KR20120005638A - Mobile device and method of providing messenger application service by the mobile device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: A mobile apparatus and application service providing method thereof are provided to enable a user to conveniently use a messenger service even though the user is away on business by automatically responding to an opponent sentence. CONSTITUTION: A messenger chatting management unit(111) creates the intention analysis information of an opponent sentence which inputted by the opponent by reading the intention of the opponent sentence. A response action information unit(112) creates response action information corresponding to the intention analysis information by determining a response action according to the intention analysis information. A data acquisition unit(113) acquires data corresponding to the response action information. The messenger conversation management unit transmits a response sentence to the portable terminal of the opponent by creating the response sentence corresponding to the intention analysis information.

Description

MOBILE DEVICE AND METHOD OF PROVIDING MESSENGER APPLICATION SERVICE BY THE MOBILE DEVICE}

The present invention relates to a mobile device and a method for controlling a messenger application of the mobile device, and more particularly, after reading a natural language sentence input by a counterpart through a messenger application to obtain data corresponding to the intention of the counterpart, through the data. The present invention relates to a mobile device and a method of controlling a messenger application of the mobile device, by automatically responding to the other party's sentence, so that the user can carry out a conversation with the other party more conveniently even when he or she is away or other work.

Smartphone refers to a mobile phone with an operating system (OS). A smartphone is a mobile phone that has a program such as an operating system of a PC, and can play MP3s, send and receive mails, and various controls such as a PC environment. Typical operating systems include Microsoft's Windows Mobile, Google's Android, Psion's Symbian, and Apple's OSx.

A smart phone is a smart phone that adds the functions of a PDA to a portable phone, and is equipped with functions such as portable learner, schedule management, address book management, navigation, E-book device, digital camera, MP3 player, video player, electronic dictionary, etc. .

The difference between a smartphone and a regular mobile phone is that a smartphone has a high performance OS. In short, you can use your phone like a computer. Therefore, you can connect to a PC or download and install an application (program) from the commonly-known App Store. When accessing the App Store, mobile phones incur data call charges, but smartphones are equipped with a wireless LAN called Wi-Fi, so you can use the Internet free of charge where wireless LAN is available. have.

In addition, the advantage of the smartphone is openness. Independence, which does not depend on the communication network, and application program selectivity is unlimited. You can download the program you want from the App Store or create it yourself and install it directly on your smartphone.Also, you can do more with your computer.

The market for smartphones is developing day by day with the release of the iPhone. In addition to the iPhone, the smartphone market, including the launch of Google's Android phone, is expected to overtake the share of the general mobile phone market soon. It is no exaggeration to say that the key to smartphones depends on how many applications they can provide. As you can see from the success of Apple's iTunes App Store, the hardware performance of the smartphone device itself is important, but it's important to make it easier for users to access and use a variety of applications.

Thus, a variety of smartphone-specific applications by the user has been developed and utilized. Various kinds of applications such as games, photos, and videos are used, but the most popular applications are SNS (Social Network Service) related applications. Due to the characteristics of a mobile device called a smartphone, an SNS application that can communicate with each other while sharing knowledge and information with other people anytime, anywhere is a core function of a mobile device.

Such SNS applications include messenger applications. Currently, the messenger application utilized in smartphones is at a level where a user directly talks to each other or exchanges data with each other as in a general messenger environment. Unlike the general PC environment, it is not easy for the user to search and transmit the data that the other party wants while using the messenger or use other functions at the same time. Therefore, the development of a technology that can ensure a more convenient messenger using environment in the smart phone is required.

The present invention has been made to improve the prior art as described above, after reading the natural language sentences input by the other party through a messenger application to obtain the data corresponding to the other party's intention, and automatically to the other party sentence through the data In response, an object of the present invention is to provide a mobile device and a method of controlling a messenger application of the mobile device, which allow a user to conveniently and continuously perform a messenger conversation with the other party even when he or she is away or performing other tasks.

In order to achieve the above object and solve the problems of the prior art, the mobile device according to an embodiment of the present invention, by reading the intention of the other party sentence input by the other party through a messenger application to analyze the intention analysis information according to the other party sentence A messenger conversation manager to generate; A response action information unit for determining whether to perform a response action according to the intention analysis information, and generating response action information corresponding to the intention analysis information when performing the response action; And a data obtaining unit obtaining data corresponding to the response action information through an application corresponding to the response action information.

