KR101750923B1 - Method and server for providing conversation-type content - Google Patents

Abstract

According to the present invention, the first and second terminals of the first terminal and the second terminal respectively receive conversation text input from the first terminal and the second terminal, respectively, and transmit the received conversation text in a predetermined order When the identifiers for the respective conversation texts are arranged as C1, C2, ..., Cn, the corresponding conversation pieces for each identifier are provided as contents in real time, or the identifiers are grouped, and a plurality of Providing conversation text as content in non-real-time; (b) the server receives feedback information from at least one third user of at least one third terminal for at least some of the conversations of each conversation contained in the provided content, Associating an identifier corresponding to a text with feedback information from the third user; And (c) when the server receives the graphical element generated by referring to the feedback information of each identifier grouped by grouping the feedback information or the identifier by the identifier, and (ii) The method comprising the steps of: According to the present invention, by expressing the active level of feedback information for each group composed of conversation articles or a plurality of conversation texts as graphical elements, it is possible to provide intuitive recognition of feedback information for each section in all conversations composing contents An effect of attracting attention to the contents is achieved.

Description

[0001] METHOD AND SERVER FOR PROVIDING CONVERSATION-TYPE CONTENT [

The present invention relates to a method and a server for providing interactive content, and more particularly, to a method and server for providing interactive content, in which chat users send and receive conversation texts, To a user interface providing method and server for enabling a user to easily find a section of a specific conversation.

Generally speaking, chatting between users on the Internet, which is operated by a server-client method, is a way to communicate with each other through a network.

If these chats were initially a technique for posting conversations between chatting parties, today we can post comments on chat conversations, as well as comments written by third parties about specific conversations. The posted conversations and comments are created as a single chat content and provided online.

These chat contents usually consist of conversations written from the beginning to the end of the conversation between the parties who place one subject, so that the number of conversations can reach hundreds to thousands of conversations, If a large number of comments attached to the article are posted together, the length of the page of one chat content becomes very long. Therefore, it takes a considerable amount of time to read a specific conversation article or read the contents of conversation articles.

Accordingly, according to Korean Patent Laid-Open Publication No. 2013-0082649 (published on July 22, 2013), a method of displaying a comment in a chat service, a chat conversation article and a comment are provided as contents in real time, When a specific conversation is selected, the comments attached to the conversation are posted on the new window so that as many conversations as possible are posted on the screen, the entire space of the chat window is reduced.

According to the related art, it is possible to selectively view only comments on interesting conversations while viewing the entire conversation text, thereby saving a certain amount of time for browsing. However, Not only was it not possible to intuitively recognize the section of the conversation that was focused on, but it also took a lot of time to explore these conversation sections.

It is an object of the present invention to solve all the problems described above.

The present invention also provides a graphic element differentiated according to the activity level of the feedback information corresponding to the conversation text of the content and provides a screen of a section where the corresponding conversation text is located by selecting a specific graphic element, .

Another object of the present invention is to provide a grouping of the conversation articles by a predetermined number and providing graphic elements for each group when there are many conversation articles constituting the contents.

In order to accomplish the above object, a representative structure of the present invention is as follows.

According to an aspect of the present invention, (a) a server receives a conversation input from a first terminal and a second terminal, respectively, input by a first user of a first terminal and a second user of a second terminal, If the identifiers of the respective conversation texts are C1, C2, ..., Cn when the received conversation texts are arranged in a predetermined order, each of the conversation texts corresponding to the identifiers is provided as contents in real time, Grouping the identifiers and providing a plurality of conversation texts corresponding thereto as non-real-time content; (b) the server receives feedback information from at least one third user of at least one third terminal for at least some of the conversations of each conversation contained in the provided content, Associating an identifier corresponding to a text with feedback information from the third user; And (c) when the server receives the graphical element generated by referring to the feedback information of each identifier grouped by grouping the feedback information or the identifier by the identifier, and (ii) The method comprising the steps of:

In addition, there is further provided another method, apparatus, system for implementing the invention and a computer readable recording medium for recording a computer program for executing the method.

