KR101589150B1 - Server, deivice and method for sending/receiving emphasized instant messages - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an instant message server which includes a communications module transceiving an instant message; a memory storing a program which extracts emotional information from the instant message; and a processor executing the program. The processor is configured to, when the communications module receives a plurality of instant messages containing the same or the similar vocabularies or meanings, extract a type of emotion corresponding to the same or the similar words or meanings as emotion information, generate emphasized information corresponding to the extracted emotion information and transmit the emphasized information to a receiver terminal, as the program is executed.

Description

TECHNICAL FIELD [0001] The present invention relates to a server, a terminal, and a method for sending and receiving an instant message including emphasis information,

The present invention relates to a server, a terminal and a method for transmitting / receiving an instant message including emphasis information.

With the spread of various kinds of smart devices, demand for using instant messenger service among terminals such as PCs and smart phones under network environment is increasing. An instant messenger is an application in which two or more users perform real-time text communication using a network such as the Internet.

As the communication environment develops, such instant messenger provides not only text communication but also various services such as voice communication and video communication in recent years. In addition, the instant messenger provides emoticons including various images, music, and videos that can express the emotions of users. However, the conventional instant messaging service has a disadvantage in that emotions must be inferred through emoticons transmitted directly by the sender.

Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 10-2008-0026792 (entitled " System and method for instant messaging service ") is a conventional technology for providing various emotional expressions in an instant messenger service. In the instant messenger of a communication terminal, Discloses a technology for providing a flash emoticon that includes sounds and pictures that are reproduced differently over time in order to express a user's emotional state more broadly.

In addition, Korean Patent Laid-Open No. 10-2014-0089697 (entitled "Method for operating a face recognition-based user function and a terminal supporting the same), recognizes facial emotion in a video chat mode in which a video is transmitted and received based on a messenger service And transmits a change of emotion to another terminal.

An embodiment of the present invention provides an instant message server that extracts emotion information included in an instant message transmitted by a sender and automatically generates emphasis information and transmits an instant message including emphasis information corresponding to the feeling information to a recipient, And a terminal and method.

It should be understood, however, that the technical scope of the present invention is not limited to the above-described technical problems, and other technical problems may exist.

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided an instant message server comprising: a communication module for sending and receiving an instant message; a memory for storing a program for extracting emotion information included in an instant message; Lt; / RTI > At this time, when the communication module receives a plurality of instant messages including the same or similar vocabulary or meaning according to the execution of the program, the processor extracts the kind of emotion corresponding to the same or similar vocabulary or meaning as emotion information, Generates emphasis information corresponding to the extracted emotion information, and transmits the emphasis information to the receiver terminal.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a sender terminal for transmitting and receiving an instant message, comprising: an input module for receiving an instant message from a user; a communication module for transmitting and receiving an instant message; a display module for displaying a user interface and an instant message; And a processor for executing a program and a memory in which a program for extracting emotion information included is stored. At this time, when the user inputs a plurality of instant messages including the same or similar vocabulary or meaning according to the execution of the program, the processor extracts the kind of emotion corresponding to the same or similar vocabulary or meaning as emotion information, And the emphasis information is transmitted to the recipient terminal through the communication module or is transmitted to the instant message server so that the recipient terminal can receive the emphasis information.

A receiver terminal for transmitting and receiving an instant message according to the third aspect of the present invention includes a communication module for transmitting and receiving an instant message, a display module for displaying a user interface and an instant message, and a program for extracting emotion information included in the instant message Memory and a program for executing the program. At this time, when the communication module receives a plurality of instant messages including the same or similar vocabulary or meaning according to the execution of the program, the processor extracts the kind of emotion corresponding to the same or similar vocabulary or meaning as emotion information, Emphasis information corresponding to the extracted emotion information is generated and applied to at least one of the plurality of instant messages.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for providing an instant message in an instant message server, comprising: continuously receiving a plurality of instant messages including the same or similar vocabulary or meaning from a sender terminal; Extracting the kind of emotion corresponding to the same or similar vocabulary or meaning as emotion information; Generating emphasis information corresponding to the extracted emotion information; And transmitting the generated emphasis information to the sender terminal or the receiver terminal.

According to any one of the above-mentioned means for solving the problem, the emotional information of the sender is automatically extracted on the basis of the text-type instant message transmitted by the sender, and the instant message containing the emphasis information corresponding to the emotional information is transmitted , It is possible to transmit the emotion of the sender only by the text.

1 is a configuration diagram of an instant message transmission / reception system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is an exemplary diagram illustrating an instant message transmission / reception process in an instant message server according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a block diagram of an instant message server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a diagram illustrating an example in which text of an instant message is emphasized according to emotion information.
5 is a diagram illustrating an example in which an instant message is highlighted through text and emoticons according to emotion information.
6 is a diagram illustrating an example in which an instant message is highlighted through a floating message.
FIG. 7 illustrates an example in which an instant message is highlighted when the same or similar vocabularies or meanings are repeated.
8 is a configuration diagram of a sender terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
9 is an exemplary diagram of an instant message including emphasis information at a sender terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
10 is a flowchart of an instant message providing method in a sender terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.
11 is a flowchart of a method for providing an instant message in a receiver terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, which will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. In order to clearly explain the present invention in the drawings, parts not related to the description are omitted.

Throughout the specification, when a part is referred to as being "connected" to another part, it includes not only "directly connected" but also "electrically connected" with another part in between . Also, when a part is referred to as "including " an element, it does not exclude other elements unless specifically stated otherwise.

In addition, in the user interface example of the instant message application shown throughout the specification, the message generated by the sender terminal 110 is displayed on the right and the message generated by the receiver terminal 120 is displayed on the left.

1 is a configuration diagram of an instant message transmission / reception system 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1, in the instant message transmission / reception system 10 according to the embodiment of the present invention, the emotion information included in the instant message transmitted by the sender to the recipient terminal 120 through the sender terminal 110 is extracted, Generates emphasis information corresponding to the extracted emotion information, and transmits the emphasis information to the sender terminal (110) and the receiver terminal (120). At this time, the instant message transmission / reception system 10 includes an instant message server 100, one or more sender terminals 110 and one or more receiver terminals 120.