In addition, a method for controlling a messenger application of a mobile device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: reading intent of a counterpart sentence input by a counterpart through a messenger application to generate intention analysis information according to the counterpart sentence; Determining whether or not a response action can be performed according to the intention analysis information; Generating response action information corresponding to the intention analysis information when it is possible to perform the response action as a result of the determination; Obtaining data corresponding to the response action information through an application corresponding to the response action information; Generating a response sentence corresponding to the intention analysis information according to the counterpart sentence using the obtained data; And transmitting at least one of the response sentence and the data to the mobile device of the counterpart via the messenger application.

According to the mobile device and the method of controlling the messenger application of the mobile device of the present invention, it is possible to obtain an effect of allowing the user to carry out a messenger conversation with the other party more conveniently even when he or she is away or other work.

In addition, according to the method of controlling the mobile device and the messenger application of the mobile device of the present invention, even if the user does not directly search for information requested by the other party, the mobile device can search for the corresponding information by itself and automatically transmit a response message accordingly. You can get the effect.

1 is a diagram illustrating an application configuration of a mobile device according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a mobile device that performs a messenger application service according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a diagram illustrating a screen of a mobile device showing an example of a messenger application service according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of a method of a messenger application service of a mobile device 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.

1 is a diagram illustrating an application configuration of a mobile device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The mobile device 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention may maintain one or more applications. For example, the mobile device 100 may include a messenger application 110, a weather application 120, a file management application 130, a map application 140, and a contact application 150.

The mobile device 100 may be implemented as a smart phone on which the above-described application may be installed. In addition, the mobile device 100 is not only a smart phone, but also a variety of devices having an operating system on which the above-described application can be installed, for example, a general mobile phone, a notebook, a PDA, an MP3 player, a portable game machine, a PMP, and the like. It may be implemented in the form. The mobile device 100 may be implemented to include a GPS function, a Wi-Fi function, and a mobile communication function.

The mobile device 100 may maintain a mobile operating system. For example, the mobile device 100 may be driven through a mobile operating system such as Google's Android, Apple's iOS, or Microsoft's Windows Mobile. In addition, the mobile device 100 may maintain an open mobile platform environment that supports the Open API.

The messenger conversation managing unit 111, the response action information unit 112, and the data obtaining unit 113, which are the main components of the present invention, may be linked with the messenger application 110. The messenger conversation managing unit 111, the response action information unit 112, and the data acquiring unit 113 may be implemented as a part of the messenger application 110, and may be implemented in the mobile device 100 that is linked with the messenger application 110. It may be implemented in a separate configuration.

When the user communicates with the other party through the messenger application 110, the intention of the other party's sentence is analyzed through the messenger conversation managing unit 111, and the response action corresponding to the analyzed intention through the response action information unit 112. The data acquisition action according to the response action may be performed through the data acquisition unit 113. The obtained data is transferred to the messenger conversation manager 111, and the messenger conversation manager 111 generates a response sentence corresponding to the counterpart sentence through the data and transmits the response sentence to the counterpart.

This series of processes may be performed according to a user's selection when executing the messenger application 110. For example, when the user needs to leave his or her seat for a while or communicate with the other party through the messenger application 110, it may be performed through a function selection such as an automatic answer during the absence.

2 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a mobile device that performs a messenger application service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The mobile device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a messenger conversation managing unit 210, a response action information unit 220, and a data obtaining unit 230. The messenger conversation manager 210 includes a morpheme processor 211, a syntax processor 212, a context processor 213, an intention processor 214, and a sentence synthesizer 215. The response action information unit 220 includes an application information database 221.

The messenger conversation manager 210 reads the intention of the other party's sentence input by the other party through the messenger application and generates the intention analysis information according to the other party's sentence.

That is, the morpheme processor 211 analyzes the Morpheme of the opponent sentence and tags a part of speech (POS) of each word included in the sentence. The syntax processor 212 classifies each word by meaning and parses the sentence into one or more phrases. The context processing unit 213 converts each phrase into a valid phrase or a default value, or infers a phrase that is determined to be omitted from the counterpart sentence and restores the sentence. The intention processor 214 analyzes the intention of the counterpart according to the restored sentence and generates intention analysis information.

