KR101451998B1 - Method for providing messenger service - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a method of providing a messenger service for processing contact information between a wired messenger and a mobile messenger.

To this end, according to the present invention, in a method of providing a messenger service, when a messenger service providing apparatus receives a request for mobile messenger contact information from a wired terminal logged in a wired messenger, Confirming the mobile messenger contact information registered in the mobile messenger to which the user belongs; And transmitting the confirmed mobile messenger conversation partner information to the wired messenger of the wired terminal by the messenger service providing apparatus.

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Description

{METHOD FOR PROVIDING MESSENGER SERVICE}

The present invention relates to a method of providing a messenger service, and more particularly, to a method of providing a messenger service for processing contact information between a wired messenger and a mobile messenger.

An instant messenger service is a service that allows a user connected to the Internet or the like to send and receive an instant message in real time via a messenger or the like. In the case of the e-mail service, the contents of the message can not be confirmed until the user opens the received e-mail, but the instant message can be confirmed by the instant messenger through the messenger or the like. When the instant messenger service registers a buddy list to communicate with the messenger, the instant messenger service can know whether or not the conversation partner has access to the Internet. The instant messenger service can select an associated conversation partner and send and receive an instant message immediately.

Generally, the messenger service is provided through a wired messenger using a wired Internet network, but a messenger service is provided through a mobile communication network due to the recent development of mobile communication technology. The user of the mobile communication terminal can use the mobile messenger using the wireless Internet network by downloading the mobile messenger application. As described above, the mobile messenger is distinguished from a wired messenger as a messenger used in a mobile communication terminal. On the other hand, in the mobile communication system, a mobile messenger service is provided based on an IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) that provides a multimedia service such as voice, audio, video and data based on IP (Internet Protocol).

It is an object of the present invention to provide a messenger service providing method and apparatus for providing a more convenient service to a user using both a wired messenger and a mobile messenger.

Other objects and advantages of the present invention can be understood by the following description, and will be more clearly understood by the embodiments of the present invention. It will also be readily apparent that the objects and advantages of the invention may be realized and attained by means of the instrumentalities and combinations particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of providing a messenger service, wherein when a messenger service providing apparatus receives a request for mobile messenger contact information from a wired terminal logged in a wired messenger, Checking the mobile messenger conversation partner information registered in the mobile messenger to which the user of the wired terminal is subscribed; And transmitting the confirmed mobile messenger conversation partner information to the wired messenger of the wired terminal by the messenger service providing apparatus.

Meanwhile, in the second embodiment of the present invention, in the messenger service providing method, when the messenger service providing apparatus receives the wired messenger conversation partner information from the mobile communication terminal logged into the mobile messenger, Checking wired messenger conversation partner information registered in a wired messenger to which a user of the mobile communication terminal is subscribed; And transmitting the confirmed wired messenger conversation partner information to the mobile messenger of the mobile communication terminal by the messenger service providing apparatus.

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According to the present invention, by providing the wired messenger user with the contact information registered in the mobile messenger previously set according to the request of the wired messenger user, the wired messenger user can additionally register the conversation partner registered in the mobile messenger with the wired messenger So that the wired messenger user can use the messenger service more conveniently.

According to the present invention, it is also possible to provide the mobile messenger user with the contact information registered in the pre-established wired messenger according to the request of the mobile messenger user so that the mobile messenger user can register the conversation partner registered in the wired messenger with the mobile messenger So that the mobile messenger user can more conveniently use the messenger service.

First, the concept of the messenger service providing method according to the present invention will be briefly described as follows.

In general, the wired messenger service and the mobile messenger service are separately managed. That is, a messenger user who subscribes to both a wired messenger service and a mobile messenger service registers a messenger according to a messenger, and a conversation partner registered in a wired messenger and a conversation partner registered in a mobile messenger are different. Therefore, the messenger user can transmit the message to the registered contact in the wired messenger when using the wired messenger, and can transmit the message to the contact registered in the mobile messenger when using the mobile messenger.

