KR20220122971A - Display method of terminal, program, terminal, and information processing method of server - Google Patents

Abstract

A program executed on a terminal communicating with a server, comprising: displaying a chat room including a user of a first terminal and a user of a second terminal different from the first terminal on a display unit of the terminal; Based on receiving the first content from the server by the communication unit of the terminal, based on the content received by the server, and receiving the first information about the location and the second content sent from the second terminal to the server , receiving the second information and the second content based on the first information from the server by the communication unit of the terminal, and the first content and the second in which the display mode is different from the first content based on the second information Displaying the content in the chat room is performed on the terminal.

Description

Display method of terminal, program, terminal, and information processing method of server

The present invention relates to a terminal display method, a server, a program, and a server information processing method.

Conventionally, a messaging service in which a plurality of users exchange messages with each other is provided. Patent Document 1 discloses a chat system capable of anonymously exchanging messages.

Patent Document 1: Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2010-20672

A first aspect of the present invention is a program executed on a terminal communicating with a server, and displaying a chat room including a user of a first terminal and a user of a second terminal different from the first terminal on a display unit of the terminal; Receiving the first content from the server by the communication unit of the terminal on the basis of the first content transmitted by the first terminal being received by the server, and the first information about the location and the second content transmitted from the second terminal receiving, by the communication unit of the terminal, the second information and the second content based on the first information from the server, based on the received by the server, and the first content and the first content based on the second information; is executed in the terminal to display the second content in a different display mode in the chat room.

In addition, a second aspect of the present invention is an information processing method of a terminal communicating with a server, and displaying a chat room including a user of a first terminal and a user of a second terminal different from the first terminal on the display unit of the terminal; , receiving the first content from the server by the communication unit of the terminal on the basis of the first content transmitted by the first terminal being received by the server, the first information about the location and the first information transmitted from the second terminal receiving, by the communication unit of the terminal, the second information and the second content based on the first information from the server on the basis of the second content being received by the server, and the first content and the first content based on the second information and displaying the second content having a display mode different from that of the content in the chat room.

Further, a third aspect of the present invention is a terminal communicating with a server, wherein the first content transmitted by the first terminal is received by the server, the first content is received from the server, and the first content is communicated with the first terminal. a communication unit for receiving, from the server, second information and second content based on the first information, based on the reception of the first information about the location and the second content transmitted from the second terminal to the server; and a display unit for displaying a chat room including the user of the terminal and the user of the second terminal, and displaying in the chat room the first content and the second content in which the display mode is different from the first content based on the second information.

In addition, a fourth aspect of the present invention is a terminal communicating with a server, comprising a processor for reading a program stored in a memory and executing processing based on the program, wherein the processor comprises: a user of the first terminal and the first terminal; Displaying a chat room containing a user of another second terminal on the display unit of the terminal, and based on the first content sent by the first terminal being received by the server, the first content from the server by the communication unit of the terminal On the basis of receiving and transmitting the first information about the location and the second content, transmitted from the second terminal, to the server, the second information and the second content based on the first information are sent to the server by the communication unit of the terminal. and displaying the first content and the second content in which the display mode is different from the first content based on the second information in the chat room.

Further, a fifth aspect of the present invention is a program executed by a server communicating with a terminal, and receiving, by a communication unit of the server, first content transmitted by a first terminal different from the terminal, and receiving the first content. transmitting to the terminal by the communication unit; receiving, by the communication unit, first information about the location and second content, transmitted from the terminal and a second terminal different from the first terminal, by the communication unit; and the second content; Transmitting, by the communication unit, the second information for displaying the second content on the display unit of the terminal in a display mode different from the first content to the terminal based on the information is executed in the server.

1] It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of a communication system, and shows the structural example of a terminal and a server.
[ Fig. 2 ] It is a schematic diagram for explaining an outline of a communication system according to an embodiment.
Fig. 3 (a) is a data conceptual diagram showing a data configuration example of message management information. (b) is a data conceptual diagram showing a data configuration example of place management information.
Fig. 4 is a flowchart showing an example of the exchange of each device in the communication system.
[FIG. 5] It is a flowchart showing an operation example of the terminal related to FIG.
[FIG. 6] It is a flowchart which shows the operation example of the server related to FIG.
7 (a) to (c) are screen diagrams showing examples of display of the terminal.
[Fig. 8] It is a flowchart showing an operation example related to the filtering display of the terminal.
[FIG. 9] (a) is a diagram showing an example of a screen displaying a plurality of messages in different display modes, (b) is such that, with respect to the display mode shown in (a), only the message of the first display mode is displayed It is a figure which shows an example of a screen after filtering, (c) is a figure which shows an example of a screen after filtering so that only the message of the 2nd display mode is displayed with respect to the display mode shown in (a).
It is a block diagram which shows the structural example of the communication system which concerns on Embodiment 2, and shows the structural example of a terminal, a server, and a beacon transmitter.
11 is a data conceptual diagram showing a data configuration example of compensation management information according to the second embodiment.
[Fig. 12] A flowchart showing an example of the exchange of each device showing the processing for compensating for the user terminal being in a predetermined position.
[FIG. 13] It is a flowchart showing an operation example of the terminal related to FIG.
[FIG. 14] It is a flowchart showing an operation example of the terminal related to FIG.
[Fig. 15] It is a screen diagram showing an example of display of compensation information of the terminal.
[Fig. 16] Fig. 16 is a flowchart showing an example of exchanging devices in a communication system for inviting a terminal in a specific place to a specific chat room.
[FIG. 17] It is a flowchart showing an operation example of the terminal related to FIG.
[FIG. 18] It is a flowchart which shows the operation example of the server related to FIG.
[Fig. 19] (a) is a screen diagram showing a display example of displaying a URL to invite to a chat room. (b) is a screen diagram showing an example of an invited chat room.
20 is a flowchart showing an operation example of the terminal for changing the display mode according to the lapse of time.
Fig. 21 (a) is a screen diagram showing a display example of the chat room before the change of the display mode. (b) is a screen diagram showing a display example of a chat room after the display mode is changed.
22 is a flowchart showing an example of exchange between devices when the server cannot receive location information from the terminal.
23 is a flowchart showing an example of exchange between devices when the server receives different location information from the terminal.
[ Fig. 24 ] It is a flowchart showing the operation of the server related to Figs. 22 and 23 .
[Fig. 25] It is a flowchart showing the operation of the terminal related to Figs. 22 and 23. [Fig.
[Fig. 26] It is a flowchart showing the exchange between the terminal 20 and the server 10 when filtering different from the display mode is performed as a filtering condition.
[ Fig. 27 ] It is a flowchart showing the operation of the terminal related to Fig. 26 .
[FIG. 28] It is a flowchart which shows the operation|movement of the server related to FIG.
[Fig. 29] It is a flowchart showing the exchange of each device for displaying the number of messages associated with a place.
[FIG. 30] It is a flowchart which shows the operation|movement of the server related to FIG.
[FIG. 31] It is a flowchart showing the operation of the terminal related to FIG.
[ Fig. 32 ] It is a screen diagram of a terminal showing an example of displaying the number of messages for each place where a message is transmitted.

<Comply with legal matters>

It should be noted that the disclosure described in this specification is premised on compliance with the legal matters of the implementing country necessary for the practice of the present invention, such as communication secrets.

EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION Embodiment for implementing the display method etc. which can confirm the situation regarding transmission or reception by the terminal which concerns on this invention are described with reference to drawings.

<System Configuration>

Fig. 1 shows the configuration of a communication system 1 according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1 , in the communication system 1 , the server 10 and the terminal 20 (the terminal 20A, the terminal 20B, and the terminal 20C) are connected through a network 30 . The server 10 provides a service for realizing transmission and reception of messages between the terminals 20 through the network 30 to the terminal 20 owned by the user. In addition, the number of terminals 20 connected to the network 30 is not limited.