According to the present invention, by expressing the active level of feedback information for each group composed of conversation articles or a plurality of conversation articles as graphical elements, it is possible to intuitively perceive feedback information for each section in all conversation texts constituting the contents do.

According to the present invention, it is possible not only to shorten the search time for conversation to be a topic, but also to immediately recognize the reaction of other users through feedback information on a specific conversation, You can easily access the article.

1 is an overall configuration diagram of a user interface providing server for chat conversation search of chat contents according to an embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a detailed configuration diagram of the server of FIG. 1;
3 is a diagram illustrating a screen configuration of content provided in real time according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a screen configuration of non-real-time content according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 5A is a diagram illustrating an example of a scroll gesture input screen for a screen of a bar graph according to an embodiment of the present invention, FIG.
FIG. 5B is a view illustrating a screen in which a bar graph according to FIG.
FIG. 6A is a view illustrating a selection screen of a specific graphic element according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, FIG.
FIG. 6B is an exemplary screen for moving to a corresponding conversation section according to FIG. 6B. FIG.

The following detailed description of the invention refers to the accompanying drawings, which illustrate, by way of illustration, specific embodiments in which the invention may be practiced. These embodiments are described in sufficient detail to enable those skilled in the art to practice the invention. It should be understood that the various embodiments of the present invention are different, but need not be mutually exclusive. For example, certain features, structures, and characteristics described herein may be implemented in other embodiments without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention in connection with an embodiment. It is also to be understood that the position or arrangement of the individual components within each disclosed embodiment may be varied without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. The following detailed description is, therefore, not to be taken in a limiting sense, and the scope of the present invention is to be limited only by the appended claims, along with the full scope of equivalents to which such claims are entitled, if properly explained. In the drawings, like reference numerals refer to the same or similar functions throughout the several views.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, so that those skilled in the art can easily carry out the present invention.

In the present invention, the server provides a chat service through various communication networks such as a wired / wireless Internet network and a mobile communication network, and each user uses a chat service using the terminal.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an overall configuration of the present invention for providing such a chat service, and shows a relationship between a server and terminals.

1, the overall configuration of a user interface providing system for chat conversation search according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a server 100 for providing a chat service and generating and providing chat related contents, A first terminal 200 and a second terminal 300 for communicating each chat conversation entered by the user and the second user to the server 100, a chat conversation entered by the first user and the second user, A third terminal 400 for transmitting the feedback information inputted by the third user to the part of the text to the server 100, And a fourth terminal 500 receiving graphical elements corresponding to feedback information corresponding to the display states of the overlapped contents.

Each of the terminals 200, 300, 400, and 500 of the present invention can access the server 100 through a communication network such as a notebook computer, a smart phone, or a tablet computer as well as a personal computer, Any device.

Each of the terminals 200, 300, and 400 outputs a corresponding chat window or chat content to the screen, and receives the conversation text or feedback information created by the user of each terminal from the server 100 and displays the chat text or the feedback information.

In particular, the first terminal 200 and the second terminal 300 receive a conversation in the form of a message created by the first user and the second user, which are the subjects of the conversation, and deliver it to the server 100, 400 receives feedback information in the form of a message, such as a comment created by a third user for the conversation, and transmits the feedback information to the server 100.

In addition, the fourth terminal 500 displays the content composed of the conversation text and the feedback information and the graphic elements overlapping on the content, and displays the content screen in the same manner as the third terminal 400 Feedback information of the same message type may be input and transmitted to the server 100.

The fourth user operates the graphic element displayed on the fourth terminal 500 to change the display state of the content or the graphic element displayed on the screen. .

The server 100 of the present invention provides each conversation text as content and creates graphic elements that are displayed differentially according to the activity level of the feedback information attached to the conversation text When a specific graphic element is selected, the screen is moved to the position of the dialogue.

