extract. At this time, the emoticon extraction unit 23 extracts the emoticon having the optimum size for the surplus capacity of the short message from the emoticon / short sentence DB 14 in consideration of the surplus capacity of the short message calculated by the message determination unit 22. That is, the size of the short message created by each mobile communication subscriber is different from each other, and accordingly, when the same emoticon is applied to different short messages in which the same tag is inserted, the emoticon depends on the size of the corresponding short message. Cannot be represented in one short message.

  On the other hand, when the message receiving target mobile communication terminal is not limited in the message reception capacity like a multimedia support terminal (eg, MMS phone), the emoticon having the largest capacity is extracted from the set emoticons. Thus, it is preferable not to consider the surplus capacity. As an example of the case where the surplus capacity of the short message must be taken into account, the emoticon extraction unit 23 extracts the emoticon having the optimum size for the surplus capacity of the message calculated by the message determination unit 22 from the emoticon / short sentence DB14. As another example, the emoticon extraction unit 23 extracts an emoticon including a blank character corresponding to the size of the subscriber message calculated by the message determination unit 22 from the emoticon / short text DB 14. Then, the emoticon extraction unit 23 determines and extracts the emoticon having the optimum size for the message transmission limit value from among the emoticons including blank characters corresponding to the size of the subscriber message. In the above embodiment, the optimal size emoticon extracted by the emoticon extraction unit 23 may be selected to be the same as the short message transmission limit value (for example, 80 bytes). That is, the entire subscriber message created by the mobile communication subscriber can be replaced with a specific full-page emoticon. Depending on the settings of the emoticon or the subscriber, the full message may be replaced with the full-page emoticon. A subscriber message can be inserted into the page emoticon, or it can simply be replaced to transmit only the full page emoticon.

  Further, as another example, the emoticon extracting unit 23 can generate an emoticon having a size belonging to the surplus capacity section of the message calculated by the message determining unit 22 according to the size section of the subscriber message calculated by the message determining unit 22. Extracted from the short text DB 14. That is, in the short message, the size of the subscriber message is classified into a certain section, and for the subscriber message belonging to the corresponding section, in the section close to the surplus capacity of the short message so that emoticon is displayed in the short message. Extract the emoticon to which it belongs. At this time, an emoticon that can produce the same emotional expression effect while extracting the same emotion expression is extracted, or an emoticon that can produce the same emotional expression effect while extracting different forms is extracted. When the subscriber message classification section is set at 10-byte intervals, if the size of the subscriber message is 15 bytes, the subscriber message is determined to be a message belonging to the 11 to 20-byte section and has a size of 60 bytes or less. The emoticon possessed is determined as the optimum immocon. As a result, the size of the emoticon message is “15 bytes + 60 bytes = 75 bytes” and does not exceed the short message transmission limit value. The subscriber message classification section can be set by the mobile communication subscriber via the Internet matching unit 26.

付加的に、エモーティコン抽出部２３は、加入者認証部２１で短文メッセージ分割オプション（別名マルチメッセージ活性化オプション）になっていない（すなわち、１つのエモーティコンメッセージに変換）を確認すれば、上記のように最適なエモーティコンを抽出する過程を実行することが好ましいが、加入者認証部２１で短文メッセージ分割オプションが活性化していることを確認すれば、最適のエモーティコンを考慮しないこともある。このような一例は、受信対象移動通信端末機がメッセージ受信容量に制限がある場合にも適応され、最適のエモーティコンは最も容量が大きいテンプレートを優先的に抽出して、短文メッセージに結合することが好ましい。

In addition, if the emoticon extraction unit 23 confirms that the short message splitting option (also known as multi-message activation option) is not set in the subscriber authentication unit 21 (that is, converted into one emoticon message), as described above. It is preferable to execute a process of extracting the most suitable emoticon, but if the subscriber authentication unit 21 confirms that the short message segmentation option is activated, the optimum emoticon may not be considered. Such an example is also applied when the receiving mobile communication terminal has a limited message reception capacity, and the optimal emoticon can preferentially extract the template with the largest capacity and combine it with a short message. preferable.

  The emoticon combining unit 24 determines the size of the subscriber message separated from the message discriminating unit 22 and the emoticon extracted by the emoticon extracting unit 23 (that is, subscriber designation) when the reception target mobile communication terminal has a limited message reception capacity. The result value is estimated by combining the sizes of the emoticon indicated by the emoticon setting value, the basic emoticon or the emoticon corresponding to the tag). Thereafter, the emoticon coupling unit 24 checks whether the estimated result value (emoticon message expected size) exceeds the short message transmission limit value, and if the estimated result value does not exceed the short message transmission limit value, the subscriber Combine the message and emoticon immediately. On the other hand, when the message receiving target mobile communication terminal is not limited in the message reception capacity, such as a multimedia support terminal (eg, MMS phone), the subscriber regardless of the result value estimated by the emoticon coupling unit 24. It is preferable to immediately combine the short message and emoticon.