The method of providing a messenger service according to the present invention provides contact information of a mobile messenger previously set in a terminal according to a request of a terminal supporting a wired messenger service. On the contrary, according to a request of the mobile communication terminal supporting the mobile messenger service, the contact information of the wired messenger set in the mobile communication terminal is provided. Accordingly, even when a wired messenger is used, a message can be transmitted to a buddy registered in a predetermined mobile messenger, and even if a mobile messenger is used, So that the messenger service user can more conveniently use the messenger service. Here, the subscriber of the mobile messenger and the subscriber of the wired messenger described above may be the same.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings in order to facilitate a person skilled in the art to easily carry out the technical idea of the present invention. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The above and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description of the present invention when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which: The detailed description thereof will be omitted.

1 is a diagram illustrating a messenger service system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1, the messenger service system according to the present invention includes a wired / wireless terminal 101, a messenger service providing apparatus 103, and a mobile communication terminal 111. [ The messenger service providing apparatus 103 can provide the wired messenger service and the mobile messenger service to the wired terminal 103 and the mobile communication terminal 111 using the same protocol. The messenger service providing apparatus 103 may be based on SIP (Session Initiation Protocol), and MSRP (Message Session Relay Protocol) may be used as a message transmission protocol.

The wired / wireless terminal 101 supports a wired messenger service, and may be a wired terminal such as a personal computer (PC) connected to a wired Internet network or a wireless terminal such as a notebook connected to a high-speed wireless Internet network such as a WiBro network . And, as described above, the wired messenger service means a messenger service, not a mobile messenger service.

The wired / wireless terminal 101 transmits to the messenger service providing apparatus 103 the request information about the contact information of the predetermined mobile messenger. The request information may be transmitted to the messenger service providing apparatus 103 when logged on to the wired messenger subscriber messenger. The predetermined mobile messenger is a messenger supported by the mobile communication terminal 111. The mobile communication terminal 111 is a personal communication terminal (PCS), a personal digital terminal (PDA), a smart phone, a next generation mobile communication terminal (IMT- 2000) capable of wireless communication while being carried by an individual.

The messenger service providing apparatus 103 transmits the preset contact information of the mobile messenger to the wired / wireless terminal 101 in response to the request information of the wired / wireless terminal 101. The messenger service providing device 103 can manage the contact information registered in the wired messenger and the contact information registered in the predetermined mobile messenger using the contact information database stored with the contact information. Here, the predetermined mobile messenger can be set up at the request of the wired messenger subscriber. In this case, the subscriber of the wired messenger and the subscriber of the predetermined mobile messenger are preferably the same. The messenger service providing apparatus 103 may include a database and may transmit the conversation partner information of the mobile messenger stored in the database to the wired / wireless terminal 101. [

That is, according to the present invention, when the conversation partner information of the mobile messenger is transmitted to the wired / wireless terminal 101, the user of the wired / wireless terminal 101 transmits the message to the conversation partner registered in the wired messenger using the conversation partner information of the wired messenger The messenger service providing apparatus 103 can transmit the message to the conversation partner registered in the mobile messenger using the conversation partner information of the mobile messenger transmitted from the messenger service providing apparatus 103. [ The messenger service providing apparatus 103 transmits not only the conversant information of the mobile messenger but also the existing conversant information of the wired messenger to the wired / wireless terminal 10 at the request of the wired / wireless terminal 101. [

On the other hand, in the opposite case, that is, when the mobile communication terminal 111 supporting the mobile messenger service requests the contact information of the wired messenger, the messenger service providing device 103 transmits the contact information according to the request to the mobile communication terminal 111 ). The user of the mobile communication terminal 111 can transmit the message to the conversation partner registered in the wired messenger using the conversation partner information of the wired messenger transmitted from the messenger service providing device 103. [ The messenger service providing apparatus 103 transmits a message transmitted from the wire / wireless terminal 101 to a terminal of a predetermined conversation partner and also transmits a message transmitted from the mobile communication terminal 111 to a terminal of a predetermined conversation partner.

Hereinafter, the messenger service providing apparatus 103 according to the present invention will be described in more detail.

The messenger service providing apparatus 103 according to the present invention includes a request information receiving unit 105, a control unit 107, and a request information transmitting unit 109.

The request information receiving unit 105 receives the request information of the predetermined mobile messenger's contact information from the wired / wireless terminal 101 supporting the wired messenger service. In one embodiment, the subscriber of the predetermined mobile messenger may be the same as the wired messenger subscriber.