The sentence inputted by the counterpart through the messenger application may be implemented in natural language. The speech content composed of the natural language may include ambiguity. Natural language is less severe in grammar than an artificial language such as a programming language of a computer, and an area used is not limited. Thus, natural language has an ambiguity in which the phrases and phrases that make up a sentence are interpreted as one or more parts of speech, syntax structure, or meaning, depending on the context.

The ambiguity of the natural language means a phenomenon in which one or more interpretations of elements constituting the natural language, such as a word, sentence, or syntax structure, are possible. Ambiguity that occurs in natural language can be divided into lexical ambiguity, syntactic ambiguity, and semantic ambiguity.

The lexical ambiguity means that a word or phrase used in a sentence can result in one or more parts of speech or morpheme analysis. The syntactic ambiguity means a phenomenon in which one or more grammar structures can be interpreted by two or more, and the semantic ambiguity means a phenomenon in which a word or word meaning can be interpreted by two or more.

The morpheme processor 211 analyzes Morpheme of the sentence and tags the parts of speech of each word included in the sentence. Part-of-speech tagging refers to the process of assigning the correct part-of-speech information to each word according to the context in which the word is used in the sentence. Part-of-speech tagging can generally be used as a preprocessing step to reduce the overburden in the parsing phase due to lexical ambiguity.

Part-of-speech tagging methods include rule-based part-of-speech tagging methods and statistics-based part-of-speech tagging methods commonly used in natural language processing. Statistics-based approaches analyze probability or uncertainty by analyzing large amounts of raw or tagged tagged corpus, including real-world natural language usages and ancillary information, and extracting statistical information about natural language. (uncertainty) means a method of probabilistically solving lexical ambiguity problems.

On the other hand, the rule-based approach refers to a method of finding common principles or deterministic rules applied to parts-of-speech tagging and using them to resolve lexical ambiguities decisively. The morpheme processor 211 may tag the part-of-speech including both the rule-based approach and the statistical-based approach and a part-of-speech tagging method that may be used in the art.

The syntax processor 212 classifies each word by meaning and parses the sentence into one or more phrases. The phrase processor 212 may classify the meaning of each word tagged in the part-of-speech and tag a basic meaning corresponding to each word. The syntax processor 212 may classify the meaning of the word by referring to a predetermined word sense database in which the general meaning of the word is recorded.

The phrase processor 212 may parse the sentence into one or more phrases by combining the semantic classified words with each other. That is, the words may be combined with each other using a part-of-speech or a meaning tagged to each word. For example, when the other sentence is "what are you doing tomorrow at 6 o'clock", the words included in the sentence may be "tomorrow", "6", "hour", "e", "what are you doing". At this time, the phrase processing unit 212 combines the words that play the same role with each other through a part-of-speech or semantic classification tagged to each word, and uses the phrases "tomorrow", "6 o'clock", "what are you doing?" Can be parsed

The context processing unit 213 may convert the phrases into valid phrases or default values with reference to a kind of reference database, or infer the phrases that are determined to be omitted from the counterpart sentence and restore the sentences. The context processor 213 may reinterpret each phrase into a kind of domain dependent language that the system can recognize.

The intention processor 214 analyzes the intention of the counterpart according to the restored sentence and generates intention analysis information. The intention processor 214 may generate the intention analysis information including any one or more of subject information, purpose information, and time information according to the intent reading of the counterpart sentence. For example, when the other party sentence is "what do you do tomorrow 6 o'clock", if the phrase "tomorrow", "6 o'clock", "what are you doing" parsed, the intention processing unit 214 as the subject information , "6 tomorrow" can be generated as time information, and "what are you doing" as destination information.

The response action information unit 220 determines whether a response action according to the intention analysis information can be performed and generates response action information corresponding to the intention analysis information when the response action is possible.

The response action information unit 220 may maintain an application information database 221 in which one or more words corresponding to each of the one or more application information are recorded. The response action information unit 220 determines whether the response action according to the intention analysis information can be performed based on whether application information corresponding to a word included in the object information of the intention analysis information is recorded in the application information database. can do.