The network 30 serves to connect one or more terminals 20 and one or more servers. That is, the network 30 refers to a communication network that provides a connection path so that the terminal 20 can transmit and receive data after the terminal 20 is connected to the server 10 .

One or more portions of the network 30 may or may not be a wired network or a wireless network. The network 30 may include, by way of example and not limitation, an ad hoc network, an intranet, an extranet, a virtual private network (VPN), a local area network (LAN), a wireless LAN (WLAN), Wide Area Network (WAN), wireless WAN (WWAN), Metropolitan Area Network (MAN), part of the Internet, part of Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), mobile phone network, Integrated Service Digital Networks (ISDN) ), wireless LAN, Long Term Evolution (LTE), Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Bluetooth (Bluetooth®), satellite communication, etc., or a combination of two or more thereof. Network 30 may include one or more networks 30 .

The terminal 20 (terminal 20A, terminal 20B, and terminal 20C) may be any terminal as long as it is an information processing terminal capable of realizing the functions described in each embodiment. The terminal 20 may include, by way of example, but not limitation, a smartphone, a mobile phone (feature phone), a computer (by way of example, but not limitation, a desktop, laptop, tablet, etc.), a media computer platform (by way of example, but not limitation). , cables, satellite set-top boxes, digital video recorders), portable computing devices (including, but not limited to, personal digital assistants (PDAs), e-mail clients, etc.), wearable terminals (glasses-like devices, watch-like devices, etc.) or other types of of computer, or communication platform. In addition, the terminal 20 may be expressed as an information processing terminal.

Since the configurations of the terminal 20A, the terminal 20B, and the terminal 20C are basically the same, the terminal 20 will be described in the following description. In addition, if necessary, the terminal used by the user X is expressed as the terminal 20X, and user information in a predetermined service associated with the user X or the terminal 20X is expressed as the user information X. In addition, the user information is information of a user associated with an account used by the user in a predetermined service. The user information is, as an example, and not by way of limitation, a user's name input by a user or given by a predetermined service, a user's icon image, a user's age, a user's gender, a user's address, a user's hobbies, a user information associated with the user, such as an identifier of the

The server 10 has a function of providing a predetermined service to the terminal 20 . The server 10 may be any information processing device capable of realizing the functions described in each embodiment. Server 10 may include, by way of example, but not limitation, a server device, a computer (including, but not limited to, a desktop, laptop, tablet, etc.), a media computer platform (including, but not limited to, a cable, satellite set-top box, digital video recorders), portable computer devices (such as, but not limited to, personal digital assistants (PDAs), electronic mail clients, etc.), or other types of computers or communication platforms. In addition, the server 10 may be expressed as an information processing device. When there is no need to distinguish between the server 10 and the terminal 20, the server 10 and the terminal 20 may or may not be expressed as information processing devices, respectively.

<Hardware (HW) Configuration>

The HW configuration of each device included in the communication system 1 will be described with reference to FIG. 1 .

(1) HW configuration of terminal

The terminal 20 includes a control unit 21 (CPU: Central Processing Unit), a storage unit 28, a communication I/F 22 (interface), an input/output unit 23 , a display unit 24 and A position information acquisition unit (25) is provided. Each component of the HW of the terminal 20 is interconnected via a bus B by way of example and not limitation. In addition, as the HW configuration of the terminal 20, it is not necessary to include all components. By way of example and not limitation, the terminal 20 may have a configuration that excludes individual components or a plurality of components, such as the microphone 232, the camera 234, and the location information acquisition unit 25, or no need to

The communication I/F 22 transmits and receives various data through the network 30 . The communication may be performed either by wire or wirelessly, and any communication protocol may be used as long as mutual communication can be performed. The communication I/F 22 includes a function of executing communication with the server 10 via the network 30 . The communication I/F 22 transmits various data to the server 10 according to an instruction from the control unit 21 . In addition, the communication I/F 22 receives various data transmitted from the server 10 and transmits it to the control unit 21 . In addition, the communication I/F 22 may be expressed simply as a communication unit. In addition, when the communication I/F 22 is constituted by a physically structured circuit, it may be expressed as a communication circuit.

The input/output unit 23 includes a device for inputting various manipulations for the terminal 20 and a device for outputting processing results processed by the terminal 20 . The input/output unit 23 may have an input unit and an output unit integrated, or may be separated into an input unit and an output unit, or may not.

The input unit is realized by any one or a combination of all kinds of devices capable of receiving an input from a user and transmitting information about the input to the control unit 21 . The input unit is, by way of example and not limitation, a touch panel 231, a touch display, a hardware key such as a keyboard, a pointing device such as a mouse, a camera 234 (manipulation input through a video), a microphone 232 (by voice) operation input).

The output unit is realized by any one or a combination of all kinds of devices capable of outputting the processing result processed by the control unit 21 . The output unit includes, by way of non-limiting example, a touch panel, a touch display, a speaker 233 (audio output), a lens (for example, but not limited to, 3D (three dimensions) output or hologram output), a printer, and the like. .

The display unit 24 is realized by any one or a combination of all kinds of devices capable of displaying in accordance with the display data written in the frame buffer. The display unit 24 includes, but is not limited to, a touch panel, a touch display, a monitor (for example, but not limited to, a liquid crystal display or an organic electro-luminescence display (OELD)), a head mounted display (HMD), and a head mounted display (HMD). ), projection mapping, holograms, and devices capable of displaying images or text information in air, etc. (either in a vacuum or not). In addition, such a display unit 24 may or may not display display data in 3D.

When the input/output unit 23 is a touch panel, the input/output unit 23 and the display unit 24 may be disposed to face each other in substantially the same size and shape.

The control unit 21 is provided with a physically structured circuit for executing a function realized by a code or an instruction included in a program, and is realized by a data processing device embedded in hardware by way of example and not limitation. For this reason, the control unit 21 may or may not be expressed as a control circuit.

The control unit 21 is an example, but not limited to, a central processing unit (CPU), a microprocessor (microprocessor), a processor core (processor core) multiprocessor (multiprocessor), ASIC (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit), FPGA (Field) Programmable Gate Array).

The storage unit 28 includes a function of storing various programs and various data necessary for the terminal 20 to operate. The storage unit 28 includes, by way of example, not limitation, various storage media such as a hard disk drive (HDD), a solid state drive (SSD), a flash memory, a random access memory (RAM), and a read only memory (ROM). include In addition, the storage unit 28 may or may not be expressed as a memory.

The terminal 20 stores the program P in the storage unit 28 , and by executing the program P, the control unit 21 executes a process as a part included in the control unit 21 . That is, the program P stored in the storage unit 28 makes the terminal 20 realize the function executed by the control unit 21 . In addition, this program P may be expressed as a program module, and it does not need to be.

The microphone 232 is used for input of voice data. The speaker 233 is used for outputting audio data. The camera 234 is used to acquire moving picture data.

(2) HW configuration of server

The server 10 includes a control unit 11 (CPU), a storage unit 15 , a communication I/F 14 (interface), an input/output unit 12 , and a display unit 13 . Each component of the HW of the server 10 is interconnected via a bus B by way of example and not limitation. In addition, it is not essential that the HW of the server 10 includes all components as the HW configuration of the server 10 . By way of example and not limitation, the HW of the server 10 may or may not have the same configuration as that except for the display unit 13 .

The control unit 11 has a physically structured circuit for executing a function realized by a code or an instruction included in a program, and is realized by a data processing device embedded in hardware by way of example and not limitation.

The control unit 11 is typically a central processing unit (CPU), and may be a microprocessor, a processor core, a multiprocessor, an ASIC, or an FPGA, or may not be necessary. In the present invention, the control unit 11 is not limited to these.

The storage unit 15 has a function of storing various programs or various data necessary for the server 10 to operate. The storage unit 15 is realized by various storage media such as HDD, SSD, and flash memory. However, in the present invention, the storage unit 15 is not limited thereto. In addition, the storage unit 15 may or may not be expressed as a memory.