Alternatively, in a situation where the chat service is terminated, the server 100 may group all the conversation texts created by the chat service by a certain number and provide them as contents, and, depending on the activity level of the feedback information attached to the conversation posts of each content group, After creating a graphical element for each group, when a specific graphical element is selected, it is moved to the conversation section of the group corresponding to the specific graphic element.

2 shows a detailed configuration diagram of the server 100 of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, the server 100 includes a content providing unit 110 for grouping a plurality of conversation articles into a predetermined number to generate content, a support unit 110 for supporting feedback information created for a specific conversation, A communication unit 140, and a control unit 150. The control unit 150 controls the operation of the additional layer providing unit 130, the communication unit 140, and the control unit 150, .

According to an embodiment of the present invention, at least a part of the content providing unit 110, the correspondence setting unit 120, the additional layer providing unit 130, the communication unit 140, 100 or may be program modules that communicate with the server 100.

2, the server 100 includes a content providing unit 110, a correspondence setting unit 120, an additional layer providing unit 130, a communication unit 140, and a control unit 150, all of which are connected to the server 100 Are included as examples. At least some of these program modules may be included in the server 100 in the form of an operating system, application program modules, and other program modules, and may be physically stored on various known memory devices. Also, at least some of these program modules may be stored in a remote storage device capable of communicating with the server 100. Such program modules include, but are not limited to, routines, subroutines, programs, objects, components, data structures, etc. that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types as described below in accordance with the present invention.

The content providing unit 110 can provide the conversation texts received from the first terminal 200 and the second terminal 300 as real-time content while the chat service is in progress, It is also possible to group received conversations and provide them as non-real-time content.

FIG. 3 shows a screen in which the contents providing unit 110 provides conversation texts received in real time as contents.

As shown in FIG. 3, the content providing unit 110 arranges the received conversation texts according to a predetermined order, and provides the contents as contents.

Here, the predetermined order is generally a time order in which conversation texts from the first terminal 200 and the second terminal 300 are delivered, and are arranged such that recently reached conversation text is located at the top or bottom of the screen.

At this time, the conversations of the contents provided in real time are inevitably sorted according to the time order transmitted from the terminal, but the conversations of the contents provided in the non-real time are not limited to the time order, ≪ / RTI >

The content provider 110 may provide an identifier to each of the conversation texts received from the terminal and provide the content as content. The content provider 110 may group and manage the identifiers assigned to the conversation texts by a predetermined number.

In the screen of FIG. 3, the first user and the second user, which are subjects of conversation, are denoted by P1 and P2, respectively, and identifiers assigned to each conversation are C1, C2, ..., C (n-1) Is displayed.

The correspondence relation setting unit 120 receives feedback information inputted by at least one third user for a specific conversation via at least one third terminal 400 and transmits the feedback information to each identifier corresponding to the conversation Corresponds to one or more received feedback information.

The feedback information corresponds to a short message such as a comment on a specific conversation included in the content, and is displayed as a comment in the example screen of FIG. 3, but a tag that displays a preference such as 'likes' in addition to the comment also corresponds to the feedback information.

In addition, the conversation text and the comment in the present invention are not limited to the dictionary meaning of the term, but may be provided in various forms such as images, animations such as voice, emoticon, and photograph, as well as text.

At this time, in order to easily distinguish the feedback information to be posted between the conversation text and the conversation text, the conversation text and the feedback information may be displayed in different texts or displayed around the text. For example, conversation and feedback information may be treated differently in color or font, or may display special symbols that distinguish users at the beginning of conversations and comments.

In the example screen of Fig. 3, there is no feedback information for the identifier C1 assigned to the conversation of the first user P1, and there is no feedback information for the identifier C1 assigned to the second user P2 The feedback information is F2_1 and F2_2.

Likewise, the feedback information of P3, which is the third users for the identifier C (n-1) assigned to the conversation of the first user P1, becomes F (n-1).

The additional layer providing unit 130 generates a graphic element according to the identifier-based feedback information in consideration of the correspondence relationship between the identifier and the feedback information according to the correspondence setting unit 120, and then provides the graphic element on the screen.