  On the other hand, when the reception target mobile communication terminal has a limited message reception capacity, the emoticon coupling unit 24 sets the short message message split option in the subscriber authentication unit 21 if the estimated result value exceeds the short message transmission limit value. The subscriber message is divided into a plurality of messages by confirming that they are set, and the divided subscriber messages and emoticons are respectively combined. That is, the emoticon coupling unit 24 inserts the emoticon and divides the corresponding letters / numbers of the subscriber messages in the order of arrangement according to the surplus capacity of the remaining short text messages. The generated subscriber messages and emoticons are combined to be converted into a plurality of emoticon messages, or the subscriber messages and emoticons are combined regardless of the surplus capacity of the short message remaining after inserting the emoticons. After converting into one emoticon message, one emoticon message is converted into an emoticon message by the size of the short message transmission limit value.

  In addition, the emoticon coupling unit 24 confirms that the estimation result value exceeds the short message transmission limit value and the short message message split option is not set in the subscriber authentication unit 21, so that the mobile communication terminal 10 side To inform the subscriber of the fact that the emoticon message has been exceeded (overflow), to induce the subscriber to set the short message split option, or to transmit only the subscriber message to the destination mobile communication terminal. Alternatively, subscriber messages and incomplete emoticons (ie, emoticons that are only partially displayed due to limited short message capacity) can be combined. On the other hand, when the message receiving target mobile communication terminal is not limited in message reception capacity like a multimedia support terminal (for example, MMS phone), the function of the emoticon coupling unit 24 may not be executed. preferable.

  The process of combining the subscriber message and the extracted emoticon as described above can be realized by various methods. In the first method, the subscriber message is replaced with an emoticon, and the replaced emoticon and the extracted emoticon are combined into one. The second method is to insert a subscriber message into all or part of the emoticon white space, and the third method is to insert an emoticon at the front or rear of the subscriber message. To do. Preferably, a subscriber message is inserted into an emoticon (template emoticon) having a size that is about the short message transmission limit value and including a plurality of blank characters using the second method. That is, if a tag “{love}” is inserted in a short message created by the subscriber, an 80-byte template emoticon having a bouquet and a heart pattern is extracted, and then “love” is inserted in the blank of the template emoticon. By inserting the subscriber message and converting it into an emoticon message, it is possible to efficiently express the sender's feeling in a short message of a small size.

  The Internet matching unit 26 is connected to the mobile communication terminal 10 and / or the computer 16 via the Internet, and various environment settings related to the emoticon message conversion service subscription application web page, the short message creation web page, and emoticon message conversion ( For example, tag activation option selection, emoticon automatic insertion option selection, short message split option selection, emoticon setting value specification, etc.) Web page, short symbol and corresponding short sentence (word or idiom) setting / inquiry web page To do. Those skilled in the art can easily understand that the short message created by the mobile communication subscriber in the short message creation web page of the Internet matching unit 26 is processed in the same manner as described above for each component. In addition, according to the present invention, the mobile communication terminal 10 side can be notified that the emoticon message conversion has been normally formed at the request of the subscriber. Further, in the present invention, by using the emoticon message conversion service, it is possible to perform charging processing on a monthly flat rate basis or charge processing according to the number of short message transmissions. Also, although the short message service has been described as an example in this specification, those skilled in the art can easily understand that the short message transmission limit value is not limited to a specific size because it is used for the long message service and the multimedia message service. be able to.

3 to 6 are flowcharts illustrating an emoticon message conversion process according to an embodiment of the present invention.
First, a message created by the subscriber of the mobile communication terminal 10 is received from the SMS center 12 side (300), and the mobile communication subscriber information and the terminal information of the target mobile communication terminal are confirmed via the subscriber DB 15. (301). Here, the mobile communication subscriber information includes personal information of the mobile communication subscriber (for example, mobile communication terminal telephone number, presence / absence of emoticon message conversion service subscription, subscriber ID and password), and settings related to the emoticon message conversion service. Items [eg, tag activation option (or emoticon insertion prohibition option), emoticon automatic insertion option, short message segmentation option, emoticon setting value specified by the subscriber, etc.]. The terminal information of the mobile communication terminal to be received includes the terminal information (UA Profile) of the mobile communication terminal to receive the short message (e.g., LCD pixel and screen size, message transmission method, presence / absence of MMS support, manufacturer information, etc. ). Here, the setting items related to the emoticon message conversion service and the terminal information of the reception target mobile communication terminal are used as reference information necessary for the emoticon extraction, division, and combination process.