For example, in the application information database 221, the words corresponding to "schedule application" include "schedule", "schedule", "to-do", "what are you doing", "what are you doing", "to do", "promise", Various kinds of words related to the schedule such as "task" may be set. In this case, the response action information unit 220 may determine whether the response action can be performed based on whether there is application information corresponding to a word included in the object information among the intention analysis information generated by the intention processor 214. In the above-described example, since the "schedule application" is recorded in the application information database 221 as application information corresponding to the word "what are you" included in the object information, the response action information unit 220 performs the response action. It can be determined that this is possible.

However, when the application information corresponding to the words included in the purpose information of the intention analysis information is not recorded in the application information database 221, the response action information unit 220 determines that the response action is impossible, The conversation management unit 210 notifies that the response action cannot be performed. When the messenger conversation manager 210 is notified that the response action cannot be performed, the messenger conversation manager 210 may transmit a predetermined sentence to the counterpart's mobile device through the messenger application. The sentence may be embodied, for example, as a sentence of "is absent."

The response action information unit 220 includes object information corresponding to the subject information of the intention analysis information, application information corresponding to the object information of the intention analysis information, and time information corresponding to time information of the intention analysis information. Response action information may be generated. For example, when the intention analysis information is generated as "user" as subject information, "6 tomorrow" as time information, and "what are you" as purpose information, the response action information unit 220 targets the "user". It is set to the information, "scheduled application" is set to the application information, and the response action information can be generated, each of which "6 tomorrow" is set as time information.

The data obtaining unit 230 obtains data corresponding to the response action information through an application corresponding to the response action information. For example, the data acquirer 230 may access a schedule application and acquire data on a schedule corresponding to 6 o'clock of the user's schedule tomorrow. The data acquirer 230 may acquire data corresponding to the response action information through an application corresponding to the response action information through the Open API.

The sentence synthesizing unit 215 generates a response sentence corresponding to the intention analysis information based on the counterpart sentence using the data acquired by the data obtaining unit 230, and generates one or more of the response sentence and the data. The mobile terminal may transmit the message to the counterpart's mobile device through the messenger application.

For example, as shown in FIG. 3, when the other sentence is "how is the weather there", the data acquisition unit 230 obtains data on the current location of the current time through a weather application, and a sentence synthesis unit. 215 may generate a response sentence "weather fine and good" through the data and transmit it to the counterpart.

As such, the application corresponding to the response action information may be implemented as a weather application, a schedule application, a file management application, a map application, and a contact application. The data corresponding to the response action information may include schedule data, files, GPS data, And contact data.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a flow of a method of a messenger application service of a mobile device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the mobile device reads the intention of the other party's sentence input by the other party through the messenger application and generates the intention analysis information according to the other party's sentence (step 410).

In step 410, the mobile device analyzes Morpheme of the opponent sentence and tags a part of speech (POS) of each word included in the sentence. The mobile device classifies each word by meaning and parses the sentence into one or more phrases. The mobile device converts each phrase into a valid phrase or a default value, or infers a phrase that is determined to be omitted from the counterpart sentence and restores the sentence. The mobile device analyzes the intention of the counterpart according to the restored sentence to generate intention analysis information.

The mobile device determines whether it is possible to perform a response action according to the intention analysis information (step 420). In step 420, if it is impossible to perform the response action, the selected sentence is transmitted to the counterpart's mobile device through the messenger application (step 430).

In step 420, if it is possible to perform the response action, the mobile device generates response action information corresponding to the intention analysis information (step 440). The mobile device obtains data corresponding to the response action information through an application corresponding to the response action information (step 450).

The mobile device generates a response sentence corresponding to the intention analysis information according to the counterpart sentence using the obtained data (step 460). The mobile device transmits one or more of the response sentence and the data to the counterpart's mobile device via the messenger application (step 470).

The messenger application service method according to the present invention can be implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed by various computer means and recorded in a computer readable medium. The computer readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. Program instructions recorded on the media may be those specially designed and constructed for the purposes of the present invention, or they may be of the kind well-known and available to those having skill in the computer software arts. Examples of computer-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tape, optical media such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, and magnetic disks, such as floppy disks. Magneto-optical media, and hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute program instructions, such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. The medium may be a transmission medium such as an optical or metal line, a wave guide, or the like, including a carrier wave for transmitting a signal designating a program command, a data structure, or the like. Examples of program instructions include not only machine code generated by a compiler, but also high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware device described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the present invention, and vice versa.