At this time, it is possible to generate a graphic element according to feedback information corresponding to a large number of identifiers assigned to each conversation, and to provide the graphic element as a screen, but it is difficult to generate a large number of graphic elements when there are many conversation texts It is possible to group the identifiers of the unit numbers and generate graphical elements according to the feedback information for each group to provide them on the screen.

4 and FIG. 4 illustrate screens for grouped contents, and FIG. 4 shows corresponding identifiers for three conversation words in such contents as G1, G2, ... G32, G33, ..., Gn As shown in FIG.

4 shows a screen provided to the fourth terminal of the fourth user. In the state where only the content screen is displayed, the graphic element 103 overlaps the content corresponding to the selection action of the fourth user, Which is provided to the user. Of course, it may be assumed that the fourth terminal is the same as the first terminal, the second terminal, or the third terminal.

That is, when there is no special selection action of the fourth user, only content composed of conversation text and feedback information is displayed on the screen of the fourth terminal 500, and an icon 101) are only visible.

In this state, when the mouse pointer 102 is placed on the icon 101 by the fourth user or the icon 101 is clicked by the mouse pointer 102, do. Alternatively, the graphic element screen 103 may be displayed in an overlapping manner on the content screen when there is selection by voice, hovering, or the like. Alternatively, even if there is no such selection operation, .

The graphical elements in FIG. 4 correspond to the identifiers of the groups (that is, G1 to Gn) on the horizontal axis and the activity grades due to the feedback information on the vertical axis are shown on the vertical axis in the form of a bar graph.

At this time, the identifiers of the group placed on the horizontal axis may be sorted according to the sorting method of the conversations sorted according to the predetermined order.

In the embodiment of the present invention, bar graphs are displayed in different heights according to the activity level of the graphic elements. However, the activity level of each graphic element may be represented by a numerical value table and may be a circular graph having a relative percentage value And various modifications may be made.

At this time, the activity level for the feedback information can be calculated on the basis of the numerical value which is a total of some or all of the number of preferences, the number of comments, and the number of users inputted by the third user for the conversation, The higher the activity level is set.

Because the graphic elements arranged on the horizontal axis may not be displayed on one screen at all, graphic elements on the horizontal axis move horizontally according to the scroll gesture, so that graphic elements that are not displayed on the screen are displayed on the screen .

FIG. 5A is an illustration of a scroll gesture input screen for a graphic element according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG.

5A, when the user's scroll gesture through the mouse pointer 102 is input in the arrow direction in a state where graphical elements of the identifiers of some groups of all the graphic elements are displayed on a bar graph on the screen, The graphic element is scrolled along the arrow direction so that the display state of the graphic element displayed on the screen can be changed.

Therefore, as shown in FIG. 5B, it can be seen that a graphical element corresponding to the group G50 is displayed on the screen by the scroll gesture in FIG. 5A, and the identifier of the group of the horizontal axis on the screen is changed.

In addition, when a mouse pointer is brought to a specific graphic element or a specific graphic element is clicked with a mouse pointer to select a specific graphic element among group graphic elements on the horizontal axis, a dialog of the corresponding identifier corresponding to the specific graphic element, A conversation section is provided on the screen.

6A shows a selection screen of a specific graphical element. As shown in FIG. 6A, when the fourth pointer is displayed on the screen of the fourth terminal 500 by the fourth user, When selected, the selected specific graphic element 104 may be displayed in an activated state.

As a specific graphical element, for example, a specific bar graph, is selected, the content screen is moved to the conversation section of the identifiers belonging to the corresponding group G25 of the bar graph and displayed as shown in FIG. 6B.

At this time, the first conversation or the last conversation in the conversation section of the group G25 may be displayed at the top or bottom of the screen, or may be displayed from the first conversation or the last paragraph of the conversation section of the previous group It may be displayed near the middle of the screen.

The fourth terminal 500 displays content and graphical elements on the screen, but the server 100 receives the feedback information corresponding to the conversation from the third terminal 400, May be updated in real time.