  Then, it is checked whether the mobile communication subscriber is subscribed to the emoticon message conversion service (302). If the mobile communication subscriber is not subscribed to the emoticon message conversion service, the emoticon message conversion process is performed. And the short message is transmitted to the destination mobile communication terminal side via the SMS center 12 in the conventional manner. In addition, if the mobile communication subscriber is not subscribed to the emoticon message conversion service, the service subscription can be induced.

  On the other hand, the check result (302) of whether or not the emoticon message conversion service has been subscribed. If the mobile communication subscriber has subscribed to the conversion service, it is checked whether a short symbol is inserted in the short message (303), and the check result (303) ) If a short symbol is inserted in the short message, the short sentence (word or idiomatic phrase) indicated by the short symbol is extracted from the emoticon / short sentence DB 14 (304), and the short symbol is extracted from the short message into the extracted short sentence. Replace (305). On the other hand, if the abbreviated symbol is not inserted in the inspection result (303) and the short message, the process immediately proceeds to “306”.

  Thereafter, the size of the subscriber message is calculated among the short messages received or replaced (306), the surplus capacity of the short message is calculated (307), and whether the tag is inserted in the subsequent short message received or replaced is determined. Inspect (308). Here, if the “304” process and the “305” process cannot proceed, it is checked whether or not the tag is inserted in the short message received in the “300” process.

  Check result of tag insertion (308), if no tag is inserted in the short message, check whether the emoticon setting value specified by the mobile communication subscriber exists (309), and check whether the emoticon setting value exists (309) If the emoticon setting value designated by the mobile communication subscriber exists, the emoticon designated by the emoticon setting value is extracted from the emoticon / short text DB (310), and the emoticon setting value designated by the mobile communication subscriber is determined. If not, the basic emoticon is extracted from the emoticon / short text DB 14 (311). On the other hand, a short message can be transmitted according to the setting method related to the emoticon message conversion service as in the conventional method. For example, if no tag is inserted in the short message and no emoticon setting value is specified, the short message is transmitted to the destination mobile communication terminal side via the SMS center 12 in the conventional manner. .

  On the other hand, if the tag is inserted in the short message, the subscriber message and the tag are separated from the short message (312), and the separated tag is analyzed (313). Then, the emoticon indicated by the analyzed tag result value is extracted from the emoticon / short sentence DB 14 (314).

  After that, a result value obtained by combining the size of the subscriber message in the received or replaced short message and the size of the corresponding emoticon among the emoticons extracted from the “310”, “311”, or “314” process is estimated (315 Then, it is checked whether the receiving target mobile communication terminal supports the multimedia message service (MMS) through the terminal information of the receiving target mobile communication terminal confirmed in the “301” process (that is, receiving) The target mobile communication terminal checks whether the message reception capacity is limited) (316).

  MMS support test result (316), if the reception target mobile communication terminal supports MMS, the subscriber message and the extracted emoticon are immediately combined (317), while the reception target mobile communication terminal supports MMS. If not, it is checked whether the estimated result value exceeds the short message transmission limit value (318). Estimated result value size check result (318), if the estimated result value does not exceed the message transmission limit value, the process proceeds to step 317. If the estimated result value exceeds the message transmission limit value, the subscription is performed. The subscriber message is divided into a plurality of messages (319), and the divided subscriber message and emoticon are combined (320). Then, the emoticon message in the “317” or “320” process is transmitted to the SMS center 12 (321), and the SMS center 12 transmits the emoticon message returned from the message conversion server 13 to the mobile communication terminal side of the corresponding destination. To do.

  3 to 6 are based on the assumption that a predetermined tag is inserted in a short message transmitted from the mobile communication terminal 10 in order to use the emoticon conversion service according to the present invention. It has been created. However, it should be understood that the emoticon conversion service of the present invention may be configured in a manner that does not support tags at all, depending on the implementation of the service. Although not shown in the drawings, in the present invention, when the subscriber message and the emoticon are combined to generate the emoticon message, the display specifications of the destination terminal must be considered. That is, the emoticon message must indicate the form desired by the subscriber on the display screen of the destination terminal, and the emoticon message of the present invention has a template structure, so the display specifications of the destination terminal, The emoticon message must be generated so that the left side matches on the display, particularly reflecting the number of horizontal characters.

  In particular, in the embodiment shown in FIG. 6, when the emoticon is inserted immediately after the short message of the subscriber in the flowchart of the embodiment of the emoticon conversion service according to the present invention, the emoticon is the first byte of the next line. It is drawing which shows the process for making it begin from. In other words, when emoticons are inserted into a subscriber's short message, there are three types of methods: a method in which emoticons are inserted before and after a subscriber's short message, a method in which emoticons are inserted after, and a method in which emoticons are inserted in places of short messages. Although this can be considered, in the present invention, a case where an emoticon is inserted immediately after a short message is described.