As described above, the present invention has been described by way of limited embodiments and drawings, but the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, which can be variously modified and modified by those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains. Modifications are possible. Accordingly, the spirit of the present invention should be understood only by the claims set forth below, and all equivalent or equivalent modifications thereof will belong to the scope of the present invention.

210: messenger conversation management unit 211: morpheme processing unit
212: syntax processing unit 213: context processing unit
214: intention processing unit 215: sentence synthesis unit
220: response action information unit 221: application DB
230: data acquisition unit

Claims (12)

A messenger conversation manager configured to read an intention of a counterpart sentence input by a counterpart through a messenger application and generate intention analysis information according to the counterpart sentence;
A response action information unit for determining whether to perform a response action according to the intention analysis information, and generating response action information corresponding to the intention analysis information when performing the response action;
A data obtaining unit obtaining data corresponding to the response action information through an application corresponding to the response action information;
A mobile device comprising a. The method of claim 1,
The messenger conversation manager generates a response sentence corresponding to the intention analysis information according to the counterpart sentence using the data obtained by the data obtaining unit, and generates one or more of the response sentence and the data through the messenger application. Mobile device, characterized in that for transmitting to the other party's mobile device. The method of claim 1,
A morpheme processor configured to analyze a morpheme of the other sentence and tag a part of speech (POS) of each word included in the sentence;
A phrase processing unit classifying each word by meaning and parsing the sentence into one or more phrases;
A context processor for converting the phrases into valid phrases or default values, or inferring phrases that are determined to be omitted from the counterpart sentence and restoring the sentence; And
An intention processor configured to analyze intention of the counterpart according to the restored sentence to generate intention analysis information
A mobile device comprising a. The method of claim 1,
The messenger conversation manager generates the intention analysis information including any one or more of subject information, purpose information, and time information according to the intention reading of the counterpart sentence,
The response action information unit maintains an application information database in which one or more words corresponding to each of the one or more application information are recorded. The method of claim 4, wherein
The response action information unit determines that the response action can be performed when the application information corresponding to the word included in the object information of the intention analysis information is recorded in the application information database, and the word included in the object information. And if the application information corresponding to is not recorded in the application information database, determining that the response action is impossible. The method of claim 4, wherein
The response action information unit includes object information corresponding to the subject information of the intention analysis information, application information corresponding to the object information of the intention analysis information, and time information corresponding to time information of the intention analysis information. And generating response action information. The method of claim 1,
If the response action information unit is unable to perform the response action according to the intention analysis information, notifying the messenger conversation manager of the inability to perform the response action,
And when the messenger conversation manager is notified of the inability to perform the response action by the response action information unit, transmitting a predetermined sentence to the mobile device of the counterpart through the messenger application. The method of claim 1,
The application corresponding to the response action information is any one of a weather application, a schedule application, a file management application, a map application, and a contact application. The data corresponding to the response action information includes schedule data, a file, GPS data, and contact data. Mobile device, characterized in that any one of. Reading intent of the other party's sentence input by the other party through a messenger application to generate intention analysis information according to the other party's sentence;
Determining whether or not a response action can be performed according to the intention analysis information;
Generating response action information corresponding to the intention analysis information when it is possible to perform the response action as a result of the determination;
Obtaining data corresponding to the response action information through an application corresponding to the response action information;
Generating a response sentence corresponding to the intention analysis information according to the counterpart sentence using the obtained data; And
Transmitting at least one of the response sentence and the data to the mobile device of the counterpart via the messenger application;
Messenger application service providing method of a mobile device comprising a. 10. The method of claim 9,
If it is impossible to perform the response action as a result of the determination, transmitting a predetermined sentence to the mobile device of the counterpart via the messenger application;
Method for providing a messenger application service of a mobile device, characterized in that it further comprises. 10. The method of claim 9,
Reading the intention of the other party sentence input by the other party through the messenger application to generate the intention analysis information according to the other party sentence,
Tagging a part of speech (POS) of each word included in the sentence by analyzing a Morpheme of the other sentence;
Classifying the words by meaning and parsing the sentence into one or more phrases;
Restoring the sentence by converting the phrase into a valid phrase or a default value or inferring a phrase that is determined to be omitted from the opponent sentence; And
Generating intention analysis information by analyzing the intention of the counterpart according to the restored sentence;
Messenger application service providing method of a mobile device comprising a. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for executing the method of any one of claims 9 to 11.

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