2, a communication unit 140 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a communication unit 110 for communicating between a content providing unit 110, a correspondence setting unit 120, and an additional layer providing unit 130 according to an embodiment of the present invention. Or to enable communication with an external device.

The control unit 150 according to an embodiment of the present invention may control the flow of data between the content providing unit 110, the correspondence setting unit 120, the additional layer providing unit 130, and the communication unit 140 Control function. That is, the control unit 150 according to the present invention controls the flow of data between the components of the server 100 from / to the outside, thereby controlling the contents providing unit 110, the correspondence setting unit 120, The controller 130, the communication unit 140, and the control unit 150 to perform unique functions.

The embodiments of the present invention described above can be implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed through various computer components and recorded on a computer-readable recording medium. The computer-readable recording medium may include program commands, data files, data structures, and the like, alone or in combination. The program instructions recorded on the computer-readable recording medium may be those specially designed and constructed for the present invention or may be those known and used by those skilled in the computer software arts. Examples of computer-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks and magnetic tape, optical recording media such as CD-ROMs and DVDs, magneto-optical media such as floptical disks, media, and hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute program instructions such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. Examples of program instructions include machine language code such as those generated by a compiler, as well as high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware device may be configured to operate as one or more software modules for performing the processing according to the present invention, and vice versa.

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 exemplary embodiments, but, on the contrary, Those skilled in the art will appreciate that various modifications, additions and substitutions are possible, without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention as disclosed in the accompanying claims.

Therefore, the spirit of the present invention should not be construed as being limited to the above-described embodiments, and all of the equivalents or equivalents of the claims, as well as the following claims, I will say.

100: server 200: first terminal
300: second terminal 400: third terminal
500: fourth terminal