Each component constituting the instant message transmission / reception system 10 may be connected via a network. The network means a connection structure in which information can be exchanged between each node such as a server and a terminal. Examples of such networks include, but are not limited to, a 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) network, a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, a World Interoperability for Microwave Access (WIMAX) network, But is not limited to, an area network, a wide area network (WAN), a personal area network (PAN), a Bluetooth network, a satellite broadcast network, an analog broadcast network, a digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB)

The instant message server 100 extracts emotion information included in an instant message received from the sender terminal 110 according to an embodiment of the present invention. Then, emphasis information corresponding to the extracted emotion information is generated and transmitted to the recipient terminal 120. In addition, the instant message server 100 may send the generated emphasis information to the sender terminal 110.

At this time, the emphasis information may be an attribute of a font corresponding to the emotion information extracted from the instant message, an emoticon, a floating message, and an attribute of a speech balloon, but is not limited thereto.

For example, the attributes of the font may include the type of font, the style of the font, the thickness of the font, the size of the font, and the color of the font. In addition, the floating message attribute may be a background color, a font attribute, the number of notifications, and the type of a notification sound. And the attributes of the speech bubble may be the shape of the speech bubble in which the instant message is displayed and the background color of the speech bubble.

On the other hand, the emphasis information corresponding to the extracted emotion information may be generated based on an emphasis information table that is generated or set in advance or collected according to the usage form of the user. The emphasis information table can store emphasis information corresponding to the emotion information and the emotion information as a record.

For example, the highlighted information table can be used to specify a font style, such as <emotional information - 'Angry', highlighted information - 'font style: bold', 'font color: red' ',' Speech bubble color: yellow '> and <emotion information -' joy ', emphasis information -' speech bubble color: green '>. In this case, when the instant message received from the sender terminal 110 includes emotion information such as' hanam ', the instant message server 100 generates' font style: bold' as emphasis information corresponding to ' And 'font color: red', and generate emphasis information based on this information.

At this time, the instant message server 100 may be implemented as an independent server computer or as a server program that provides an instant messaging service to the server computer. In addition, the instant message server 100 may be separately executed as an instant messaging server that transmits and receives instant messages, and an instant message analysis server that analyzes the meaning of instant messages and extracts emotion information corresponding to the analyzed meaning and generates emphasis information have.

The sender terminal 110 and the receiver terminal 120 according to an embodiment of the present invention transmit and receive an instant message based on an instant message application installed in each terminal. For example, the instant message application may be a chat program. In addition, the instant message application may be in the form of an independent program installed in the sender terminal 110 and the recipient terminal 120, or may be included in a program installed in the sender terminal 110 and the recipient terminal 120, such as a web browser.

The sender terminal 110 transmits an instant message to the recipient terminal 120 based on the instant message application installed in the sender terminal 110 and the input module and the communication module included in the sender terminal 110, ). The recipient terminal 120 also transmits the instant message received from the instant message server 100 to the recipient terminal 120 based on the instant message application installed in the recipient terminal 120 and the communication module included in the recipient terminal 120. [ Lt; / RTI &gt;

Also, the sender terminal 110 extracts emotion information from an instant message to be transmitted to a receiver based on the instant message application installed in the sender terminal 110, generates emphasis information corresponding to the extracted emotion information, To the recipient terminal 120 via the network 100.

At this time, the emphasis information corresponding to the extracted emotion information can be generated through the above-described emphasis information table based on the emotion information extracted from the instant message to be transmitted to the receiver by the sender. For example, if the sender includes emotion information such as 'please' to the receiver, the sender terminal 110 extracts 'font attribute: bold' and 'speech bubble color: yellow' from the highlight information table, To generate emphasis information.

At this time, the sender terminal 110 and the receiver terminal 120 according to an embodiment of the present invention are distinguished for convenience. That is, the sender terminal 110 can receive the instant message transmitted by the receiver terminal 120 that received the instant message transmitted after transmitting the instant message. In addition, the recipient terminal 120 may transmit an instant message to the sender of the received instant message after receiving the instant message. That is, the sender terminal 110 and the recipient terminal 120 can be classified into the sender terminal 110 if the instant message is transmitted to the same terminal, And may be the terminal 120.

The sender terminal 110 and the receiver terminal 120 include a display module, a memory, a processor and a communication module, and collectively refer to all terminals that can use the network. For example, the sender terminal 110 and the recipient terminal 120 may be a general computing system such as a personal computer (PC), a server computer, or the like.

The sender terminal 110 and the receiver terminal 120 are connected to each other through a wireless communication device that is guaranteed to be portable and mobility, that is, a PCS (Personal Communication System), a GSM (Global System for Mobile communications), a PDC (Personal Digital Cellular) Personal Handyphone System, PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), IMT (International Mobile Telecommunication) -2000, Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) -2000, W-Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA), WiBro (Wireless Broadband Internet) And the like, and the like, for example.

The sender terminal 110 and the receiver terminal 120 can be connected to a smart device such as a notebook computer, a tablet PC, ), And the like.

Meanwhile, the instant message transmission / reception system 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention provides a 1: 1 chat capable of exchanging instant messages between two terminals or a group chat capable of exchanging instant messages between a plurality of terminals .

2 is an exemplary diagram illustrating an instant message transmission / reception process in the instant message server 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The sender terminal 110 and the receiver terminal 120 transmit and receive an instant message based on the instant messenger application installed in each terminal, as described above. In addition, the sender terminal 110 and the receiver terminal 120 that send and receive instant messages may be one or more.

The instant message server 100 receives the instant message and extracts the emotion information included in the received instant message to generate emphasis information. At this time, the instant message server 100 may include an instant messaging module 290 for receiving a message and an instant message analysis module 291 for analyzing the meaning of the instant message.

