KR20110081125A - Multilateral messaging system and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A multilateral messaging system and a method thereof are provided to confirm the content of communication from the first in the sequence of time. CONSTITUTION: A message processor(110) creates a message including the content of a received message. The message processor transmits the message to each of subscriber identifiers. A message storage unit(120) stores the message transmitted to a client(200). A bunch provider(130) draws messages along a message link and displays the drawn message into one page. The bunch provider provides a bunch of messages to the client.

Description

MULTILATERAL MESSAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD THEREOF

The present invention relates to a messaging system and method for exchanging multiparty messages in a client server network.

With the expansion of network infrastructure and advances in hardware technology, communication media have emerged that overcome time and space constraints.

Among them, e-mail, SMS, MMS, and messages are widely used to solve the time constraints and the participants of the communication do not have to participate in the communication at the same time.

By the way, in the conventional method of communication, messages are not only once sent out, but it is generally difficult to recall the contents, timing, and context surrounding the message until it is looked up one by one. .

On the other hand, the Internet bulletin board is a participant in communication because it is a form of web documents that are conducted in an anonymous space instead of individual participants. This does not hold.

Therefore, it is necessary to develop a new communication model that enables multilateral communication through messages, but weaves the discussions of participants on fragmented and scattered specific topics so that the discussion itself changes and is generated over time.

Disclosure of Invention The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a multi-party messaging system and method for ensuring the continuity of communication by bundling one-time and fragmentary messages into separate bundles and managing them as separate bundles. It is done.

On the other hand, another object of the present invention is to overcome the non-real-time characteristics of the medium other than instant messenger by allowing the contents of the multi-party communication to be checked at any time from the beginning in chronological order with a time gap on the same subject. A multi-party messaging system and method thereof are provided.

In the multi-party messaging method of the present invention for achieving the above object, when the first client transmits the message content and one or more recipient identifiers for creating a new message, generates a message including the content of the received message, the generation Step 110, wherein the first message is the first message and all of the receiver identifiers are subscribers, and each subscriber has the same read and write rights, thereby generating a skew, and sending the generated message to each of the subscriber identifiers;

Step 120, when the second client receiving the message requests the providing of the other party to which the received message belongs, fetching all messages of the other party to which the message belongs and providing them to the second client; And

When the second client sends the contents of the message for rewriting the thread, it generates a message containing the contents of the received message to connect the link of the generated message after the last message of the other and the subscriber identifier of the other. And a 130 step of sending the message for each.

On the other hand, the multi-party messaging system of the present invention for achieving the above object generates a message including the content of the message received when receiving the message content for the creation of a new message and one or more recipient identifier from the client and the generated message Becomes the first message and makes all of the recipient identifiers subscribers, with each subscriber having the same read and write rights, creating a skein, sending the message for each of the subscriber identifiers, and the contents of the message for rewriting the client from the client. A message processing unit for generating a message including the contents of the received message, connecting a link of the generated message after the last message of the other party, and sending the message for each subscriber identifier;

A message storage unit for storing the message sent to the client; And

Upon request from the client to provide the other to which the message belongs, the respective messages are fetched along the link from the first message to the last message of the other to which the message belongs, and then provided to the client by displaying the retrieved messages as a page. It provides a server; having a; characterized in that it comprises a.

On the other hand, the multi-party messaging system of the present invention for achieving the above object, when receiving a message from the server to display the contents of the received message on the screen with the subject of the message to which the message belongs, the reception from the server A screen processing unit which displays a page including the entire message of the other party to which the message belongs on the screen;

An interface provider for providing a user interface for input of message content and a receiver identifier; And

If any one of the received messages is selected, it transmits its identifier and received message information to the server, receives a page including all the other messages to which the selected message belongs, and reads the input message contents and recipient identifier. And a client having a transmission / reception processing unit for transmitting to a server.

According to the present invention as described above, by intertwining and managing the individual messages in a variety of communication, such as 1: 1 or 1: N, or N: M communication or 1 to Public has the effect of maintaining the continuity.

On the other hand, each message is a one-time, one-piece piece, but a skew that includes messages sent and received between subscribers on the same topic has the property of constantly changing and increasing over time, which in itself functions as evolving content as if it were an organism. have.