The communication I/F 14 transmits/receives various data through the network 30 . The communication may be performed either by wire or wirelessly, and any communication protocol may be used as long as mutual communication can be performed. The communication I/F 14 has a function of executing communication with the terminal 20 via the network 30 . The communication I/F 14 transmits various data to the terminal 20 according to an instruction from the control unit 11 . In addition, the communication I/F 14 receives various data transmitted from the terminal 20 and transmits it to the control unit 11 . In addition, the communication I/F 14 may be expressed simply as a communication unit. In addition, when the communication I/F 14 is composed of a physically structured circuit, it may be expressed as a communication circuit.

The input/output unit 12 is realized by a device for inputting various operations to the server 10 . The input/output unit 12 is realized by any one or a combination of all kinds of devices capable of receiving an input from a user and transmitting information about the input to the control unit 11 . The input/output unit 12 is realized by a hardware key represented by a keyboard or the like or a pointing device such as a mouse. Note that the input/output unit 12 may or may not include a touch panel, a camera (operation input via video), and a microphone (operation input via audio), as examples and not limitation. However, in the present invention, the input/output unit 12 is not limited thereto.

The display unit 13 is typically realized by a monitor (for example, without limitation, a liquid crystal display or an organic electro-luminescence display (OELD)). In addition, the display part 13 may be a head mounted display (HMD) etc., and it does not need to be. In addition, such a display unit 13 may or may not display display data in 3D. However, in the present invention, the display unit 13 is not limited to these.

The server 10 stores the program P in the storage unit 15 , and by executing the program P, the control unit 11 executes a process as a part included in the control unit 11 . That is, the program P stored in the storage unit 15 realizes each function executed by the control unit 11 in the server 10 . This program P may be expressed as a program module, or it may not be.

In each embodiment of the present invention, it will be described that the CPU of the terminal 20 and/or the server 10 is realized by executing the program P.

In addition, the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 and / or the control unit 11 of the server 10 is not only a CPU having a control circuit, but also an integrated circuit (IC (Integrated Circuit) chip, LSI (Large Scale Integration)) Each processing may be realized by a logic circuit (hardware) or a dedicated circuit formed of, etc., or it may not be necessary. In addition, these circuits may be implemented by one or more integrated circuits, and a plurality of processes shown in each embodiment may or may not be implemented by one integrated circuit. In addition, the LSI is sometimes referred to as VLSI, super LSI, ultra LSI, etc. depending on the difference in the degree of integration. For this reason, the control unit 21 may or may not be expressed as a control circuit.

In addition, the program P (by way of non-limiting example, a software program, a computer program, or a program module) of each embodiment of the present invention may or may not be provided in a state stored in a computer-readable storage medium. The storage medium may store the program P in "a non-transitory tangible medium". In addition, the program P may be for realizing the function of each embodiment of this invention, and it does not need to be. In addition, a so-called difference file (difference program) may or may not be sufficient as what can implement|achieve the function of each embodiment of this invention in combination with the program P already recorded in the storage medium.

The storage medium may include one or more semiconductor-based, or other integrated circuits (ICs) (eg, but not limited to, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) or Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), etc.), Hard Disk Drive (HDD), etc. , HHD (Hybrid Hard Drive), Optical Disk, ODD (Optical Disk Drive), magneto-optical disk, magneto-optical drive, floppy diskette, FDD (Floppy Disk Drive), magnetic tape, SSD (Solid State Drive), RAM drive, secure digital a card or drive, any other suitable storage medium, or a suitable combination of two or more thereof. The storage medium may be volatile, non-volatile, or a combination of volatile and non-volatile, as appropriate. The storage medium is not limited to these examples, and any device or medium may be used as long as the program P can be stored therein. In addition, the storage medium may or may not be expressed as a memory.

The server 10 and/or the terminal 20 read the program P stored in the storage medium and execute the read program P to realize the functions of the plurality of functional units shown in the respective embodiments.

In addition, the program PDD of the present invention may or may not be provided to the server 10 and/or the terminal 20 through any transmission medium (communication network or broadcast wave, etc.) capable of transmitting the program. The server 10 and/or the terminal 20 implement|achieve the function of the some functional part shown in each embodiment by executing the program P downloaded via the Internet etc. as an example and not limitation.

Further, each embodiment of the present invention can also be realized in the form of a data signal embedded in a carrier wave, in which the program P is implemented by electronic transmission.

At least a part of the processing in the server 10 and/or the terminal 20 may or may not be realized by cloud computing composed of one or more computers.

At least a part of the processing in the terminal 20 may be configured to be performed by the server 10, or may not be necessary. In this case, the server 10 may or may not be configured to perform at least a part of the processing of each functional unit of the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 .

At least a part of the processing in the server 10 may be configured to be performed by the terminal 20, or may not be necessary. In this case, at least a part of the processing of each functional unit of the control unit 11 of the server 10 may be performed by the terminal 20, or it may not be necessary.

Unless explicitly stated, the determination configuration in the embodiment of the present invention is not essential, and a predetermined process may be operated when the determination condition is satisfied, or a predetermined process may be performed when the determination condition is not satisfied. , it is not necessary.

Moreover, the program of this invention is an example, and is not limiting, Script languages, such as ActionScript and JavaScript (trademark), Object-oriented programming languages, such as Objective-C and Java (trademark), Markup languages, such as HTML5, etc. is mounted using

The communication system 1 may include the beacon transmitter 40 as shown in FIG. The beacon transmitter 40 is a device that is installed in a predetermined place, is information that periodically identifies its own device, and transmits a beacon signal including a beacon ID that can replace location information.

<HW configuration of the beacon transmitter 40>

As shown in FIG. 10, the beacon transmitter 40 is equipped with the beacon transmitter 412, Furthermore, it may be equipped with the communication I/F 411, and may not be equipped with it.

The communication I/F 411 transmits/receives various data through the network 30 . The communication may be performed either by wire or wirelessly, and any communication protocol may be used as long as mutual communication can be performed. The communication I/F 411 includes a function of performing communication with the server 10 via the network 30 . The communication I/F 411 transmits various data to the server 10 according to an instruction from the control unit 21 . In addition, the communication I/F 411 may be expressed simply as a communication unit. In addition, when the communication I/F 411 is constituted by a physically structured circuit, it may be expressed as a communication circuit.

The beacon transmitter 412 transmits a beacon signal including the beacon ID that can uniquely identify itself on the communication system 1 on a regular basis (as an example without limitation, every second). send out The beacon signal is a signal for notifying other nearby devices (sometimes referred to as peripheral devices) of the presence of the beacon transmitter 412, and is an example, not limitation, BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy (registered trademark)) The beacon signal defined by the communication standard may be used, but is not limited thereto. A beacon signal is a signal that can be transmitted without establishing a communication connection with another device. The arrival distance of the beacon signal may be determined by the signal transmission strength, and as the signal strength is stronger, the beacon signal may reach a far distance. In the present embodiment, the beacon transmitting unit 412 is a predetermined distance (a distance through which a user holding the terminal 20 can know that it is within a predetermined range, and is an example, not a limitation, within 2 or 3 m from the beacon transmitting unit) ) to transmit a beacon signal with a signal strength that can reach

<Embodiment 1>

In the communication system 1 according to the present embodiment, in a chat room in which a plurality of users participate, each user transmits to the server 10 information about the location of the terminal along with the call. Each user of the terminals 20a to 20d participates in the same chat room.

The chat room is an example and not limitation, and in the messaging service provided by the server 10, a user interface that enables content transmitted and received by users using the messaging service to be displayed on a user terminal. The chat room may be referred to as a chat room. The chat room is basically formed with mutually recognized users in the messaging service provided by the server 10, but it is also possible to form a chat room in which an unspecified number of users can freely participate. In some cases, such a chat room in which a large number of unspecified users can freely participate is called an open chat.