In response to the request information, the control unit 107 confirms whether or not the requested contact information exists by using the contact information database. As described above, the contact information database stores the contact information registered in the wired messenger and the mobile messenger, respectively. In response to the request information, the control unit 107 confirms whether the conversation partner information requested from the wired / wireless terminal 101, that is, whether a conversation partner registered in the mobile messenger exists, in the conversation partner information database.

If the subscriber of the mobile messenger that is set up is the same as the wired messenger subscriber, the control unit 107 determines whether the subscriber of the wired messenger is a subscriber of the wired messenger, The presence or absence of the relative information can be confirmed.

On the other hand, the request information for the contact information of the predetermined mobile messenger may include log-on request information for the wired messenger service. That is, when the wired / wireless terminal 101 requests the log-on to the messenger service providing apparatus 103 according to the first log-on request of the wired messenger subscriber, the control unit 107 determines that the request is for the contact information, The presence or absence of the conversation partner information of the communication partner can be confirmed.

The request information transmitting unit 109 transmits the requested conversation partner information to the wired / wireless terminal 101 according to the confirmation result of the control unit 107. [ The request information transmitting unit 109 transmits the conversation partner information stored in the conversation partner information database to the wired / wireless terminal 101 when the requested conversation partner information exists, that is, when a conversation partner registered in the mobile messenger exists. If the requested contact information does not exist, the request information transmitting unit 109 may transmit a response message indicating that the requested contact information does not exist to the wired / wireless terminal 101. [ The request information transmitting unit 109 can selectively transmit a part of the conversation partners registered in the mobile messenger to the wired / wireless terminal 101 according to the request information of the wired / wireless terminal 101. [

Meanwhile, the contact information of the predetermined mobile messenger and the wired messenger may all be based on XCAP (XML Configuration Access Protocol), which will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

2 is a diagram for explaining a method of providing a messenger service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, the method of providing a messenger service according to the present invention starts from step S201.

In step S201, the wired / wireless terminal 101 supporting the wired messenger service transmits request information about the conversation partner information of the mobile messenger previously set in the messenger service providing device 103. [ As described above, the subscriber of the predetermined mobile messenger may be the same as the wired messenger subscriber.

In step S203, the messenger service providing device 103 confirms presence of the requested contact information using the contact information database in response to the request information transmitted from the wire / wireless terminal 101. [ That is, the messenger service providing apparatus 103 confirms whether there is conversation partner information according to the request information among the conversation partner information stored in the conversation partner information database. And, as described above, the request information for the preset contact information of the mobile messenger may include log-on request information for the wired messenger service.

The messenger service providing device 103 transmits the requested contact information to the wired / wireless terminal 101 in accordance with the result of the check in step S203. If there is conversation partner information according to the request information, the messenger service providing device 103 may transmit the conversation partner information of the mobile messenger together with a response message (200 OK) in step S207. Also, step S205 may be further included according to the present invention.

In step S205, if it is determined in step S203 that the contact information based on the request information exists, the messenger service providing apparatus 103 transmits the contact information of the mobile messenger to the contact information of the wired messenger using the contact information database You can create an added XML document. More specifically, the contact information may be stored in an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) document in the contact information database and managed based on XCAP, and the contact information database may be a DMS (Document Management Server). The messenger service providing apparatus 103 can generate an XML document to which the conversation partner information of the mobile messenger is added to the conversation partner information document of the wired messenger. Alternatively, the messenger service providing device 103 may generate a new synchronized XML document, in which the conversation partner information of the wired messenger and the conversation partner information of the mobile messenger are integrated.

As described above, in step S207, the messenger service providing apparatus 103 transmits the conversation partner information of the mobile messenger to the wired / wireless terminal 101. [ More specifically, the messenger service providing apparatus 103 can transmit the conversation partner information of the mobile messenger to the wired / wireless terminal 101 using the conversation partner information document (XML document) of the wired messenger to which the conversation partner information of the mobile messenger is added have. And the conversation partner information of the wired messenger can be transmitted to the wired / wireless terminal 101.

In step S209, the messenger service providing apparatus 103 transmits a response message (404 Not Found) indicating that the conversation partner does not exist when the conversation partner information according to the request information of the wire / wireless terminal 101 does not exist as a result of the check in step S203 .