  When emoticon is inserted immediately after the short message, the following two types of methods can be considered in order to start the emoticon from the first byte of the next line. The first method inserts an emoticon after inserting a character code corresponding to a line feed (hereinafter referred to as “line feed”) after the short message, and the second method generates a line feed after the short message. The character code corresponding to the blank (hereinafter referred to as “blank”) is inserted until the emoticon is inserted.

  By the way, if the end point of the short message coincides with the end of the right side of the short message display screen of the mobile communication terminal, an automatic line break occurs, so that no line break is inserted as in the first method. However, the emoticon may start from the first byte of the next line, and in some mobile communication terminals, if a line break is inserted in such a case, the emoticon may start from the next line that is not the next line. Therefore, in this technology, it is checked whether or not the end point of the user's short message matches the end of the right side of the short message display screen of the receiver's mobile communication terminal. In such a case, a new line is not inserted, the bytes corresponding to the new line are saved, the number of emoticons that can be selected is increased, and at the same time, an unnecessary empty line is not inserted in a specific mobile communication terminal. This method is hereinafter referred to as a third method.

On the other hand, in the case of the second method, unnecessary blank lines do not occur, but there is a disadvantage that a byte space in which an emoticon can be inserted by inputting a blank is wasted.
The table below shows the first in the case of a mobile communication terminal in which the maximum length of a short message that can be displayed with 16 bytes per line on the short message display screen is 80 bytes, and the line feed and blank size are 1 byte. 4 is a table for an emoticon display space according to the length of a user input short message in the second and third systems.

第２の方式は、空白挿入による空間の浪費が大きく、第１の方式は空間の浪費が大きくないが、上記にて提示した移動通信端末機の場合に短文メッセージの長さが１６、３２、４８、６４、７２バイトである時には、第３の方式が改行に該当するバイト数をもう少し節約していることが分かる。また、改行に該当するバイトが２バイトである端末機も多く用いられていることを考慮すれば、第３の方式による自動挿入エモーティコンの種類が豊かになる効果があることを期待することができる。さらに、第１の方式で一部の移動通信端末機に表示される短文メッセージとエモーティコンとの間の追加的な空行が発生する問題を第３の方式は完璧に解決している。

In the second method, space is wasted due to blank insertion, and in the first method, space is not wasted. However, in the case of the mobile communication terminal presented above, the length of the short message is 16, 32, When it is 48, 64, and 72 bytes, it can be seen that the third method saves a little more bytes corresponding to the line feed. Considering the fact that many terminals with 2 bytes corresponding to line breaks are also used, it can be expected that the type of automatic insertion emoticon by the third method will be enriched. . Further, the third method completely solves the problem that an additional blank line is generated between the short message displayed on some mobile communication terminals in the first method and the emoticon.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining in detail the internal process of “317” in FIG. 4 as an embodiment of the third system. That is, road information corresponding to one line of the short message display screen of the receiving mobile communication terminal is acquired (330), and it is confirmed whether the short message end point (fulcrum) is the end of the screen (331). If it coincides with the end of the screen, an emoticon is inserted at the end of the short message (333). If it does not coincide with the end, a new line is inserted at the end of the short message (332) and then the emoticon is inserted (333).

  The third method is also used for line breaks in the emoticon. For example, consider the case where an emoticon as shown in FIG. 7 is inserted. The emoticon shown in FIG. 7 is composed of 12 bytes for the first line, 12 bytes for the second line, and 14 bytes for the third line. When the first method is used so that the emoticon is properly displayed on the short message display screen of the mobile communication terminal having a line length of 16 bytes, a line feed is generated to 38 bytes of the entire emoticon capacity. Since two are required, in the case of a mobile communication terminal in which one line feed is 1 byte, 40 bytes are required.

  In the case of the second method, 46 bytes are required because it is necessary to insert 4 spaces each in the first and second lines. The third method is similar to the first method and requires 40 bytes.

  Furthermore, the difference between the first method and the third method can be known by examining in detail the case where the emoticon of FIG. 8 is inserted. The emoticon is composed of 16 bytes in the first row, 16 bytes in the second row, and 16 bytes in the third row. When the first method is used, 50 bytes are required, whereas when the third method is used, only 48 bytes are required because no line feed is required. In the case of the emoticon, when the user input short message is 30 to 32 bytes in the case of the emoticon, the first method cannot be used for insertion, while the third method is used for insertion. It turns out that it is possible. In the case of a mobile communication terminal having a line feed size of 2 bytes, it can be inserted in the third method, compared with the case where the short message is 27 to 32 bytes, which cannot be inserted in the first method. .

  On the other hand, there are two types of emoticons to be inserted by a service using the emoticon message conversion system of the present invention, such as a horizontal emoticon and a vertical emoticon.