Referring to FIG. 2, an instant message transmission / reception process of the instant message server 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention is as follows. First, when a sender creates an instant message in the sender terminal 110 (S200), the created instant message is transmitted to the instant message server 100 by the sender terminal 110 (S210). Then, the instant messaging module 290 of the instant message server 100 receives the instant message transmitted from the sender terminal 110 to the instant message server 100 (S220).

The instant messaging module 290 of the instant message server 100 extracts the emotion information included in the received instant message and transmits the received instant message to the instant message analysis module of the instant message server 100 291 (S230).

Upon receiving the instant message, the instant message analysis module 291 may detect one or more kinds of emotions included in the instant message. Then, the instant message analysis module 291 extracts the emotion information as emotion information based on one or more kinds of sensed emotions (S240).

At this time, the type of emotion is classified into one or more kinds of emotion extracted from the instant message. For example, the type of emotion extracted by the instant message analysis module 291 may include, but is not limited to, joy, anger, sadness, pleasure, request, emphasis and compulsion extracted from an instant message. And the emotion information may be one or more representative emotions of the instant message among the one or more types of emotion extracted.

In addition, the instant message analysis module 291 generates emphasis information corresponding to the extracted feeling information (S250). At this time, the emphasis information corresponding to the extracted emotion information can be generated based on the previously generated emphasis information table described above.

The instant message analysis module 291 transmits the generated emphasis information to the instant messaging module 290 in order to transmit the generated emphasis information to the sender terminal 110 or the recipient terminal 120 (S260).

The instant messaging module 290 transmits the received emphasis information or the instant message to which the received emphasis information is applied to the recipient terminal 120 (S270). Upon receiving the instant message to which the emphasis information or emphasis information is applied, the recipient terminal 120 may display an instant message including emotion information in a display module included in the terminal (S280).

In addition, the instant messaging module 290 can forward the received emphasis information or the instant message to which the received emphasis information is applied to the sender terminal (S275). Upon receiving the instant message to which the emphasis information or emphasis information is applied, the sender terminal 110 may display an instant message including emphasis information in the display module included in the sender terminal 110 upon receiving the emphasis information (S285 ).

3 is a configuration diagram of the instant message server 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The instant message server 100 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is a server that provides an instant message service including text, voice, video, and emoticons. The instant message server 100 receives an instant message that the sender terminal 110 transmits to the recipient terminal 120. The instant message server 100 extracts the emotion information included in the received instant message, generates emphasis information corresponding to the extracted emotion information, and transmits the emphasis information to the recipient terminal 120. In addition, the instant message server may send the generated emphasis information to the sender terminal 110.

At this time, the instant message server 100 includes a communication module 300, a memory 310, and a processor 320.

The communication module 300 transmits an instant message between the sender terminal 110 and the receiver terminal 120. At this time, the communication module 300 may include both a wired communication module and a wireless communication module.

The memory 310 stores a program for analyzing an instant message and extracting the emotion information included in the instant message. Here, the memory 310 is collectively referred to as a non-volatile storage device that keeps stored information even when power is not supplied.

In addition, the program stored in the memory 310 may be implemented in hardware such as software, a field programmable gate array (FPGA), or an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), and may perform predetermined roles.

The processor 320 in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention analyzes the instant message received by the communication module 300 and executes the program stored in the memory 310 to extract the emotion information included in the instant message.

Specifically, the processor 320 receives an instant message to be transmitted from the sender terminal 110 to the receiver terminal 120 through the communication module 300 according to the execution of the program stored in the memory.

The processor 320 may determine that the sender transmits the instant message including the same or similar vocabulary or meaning repeatedly through the sender terminal 110 so that the sender's sent instant message contains the sentence information . Accordingly, when the processor 320 receives a plurality of instant messages including the same or similar vocabulary or meaning transmitted by the sender through the communication module 300, the processor 320 determines the type of emotion corresponding to the same or similar vocabulary or meaning And extracts it as emotion information.

At this time, when the processor 320 receives a plurality of instant messages including the same or similar vocabulary or meaning transmitted by the sender through the communication module 300, the processor 320 extracts emotion information from a plurality of instant messages .

For example, when the processor 320 receives an instant message at a preset number of times or less through the communication module 300, the processor 320 can immediately transmit the received instant message to the recipient terminal 120. However, when the communication module 300 receives an instant message over a predetermined number of times, the processor 320 determines whether the same instant message or similar word or similar word is included in the received instant message, Extracts the corresponding type of emotion as emotion information, generates emphasis information corresponding to the extracted emotion information, and transmits the generated emphasis information to the sender terminal 110 and the receiver terminal 120 through the communication module 300. [

In addition, when the reception time of the plurality of instant messages received through the communication module 300 is included in the predetermined time, the processor 320 may extract the emotion information from the plurality of instant messages.

For example, when a plurality of instant messages are received within a predetermined time through the communication module 300, the processor 320 may transmit the sentences corresponding to the same or similar vocabularies or meanings included in the received instant messages And generates emphasis information corresponding to the extracted emotion information and transmits the emphasis information to the sender terminal 110 and the receiver terminal 120 through the communication module 300. [

At this time, the predetermined number of times or a predetermined time may be set by the instant message server 100. The preset number of times or a preset time may be set by the sender terminal 110 or the receiver terminal 120 and transmitted to the instant message server 100 in advance.

The processor 320 may consider a preset number of times or a preset time, respectively, in order to select a plurality of instant messages. In addition, the preset number of times the processor 320 and the preset time can be simultaneously considered.

If the receiver terminal 120 does not confirm the instant message more than the predetermined number of times or the preset time except for the predetermined number of times or the preset time, the processor 320 may extract the same or similar vocabulary or meaning included in the received unidentified instant message Extracts the corresponding type of emotion as emotion information, generates emphasis information corresponding to the extracted emotion information, and transmits the emphasis information to the recipient terminal 120 through the communication module 300. For example, if the preset number of times is 2, and the recipient receives two unambiguous instant messages containing the same or similar vocabulary or meaning, the processor 320 extracts the emotion information, Information can be generated and transmitted to the recipient terminal 120.