The open chat is a group chat in which a plurality of users can participate anonymously. Anonymous participation as used herein means that the server 10 that provides the messaging service can participate in a chat room with a user name different from the registered user name. Anyone can participate in the open chat, but it is highly anonymized and it is difficult to judge the credibility of the message content. In such an open chat, the user himself recognizes the existence of the open chat (as an example, not by way of limitation, it is recognized by checking that there is an open chat related to a promotional product in a promotional advertisement, etc., or an article in which the method of participating in the open chat is described. ), you can participate by yourself or by receiving invitations from other users participating in the chat room.

However, since open chat allows anonymous participation, that is, sending messages, there is a possibility of making irresponsible remarks. Therefore, other users participating in the open chat may lack credibility of the message content. Also, even if it was a normal chat, the user name can be set as a nickname or a pseudonym. For this reason, the credibility of the message may be lacking as in open chatting. Therefore, the server 10 changes the display mode of each user's remarks in any chat room (either a normal chat room or an open chat room), thereby guaranteeing the reliability of the remarks. Specifically, as an example, not limitation, it is said that a plurality of users were talking about a festival called a certain AA festival. At this time, it is said that the user of the terminal 20b transmits a message "A store A of the AA festival is very good, isn't it?" outside the AA festival venue. At this time, the terminal 20b transmits information about the location of the terminal 20b together with the message to the server 10 .

On the other hand, the terminal 20c user at the AA festival venue, "Huh? okay? Store A of the AA festival is not good?” is transmitted to the server 10 together with information about the location of the terminal 20c. In addition, the user of the terminal 20d also said, "Isn't that right?" at the AA festival venue. Considering the waiting time, isn't the cost-effectiveness good?" is transmitted to the server 10 together with information about the location of the terminal 20d.

The server 10 transmits information indicating the display mode together with the message information to the terminal 20a displaying the chat room. Then, according to the instruction from the server 10, the terminal 20a sends a message from a user of the terminal 20b who is not in the AA festival venue, a message from a user of the terminal 20c in the AA festival venue, and the terminal 20d. Displays the user's message in different display modes.

In the example of Fig. 2, messages from terminals 20b not in the AA festival venue are displayed in white characters on a black background, whereas messages from terminals 20c and 20d in the AA festival venue are displayed as normal. , the display mode is different. Thereby, the user of the terminal 20a can estimate that the message of the terminal 20c and the terminal 20d is a statement at the AA festival venue and has high reliability, while the message of the terminal 20b is the AA festival venue. Since it is an outside statement, it can be assumed that the credibility is low. In addition, the display mode itself of FIG. 2 may be reversed, and a user's message in the AA festival venue may be displayed in white characters on a black background, and a message of a user who is not in the AA festival venue may be displayed as normal.

In addition, although not shown in FIG. 2, since the user of the terminal 20a also participates in the chat room, a message can be transmitted to the chat room. Here, what each terminal transmits to the chat room is not limited to a message, and various contents may be used. That is, the content exchanged in the chat room is image information including text information (text data of information about the content of resin) input by the user using his/her terminal 20, and image information (e.g., photo of a place where the user is located), audio files, video files, data files, and other various file information and advertisement information, but is not limited thereto.

Hereinafter, it demonstrates in detail.

(1) Functional configuration of user terminal

As shown in FIG. 1 , the control unit 21 of the terminal 20 includes a message processing unit 211 and a display processing unit 212 .

The message processing unit 211 receives an input from a user and/or an input of content including a message received by the communication I/F 12 according to a messaging application provided from a messaging service provided by the server 10 . Thus, the display processing unit 212 is instructed to display. In addition, when an input from the user is received, it is instructed to transmit the received input content to the server 10 via the communication I/F 22 . In addition, as the object processed by the message processing unit 211 here, it is not limited to a text message input by the user into the chat room, but may include image information including photos or stamps, voice files, video files, data files, etc. good night.

In addition, when the message processing unit 211 transmits the content from the terminal 20 to the server 10 , it is transmitted together with information about the location of the terminal 20 . The information about the location of the terminal 20 may or may not be longitude and latitude information acquired by the location information acquisition unit 25 using GNSS. In addition, the information about the location of the terminal 20 is a signal capable of specifying the location information that the terminal 20 is receiving, as an example rather than limiting, the beacon ID included in the beacon signal transmitted by the beacon transmitter. , the terminal 20 may use the base station ID or the like of the base station to which the terminal 20 is connected for communication, or it may not be so. The message processing unit 211 may or may not transmit information on the location of the terminal 20 together with the message. In addition, the message processing unit 211 may or may not transmit the message and the information on the position of the terminal 20 at different timings separately from the information. The message processing unit 211 may transmit when a message input to the message is received from the user, and the information about the location may be transmitted periodically regardless of message input, or may be transmitted without doing so. good night.

The display processing unit 212 receives an input from a user and/or an input of content including a message received by the communication I/F 12 according to a messaging application provided from the messaging service provided by the server 10 . Thus, the display is instructed to be displayed on the display area of the display unit 24 . In addition, when an input from the user is received, it is instructed to transmit the received input content to the server 10 via the communication I/F 22 . The display processing unit 212 displays a message (content) in a designated display mode or a display mode based on the location of the terminal that transmitted the message, for each message displayed in the chat room, according to an instruction from the server 10 . You may or may not do so.

The above is the functional configuration of the terminal 20 .

(2) Server function configuration

As shown in FIG. 1 , the control unit 11 of the server 10 includes a message processing unit 111 and a determination unit 112 .

The message processing unit 111 has a function of managing a chat room for exchanging between users. The message processing unit 111 relays the exchange of content including the content between terminals receiving the messaging service provided by the server 10 . That is, when content is transmitted from a certain user to a chat room, the chat room is specified, and the content is transmitted to other users belonging to the chat room.

In addition, when the message processing unit 111 receives the content for the chat room from the user terminal 20 , the message processing unit 111 requests the determination unit 112 to determine the display mode based on the information on the location of the terminal 20 . Then, the received content is transmitted to each user terminal 20 participating in the chat room so as to display the received content in the display mode designated by the determination unit 112 . The message processing unit 111 stores the received message in association with the location information in the storage unit 15 . When the message processing unit 111 individually receives the message and the information on the location of the terminal 20 from the terminal 20, the timing of receiving the message and the timing of receiving the information on the location are within a predetermined time (terminal). (20) When this message is sent, it is within a time enough to confirm that you are at the place, and if it is within one minute as an example and not limitation), it is necessary for information about the location when the message is sent. It determines and stores the information about the message and the location in correspondence.

The determination unit 112 determines, based on the instruction from the message processing unit 111, whether the chat room in which the received message is recorded and the terminal 20 that transmitted the message are in a place related to the chat room, and outputs the result to the message processing unit (111) is notified. When the received message is the longitude and latitude information positioned by the positioning system of the terminal, the determination unit 112 refers to the location information 312 of the location management information 310 to determine whether there is a matching range. Then, when there is a matching range, the corresponding place name 311 is specified. Further, when a beacon ID or a base station ID is associated with the received message, the determination unit 112 determines whether it matches any of the associated IDs as the location information 312, and the corresponding place name 311 to specify In addition, the information on the location associated with the received message may be text information of a name such as a place name or a store name other than the longitude and latitude information and beacon ID. It may be used as the position information 312 as it is. The determination unit 112 may notify the message processing unit 111 of the specific place name, and instead of the notification of the place name, the terminal 20 that transmitted the message determines whether the message is in a place related to the chat room where the message was transmitted. It may be determined, and the result may be notified to the message processing unit 111 .

The above is the functional configuration of the server 10 .

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3A is a data conceptual diagram showing an example of the data configuration of the message management information 300 stored in the server 10 . The message management information 300 is information for managing the sender of each message and location information at the time of message transmission. As shown to Fig.3 (a), the message management information 300 is information in which the user ID 301, the content information 302, and the location information 303 were associated.