  The horizontal emoticon is an emoticon that is inserted after displaying all the characters of the text created by the user as described below. Since the distinction between the text and the emoticon is clear, the emoticon insertion method is very simple.

このような縦型エモーティコンが挿入されるアルゴリズムを説明すれば次のようになる。そして、図９は本発明に係るエモーティコンメッセージ変換システムで縦型エモーティコンが挿入される過程を説明するために示した実施例のフローチャートである。

An algorithm for inserting such a vertical emoticon will be described as follows. FIG. 9 is a flowchart illustrating an embodiment for explaining a process of inserting a vertical emoticon in the emoticon message conversion system according to the present invention.

  First, the message conversion server 13 that has received a message created by a subscriber of the mobile communication terminal 10 from the SMS center 12 side determines whether the length of the input short message body is 40 bytes or less (401).

  At this time, if the length of the short message body is not less than 40 bytes in step (401), one horizontal emoticon is inserted and the process ends (402). If the length of the short message body is less than 40 bytes, The message conversion server 13 determines that vertical emoticons can be inserted and fills up to 40 bytes of the short message body with blanks (403).

Subsequently, the message conversion server 13 sets the number N of lines on the display screen of the mobile communication terminal 10 and the byte M at the position where the emoticon is inserted to “0” in the initialization state (404).
Thereafter, the number of ASCII characters between the 8 * N-Mth byte and the 8 * (N + 1) -Mth byte from the byte is checked (405), and the number of ASCII characters in the section of the step (405). Is an odd number (406).

  At this time, if the number of ASCII characters in the section is an odd number in step (406), M is increased by “1” (M = M + 1) (407). The reason for this is that when a vertical emoticon is inserted, a character string that makes up the emoticon is inserted in the body of the text. At this time, between characters that make up one character with 2 bytes, such as Hangul and special symbols. When an emoticon character string is inserted, development that causes the body of the text to be garbled occurs. This is to prevent hangul from being garbled even when the vertical emoticon is inserted.

  On the other hand, if the number of ASCII characters in the section is not an odd number in step (406) or if M is increased by "1" in step (407), the 8th (N + 1) -Mth byte and the (N + 1) th byte The insertion position of the character string of emoticon is set (408).

  The insertion position of the emoticon character string in the first line represented through the above-described process is 8 if N = 0 and M = 0 are substituted in the step (408) when the number of characters is an even number which is not an odd number. The byte is the insertion position for the emoticon string.

  On the other hand, if the number of characters is an odd number and the value obtained by increasing M by “1” is substituted in the step (408), the seventh byte becomes the insertion position of the emoticon character string on the first line. This can be confirmed by an example such as “a cold is severe and difficult today”, which is an example of insertion of a vertical face character described in detail.

  After the step (408), after increasing N by “1” (N = N + 1) (409), it is determined whether N is greater than 4 (N> 4) (410). Whether or not N is greater than 4 in step (410) can be displayed when the size of the display screen of the mobile communication terminal 10 is 80 bytes and the size of bytes entering one line of the display screen is 16 bytes. This is because the number of lines does not exceed 5.

  Subsequently, if N is not larger than “4” in step (410), the process repeatedly proceeds to step (405) described in detail, and the insertion position of the character string of the next emoticon is continuously set. If it is larger than "", it is determined whether the length of the text is shorter than 40-M bytes (411).

  At this time, if the length of the text is not shorter than 40-M bytes in step (411), a horizontal emoticon of one line is inserted (412) and the process ends. If the length of the text is shorter than 40-M bytes, the text The added white space characters from 40-M to 40 bytes are removed (413).

  Here, the vertical emoticon insertion example detailing step (413) will be explained, and the last line of “It's difficult today because of a cold” is a space character in 3 bytes. The last emoticon string is inserted after 5 or 5 bytes have been added.

  FIG. 10 is a flowchart illustrating an embodiment in which a vertical type emoticon is inserted in the emoticon message conversion system according to the present invention. .

In the illustrated flowchart, the constants L, B, and M are defined as follows.
* L: Number of lines that make up the vertical emoticon,
* B: Number of bytes constituting one line of vertical emoticon,
* M: Number of bytes constituting one line of short message.

  For convenience of explanation, a vertical emoticon as shown below is assumed.

この縦型エモーティコンは、５ラインで構成されており１ラインは７バイトで構成されているのでＬ＝５；Ｂ＝７に該当する。Ｍは短文メッセージ１ラインを構成するバイト数を示すが、大韓民国では８０バイトの短文メッセージを５つのラインに表示するように規定されているため、Ｍ＝１６（すなわち、８０／５）で設定される。ただ、国家や個別仕様においては、これと異なるように規定されることもできるが、定数Ｍの値は、それに応じて設定されると理解される。

This vertical emoticon is composed of 5 lines, and one line is composed of 7 bytes, so L = 5; B = 7. M indicates the number of bytes constituting one line of the short message, but in South Korea, it is defined that 80 bytes of short message is displayed on five lines, so that M = 16 (ie, 80/5) is set. The However, in the national and individual specifications, it may be defined differently from this, but it is understood that the value of the constant M is set accordingly.