When the emphasis information is generated, the processor 320 transmits the generated emphasis information to the recipient terminal 120 through the communication module 300. [ For example, the processor 320 applies the generated emphasis information to the instant message, and transmits the instant message to the recipient terminal 120 through the communication module 300, to which the emphasis information is applied. The processor 320 transmits the emphasis information generated through the communication module 300 to the receiver terminal 120 and transmits the instant message received from the instant message server 100 to the receiver terminal 120, And can display the emphasis information on the display module of the receiver terminal 120.

In addition, the processor 320 may generate emphasis information corresponding to the emotion information extracted from the instant message, and may transmit an instant message to which the generated emphasis information or emphasis information is applied to the sender terminal 110 through the communication module 300 have.

Meanwhile, the emphasis information according to an embodiment of the present invention corresponds to the extracted feeling information, and can be generated based on the emphasis information table. The emphasis information table can store emphasis information corresponding to the emotion information and the emotion information, as described above.

Further, the emphasis information may include attributes of the font. For example, the attributes of a font of an instant message may be the type of font, the style of the font, the thickness of the font, the size of the font, and the color of the font.

The processor 320 may apply the attribute of the font included in the generated emphasis information to the instant message and transmit the instant message to the recipient terminal 120 through the communication module 300. [

The sender terminal 110 or the receiver terminal 120 receiving the instant message including the emphasis information or the emphasis information by the instant message server 100 may transmit the instant message to the display module included in the sender terminal 110 or the receiver terminal 120 And may display an instant message containing highlight information.

At this time, the sender terminal 110 or the receiver terminal 120 may be allowed to receive emphasis information beforehand. The emphasis information reception permission information of the sender terminal 110 or the receiver terminal 120 permitted to receive emphasis information in advance may be stored in each of the sender terminal 110 and the receiver terminal 120, Lt; / RTI &gt;

Hereinafter, an example in which an instant message is emphasized according to the emotion information will be described with reference to FIG. 4 to FIG.

4 is a diagram illustrating an example in which text of an instant message is emphasized according to emotion information.

The sender first forwards the first instant message (P401) containing the text "Happy Birthday" to the recipient. In this case, since the processor 320 has no previously transmitted instant message, the processor 320 can recognize the first instant message (P401) as a general message without emotion information.

Next, the communication module can receive a second instant message (P402) containing the same text as the first instant message (P401) created by the sender, 'Happy Birthday', through the instant message server (100). At this time, since the first instant message P401 received and the second instant message P402 received contain the same vocabulary, the processor 320 determines that the two instant messages P401 and P402 are included in the ' The type of emotion meaning 'celebration' can be extracted as emotion information. Then, the processor 320 generates emphasis information corresponding to the extracted emotion information, and applies the font attribute to display it as a second instant message (P402).

When the communication module 300 receives 'Happy Birthday' in the third instant message P403 transmitted by the sender, the instant messages P401 and P402 and the third instant message P403 include the same vocabulary The processor 320 may extract the type of emotion included in the third instant message P403 as emotion information and generate emotion information corresponding to the extracted emotion information.

At this time, the processor 320 may extract the type of emotion included in the third instant message P403 based on the two received instant messages P401 and P402 as emotion information to generate emphasis information. On the other hand, when the processor 320 receives the third instant message P403, the processor 320 extracts the type of emotion included in the first to third instant messages P401 to P403 as emotion information, Corresponding emphasis information can be generated.

Meanwhile, the processor 320 may apply a font attribute emphasized to the third instant message P403 rather than the second instant message P402. That is, the processor 320 may sequentially emphasize the plurality of instant messages using the emphasis information applied to the plurality of instant messages as the plurality of instant messages including the same or similar vocabularies or meanings are received through the communication module 300.

At this time, the emphasis information to be emphasized sequentially can be generated according to the emotion information and the sequential information attribute based on the previously generated emphasis information table. In addition, the previously generated emphasis information table may include sequential information in addition to the emphasis information corresponding to the emotion information and the emotion information described above.

For example, the pre-generated emphasis information table includes the following information: <emotion information-> celebration, sequential information- 1, emphasis information- font size 12pt>, <emotion information-> celebration, 'Font style: bold'; 'speech bubble color: yellow'> and <emotion information> 'celebration', sequential information - '2', emphasis information - 'font size: 16pt' ',' Font style: bold ',' font color: red ',' speech bubble color: yellow '>, and so on.

For example, as in the second message (P402) of FIG. 4, the processor 320 determines that the first instant message received by the communication module 300 is an instant message including the emotion information, and the emotion information is' , The sequential information can be set to '1', and the font size: 12pt 'can be extracted as the emphasis information. The processor 320 may generate an instant message based on the extracted emphasis information.

The processor 320 then changes the sequential information to 2 if the communication module 300 again receives an instant message P402 of the same or similar lexicon or meaning. Therefore, the processor 320 can extract 'font style: bold' and 'speech bubble color: yellow' as emphasis information in the previously generated emphasis information table, since the emotion information is 'celebration' and the sequential information is '2'.

In this way, the processor 320 can sequentially emphasize a plurality of instant messages by a preset number of times. At this time, the predetermined number of times may be preset in the instant message server 100. The predetermined number of times may be previously set by the sender terminal 110 or the receiver terminal 120 and transmitted to the instant message server 100. [

Also, the plurality of instant messages can be sequentially emphasized as the attribute of the font included in the emphasis information is defined. For example, if the preset number of times is three, the processor 320 may sequentially apply the emphasis information to the first three instant messages including emotion information. When the instant message including the fourth emotion information is received through the communication module 300, the processor 320 may not apply the emotion information from the fourth emotion information.

The emphasis information may further include information on the emoticon selected automatically according to the extracted emotion information or according to a user input of the sender terminal 110. [ At this time, the automatically selected emoticon may be emphasis information extracted from the emphasis information table based on the extracted emotion information. The emoticon selected according to the user input of the sender terminal 110 may be an emoticon selected by the sender terminal 110 according to the extracted emotional information.