The user ID 301 is identification information for uniquely specifying the user who is the speaker of the message. The user ID 301 is information that can uniquely specify each user in the messaging service provided by the server 10 .

The content information 302 is information indicating the content of the content transmitted by the user indicated by the corresponding user ID. The content information 302 is text information if it is a message. In addition, the content information 302 may be an image (still image, a moving picture), an audio|voice, and map information or the address of a web site may be sufficient as it.

The location information 303 is information about a place where the corresponding user ID transmits a message using the terminal 20 . The location information 303 is used for specifying a place where each user has transmitted the corresponding content information 302, and for specifying whether it has been transmitted from a place related to a conversation or from a specific place. In addition, in the example shown to Fig.3 (a), the positional information 303 has shown the example which uses longitude and latitude information as positional information, but the positional information 303 is not limited to longitude and latitude information. Information other than the latitude and longitude information may be used as long as it is information capable of specifying the location where the corresponding content information 302 is transmitted. The positional information 303 is an example without limitation, and may or may not use the beacon ID of the beacon transmitter arrange|positioned at each position, the base station ID of a base station, etc.

In the example shown in Fig. 3(a), the user with the user ID "U0201524" sends a message from the user's terminal from the location "(X1, Y1)" to "The store A at the AA Festival is very good!" You can understand what is being sent.

FIG. 3B is a data conceptual diagram showing an example of the data configuration of the location management information 310 stored in the server 10 . As shown in FIG.3(b), the location management information 310 is information in which the place name 311 and the location information 312 were associated.

The place name 311 is information for identifying a place within a specific range, and is a display name used as an example of changing the display mode.

The location information 312 is information indicating a range included in the corresponding place name 311 . In the example shown in FIG.3(b), although the example which shows the range of longitude and latitude information is shown, the positional information 312 is not limited to this. As the positional information 312, the beacon ID of the beacon transmitter or the base station ID of the base station may be used, or it is not necessary to do so. In addition, when using beacon ID and base station ID, with respect to one place name 311, not one but several beacon ID and base station ID may be associated.

In addition, with respect to one place name in the location management information 310, a plurality of places may be further included therein, and the location information associated with places with different names may or may not overlap with each other. . In the example shown in FIG.3(b), the example containing several places, such as "store A" and "store B", is shown in "AA festival venue".

In the example shown in FIG.3(b), it can be understood that the range of "(XA1, YA1)-(XA2, YA2)" is included in the place name "AA Festival".

By having the message management information 300 shown in Fig. 3(a) and the location management information 310 shown in Fig. 3(b), it is possible to specify whether the content transmitted from the user terminal 20 is related to a specific place. can

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4 is a flowchart showing an example of exchange between devices in the communication system 1 . As shown in Fig. 4, the terminal 20b receives an input of a first message for a predetermined open chat (a chat room may be used; hereinafter simply referred to as open chat) as content from the user.

Upon receiving the input of the first message for the open chat, the terminal 20b acquires first location information indicating the location of the terminal 20b (step S401). Then, the terminal 20b transmits the first location information together with the first message to the server 10 (step S402).

The server 10 confirms that the first location information accompanying the received first message is within a predetermined area related to the open chat. Then, in this case, the server 10 sends the first message to the terminals participating in the open chat (the terminals 20a and 20c, although not shown, may include transmission to the terminal 20b). Along with transmission, the display of the first message in the first display mode is instructed (step S403). In addition, although it is assumed here that it is confirmed whether the 1st positional information is a position within a predetermined area, it is good also as checking whether this is not a predetermined area (range) but a predetermined place.

Upon receiving the first message, the terminal 20a displays the first message from the server 10 in the first display manner on the open chat (step S404). Similarly, when the terminal 20c also receives the first message from the server 10, the first message is displayed on the open chatting mode in the first display mode (step S405).

Meanwhile, the terminal 20c receives the input of the second message from the user of the terminal 20c for the same open chat (step S406). When the terminal 20c receives the input of the second message from the user, the terminal 20c acquires the second location information of the terminal 20c. Then, the terminal 20c transmits the second location information together with the second message to the server 10 (step S407).

The server 10 confirms that the second location information accompanying the received second message is not in a predetermined area related to the open chat. Then, the server 10 transmits a second message to the terminals (terminals 20a and 20b, although not shown, may include transmission to the terminal 20c) participating in the open chatting, The display of the second message in the second display mode is instructed (step S408).

Receiving this, the terminals 20a and 20b participating in the chat room display the second message in the second display mode (step S409). The above is an example of exchange of each device in the communication system 1 .

Next, the operation of the terminal 20 for realizing the exchange shown in FIG. 4 will be described with reference to FIG. 5 . 5 is a flowchart showing an operation example of the terminal 20 for realizing the exchange shown in FIG.

As shown in FIG. 5 , when the terminal 20 receives input of a message as content for open chat through the input/output unit 23 (YES in step S501), the input/output unit 23 receives the input message The contents are transmitted to the control unit 21 .

The message processing unit 211 of the control unit 21 instructs the position information acquisition unit 25 to acquire position information. Then, the positional information acquisition unit 25 acquires the positional information, and transmits the acquired positional information to the control unit 21 (step S502).

The message processing unit 211 transmits the acquired positional information together with the input message to the server 10 via the communication I/F 22 (step S503), and ends the processing.

On the other hand, when the message is not input (NO in step S501) and the communication I/F 22 is receiving the message (YES in step S504), the communication I/F 22 transmits the received message to the control unit 21 send to The message processing unit 211 of the control unit 21 determines whether the indication of the display mode accompanying the received message is the display indication of the first display mode (step S505).

When the instruction from the server 10 is a display instruction for the first display mode (YES in step S505), the message processing unit 211 sends the message received in the open chat to the display processing unit 212 in the first display mode. instructed to display In response to this instruction, the display processing unit 212 displays the received message on the display unit 24 in the first display mode (step S506), and ends the processing.

On the other hand, when the instruction from the server 10 does not indicate the display of the first display mode (NO in step S505), the message processing unit 211 sends the received message to the display processing unit 212 in the first display mode. Instructs to display in open chat in a second display mode different from . In response to this instruction, the display processing unit 212 displays the received message on the display unit 24 in the second display mode (step S507), and ends the processing.

Next, the operation of the server 10 for realizing the exchange shown in FIG. 4 will be described using the flowchart shown in FIG.

As shown in Fig. 6, the communication I/F 14 of the server 10 includes, from the terminal 20, a user ID that can specify the sender of the message, along with content (message) that is an input to the chat room. Location information on the location of the terminal 20 is received (step S601). The communication I/F 14 transmits the received message to the control unit 11 .

The determination unit 112 of the control unit 11 determines whether the chat room in which the message was transmitted and the location information accompanying the received message are related (step S602).

If the determination unit 112 determines that the location information accompanying the received message is at a location associated with the chat room (YES in step S602), it transmits that fact to the message processing unit 111 . Then, the message processing unit 111 transmits the received message, the user ID and the display instruction in the first display mode, which is the display mode of the received message, to the terminal 20 through the communication I/F 14 and (Step S603), the process ends.

On the other hand, if the determination unit 112 determines that the location information accompanying the received message does not exist in the place associated with the chat room (NO in step S602), it transmits that fact to the message processing unit 111 . Then, the message processing unit 111 transmits the received message, the user ID and the display instruction in the second display mode, which is the display mode of the received message, to the terminal 20 through the communication I/F 14, (Step S604), the process ends.

Fig. 7(b) shows an example of a screen diagram to be displayed on the display unit 24 of the terminal 20a as a result of the exchange shown in Figs. 4 to 6 .

Fig. 7(b) shows an example in which the message 711, the message 712, and the message 713 are displayed in different display modes. That is, as the first display mode, messages 712 and 713 are displayed, and as the second display mode, a message 711 indicated by white characters on a black background is displayed. The display with different display modes is not limited to this, and may be realized by changing the character color, changing the character font, changing the message frame shape, changing the message background color, or a combination thereof.