  The flow chart shown in FIG. 10 or the flow chart shown in FIG. 9 is very similar to the flow chart shown in FIG. The duplicate description is omitted.

  Step (501) is to check whether or not enough space for inserting emoticons is secured in the short message, and since the data size of vertical emoticons is (L * B) bytes, Check whether the length is (L * B) bytes or more, and if the margin is insufficient (in the case of “NO”), preferably proceed to step (502) and insert a horizontal emoticon, Only when the margin sufficient to accommodate the vertical emoticon is sufficient (in the case of “YES”), the vertical emoticon is inserted into the message.

  On the other hand, the “margin” is calculated by (L * M−number of user message bytes), and its meaning will be described in more detail. Since the definition of “margin” in FIG. 10 is closely related to the format of the vertical emoticon to be inserted, for example, assuming that the terminal display has 5 lines and the vertical emoticon has 3 lines, FIG. In the flowchart of FIG. 10, “margin” is calculated by calculating only 3 lines corresponding to vertical emoticons that are not 5 lines of the entire terminal display.

  In step (503), the L * (MB) byte space is filled with blanks in the emoticon message body. This is because the message sent by the user is shorter than L * (MB) bytes. It is for preparing a case. That is, the entire emoticon message space is vertically divided into two, and a blank character is inserted in one (hereinafter “first vertical space”) and the remaining one (hereinafter “second vertical space”). Is pre-processed. The need for such preprocessing is when the user message is short, for example, when the vertical emoticon shown above is combined with the user message “Holiwood”.

上の例を参照すれば明確になるが、ユーザメッセージ「Ｈｏｌｙｗｏｏｄ」の長さは右側に縦型エモーティコンを当該形状に整列できる第２縦空間が形成されるために充分でないため、ユーザメッセージが表示される第１縦空間を予め空白文字で形成するものである（便宜上、挿入された空白文字は「＿」で表示した）。

As will be clear from the above example, the length of the user message “Holiwood” is not sufficient to form the second vertical space on the right side where the vertical emoticon can be aligned with the shape, so the user message is displayed. The first vertical space is formed with blank characters in advance (for convenience, the inserted blank characters are indicated by “_”).

  However, in this embodiment, the first vertical space for displaying the user message is arranged on the left side of the terminal display, and the second vertical space for showing the emoticon is arranged on the right side of the terminal display. In some examples, an embodiment in which the first vertical space is arranged on the right side and the second vertical space is arranged on the left side is not excluded. In the present embodiment, all of the first vertical space is filled with blank characters in advance. However, since it is clear that the front end of the first vertical space is filled with the user message, the length of the user message is checked and filled. It is not excluded that the embodiment is configured so that only blank portions are filled with blank characters.

  Further, comparing FIG. 10 and FIG. 9, step (505, 508) is a generalized step (405, 408). In South Korea, it is defined that a short message is represented by five lines with 80 bytes, and the number of bytes M constituting one line of the short message is set to 80/5 = 16. Further, since the present inventor planned to divide the entire emoticon message into two vertically and divide the entire emoticon message into two at the time of creating the embodiment of FIG. 9, the user message and the vertical emoticon message are arranged. The number of bytes B to be configured is set as M / 2 = 8. Therefore, the formulas in steps (505, 508) in FIG. 10 are generalized formulas in steps (405, 408) in FIG. 9, and conversely, the steps (405, 408) in FIG. This corresponds to the case of M = 16 and B = 8 in (505, 508).

  Also, in step (511) of FIG. 10, it is checked whether the length of the margin is L * (B + f) bytes or more. This is because the length of the text in FIG. 9 is shorter than (40-M) bytes. This corresponds to the step (411) of checking whether or not. Here, the variable f is a value increased by (+1) when the emoticon insertion position is pushed to prevent garbled 2-byte characters such as Korean characters, and the length of the margin before insertion is (L * B). Even if it is a byte, if the value of f is not 0 as a result of pressing emoticon insertion to prevent garbled characters, an additional space is actually required.

  The case where the user message “Meet friends and eat dinner and return” is combined with the 5 * 7 vertical emoticons to form an emoticon message will be described as an example.