Also, if you want to invite a third party to a discussion that already has a lot of discussion and exchange—that is, it contains a lot of messages—you can just send one message to the third party without having to burn all of those messages to the third party. There is an effect that can allow one to check the contents of communication between them at the beginning.

In particular, there is an effect that the multi-party communication can be easily performed in a mobile environment that is not an input device or a small display device.

1 is a network diagram showing the connection between the components of the multi-party messaging system according to the present invention,
2 is a functional block diagram illustrating components of a server and a client.
3 is a reference diagram illustrating the concept of a skein,
4 is an exemplary screen illustrating a screen displaying a message received by a client.
5 is a screen exemplary view showing a screen for displaying messages belonging to a skew in reverse order;
6 is a screen example showing a screen for creating a message through a client.
7 is a flowchart showing in time series a multi-party messaging method according to the present invention.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail the configuration of the multi-party messaging system according to the present invention.

1 is a network diagram showing a connection relationship between components of a multi-party messaging system according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram illustrating components of a server and a client, and FIG. 3 is a reference illustrating a concept of a skein. It is also.

On the other hand, Figures 4 to 6 is an exemplary screen showing a state in which the received message or the entire message included in the skein is displayed on the screen of the client in the messaging system implemented by the present invention.

First, as shown in FIG. 1, one or more clients 200 may be connected to a server 100 through a wired or wireless communication network.

In this case, the wired / wireless communication network covers an internet network or a mobile communication network, and means a communication network that can be connected by a wired or wireless method.

On the other hand, the server 100 is a subject that sends a message to a plurality of clients 200 as described below, or provides the entire message of the other party to which the message belongs by the request of the client 200 that received the message, the client The device 200 is a device for receiving a message from a server and displaying the message on a screen. Preferably, the device 200 may be a portable smart phone, but the present invention is not limited thereto and may be a personal data assistant (PDA) or a UMPC (Ultra). Mobile PC), laptop (Laptop) can be implemented in various forms.

Meanwhile, the message is data transmitted and received for communication between users of the client 200 and may include text, an image, and a video.

4 illustrates an example of a screen of an inbox received on a client screen. According to the example of FIG. 4, two received messages are displayed, and each sender's name, text or image, and sent time are displayed.

That is, a message is a user who wants to send a message, such as an e-mail, a short message service (SMS), or a multimedia message service (MMS), by using a client 200, inputs a content of a message and a receiver identifier to receive the message. Refers to the data sent through 100).

There are no limitations on the type and protocol of messages being served, for example, e-mail or MMS. In this case, it is obvious that the server 100 will function as a Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server, a Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3) server, or a Multimedia Message Service Center (MMSC).

In this case, the receiver identifier means a unique value for specifying a receiver to receive a message, such as a mail address, a telephone number, and an identifier of a messenger service. Therefore, one client may have one recipient identifier like a telephone number, and a client and an account may not correspond to 1: 1 as an ID of a mail account or a messenger service.

Meanwhile, a skein is a bundle of a plurality of messages as conceptually shown in FIG. 3. 3 shows a message storage unit 120 in which a number of messages exchanged between clients are stored.

Among these messages, a bundle of messages sent and received between the same subscribers on the same topic is called skein.

Skeletal 1 shown on the left side of FIG. 3 has a title of “About Topic A” and includes six messages exchanged between clients a, b, and c. In this case, the tuft does not need to include data of each message, but may be implemented to hold a link to each message. Alternatively, each message may have a link to its own front or back message, thereby making it possible to access the entire message belonging to the other by maintaining a link to the first or last message.

On the other hand, the multi-party messaging system according to the present invention comprises such a server 100 and a plurality of clients 200, as shown in FIG. 2, the server 100 is a message processing unit 110, a message storage unit ( 120 and the skein providing unit 130 is provided.

In this case, the message processing unit 110 receives the message content from the client, generates a message, and sends the message as a receiver identifier.

On the other hand, the dispatch of the first message belonging to the other party and the dispatch of the second and subsequent messages are different in processing.

When the client 200 wants to compose and send a new message, that is, when there is no existing cork, the client 200 transmits the message content and one or more receiver identifiers for creating the new message to the message processing unit 110. .

In this case, as illustrated in FIG. 5, the user may generate a message content by inputting text, an image, a video, or other data on the screen of the client 200, and may search for an address book and specify one or more recipients. You can select the recipient identifier.