Fig. 7(a) shows an example in which a message is displayed without changing the display mode. As can be understood by comparing Figs. 7(a) and 7(b), by changing the display mode of the message, it is possible to make the user understand the authenticity of the message at a glance.

In the exchange shown in Figs. 4 to 6, it is determined whether the location information of the message is related to the transmitted chat room and the message display mode is determined. However, the messaging service provided by the server 10 is It is not necessary to make a judgment, but to simply specify where the terminal 20 that transmitted the message was, and to display the location in association with the message, or it is not necessary to do so. That is, as shown in Fig. 7(c), information indicating the transmission position of each message may be displayed in association with each message or the sender of the message. In the example of FIG. 7( c ), it may be understood that message 711 was transmitted at station BB, and messages 712 and 713 were both transmitted within the AA festival venue. In addition, the display name may be any name related to the place, such as the name of a place, the name of a station, a place name, or a burial name.

In addition, although the display mode is different depending on whether the location information of the message is related to the transmitted chat room in FIGS. 4 to 6 , the server 10 transmits the message and the location information of the terminal allowing the transmission of the location information. The display mode may be different in the message of the unauthorized terminal. The user who has permitted the transmission of the location information may be configured to display as a message with high reliability due to the high reliability of message transmission.

In addition, although the example in which the server 10 determines a display mode is shown in the example shown in FIGS. 4-6, it is good also as the terminal 20 not the server 10 making determination of a display mode. That is, when the server 10 receives a message and location information from any terminal participating in the chat room, the server 10 transmits the message and location information to all terminals participating in the chat room as it is. Then, the message processing unit 211 of the terminal 20 determines whether the received message is a place associated with the chat room, similarly to the processing performed by the server 10, based on the received location information. The display mode of the message may be determined, and the display processing unit 212 may be instructed to display the message in the determined display mode.

<Modification of Embodiment 1>

However, as a user of the terminal 20, it is often desired to see only reliable messages. Therefore, the terminal 20 may receive the message filtering setting from the user and display the message according to the set filtering condition.

8 is a flowchart illustrating an operation example of the terminal 20 . The input/output unit 23 of the terminal 20 receives an input of a filtering condition related to message display from the user (step S801). The filtering condition is an example and not a limitation, and only the message of the 1st display mode may be displayed, and it does not need to be. In addition, the filtering condition may or may not display only the message of the second display mode. In addition, the filtering condition may or may not display only messages related to a specific place. In addition, the filtering condition may or may not display only the message specified by the sender attribute of the message (an example, not limitation, may have gender or age, but is not limited thereto). The input/output unit 23 transmits the received filtering condition to the message processing unit 211 .

The message processing unit 211 acquires each message attribute displayed in the chat room (step S802). Acquisition of each message attribute is an example, not limitation, and may or may not be obtained from tag data associated with a message. In addition, the acquisition of a message attribute may be acquired by making an inquiry to the server 10 via the communication I/F 22, and it may not be necessary. The message attribute may be information indicating the characteristics of the message, and may or may not include information on the display mode of the message, information on the place where the message is sent, and information indicating characteristics such as the age and gender of the message sender. .

The message processing unit 211 specifies a message corresponding to the filtering condition set by the user (step S803). As an example and not limitation, the message processing unit 211 specifies only the message for which display in the first display mode is instructed by the server 10 when the display of only the messages in the first display mode is the filtering condition.

The message processing unit 211 instructs the display processing unit 212 to display only the message after specific filtering. The display processing unit 212 displays only the specified filtered message in the chat room (step S804), and ends the processing.

Fig. 9 is a diagram showing a display example when filtering is performed. Fig. 9(a) is a diagram showing a display example of a chat room before filtering. As shown in Fig. 9(a) , a method in which messages 712 and 713 in the first display mode and messages 711 in the second display mode are mixed is shown.

Compared to this state, when only a message with high reliability is to be displayed, assuming that only the message in the first display mode is displayed as a filtering condition, a message 712 and a message 713 are shown in Fig. 9(b). is displayed, and the message 711 may be displayed in a mode in which it is not displayed.

On the other hand, if the filtering condition is that only messages in the second display mode are displayed, as shown in Fig. 9(c), only the message 711 is displayed and the other messages 712 and 713 are not displayed. can be displayed

<Effect of Embodiment 1>

According to the terminal (20) according to the first embodiment, the server (10) receives messages from each of the user terminals participating in the chat room, depending on whether there is location information about the place where the message was transmitted, and the messages from each terminal. ) to change the display mode.

Thereby, by confirming the display mode of the message of the terminal 20, the user of the terminal 20 can use it as an index of how reliable the message is.

In addition, when transmitting the message, the terminal 20 transmits all the position information measured by using a positioning system such as GNSS to the server 10 . Upon receiving this, the server 10 may give an instruction to display the message in a different display mode as the message display mode, with the message transmitted from the place related to the chat room of the message transmission destination and the message not.

Thereby, with respect to the message transmitted to the chat room, the terminal 20 can display the message in the display mode according to the authenticity of the message from the location information of the terminal 20 that transmitted the message.

In addition, the terminal 20 may display information about the place where the message was transmitted as a message display mode. The information about the location referred to herein is the location where the message is transmitted, and may be any name as long as the location can be specified, and may include a city name, a place name, a store name, and the like.

Thereby, since the terminal 20 can display the information about the location along with the message, the user can specify how reliable the content of the remark is from the place name.

In addition, the terminal 20 may accept the filtering condition from the user for the message displayed in the chat room, and display the message only in the first display mode or the message only in the second display mode. .

Thereby, the terminal 20 can display only the information the user wants to know, and can make it not display the information which becomes noise to a user.

In addition, when receiving a message from the terminal 20 , the server 10 stores the message and the received location information in the storage unit 15 in association with each other.

Thereby, the server 10 can determine the display mode of a message, or can use it as a judgment material whether to change the display mode of a message.

When participating in a chat room, the terminal 20 can transmit various contents such as a text message, an image, an audio, a map, and the like, to the chat room as an example and not by way of limitation.

Accordingly, the user can not only browse the contents of the chat room, but also can transmit information to be transmitted to the chat room by himself or herself, and can provide information to a large number of unspecified users.

<Embodiment 2>

In the first embodiment described above, the terminal 20 transmits the longitude and latitude information acquired by the location information acquisition means provided in the terminal 20 to the server 10 together with the message. In addition, it was also demonstrated that the beacon ID and ID of a base station included in the beacon signal received by the terminal 20 can be used as the position information transmitted by the terminal 20 . In Embodiment 2, in the communication system 1, what kind of compensation can be obtained when the terminal 20 satisfies a specific condition will be described.

10 is a diagram showing a configuration example of the communication system 1 according to the second embodiment. As shown in FIG. 10 , the communication system 1 includes a beacon transmitter 40 . The beacon transmitter 40 is an electronic device that transmits a beacon signal at a predetermined timing. The beacon transmitter 40 according to the second embodiment is a device in which the arrangement position is fixed (information of which beacon transmitter 40 is arranged in which position is stored in the server 10 in advance), the beacon transmitter Receiving the beacon signal generated from (40) is determined to exist in the vicinity of the beacon transmitter (40), and can be used as location information.

The terminal 20 according to the second embodiment transmits a beacon signal transmitted from the beacon transmitter 40 or a beacon ID included in the beacon signal as location information transmitted together with the message.

In addition, the server 10 specifies the location of the terminal 20 based on the beacon signal transmitted together with the message received from the terminal 20 or the beacon ID included in the beacon signal, and determines the display mode of the message. decide

In addition, the control unit 11 of the server 10 includes a specifying unit 113 . The specifying unit 113 specifies a privilege to be transmitted to the terminal 20 that has transmitted the beacon ID when the received message includes the beacon ID.