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(a) the server receives the conversation text input by the first user of the first terminal and the second user of the second terminal, respectively, from the first terminal and the second terminal, , C2n, ..., Cn, identifiers of the respective conversation texts are represented as C1, C2, ..., Cn, and each of the conversations corresponding to the identifiers is provided as contents in real time, or the identifiers are grouped, Providing content of the conversation as content in a non-real-time manner;
(b) the server receives feedback information from at least one third user of at least one third terminal for at least some of the conversations of each conversation contained in the provided content, Associating an identifier corresponding to a text with feedback information from the third user; And
(c) the server generates graphical elements generated by referring to (i) a correspondence relationship between the identifier and the feedback information, and (ii) feedback information for each identifier or feedback information for each group in which a plurality of identifiers are grouped Comprising:
Wherein the feedback information includes:
(I) the preference information of the third user for the conversation, (ii) the number of comments, and (iii) the number of accesses. The higher the value of each value or the total of the numbers, The active level of the feedback information is set and managed,
In the step (c)
Wherein the graphical elements corresponding to groups of a plurality of groups of the identifiers or the plurality of identifiers are differentiated and provided by referring to the active classes of the feedback information for each of the identifiers or the groups in which a plurality of the identifiers are grouped, How to. The method according to claim 1,
In the step (c)
When the content is provided through a fourth terminal of a fourth user, the graphic element is overlapped with the content corresponding to the selection action of the fourth user. delete delete The method according to claim 1,
Wherein a bar graph having a size proportional to an activity level of the feedback information corresponding to each of the identifiers or a group of a plurality of groups of the identifiers is displayed in association with each other. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein when a user's scroll gesture is input while the graphic element is displayed on the screen, the graphic element is scrolled so that an identifier or an identifier group displayed on the screen by scrolling the graphic element, So as to change the display state of the display device. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein when a specific graphic element among the graphic elements is selected, a specific identifier corresponding to the specific graphic element or a conversation corresponding to a specific group is provided on the screen. (a) the server receives the conversation text input by the first user of the first terminal and the second user of the second terminal, respectively, from the first terminal and the second terminal, , C2n, ..., Cn, identifiers of the respective conversation texts are represented as C1, C2, ..., Cn, and each of the conversations corresponding to the identifiers is provided as contents in real time, or the identifiers are grouped, Providing content of the conversation as content in a non-real-time manner;
(b) the server receives feedback information from at least one third user of at least one third terminal for at least some of the conversations of each conversation contained in the provided content, Associating an identifier corresponding to a text with feedback information from the third user; And
(c) the server generates graphical elements generated by referring to (i) a correspondence relationship between the identifier and the feedback information, and (ii) feedback information for each identifier or feedback information for each group in which a plurality of identifiers are grouped ;
In the step (a)
The predetermined order may be a time order for each conversation entered through the first terminal and the second terminal, a time order for each conversation entered through the first terminal and the second terminal, ≪ / RTI > The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the conversation includes at least one of text, image, voice, and moving picture. When the conversation texts input respectively by the first user of the first terminal and the second user of the second terminal are respectively received from the first terminal and the second terminal and the received conversation texts are arranged in a predetermined order , Cn, it is possible to provide each of the conversations corresponding to the identifiers as contents in real time or to group the identifiers and to output a plurality of conversation texts corresponding to the identifiers as non-real- As content;
Receiving feedback information from at least one third user of at least one third terminal for at least some of the conversations of each conversation included in the provided content, A correspondence relation setting unit for associating feedback information from a third user; And
And an additional layer providing unit for providing graphic elements generated by referring to the correspondence relation between the identifier and the feedback information and the feedback information for each identifier or feedback information for each group in which a plurality of identifiers are grouped,
Wherein the feedback information includes:
(I) preference information of the third user for the conversation, (ii) comment number information, and (iii) visitor number information,
The additional layer providing unit sets and manages the active level of the feedback information as the numerical value or the combined value thereof is higher,
Wherein the additional layer providing unit comprises:
Wherein the graphical elements corresponding to groups of a plurality of groups of the identifiers or the plurality of identifiers are differentiated and provided by referring to the active classes of the feedback information for each of the identifiers or the groups in which a plurality of the identifiers are grouped, The server. 11. The method of claim 10,
Wherein the additional layer providing unit comprises:
Wherein when the content is provided through a fourth terminal of a fourth user, the graphical element provides an overlap to the content corresponding to the selection action of the fourth user. delete delete 11. The method of claim 10,
Wherein the additional layer providing unit comprises:
And displays a bar graph having a size proportional to an activity level of the feedback information corresponding to each of the identifiers or a group of a plurality of groups of the identifiers in association with each other. 11. The method of claim 10,
Wherein the additional layer providing unit comprises:
Wherein when a user's scroll gesture is input while the graphic element is displayed on the screen, the graphic element is scrolled so that an identifier or an identifier group displayed on the screen by scrolling the graphic element, So that the display state of the server is changed. 11. The method of claim 10,
Wherein the additional layer providing unit comprises:
Wherein when a specific graphic element is selected from the graphic elements, a specific identifier corresponding to the specific graphic element or an interactive article corresponding to a specific group is provided on the screen. When the conversation texts input respectively by the first user of the first terminal and the second user of the second terminal are respectively received from the first terminal and the second terminal and the received conversation texts are arranged in a predetermined order , Cn, it is possible to provide each of the conversations corresponding to the identifiers as contents in real time or to group the identifiers and to output a plurality of conversation texts corresponding to the identifiers as non-real- As content;
Receiving feedback information from at least one third user of at least one third terminal for at least some of the conversations of each conversation included in the provided content, A correspondence relation setting unit for associating feedback information from a third user; And
And an additional layer providing unit for providing graphic elements generated by referring to the correspondence relation between the identifier and the feedback information and the feedback information for each identifier or feedback information for each group in which a plurality of identifiers are grouped,
The predetermined order may be a time order for each conversation entered through the first terminal and the second terminal, a time order for each conversation entered through the first terminal and the second terminal, Lt; / RTI > 11. The method of claim 10,
Wherein the conversation includes at least one of text, image, voice, and moving picture.

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