When the message processing unit 110 receives the message content and one or more receiver identifiers from the client 200 as described above, the message processing unit 110 newly generates a message including the received message content. Thereafter, for each of the received receiver identifiers, a message generated through the wired or wireless communication network is sent.

In this case, the generated message becomes the first message of the other party, and the title or content summary of the message becomes the other party's title. In addition, multiple recipient identifiers become subscribers of the corresponding party, and all subscribers have the same read and write rights for all messages belonging to the party. In other words, some subscribers can't read the message and can't write to it. This is to allow multilateral communication between subscribers without restriction.

On the other hand, the client 200 may write a message to receive the message and then "rewrite" to the other to which the message belongs. FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a screen displaying messages belonging to a thread in a reverse order, and there is a button for rewriting a thread at the top of FIG. 5. The user may add a new message to an existing thread by manipulating the client 200 and selecting "Re-thread rewriting".

To this end, upon receiving the message content from the client 200, the message processing unit 110 generates a message including the received message content and connects the generated message to the last message of the other. Linking means setting up a link between the last page of the other and the generated message, whereby the newly created message becomes the new last last message.

Then, the message processing unit 110 sends a message generated for each of the other subscribers.

Meanwhile, the message storage unit 120 stores messages sent to a plurality of clients.

After the user receives the message, the user may request the skew provider 130 through the client 200 to read the skew to which the message belongs from the first message.

In the example of FIG. 4, a skein request may be made by selecting a message.

When the skeletal provider 130 receives a request from the client 200 to provide a skew to which the message belongs, the direction of the link-link from the first message to the last message of the skew to which the message belongs is the first message. Begin at and head toward the last message, or vice versa, or bidirectional.

Thereafter, the retrieved messages are provided to the client by displaying them on one page as shown in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 5, three messages belonging to the skein are displayed vertically, and the time of sending the top message is 11:20 pm, the message below is 10:15 pm, and below 10 pm It is a poem. That is, the messages are displayed in the reverse order in which they were generated.

In other words, the skeletal provider 130 reconfigures a plurality of messages into one page and provides the client 200 with the recently sent message at the top. As a result, as shown in FIG. 5, the client 200 may vertically scroll the messages belonging to the skein and check them in chronological order.

2, the client 200 includes a screen processor 210, an interface provider 220, and a transceiver 230.

When the screen processor 210 receives a message from the server 100 or receives a page including a message belonging to the other, the screen processor 210 displays it on the screen as illustrated in FIGS. 4 and 5.

When the screen processor 210 receives the message, the screen processor 210 continuously displays the received messages vertically on the screen as illustrated in FIG. 4.

Looking at the above of the two messages shown in FIG. 4, the Roman letter "2" is displayed next to the human icon, indicating that the number of recipient identifiers to which the message was sent is two. Thus, there are three subscribers of that other party, including the sender.

Meanwhile, the content of the message "Oh ~ Watabe! I'm Lee Jung-jae of Korea ... Nice to meet you!" Below it is marked in gray "Watabeatsu afternoon to Korea ..." This is the title of the skein.

By the way, it can be seen that the message displayed at the bottom of FIG. 4 is also displayed in gray under the contents, "Watbeatz afternoon in Korea ...". In other words, it can be seen that the two messages belong to the same thread.

In particular, the screen processor 210 may display the title of the received message using a certain color for each of the threads. In the example of FIG. 4, the title is displayed using gray, but if a message belonging to another thread is received, the header title of the message will be displayed in a color other than gray.

Meanwhile, as shown in FIG. 6, the interface provider 220 provides a user interface for composing a new message or writing to an existing thread.

This allows the user to enter the content of the message, select an image, video or other attachment, and select a recipient identifier from the address book to receive the message.

On the other hand, the transmission and reception processing unit 230 receives a message from the server 100, or through the interface providing unit 220 to input the message content for creating or rewriting the new message, and if the receiver identifier is selected, the server ( 100).

In addition, as shown in FIG. 4, the message received through the screen processing unit 210 is displayed, and as the user selects any one of them, the server 100 requests the providing of the belonging to the selected message, and the server 100 Receive a page of other messages to which the selected message belongs.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying Figure 7 will be described the process of communication in the multi-party messaging system having the configuration as described above.

7 is a flowchart showing in time series a multi-party messaging method according to the present invention.

