KR20160087590A - Apparatus for providing instant messaging service in user terminals - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides an apparatus for providing an instant messaging service in a user terminal, which includes: a storage unit which stores information about a plurality of instant content, information related to the instant content, and information about upper level instant content; and a control unit which structuralizes lower level instant content with respect to the selected upper instant content by using the stored information related to the instant content when one of the plurality of the upper instant content is selected by a user. According to the present invention, the number of key operations needed in an instant content selection process can be reduced.

Description

[0001] APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING INSTANT MESSAGEING SERVICE IN USER TERMINALS [0002]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an instant messaging service, and more particularly, to an instant messaging service providing apparatus for supporting instant content display such as emoticons, dynamic emoticons, and Flashcon in a user terminal.

The instant messaging service is a technology that enables users to send and receive messages and data in real time. In recent years, the instant messaging service has become popular not only in PCs but also in mobile environments of mobile communication terminals.

Such an instant messaging service not only supports text-oriented message delivery but also supports the delivery of instant content, wherein the instant content is an effective means of expressing a user's emotions as emoticons, flashcards, stickers, avatars based on graphic images .

Accordingly, a conventional technology has been developed in which a user displays a thumbnail image of instant contents in a list form and selects an instant content desired by the user.

However, in order to recognize the user, a thumbnail image of a specific size or more is required. Due to the limitation of the display size in the mobile terminal, the number of instant contents that can be listed at one time is finite. Therefore, There is a hassle to go through the process.

An object of the present invention is to provide an apparatus for providing an instant messaging service for structuring the instant contents according to the association of instant contents until the final instant contents are selected by the user and displaying the instant contents on the screen of the user terminal do.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for providing an instant messaging service in a user terminal, the apparatus comprising: a storage unit storing a plurality of instant contents, association information on the instant contents, And a controller for structuring and controlling display of the lower instant contents for the selected higher instant content using association information for the stored instant contents, when one of the higher instant contents is selected by the user.

In the conventional method, since the number of instant contents that can be displayed at one time is very limited, the user must touch the user several times to select desired instant contents. However, according to the present invention, (Log) scale, the number of key operations required in the instant content selection process can be reduced.

In addition, by reducing the number of displayed instant contents, it is possible to provide a thumbnail image of an enlarged size than in the conventional art, thereby providing an advantage of facilitating the user's thumbnail image recognition.

1 is a block diagram of an apparatus for providing an instant messaging service according to an embodiment of the present invention;
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention [0001] The present invention relates to an instant messaging service providing apparatus.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The above and other objects, advantages and features of the present invention and methods of achieving them will be apparent from the following detailed description of embodiments thereof taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as being limited to the exemplary embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, And advantages of the present invention are set forth in the appended claims.

It is to be understood that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. The singular forms herein include plural forms unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. &Quot; comprises "and / or" comprising ", as used herein, is intended to include the use of one or more other components, steps, operations, and / And does not exclude the presence or addition of a compound.

The user terminal described in the present invention may be a mobile terminal such as a smart phone, a notebook computer, a PDA (Personal Digital Assistants), a PMP (Portable Multimedia Player), a navigation,

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram illustrating an apparatus for providing an instant messaging service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

1, an apparatus for providing an instant messaging service according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a storage unit 100, a control unit 110, a UI (User Interface) unit 120, and a display unit 130 .

The storage unit 100 stores a plurality of instant contents provided by the instant content providing server 10, various types of information about instant contents, and user-related information continuously learned.

The control unit 110 first structures the instant contents using the information stored in the storage unit 100 and then infer or selects the instant contents required by the user until the final instant content is selected by the user, Structured and provided. For this, the control unit 110 includes a relation determination unit 111 and a structure unit 112.

The UI unit 120 receives a user's signal. The UI unit 120 may be a touch-type display device, or a key input device that receives a key by a pressure or electrostatic method.

The display unit 130 displays a window and an instant message exchange window for selecting instant contents to the user.

Hereinafter, the operation of the above-described devices will be described in detail.

The association determining unit 111 in the control unit 110 determines association among various types of instant contents using information about instant contents previously stored in the storage unit 100 and user related information.

The instant content refers to graphic image based content such as emoticons, flashcards, stickers, avatars, and video contents.

The information about the instant contents means attribute information of content, association information between contents, and the like. Here, the attribute information of the content may be information expressed in the same manner as a text, a vector, a matrix, and a numerical value.

The user-related information refers to information that reflects a user's tendency to be learned by analyzing a user's conversation record, instant content exchange record, and the like.

The structure constructing unit 112 selects or structures the instant contents according to the association information determined by the association determining unit 111, and structures them.

Specifically, the structure constructing unit 112 selects instant contents using a deterministic theory or an algorithm, or groups the instant contents belonging to the same category into a category, and classifies each category into a tree or a graph It can be structured in such a way as to sort and select.