The processor 320 may generate emphasis information including information about the automatically determined emoticon or the emoticon selected according to the user's input and transmit the emphasis information to the recipient terminal. A method of emphasizing an instant message through emoticons will be described with reference to FIG. 5 (a).

5 is a diagram illustrating an example in which an instant message is highlighted through text and emoticons according to emotion information.

5A, upon receiving a first instant message P501, a second instant message P502, and a third instant message P503 including 'deposit' Request 'from the instant messages P501 to P503 as emotion information. Then, the processor 320 transmits information about the emoticon, which means 'request', to the recipient terminal as emphasis information after the third instant message (P503), and transmits the instant information including the emoticon emphasis information Message (P504).

When an instant message exceeding a predetermined number of times is not yet confirmed at the receiver terminal 120, the processor 320 selects the emoticon based on the previously generated emphasis information table, and stores emphasis information including information on the selected emoticon And transmit it to the receiver terminal 120 through the communication module 300. [ An example of expressing emphasis information through an emoticon when an instant message is not confirmed will be described with reference to FIG. 5 (b).

5B, when the preset number of unidentified instant messages is 3 and the sender terminal 110 has not confirmed the three instant messages P511 to P513 transmitted to the recipient terminal 120 , Processor 320 may extract emotion information from three instant messages (P511 through P513). Based on the extracted emotion information, the processor 320 can automatically select emoticon based on the emphasis information table generated in advance and generate emphasis information including information on the selected emoticon. In addition, the processor 320 may generate emphasis information including information on the emoticons, and then transmit the emphasis information to the recipient terminal 120 through the communication module 300. Accordingly, the recipient terminal 120 may be displayed with an instant message P514 including emphasis information including information on the emoticons.

The processor 320 may generate emphasis information including attributes of the floating message based on the kind of emotion corresponding to the extracted emotion information. At this time, the attribute of the floating message may include any one of a screen color of the floating message, a notification sound of the floating message, and a notification count of the floating message. An example of expressing emphasis information through an attribute of a floating message will be described with reference to FIG.

6 is a diagram illustrating an example in which an instant message is highlighted through a floating message.

For example, referring to FIG. 6, the processor 320 may extract emotion information from a plurality of instant messages when emotion information is included in a plurality of instant messages received by the communication module 300.

If the receiver does not identify a plurality of instant messages, the processor 320 generates emphasis information including a predetermined floating message attribute based on the type of emotion corresponding to the extracted emotion information, (P601).

If the processor 320 does not generate the emphasis information, if the receiver does not identify a plurality of instant messages, the recipient terminal 120 determines the type of emotion corresponding to the emotion information extracted from the plurality of unidentified instant messages Based on the predefined floating message attributes, and displays the generated emphasis information on the recipient terminal 120.

Meanwhile, when a plurality of instant messages received by the communication module 300 include the same or similar sentence codes, the processor 320 may include the same or similar vocabulary or meaning in the plurality of received instant messages, Lt; / RTI &gt; At this time, the sentence code for extracting the emotion information may be a question mark ('?') Indicating a doubt or a question and an exclamation mark ('!') Indicating a strong feeling of admiration, The generation of emphasis information in a plurality of instant messages including the same sentence code will be described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 7 illustrates an example in which an instant message is highlighted when the same or similar vocabularies or meanings are repeated.

FIG. 7A is a diagram illustrating an example in which an instant message is emphasized when the same punctuation marks are repeated. FIG. Referring to FIG. 7A, the same instant message (P701), the second instant message (P702), and the third instant message (P703) received by the receiver terminal 120 are identical If the exclamation point ('!'), Which is a punctuation mark for 'emphasis', is included, the processor 320 outputs 'emphasis' based on the sentence code included in each of the three instant messages (P701 to P703) Can be extracted. According to the emphasis information table, emphasis information can be applied to the emotion information extracted from each of the instant messages P701 to P703.

In addition, the processor 320 may extract a predicate or an exclamation point having a similar meaning based on morpheme analysis of a plurality of instant messages received by the communication module 300, and generate emphasis information using the extracted predicate or the exclamation point .

At this time, the morphological analysis of the instant message may be based on a semantic dictionary such as word-net or ontology. That is, the processor 320 parses the instant message based on the morphological analysis, and can recognize the meaning included in the instant message by using the result of the parsing and the word net or the ontology. If the plurality of instant messages includes a descriptor or an exclamation point having a similar meaning, the processor 320 may extract emotion information from a caption or an exclamation point included in the plurality of instant messages.

And processor 320 may generate emphasis information including emoticons corresponding to adjectives or exclamations of the same or similar semantics when a plurality of instant messages include predicates or adjectives with the same or similar meaning. At this time, the emoticon may be selected based on the emphasis information table generated in advance according to the type of emotion. The emphasis information generation in an instant message in which the same adjective words and similar meaning are repeated will be described with reference to FIGS. 7 (b) and 7 (c).

FIG. 7 (b) shows an example in which an instant message is emphasized when the same or similar meaning is repeated. Referring to FIG. 7 (b), the processor 320 receives positive impressions from the sender through the communication module 300, such as 'P712', 'Hits' P714, and 'Cor' The meaningful exclamation point can receive the repeated instant message. The processor 320 that has received the three instant messages through the communication module 300 extracts' admiration 'as the emotion information of the sender's instant message based on the morphological analysis, and sequentially receives the second received' ) And the third received 'Cor' (P715).

7 (c) is a diagram showing an example in which an instant message is emphasized when a descriptor having a similar meaning is repeated. 7C, the first instant message P721 sent by the sender is 'deposit lunch value', the second instant message P722 is a 'lunch value deposit request', a third instant message P723) is 'Please Deposit!', And all instant messages sent by the sender contain the same meaning as 'Deposit Lunch Value'. Therefore, the processor 320 may determine that all three instant messages P721 through P723 include the same meaning, and extract the emotion information from the three instant messages P721 through P723 to generate emphasis information.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the sender terminal 110 may be plural. Therefore, a plurality of instant messages may be transmitted from a plurality of sender terminals 110 and displayed in the same chat room.