ここで、ユーザメッセージの本文「友達に会って夕方を食べて帰る」は、その長さが３０バイト（すなわち、１５文字＊２バイト／文字）であるために余白のサイズは４０バイト（すなわち、５ライン＊１４バイト−３０バイト）である。したがって、実施例のように縦型エモーティコンを挿入するための３５バイト（すなわち、５ライン＊７バイト）を考慮して、余分な空間があることと予想される。しかし、本発明により２バイトキャラクターのユーザメッセージの本文が文字化けしないようにするための措置の結果としてｆ＝５になり、実際に縦型エモーティコンを組み合わせてみれば全く余分な空間がないことが分かる。したがって、「友達に会って夕方を食べて帰る」のように１キャラクターだけ追加してもこの縦型エモーティコンを組合できないことが分かる。

Here, the text of the user message “Meet a friend and eat and go home” has a length of 30 bytes (ie, 15 characters * 2 bytes / character), so the margin size is 40 bytes (ie, 5 lines * 14 bytes-30 bytes). Therefore, it is expected that there is an extra space in consideration of 35 bytes (that is, 5 lines * 7 bytes) for inserting the vertical emoticon as in the embodiment. However, according to the present invention, f = 5 is obtained as a result of the measure for preventing the body of the user message of the 2-byte character from being garbled, and there is no extra space if the vertical emoticon is actually combined. I understand. Therefore, it is understood that this vertical emoticon cannot be combined even if only one character is added, such as “Meet a friend and eat home in the evening”.

  In the detailed description of the present invention, specific examples have been described, but it goes without saying that modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the present invention. Accordingly, the scope of the invention is not limited to the described embodiments, but must be determined not only by the claims described below, but also by the equivalents thereof.

It is a block diagram of one Example with respect to the communication network to which this invention is applied. It is a block diagram of the Example with respect to the emoticon message conversion system which concerns on this invention. 6 is a flowchart of an embodiment of emoticon message conversion according to the present invention. 6 is a flowchart of an embodiment of emoticon message conversion according to the present invention. 6 is a flowchart of an embodiment of emoticon message conversion according to the present invention. 6 is a flowchart of an embodiment of emoticon message conversion according to the present invention. 4 is an emoticon diagram for explaining an embodiment of emoticon message insertion according to the present invention. 4 is an emoticon diagram for explaining an embodiment of emoticon message insertion according to the present invention. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a process of inserting a vertical emoticon in the emoticon message conversion system according to the present invention. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a general process of inserting a vertical emoticon in the emoticon message conversion system according to the present invention.

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10: Mobile communication terminal 12: SMS center 13: Message conversion server 14: Emoticon / short text DB
15: Subscriber DB
20: Message reception unit 21: Subscriber authentication unit 22: Message discrimination unit 23: Emoticon extraction unit 24: Emoticon combination unit 25: Message / transmission unit 26: Internet matching unit 27: Short sentence extraction unit 28: Message replacement unit

Claims (10)