As another example, the structure constructing unit 112 may use statistical-based algorithms that include external data indicating the association of instant contents, or a machine learning method that determines affinities or clusters by learning, You can infer and instantiate your instant content.

In addition, the structure construction unit 112 generates representative information representing the structure. The representative information represents information on instant contents corresponding to a superstructure, and can be expressed in text, graphic image, or numerical form.

For example, among the emotions related to the emotion, emoticons such as 'pleasant to praise', 'emotional', and 'condition recovery' can be generated as representative information of the sub concept under the upper concept indicating 'pleasant'.

Then, when the user instructs the execution of the instant messaging service through the UI unit 120 to transmit the instant message and requests the display of the stored instant content, the structure unit 112 stores the instant structure Representative information is displayed on the display unit 130. [

When the user who has confirmed the representative information displayed on the display unit 130 selects a specific structure through the UI unit 120, the association determination unit 111 re-collects information related to the selected structure.

The structure constructing unit 112 reconstructs (re-selects or re-learns) the sub-structure of the structure selected by the user by using the information re-collected by the association determining unit 111, Generates representative information and displays it on the display unit 130.

At this time, the structure constructing unit 112 not only restructures the sub structure of the selected structure at the same time as the input signal of the user, but also restructures the statically detailed sub structure and user related information The representative information for each structure of the sub structure can be downloaded from the related server and displayed.

In addition, the structure constructing unit 112 may display the representative information of the sub-structure selected from the sub-structures previously restructured and stored in advance, separately from the input signal of the user.

The structure constructing unit 112 re-structures (re-selects or re-learns) the sub-structure of the previously selected structure in the above-described manner until the final instant content is selected by the user, and transmits representative information thereof to the display unit 130 Repeat the process of displaying through.

If the final instant content is selected by the user, the structure construction unit 112 transmits the final instant content selected in the message exchange environment 11.

Since the technique of transmitting an instant message in the user terminal is a known technique, a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

2 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of an instant messaging service providing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2, a user terminal for instant messaging service according to an embodiment of the present invention stores instant contents, various types of information about instant contents, and user-related information continuously learned (S200 ).

Here, the instant content refers to graphic image based content such as emoticons, flashcards, stickers, avatars, and video contents.

The instant content related information means attribute information of content, association information between contents, and the like. Here, the attribute information of the content may be information expressed in a manner such as a text, a vector, a matrix, and a numerical value.

The user-related information refers to information that reflects a user's tendency to be learned by analyzing a user's conversation record, instant content exchange record, and the like.

The association between the various types of instant contents is determined using the stored instant content related information and the user related information (S210).

If the association between the instant contents is judged, the instant contents are selected or inferred according to the determined association information, and the representative contents are structured as a primary structure and the representative information for each structure of the structured instant contents is generated (S220).

At this time, instant contents can be selected using a deterministic theory or an algorithm, or instant contents belonging to the same category can be grouped into one category, and each category can be structured into a tree type hierarchy .

As another example, a statistical-based algorithm including a machine learning method for determining similarities or clusters by learning using external data indicating an association relationship of instant contents, or structuring instant contents by inferring in a manner set by a user .

The structure-specific representative information represents information on instant contents corresponding to a superstructure, and can be expressed in text, graphic image, or numerical form.

Thereafter, the execution of the instant messaging service is confirmed (S230). If it is determined that a signal requesting the input of the instant contents stored previously is obtained from the user (S240), the representative information for each structure of the generated instant contents is displayed (S250 ).

If a specific structure is selected by the user who confirmed the displayed representative information (S260), the information related to the selected structure is re-collected, and the sub-structure selected by the user is selected or inferred using the re-collected information to reconstruct Re-selection or re-learning), generates representative information for each restructured structure, and displays it (S270).

As another example, in addition to the operation of restructuring the sub structure of the selected structure at the same time as the input signal of the user, when a signal is input from the user, the structure of the sub structure The representative representative information can be downloaded from the related server and displayed.

As another example, in addition to the input signal of the user, an appropriate sub-structure may be selected from the sub-structures previously restructured and stored, and representative information thereof may be displayed.

The process of re-structuring (re-selecting or re-learning) the sub-structure of the structure previously selected in the above-described manner until the final instant content is selected by the user is repeated to display representative information thereof.

If the final instant content is selected by the user (S280), the structure unit transmits the final instant content selected in the message exchange environment (S290).

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, is intended to cover various modifications and equivalent arrangements included within the spirit and scope of the invention.

Therefore, the embodiments of the present invention are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and the scope of the present invention is not limited by these embodiments. It is intended that the present invention cover the modifications and variations of this invention provided they come within the scope of the appended claims and their equivalents.

Claims (1)

A user terminal for an instant messaging service,
A storage unit for storing a plurality of instant contents, association information for the instant contents, and information on higher instant contents; And
A control unit for structuring and controlling display of the sub-instant contents for the selected higher-order content by using association information on the stored instant contents when one of the higher-order instant contents is selected by the user;
The instant messaging service providing apparatus comprising:

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