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11 is a data conceptual diagram showing a data configuration example of the compensation management information 1100 . The compensation management information is information indicating what privilege is granted to the user when the location information is received from the user terminal 20 and the location information satisfies a specific condition. As shown in FIG. 11 , the compensation management information 1100 is information in which a beacon ID 1101 , a compensation condition 1102 , and the compensation information 1103 are correlated.

The beacon ID 1101 is identification information of the beacon transmitter 40 that can uniquely identify the beacon transmitter 40 that can be used as location information of the terminal 20 transmitted in association with the message. When the beacon ID is received with the message from the terminal 20, it means that the user (the terminal 20) exists in the vicinity of the beacon transmitter corresponding to the beacon ID.

The reward condition 1102 is not a beacon ID, but information indicating a condition for obtaining a reward when the location information acquisition unit 25 of the user terminal 20 receives the location information obtained by positioning with a message.

The compensation information 1103 is transmitted to the terminal 20 when a message including the corresponding beacon ID 1101 is received, or when the terminal 20 satisfies the corresponding compensation condition 1102. Information indicating the content of the reward. The compensation referred to herein may be any kind of benefit to the user of the terminal 20 . Compensation is an example, and not limitation, points that can be used for the purchase of any product or service on the messaging service provided by the server 10, electronic money, and points or electronic points that can be used for the purchase of any product or service other than a messaging service. Aspects of compensation information such as money, discount coupons or coupons that can be used to purchase a certain product or service may vary.

The specifying unit 113 of the server 10 specifies the compensation information transmitted from the compensation management information 1100 to the user terminal 20 .

In the example of FIG. 11 , when "U0201524" is received with the message as the beacon ID 1101, the server 10 transmits "Pr102938" as the reward information 1103 to the terminal 20. .jpg” is understandable. In addition, when the location information received with the message from the user terminal 20 together with the message is within the premises of station D, "Pe1049231.jpg" as a concession to be transmitted to the terminal 20 as the reward information 1103 Transmission is also understandable.

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12 is a flowchart showing an example of exchange between devices related to the communication system 1, and shows the exchange when receiving compensation information from the server 10 when the terminal 20a satisfies a specific condition. .

As shown in FIG. 12, the beacon transmitter 40 transmits a beacon signal regularly (step S1201).

When the terminal 20a exists in the vicinity of the beacon transmitter 40, that is, when it exists within a predetermined range centered on the location where the beacon transmitter 40 is provided, the beacon ID transmitted from the beacon transmitter 40 Receive a beacon signal comprising Then, the terminal 20a transmits a signal including the received beacon ID to the server 10 (step S1202). At this time, the terminal 20a may transmit after extracting beacon ID from the received beacon signal, and may make it transmit by matching the user ID of own terminal with the received beacon signal itself. In addition, the terminal 20a may transmit the signal including the beacon ID to the server 10 together with the message input from the user.

When the server 10 receives the signal including the beacon ID from the terminal 20a, the server 10 confirms that the beacon ID included in the signal satisfies a predetermined condition (step S1203). The server 10 specifies the reward information corresponding to the beacon ID (step S1204). Then, the server 10 transmits specific compensation information to the terminal 20a (step S1205).

When the terminal 20a receives the reward information from the server 10, it displays the received reward information (step S1206). Thereby, the user recognizes that the reward has been received.

13 is a flowchart showing an operation example of the terminal 20 for realizing the exchange shown in FIG. 12 .

As shown in FIG. 13, the communication I/F 22 of the terminal 20 determines whether the beacon signal transmitted from the beacon transmitter 40 was received (step S1301). When receiving a beacon signal (YES in step S1301), the communication I/F 22 transmits the received beacon signal to the control unit 21 . When a beacon signal is not received (NO in step S1301), the processing proceeds to step S1303.

The control unit 21 extracts a beacon ID from the received beacon signal. Then, the extracted beacon ID and user ID are transmitted to the server 10 via the communication I/F 22 (step S1302). Moreover, although beacon ID shall be extracted here, the terminal 20 is good also as what transmits the received beacon signal to the server 10 as it is, without extracting beacon ID as mentioned above.

The communication I/F 22 of the terminal 20 determines whether compensation information has been received from the server 10 (step S1303). When receiving compensation information from the server 10 (YES in step S1303), the communication I/F 22 transmits the received compensation information to the control unit 21 . The message processing unit 211 of the control unit 21 instructs the display processing unit 212 to display the received compensation information. The display processing unit 212 displays the compensation information on the display unit 24 (step S1304), and ends the processing. Even if compensation information is not received (NO in S1303), the processing is ended.

Fig. 14 is a flowchart showing an operation example of the server 10 for realizing the exchange shown in Fig. 12;

As shown in Fig. 14, the communication I/F 14 of the server 10 receives a signal including a beacon ID from the terminal 20 (step S1401). The communication I/F 14 transmits the received signal to the control unit 11 .

Upon receiving the signal including the beacon ID from the terminal 20, the specifying unit 113 of the control unit 11 extracts the beacon ID from the signal. Then, it is determined based on whether the extracted beacon ID matches any one of the beacon IDs 1101 of the compensation management information 1100 . When the beacon ID matching the extracted beacon ID is in the compensation management information 1100, the specifying unit 113 specifies the corresponding compensation information 1103 (step S1402). The specific unit 113 transmits specific compensation information to the message processing unit 111 .

The message processing unit 111 transmits the received compensation information to the terminal 20 via the communication I/F 14 (step S1403), and ends the processing. Thereby, the terminal 20 displays the reward information.

In addition, although it was assumed that the terminal 20 receives compensation information from the server 10 as mentioned above, it is not limited to this. The terminal 20 may receive compensation information together with a beacon signal from the beacon transmitter 40 installed at a specific location. That is, the compensation information may be transmitted from the beacon transmitter 40 to the terminal 20, and the beacon transmitter 40 may transmit the compensation information together with the beacon signal or separately from the beacon signal. In addition, as can be understood from the fact that the compensation condition 1102 is set in the compensation management information 1100, the processing shown in FIGS. 12 to 14 is performed by the location information acquisition unit 25 of the terminal 20 instead of the beacon ID. ) may be processed using the acquired positional information. Further, the reward information may be displayed in a chat room displaying a message in which the display mode is changed (or not changed), as shown in the first embodiment above. In the case of displaying the reward information in the chat room, the reward information may or may not be displayed only on the user terminal 20 that has received the reward information.

15 is an example of a display screen displayed on the display unit 24 of the terminal 20 . As shown in FIG. 15 , the terminal 20 displays the reward information 1503 along with the messages 1501 and 1502 on the display unit 24 . In the example shown in FIG. 15, the mode in which the reward was transmitted from the server 10 with respect to the user visiting the AA festival is shown. In this way, by receiving the beacon signal, it is possible to understand that the user holding the terminal 20 is in the vicinity of the beacon transmitter that transmits the beacon signal, so that a reward can be transmitted to the user terminal.

<Effect of Embodiment 2>

When the terminal 20 receives a beacon signal from the beacon transmitter 40 , it transmits a beacon signal or a beacon ID included in the beacon signal to the server 10 . When the reward information is associated with the beacon ID, the server 10 transmits the reward information to the terminal 20, and the terminal 20 displays the received reward information. In addition, the terminal 20 can use the positional information acquired by the positional information acquisition part 25 of a child terminal by the positioning system instead of beacon ID.

Thereby, when the user of the terminal 20 visits a specific place or a specific building, as an example and not at a specific location, where a certain event is being held, the user can receive compensation information for the visit. Accordingly, it is possible to motivate the user to visit a specific place. Also, being able to understand what can be rewarded can improve the likelihood that other users will visit the place.

<Embodiment 3>

Embodiment 3 describes an example in which a user invites a user to a specific chat room by visiting a specific place. 16 is a flowchart showing an example of inviting a user to a chat room (open chat) as an example of exchange between devices related to the communication system 1;

As shown in FIG. 16, the beacon transmitter 40 transmits a beacon signal (step S1201).