First, when the first client 200 transmits the message content and one or more receiver identifiers for creating a new message (S111), the server 100 generates a message including the content of the received message.

At this time, since the new message does not exist in the existing existing server 100 generates a skein that is the first message to the generated message (S112). At this time, one or more receiver identifiers received from the first client 200 become subscribers of the corresponding party. On the other hand, each subscriber has the same read and write rights.

This ensures that whenever a re-entry occurs, a message is sent to all other subscribers. Of course, the generated message is also sent to each subscriber (S113).

As such, the first message is sent, and the message belonging to the other party is increased one by one by the second client 200 ′ receiving the message. At this time, the messages are arranged in order as shown conceptually in FIG. 3 by establishing a link.

Specifically, the second client 200 ′ receiving the message from the first client 200 connects to the server 200 through a wired / wireless communication network and requests the provision of the correlated to which the received message belongs ( S121).

Accordingly, the server 100 fetches all the other messages to which the corresponding message belongs from the message storage unit 120 and arranges them vertically in reverse order as shown in FIG.

Meanwhile, the reconstructed page is provided to the second client 200 ′ connected through the wired / wireless communication network (S122).

As a result, the second client 200 ′ displays the received messages on the screen as shown in FIG. 5.

Subsequently, when the user selects “rewind the thread” and inputs the content of the message, the second client 200 ′ transmits it to the server 100 (S131), and the server 100 includes the content of the received message. Generate a message and send the message to each of the other subscribers to which the message belongs.

As a result, subscribers receive a message as shown in FIG. 4, and when the received message is selected and requested to the server 100 for the corresponding message, the subscriber includes the received message at the end, thereby increasing the number of messages. You can confirm that.

In addition, the user may include a third party other than the subscriber as a subscriber in addition to the re-entry, or deliver a received message to a third party other than the subscriber, and for this purpose, the user may operate the second client 200 'to operate the server. Request to 100 (S141).

In order to include the third party as a subscriber, the second client 200 ′ transmits a receiver identifier to the server 100 to be included in the subscriber, and the server 100 includes the received receiver identifier in the subscriber, All messages belonging to are set to have the same read and write permissions as existing subscribers (S142).

On the other hand, when the second client 200 'requests the delivery of the received message to the third party while transmitting a recipient identifier of a third party other than the subscriber to the server 100, the server 100 sends the third party. Include it as a subscriber of the other party, and send the message to the third party.

The delivery of the message may be preferably performed by retrieving the one stored in the message storage unit 120, or by receiving the message from the second client 200 ′ and sending it to a third party.

While the present invention has been described with reference to several embodiments, these embodiments have been disclosed for purposes of illustration, and those skilled in the art will be able to make various modifications, changes, and additions within the spirit and scope of the present invention. This is to be construed as not departing from the scope of the following claims.

100: server
110: message processing unit 120: message storage unit
130: skein providing unit
200: client
210: screen processing unit 220: interface providing unit
230: transmission and reception processing unit

Claims (3)

Receiving a message content and one or more recipient identifiers for creating a new message from a client generates a message including the contents of the received message. The generated message becomes the first message and all of the recipient identifiers are subscribers. By creating the skein by sending the message to each subscriber identifier by having the same read-write authority, and receiving the contents of the message for the rewriting of the client from the client, generating a message including the contents of the received message. A message processing unit for connecting the link of the generated message after the last message of the other party and sending the message for each of the subscriber identifiers;
A message storage unit for storing the message sent to the client; And
Upon request from the client to provide the other to which the message belongs, the respective messages are fetched along the link from the first message to the last message of the other to which the message belongs, and then provided to the client by displaying the retrieved messages as a page. Multi-party messaging system comprising a; having a server; If a message is received from a server, the content of the received message is displayed on the screen, but the title of the message to which the message belongs is displayed together. If the page including the entire message of the other message to which the received message belongs is received, the screen is displayed. A screen processor to display on;
An interface provider for providing a user interface for input of message content and a receiver identifier; And
If any one of the received messages is selected, it transmits its identifier and received message information to the server, receives a page including all the other messages to which the selected message belongs, and reads the input message contents and recipient identifier. Multi-party messaging system comprising a; client having a transmission and reception processing unit for transmitting to the server. The method of claim 2,
The screen processing unit is a multi-party messaging system, characterized in that for displaying the title of the skein using a certain color for each skein.

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