For example, if a recipient terminal 120 in a group chat room receives an instant message each containing the same or similar vocabulary or meaning from a plurality of sender terminals 110, then the recipient terminal 120 may include a plurality of sender terminals 110 may have the same or similar vocabularies or meanings, although they are different from each other. Therefore, the processor 320 receives a plurality of instant messages including the same or similar vocabulary or meaning from a plurality of sender terminals 110 through the communication module 300, extracts emotion information from the received plurality of instant messages Highlight information can be generated.

Hereinafter, a sender terminal 110 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

8 is a configuration diagram of a sender terminal 110 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

8, a sender terminal 110 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an input module 800, a communication module 810, a display module 820, a memory 830, and a processor 840 . In addition, the sender terminal 110 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may be a sender terminal 110 or a receiver terminal 120. [

The input module 800 is used by the sender terminal 110 to receive an instant message from a user of the sender terminal 110. For example, the input module 800 may be a wired or wireless connection to the sender terminal 110, a keyboard, a mouse, a touch panel, or the like mounted on the sender terminal 110. The input module 800 may be a virtual keyboard or mouse based on the touch panel included in the sender terminal 110.

The communication module 810 can transmit the instant message input to the sender terminal 110 to the instant message server 100 or directly to the receiver terminal. In addition, the communication module 810 can receive an instant message created by another terminal through the instant message server 100 or directly from the recipient terminal.

At this time, the communication module 810 may include both a wired communication module and a wireless communication module connected to the transmitter terminal 110 or the terminal 110.

The instant message server 100 may receive an instant message from the sender terminal 110 and send it to the recipient terminal 120. In addition, the instant message server 100 may be an instant message server 100 that extracts emotion information according to an embodiment of the present invention and generates emphasis information.

Display module 820 may display a user interface (UI) and an instant message of the instant messenger program based on the instant messenger program.

In the memory 830, a program for extracting the emotion information included in the instant message is stored.

The processor 840 of the sender terminal 110 according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may allow a user to transmit the same or similar vocabulary through the input module 800 of the sender terminal 110, Or a plurality of instant messages including a meaning, emotion information is extracted from a plurality of instant messages inputting the same or a similar vocabulary or a type of emotion corresponding to the meaning.

For example, the processor 840 may determine that a plurality of instant messages input by the user through the input module 800 of the sender terminal 110 include the same or similar semantic punctuation marks, In the case of including a descriptor or an exclamation in a similar meaning, the kind of emotion corresponding to the same or similar vocabulary or meaning can be extracted as the emotion information.

The processor 840 may also be configured to generate emphasis information corresponding to the extracted emotion information and to transmit an instant message containing the emphasis information to the instant message server 100 or directly to the recipient terminal 120. [

For example, the processor 840 may generate an instant message including the emphasis information through the communication module 810 and transmit the instant message to the instant message server 100. At this time, the instant message server 100 may transmit an instant message including the received emphasis information to the recipient terminal 120. [

The processor 840 may also send an instant message containing highlight information directly to the recipient terminal 120 via the communication module 810. [ The recipient terminal 120 receiving the instant message including the emphasis information may apply the emphasis information to the instant message.

At this time, the emphasis information may include an attribute of the font determined according to the type of emotion. For example, the attributes of a font of an instant message may be the type of font, the style of the font, the thickness of the font, the size of the font, and the color of the font.

The processor 840 applies the attribute of the font included in the generated emphasis information to the instant message and transmits the instant message through the communication module 810 to the recipient terminal 120 through the instant message server 100. [ (100).

The processor 840 can sequentially emphasize as the emphasis information is applied to a plurality of instant messages. For example, the processor 840 may sequentially emphasize the font attributes of the instant message including the emphasis information. At this time, the emphasis information emphasized sequentially as described above may be an emphasis information table generated in advance according to the feeling information. Hereinafter, an instant message including emphasis information in the sender terminal 110 will be described with reference to FIG.

9 is an exemplary diagram of an instant message including emphasis information at the sender terminal 110 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

When the user of the sender terminal 110 inputs a plurality of instant messages containing the same or similar vocabulary or meaning, the sender terminal 110 extracts the kind of emotion corresponding to the same or similar vocabulary or meaning as emotion information . Then, the sender terminal 110 generates emphasis information corresponding to the extracted feeling information, and transmits the emphasis information to the receiver terminal.

At this time, the recipient terminal 120 can receive the instant message to which the emphasis information generated by the sender terminal 110 is applied through the instant message server 100. [ The recipient terminal 120 may receive the instant message to which the emphasis information generated by the sender terminal 110 is applied, directly from the sender terminal 110.

In addition, the recipient terminal 120 may receive the instant message from the instant message server 100 and receive the emphasis information generated from the sender terminal 110. The recipient terminal 120 may generate an instant message to which the emphasis information is applied based on the received instant message and the generated emphasis information. The recipient terminal 120 may display the instant message to which the generated emphasis information is applied on the display module of the recipient terminal 120.

Referring to FIG. 9, for example, a user may input a first instant message (P901) by using an input module 800. FIG. Then, the user inputs an instant message including the same text as the first instant message (P901) to the second instant message (P902) by using the input module (800), and then clicks the transmission button to transmit the instant message to the instant message server Lt; / RTI &gt; At this time, the processor 840 analyzes the two instant messages P901 and P902 and includes a similar vocabulary, so that the processor 840 can recognize the type of emotion corresponding to the two instant messages P901 and P902 It can be extracted as information. The processor 840 generates emphasis information corresponding to the extracted emotion information, transmits the emphasis information to the instant message server 100 through the communication module 810, and transmits the emphasis information to the receiver through the instant message server 100. [

Then, the user can input an instant message containing the same text (P903) and click the send button.