An emoticon message conversion method,
Determining whether the length of the input short message body is less than or equal to a predetermined K byte (401);
If the length of the text is not less than K bytes in the step (401), the horizontal emoticon of one line is inserted (402) and the process ends. If the length of the text is less than K bytes, the process ends up to K bytes of the short message text. Step 403 is filled with blanks,
Setting the number N of lines on the display screen of the mobile communication terminal and the byte M at the position where the emoticon is inserted as an initial value (404);
Checking the number of ASCII characters between the 8 * (N + 1) -Mth byte in the 8 * N-Mth byte of the body (405);
Determining whether the number of ASCII characters in the section of step (405) is an odd number (406);
If the number of ASCII characters in the section is an odd number in the step (406), M is increased by “1” (M = M + 1) (407),
If the number of ASCII characters in the section is not an odd number in step (406) or M is increased by "1" in step (407), 8 * (N + 1) -Mth byte is changed to (N + 1) th emoticon character Setting the column insertion position (408);
After increasing the N by “1” (N = N + 1) after the step (408) (409), determining whether the N is greater than 4 (N> 4) (410),
If N is not greater than “4” in step (410), the process proceeds to step (405) to set the insertion position of the next emoticon character string. If N is greater than “4”, the length of the text is K−. Determining whether it is shorter than M bytes (411); and
If the length of the text is not shorter than K-M bytes in the step (411), one line of horizontal emoticons is inserted (412) and the process ends. If the length of the text is shorter than K-M bytes, the text ( (Emoticon message conversion method) comprising a step (413) of removing whitespace characters added from KM) to K bytes. An emoticon message conversion system,
Emoticon storage means for storing a plurality of emoticons,
Subscriber information storage means for storing message conversion settings and various mobile communication terminal information;
Message receiving means for receiving a user message from a calling terminal;
Subscriber authentication means for confirming terminal information and message conversion setting of the receiving terminal,
Message discriminating means for analyzing the user message and calculating a surplus capacity of a short message for the user message;
Emoticon extraction means for referring to the surplus capacity and extracting the emoticon used for the user message from the emoticon storage means corresponding to the message conversion setting,
Referring to the message conversion setting, the user message and the extracted emoticon are combined and arranged to generate an emoticon message. According to the display specifications of the receiving terminal, the horizontal byte count is referred to and displayed on the display. When the user message and the emoticon are combined so that the left side is aligned, and the emoticon is inserted after the user message, the length of the user message is an integer of the width of the display of the receiving terminal. An emoticon combining means for inserting a line feed at the end of the user message and generating the emoticon message if it does not correspond to an integer multiple, and
An emoticon message conversion system comprising: message transmission means for transmitting the emoticon message to the receiving terminal. The emoticon combining means includes first combining means for inserting the emoticon before the user message;
Second combining means for inserting the emoticon after the user message;
Third coupling means for inserting portions of the emoticon in places of the user message;
A fourth combining means for replacing the user message with the emoticon;
A fifth combining means for replacing a part of the emoticon with a part of the user message; and
The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising at least one of sixth combining means for combining the user message and the emoticon so that the user message and the emoticon are vertically arranged on the display of the receiving terminal. 2. The emoticon message conversion system according to 2.   The sixth combining means divides the emoticon message space vertically into two, arranges the user messages in the first vertical space, and arranges the emoticon in the second vertical space. The emoticon according to claim 3, wherein the number of remaining bytes is checked for each line, and processing is performed so that the 2-byte character of the user message is not garbled at the right end of the first vertical space. Message conversion system.   The emoticon extracting means extracts one or more emoticons corresponding to the message conversion setting from the emoticon storage means, and selects an emoticon optimized with reference to the surplus capacity from the one or more extracted emoticons. The emoticon message conversion system according to claim 3, wherein the emoticon message conversion system is selected.   The emoticon extraction means extracts an emoticon including a blank area larger than the user message size from the emoticon storage means, and the emoticon combination means replaces and inserts the user message inside the extracted emoticon blank area. 6. The emoticon message conversion system according to claim 3, wherein the emoticon message conversion system is characterized in that: An emoticon message conversion system,
Emoticon storage means for storing a plurality of emoticons,
Subscriber information storage means for storing message conversion settings and various mobile communication terminal information;
Message receiving means for receiving a user message from a calling terminal;
Subscriber authentication means for confirming terminal information and message conversion setting of the receiving terminal,
Message discriminating means for analyzing the user message and calculating a surplus capacity of a short message for the user message;
Emoticon extraction means for referring to the surplus capacity and extracting the emoticon used for the user message from the emoticon storage means corresponding to the message conversion setting,
Referring to the message conversion setting, the user message and the extracted emoticon are combined and arranged to generate an emoticon message. The emoticon message space is divided into two vertically, and the user is placed in a first vertical space. A message is arranged and the emoticon is arranged in the second vertical space, but the number of remaining bytes of each line in the first vertical space is checked, and at the right end of the first vertical space, 2 bytes of the user message An emoticon combining means for processing the character so as not to be garbled to generate the emoticon message, and
An emoticon message conversion system comprising: message transmission means for transmitting the emoticon message to the receiving terminal.   The emoticon message conversion system combines the user message and the emoticon so that the left side is aligned on the display by referring to the number of horizontal bytes according to the display specifications of the receiving terminal, and the emoticon message after the user message. However, it is determined whether the length of the user message corresponds to an integral multiple of the horizontal width of the display of the receiving terminal. If the length does not correspond to the integral multiple, a line feed is added at the end of the user message. The emoticon message conversion system according to claim 7, further comprising second emoticon combining means for inserting the message and generating the emoticon message. An emoticon message conversion method,
Step 501 for confirming that the length of the margin for the input user message is at least (L * B) bytes (“L” is the number of vertical emoticon lines, “B” is one vertical emoticon line) Bytes),
A step 503 in which the emoticon message space is vertically divided into two parts, and all or part of the first vertical space in which the user messages are arranged is filled with blanks;
A step 504 for setting the line variable i on the display screen of the mobile communication terminal and the byte variable f at the position where the emoticon is inserted as an initial value;
Step 505 for checking the number of ASCII characters between (MB) * (i + 1) -fth byte in the (MB) * ifth byte of the message body ("M" is a short message) Number of bytes constituting one line),
As a result of the step 505, it is determined whether or not the number of ASCII characters in the section is an odd number, and if it is an odd number, the variable i is increased by “1”;
(MB) * (i + 1) -step 508 for setting the f-th byte to the insertion position of the (i + 1) -th emoticon character string; and
An emoticon message conversion method, comprising: determining whether or not a value obtained by incrementing l by “1” is greater than (L−1), and in the case of “No”, proceed to step 505 and repeatedly perform step 510.   Step 510 After this, in Step 511 for determining whether the margin length is L * B + f or more in the case of “Yes” in Step 510, and in the case of “No” as a result of Step 511 The emoticon message conversion method according to claim 9, further comprising: a step 512 of inserting a horizontal emoticon in a row.

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