That is, according to the present invention, when the subscriber of the wired messenger logs on, the contact information of the wired messenger as well as the contact information of the predetermined mobile messenger are transmitted together to the wired / wireless terminal 101, That is, a subscriber of the wired messenger can transmit a message to a conversation partner registered in the mobile messenger.

In the method of providing a messenger service according to the present invention, as described above with reference to FIG. 1, even when the mobile communication terminal 111 supporting the mobile messenger service requests the contact information of the wired messenger, And can transmit the conversation partner information of the wired messenger to the terminal 111. On the other hand, if a new synchronized XML document is generated in step S205, the messenger service providing apparatus 103 provides the same contact information to the wire / wireless terminal 101 and the mobile communication terminal 111 using the new synchronized XML document .

On the other hand, since the conversation partner information is based on XCAP, the request information of the wire / wireless terminal 101 also needs to be based on XCAP. XCAP is an HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) based XML document access standard that uses methods such as GET, PUT, and DELETE. 'PUT' for creating and changing documents, 'GET' for retrieving documents, and 'DELETE' for deleting documents.

For example, the request information of the wire / wireless terminal 101 may be as shown in [Table 1] below.

PUT / resource-lists /
X-3GPP-Asserted-Identity: sip: nab49@ktf.com
X-Multi-Info: tel: +821030101994
Content-Length: 0

In Table 1, 'PUT' is a request method for the message service providing apparatus 103, and 'X-3GPP-Asserted-Identity' indicates information about a wired messenger subscriber. And " X-Multi-Info " represents information about a predetermined mobile messenger subscriber. In Table 1, information on the mobile messenger subscriber is expressed as a mobile communication number. And 'Content-Length' indicates the length of the content included in the request information.

Meanwhile, since the messenger service needs to be based on the same protocol in order for the contact information registered in the wired messenger to be linked with the information registered in the mobile messenger, it is preferable that the wired messenger and the mobile messenger service are provided by the same service provider.

The method of providing a messenger service according to the present invention as described above can be formed by a computer program. And the code and code segments constituting the program can be easily deduced by a computer programmer in the field. In addition, the created program is stored in a computer-readable recording medium (information storage medium), and is read and executed by a computer to implement the method of the present invention. And the recording medium includes all types of recording media (intangible medium such as a carrier wave as well as tangible media such as CD and DVD) readable by a computer.

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments, but, on the contrary, Various modifications and variations are possible within the scope of the invention.

1 illustrates a messenger service system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a diagram for explaining a method of providing a messenger service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Claims (7)

In a method for providing a messenger service, When the messenger service providing apparatus receives the request for the mobile messenger contact information from the wired terminal logged in to the wired messenger, the mobile messenger conversation partner registered in the mobile messenger with which the user of the wired terminal is subscribed, Confirming information; And Wherein the messenger service providing apparatus transmits the confirmed mobile messenger conversation partner information to a wired messenger of the wired terminal Gt; a < / RTI > messenger service. The method according to claim 1, Wherein the conversation partner information of the mobile messenger and the conversation partner information of the wired messenger are based on XCAP (XML Configuration Access Protocol). 3. The method of claim 2, (EXtensible Markup Language) document to which the conversation partner information of the mobile messenger is added to the conversation partner information of the wired messenger using the conversation partner information database according to a result of checking the mobile messenger conversation partner information Including, Wherein the transmitting comprises: And transmits the verified mobile messenger contact information to the wired messenger of the wired terminal using the generated XML document. In a method for providing a messenger service, When the messenger service providing apparatus receives the wired messenger conversation partner information from the mobile communication terminal logged in to the mobile messenger, the wired messenger registered in the wired messenger to which the user of the mobile communication terminal is subscribed, Confirming the contact information; And The messenger service providing apparatus transmits the confirmed wired messenger conversation partner information to the mobile messenger of the mobile communication terminal Gt; a < / RTI > messenger service. 5. The method of claim 4, Wherein the contact information of the wired messenger and the contact information of the mobile messenger are based on XCAP (XML Configuration Access Protocol). 6. The method of claim 5, (EXtensible Markup Language) document to which the contact information of the wired messenger is added to the contact information of the mobile messenger using the contact information database according to a result of checking the wired messenger conversation partner information Including, Wherein the transmitting comprises: And transmits the confirmed wired messenger conversation partner information to the mobile messenger of the mobile communication terminal using the generated XML document. delete

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