The processor 840 may perform analysis of the two instant messages P901 and P902 and the inputted instant message P903 transmitted through the communication module 810. [ At this time, since the three instant messages P901 to P903 include similar vocabularies, the processor 840 can extract the kind of emotions corresponding to the three instant messages (P901 to P903) as emotion information. The processor 840 generates emphasis information corresponding to the extracted emotion information, transmits the emphasis information to the instant message server 100 through the communication module 810, and transmits the emphasis information to the receiver through the instant message server 100. [

 After the emotion information is extracted from the plurality of instant messages, the processor 840 displays an emoticon selection window on the user interface of the display module 820 in order to allow the user of the sender terminal 110 to directly select the emoticon can do.

9, the processor 840 may extract the type of emotion corresponding to the three instant messages (P901 to P903) as emotion information, and then transmit the emotion information to the display module The emoticon selection window P904 may be displayed on the user interface of the emoticon selection window P204. At this time, the emoticon selection window may be an emoticon selection window classified in advance according to the type of emotion.

In addition, the processor 840 may display an emoticon selection window on the user interface when the user selects any one instant message including emphasis information among the instant messages displayed on the display module 820. [

Hereinafter, an instant message providing method of the instant message server 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.

The method for providing an instant message of the instant message server 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention is a method for continuously providing a plurality of instant messages including the same or similar vocabulary or meaning transmitted from the sender terminal 110 to the recipient terminal 120 (S220). In this case, if the received instant messages include sentence codes having the same or similar meaning, or include the same or similar semantic or exclamative words extracted based on the morphological analysis, It can be said that it includes a vocabulary or a meaning.

The instant message server 100 successively receives a plurality of instant messages, and then extracts the kind of emotion corresponding to the same or similar vocabulary or meaning as emotion information (S240).

Then, the instant message server 100 generates emphasis information corresponding to the extracted emotion information based on the emphasis information table generated in advance (S250). At this time, the emphasis information may include an attribute of the font determined according to the type of emotion. In addition, the instant message server 100 may apply font attributes including emphasis information that is emphasized sequentially to a plurality of instant messages.

The instant message server 100 transmits the generated emphasis information to the recipient terminal 120 (S270). At this time, the instant message server 100 may transmit the emphasis information to the recipient terminal 120 by applying the emphasis information to the instant message.

In addition, the instant message server 100 may transmit the received instant message and generated emphasis information to the recipient terminal 120, respectively. The recipient terminal 120 receiving the instant message and the generated emphasis information can generate an instant message to which the emphasis information is applied and display the instant message on the display module (S280).

In addition, the instant message server 100 may transmit the generated emphasis information to the sender terminal 110 (S275). Upon receiving the instant message and the generated emphasis information, the sender terminal 110 may generate an instant message to which the emphasis information is applied, and display the instant message on the display module (S285).

Next, a method of providing an instant message in the sender terminal 110 and the receiver terminal 120 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 10 and 11. FIG.

10 is a flowchart of an instant message providing method in a sender terminal 110 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The sender terminal 110 continuously inputs a plurality of instant messages including the same or similar vocabulary or meaning through the input module 800 included in the sender terminal 110 (S1000). At this time, the sender terminal 110 analyzes the input instant messages and extracts the kind of emotion corresponding to the same or similar vocabulary or meaning as emotion information (S1010).

Then, the sender terminal 110 generates emphasis information corresponding to the extracted emotion information based on the emphasis information table generated in advance through the communication module 810 (S1020). Then, the sender terminal 110 transmits the generated emphasis information to the recipient terminal 120 or transmits it to the instant message server (S 1030).

For example, the sender terminal 110 may send an instant message to which the emphasis information is applied to the recipient terminal 120. In addition, the sender terminal 110 may transmit an instant message to which the emphasis information is applied to the recipient terminal 120 through the instant message server 100. [

The sender terminal 110 may then send the enhanced information to the recipient terminal 120. At this time, the recipient terminal 120 can apply the emphasis information received by the sender terminal 110 through the sender terminal 110 to the instant message received through the instant message server 100. [

11 is a flowchart of an instant message providing method in a receiver terminal 120 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

A receiver terminal 120 for transmitting and receiving an instant message includes a communication module for transmitting and receiving an instant message, a display module for displaying a user interface and an instant message, a memory for storing a program for extracting emotion information included in the instant message, . At this time, each constituent element of the recipient terminal 120 is the same as or similar to the constituent elements of the sender terminal shown in FIG. 8, and thus a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

The recipient terminal 120 receives a plurality of instant messages including the same or similar vocabulary or meaning transmitted from the sender terminal 110 through the communication module of the recipient terminal 120 from the instant message server 100 (S1100) .

At this time, the recipient terminal 120 extracts the kind of emotion corresponding to the same or similar vocabulary or meaning in the received plurality of instant messages as emotion information (S1110).

The recipient terminal 120 generates emphasis information corresponding to the extracted emotion information (S1120) and applies the emphasis information to at least one of the plurality of instant messages (S1130). In addition, the recipient terminal 120 may display an instant message to which the emphasis information is applied to the display module of the recipient terminal.

The instant message server 100, terminal, and method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention automatically extracts emotional information of a sender based on an instant message in the form of a text transmitted by a sender, And transmits the sentence of the sender with only the text.

One embodiment of the present invention may also be embodied in the form of a recording medium including instructions executable by a computer, such as program modules, being executed by a computer. Computer readable media can be any available media that can be accessed by a computer and includes both volatile and nonvolatile media, removable and non-removable media. In addition, the computer-readable medium may include both computer storage media and communication media. Computer storage media includes both volatile and nonvolatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data. Communication media typically includes any information delivery media, including computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data in a modulated data signal such as a carrier wave, or other transport mechanism.

While the methods and systems of the present invention have been described in connection with specific embodiments, some or all of those elements or operations may be implemented using a computer system having a general purpose hardware architecture.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the foregoing description of the present invention is for illustrative purposes only and that those of ordinary skill in the art can readily understand that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics of the present invention. will be. It is therefore to be understood that the above-described embodiments are illustrative in all aspects and not restrictive. For example, each component described as a single entity may be distributed and implemented, and components described as being distributed may also be implemented in a combined form.

The scope of the present invention is defined by the appended claims rather than the detailed description and all changes or modifications derived from the meaning and scope of the claims and their equivalents are to be construed as being included within the scope of the present invention do.

10: Instant messaging system 100: Instant messaging server
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Claims (17)

In an instant message server,
A communication module for transmitting and receiving an instant message,
A memory for storing a program for extracting emotion information included in the instant message,
And a processor for executing the program,
The processor, upon execution of the program,
When the communication module receives a plurality of instant messages including the same or similar vocabulary or meaning, extracts the kind of emotion corresponding to the same or similar vocabulary or meaning as the emotion information,
Generates emphasis information corresponding to the extracted emotion information,
Transmits the highlight information to a receiver terminal,
Extracting the emotion information from the plurality of instant messages in the case of at least one of the cases where the reception time of the plurality of instant messages is included within a predetermined time, or the instant when the receiver terminal has not yet confirmed an instant message more than a preset number of times The instant messaging server.
The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the processor sends the highlighting information to the sender terminal via the communication module. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the plurality of instant messages are sequentially highlighted a predetermined number of times,
Wherein the predetermined number of times is set by any one of the instant message server, the sender terminal and the receiver terminal. The method of claim 3,
Wherein the emphasis information includes an attribute of a font or an attribute of a speech balloon determined according to the type of emotion,
Wherein the plurality of instant messages are sequentially emphasized as attributes of fonts or attributes of speech bubbles included in the emphasis information are applied. 5. The method of claim 4,
Wherein the attributes of the font include at least one of a font type, a font style, a font thickness, a font size and a font color. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the emphasis information further includes information on the emoticon selected automatically according to the extracted emotion information or according to user input of the sender terminal,
Wherein the processor generates emphasis information including information on the emoticons and transmits the emphasis information to the recipient terminal. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the processor generates emphasis information including attributes of the floating message based on the type of emotion corresponding to the extracted emotion information,
Wherein the property of the floating message includes at least one of a screen color of a floating message, a notification sound of a floating message, and a notification count of a floating message. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the processor extracts the emotion information from the plurality of instant messages when the communication module receives the plurality of instant messages over a predetermined number of times. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the plurality of instant messages including the same or similar semantics include the same or similar punctuation marks. The method according to claim 1,
The plurality of instant messages including the same or similar meaning includes a caption or an exclamation point of the same or similar meaning extracted based on the morphological analysis,
Wherein the processor generates emphasis information corresponding to a predicate or an exclamation of the same or similar meaning when the plurality of instant messages include a predicate or an exclamation in the same or similar meaning. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the plurality of instant messages are transmitted from a plurality of sender terminals and displayed in the same chat room. 1. A sender terminal for sending and receiving an instant message,
An input module for receiving the instant message from a user,
A communication module for transmitting and receiving an instant message,
A display module for displaying the user interface and the instant message,
A memory for storing a program for extracting emotion information included in the instant message,
And a processor for executing the program,
The processor, upon execution of the program,
When the user inputs a plurality of instant messages including the same or similar vocabulary or meaning, extracts the kind of emotion corresponding to the same or similar vocabulary or meaning as the emotion information,
Generates emphasis information corresponding to the extracted emotion information,
The emphasis information is transmitted to the recipient terminal through the communication module or is transmitted to the instant message server so that the recipient terminal can receive the emphasis information,
Extracting the emotion information from the plurality of instant messages in the case of at least one of the cases where the reception time of the plurality of instant messages is included within a predetermined time, or the instant when the receiver terminal has not yet confirmed an instant message more than a preset number of times The sender terminal. 13. The method of claim 12,
Wherein the emphasis information includes an attribute of a font or an attribute of a speech balloon determined according to the type of emotion,
Wherein the plurality of instant messages are sequentially emphasized as an attribute of the font or an attribute of a speech balloon included in the emphasis information is applied. 13. The method of claim 12,
Wherein the processor generates emphasis information including attributes of the floating message based on the type of emotion corresponding to the extracted emotion information,
Wherein the attributes of the floating message include at least one of a screen color of a floating message, a notification sound of a floating message, and a notification count of a floating message. 13. The method of claim 12,
The plurality of instant messages including the same or similar meaning includes a caption or an exclamation point of the same or similar meaning extracted based on the morphological analysis,
Wherein the processor generates emphasis information corresponding to a predicate or an exclamation of the same or similar meaning when the plurality of instant messages include a predicate or an exclamation in the same or similar meaning. A receiver terminal for transmitting and receiving an instant message,
A communication module for transmitting and receiving an instant message,
A display module for displaying the user interface and the instant message,
A memory for storing a program for extracting emotion information included in the instant message,
And a processor for executing the program,
The processor, upon execution of the program,
When the communication module receives a plurality of instant messages including the same or similar vocabulary or meaning, extracts the kind of emotion corresponding to the same or similar vocabulary or meaning as the emotion information,
Generates emphasis information corresponding to the extracted emotion information,
To at least one of the plurality of instant messages,
Extracting the emotion information from the plurality of instant messages in the case of at least one of a case where the reception time of the plurality of instant messages is included within a predetermined time and a case where there is an unidentified instant message of a predetermined number of times or more, . A method for providing an instant message in an instant message server,
Successively receiving a plurality of instant messages containing the same or similar vocabulary or meaning from a sender terminal;
Extracting the kind of emotion corresponding to the same or similar vocabulary or meaning as emotion information;
Generating emphasis information corresponding to the extracted emotion information; And
And transmitting the generated enhanced information to the sender terminal or the receiver terminal,
The step of extracting, as the emotion information,
Extracting the emotion information from the plurality of instant messages in the case of at least one of the cases where the reception time of the plurality of instant messages is included within a predetermined time, or the instant when the receiver terminal has not yet confirmed an instant message more than a preset number of times The method comprising the steps of:

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