When the terminal 20a receives the beacon signal, it transmits a signal including the beacon ID of the received beacon signal to the server 10 (step S1202).

When the server 10 receives a signal from the terminal 20a, the server 10 specifies a link (for example, without limitation, URL (Uniform Resource Locator)) for opening a chat room (open chatting) corresponding to the beacon ID included in the signal. do (step S1603). Then, the server 10 transmits the specific chatting URL to the terminal 20a (step S1604).

The terminal 20a displays the URL received from the server 10 (step S1606). Then, the user of the terminal 20a receives an operation for the URL (the operation of touching the URL as an example without limitation), and opens (displays) the corresponding chat room (step S1607).

17 is a flowchart showing an operation example of the terminal 20 for realizing the exchange shown in FIG. 16 . Since the flowchart shown in FIG. 17 is common to the flowchart shown in FIG. 13 and the process of step S1302, the description up to step S1302 is omitted.

As shown in Fig. 17, the communication I/F 22 of the terminal 20 determines whether information including the URL is being received from the server 10 (step S1703). When receiving the information including the URL from the server 10 (YES in step S1703), the communication I/F 22 transmits the information including the URL to the control unit 21 . The message processing unit 211 of the control unit 21 instructs the display processing unit 212 to display the information including the received URL. The display processing unit 212 displays the information including the received URL on the display unit 24 (step S1704), and the processing proceeds to the processing of step S1705. Moreover, when the information including the URL is not received from the server 10 (NO in S1703), the process ends.

When the information including the URL is displayed, the input/output unit 23 of the terminal 20 determines whether there is an input from the user for the displayed URL (step S1705). The input from the user as used herein is not limiting, but may be an input such as touching a displayed URL or an input of an instruction to display information linked to the URL. When there is input from the user for the displayed URL (YES in step S1705), the message processing unit 211 specifies a chat room corresponding to the URL, and instructs the display processing unit 212 to display the specified chat room. The display processing unit 212 displays the chat room on the display unit 24 (step S1706), and ends the processing. Further, even when there is no input to the URL (NO in step S1705), the process ends.

18 is a flowchart showing an operation example of the server 10 for realizing the exchange shown in FIG.

As shown in Fig. 18, the communication I/F 14 of the server 10 receives a signal including a beacon ID from the terminal 20 (step S1401). The communication I/F 14 transmits the received signal to the control unit 11 .

The message processing unit 111 of the control unit 11 extracts the beacon ID from the received signal. And the URL corresponding to the extracted beacon ID is specified (step S1802). This can be realized by maintaining a table in which beacon IDs and URLs are associated as an example, not limitation.

The message processing unit 111 transmits the specific URL to the terminal 20 via the communication I/F 14 (step S1803), and ends the processing.

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing an example of a screen displayed on the display unit of the terminal related to steps S1704 and S1706 of FIG. 17 . 19A is a screen diagram showing a display example displayed on the display area of the display unit 24 of the terminal 20 . In Fig. 19(a), an example of displaying URL information in a manner in which the compensation information shown in Fig. 15 is added to the displayed screen is shown. However, the display of messages 1501 to 1503 is not essential.

As shown in the message 1901 of FIG. 19( a ), when the terminal 20 receives URL information from the server 10 , the terminal 20 displays text prompting an invitation to a chat room related to the place where the user is currently located. At the same time, the URL 1902 of the chat room is displayed. Then, as an example, by performing a touch operation on this URL 1902, a chat room with a link is displayed as shown in Fig. 19(b). At this time, the display mode of each message displayed in the chat room displayed as a link is the display mode according to the location where the message is transmitted, as shown in Fig. 7(b) of the first embodiment or Fig. 19(b). Alternatively, as shown in Fig. 7(a), the message may be displayed without changing the display mode.

In this way, when the terminal 20 receives the beacon signal, the terminal 20 may display a URL for entering the chat room associated with the place where the beacon transmitter 40 that has transmitted the beacon signal is installed. In addition, although it is assumed that the terminal 20 receives information containing a URL from the server 10 in FIGS. 16-18, it is not limited to this. The beacon transmitter 40 may transmit by including URL information for inviting not only beacon ID but the chat room related to the installation position in the beacon signal to be oscillated. And, the terminal 20 does not transmit the beacon ID included in the received beacon signal to the server 10, and as shown in FIG. 19(a), displays information including the URL included in the beacon signal. It may be done by doing

<Effect of Embodiment 3>

When the terminal 20 receives a beacon signal from the beacon transmitter 40, information for displaying a chat room related to the place where the beacon transmitter 40 is installed, as an example, and not by way of limitation, is displayed. . Then, when the user touches the URL, the terminal 20 opens a chat room and displays a message.

Thereby, when there is a chat room related to the place the user has visited, the user can recognize information about the place from the content of exchange of messages in the chat room.

<Embodiment 4>

In the above embodiment, the message is displayed in the chat room in a display mode according to the place where each terminal 20 transmitted the message. In particular, the terminal 20 changes the display mode between a message transmitted from a place related to the chat room and a message transmitted from a place not related to the chat room, so that the reliability of each message can be determined.

However, it cannot be said that the user of the terminal 20 is always in the same place, and as time passes, the reliability of information may become blurred. For example, as an example and not a limitation, even if a certain user transmits information that it is crowded to a certain store, it is not limited to being crowded even after one hour. Accordingly, in the fourth embodiment, an example in which the display mode of each message displayed by the terminal 20 is changed according to the movement of the user who transmitted the message or the passage of time will be described.

20 is a flowchart illustrating an operation example of the terminal 20 . The flowchart shown in FIG. 20 is a flowchart which shows an example of changing the display mode of a message over time. The terminal 20 performs the processing shown in FIG. 20 for all displayed messages every predetermined time (as an example and not limitedly, every minute) or when the display position in the chat room is changed. run

As shown in Fig. 20, for each message displayed in the chat room, the message processing unit 211 of the terminal 20 determines whether a predetermined time has elapsed from the message transmission time (step S2001). This can be determined by whether the difference between the transmission time of each message (the reception time at which the terminal 20 received the message from the server 10 may be sufficient) and the current time displayed by the terminal 20 is equal to or greater than a predetermined time. . If the predetermined time has not elapsed, the process proceeds to the next message. When processing the last message displayed, the processing ends.

When the message processing unit 211 determines that a predetermined time has elapsed from the time of transmission of the message (YES in step S2001), the message display mode is set next to the location where the message was transmitted from the place associated with the chat room (or the location). It is determined whether the information is displayed in the first display mode indicating that the information is the associated message (step S2002). When the message display mode is not the first display mode (NO in step S2002), the flow advances to the next message processing. When processing the last message displayed, the processing ends.

When the display mode of the message to be processed is the first display mode (Yes in step S2002), the message processing unit 211 changes the message display mode from the first display mode to the second display mode. instruct to The display processing unit 212 changes the display mode of the corresponding message from the first display mode to the second display mode according to an instruction from the message processing unit 211 and displays it on the display unit 24 (step S2003).

Then, the message processing unit 211 shifts to processing the next message. If the message being processed is the last message displayed, the processing is terminated.

Fig. 21 is an example of a screen showing a change in display when the process shown in Fig. 20 is executed. Fig. 21(a) shows the state of a chat room displayed at an arbitrary timing (at 13:00). As shown in Fig. 21(a), the message transmitted at 12:15 is displayed in the second display mode, and the message transmitted at 12:18 and 12:20 is displayed in the first display mode. In this state, it is assumed that one and a half hours have elapsed as the predetermined time.

Fig. 21(b) is a diagram showing an example of a screen of a chat room after an hour and a half from the state shown in Fig. 21(a). As can be seen by comparing Fig. 21 (b) and Fig. 21 (a), the message display mode is changed as a predetermined time elapses. Here, in the case where the message transmission location is displayed as the message display mode, the display of the location name may or may not be deleted.

Next, an example of changing the display mode of a message other than the passage of time will be described. 22 is a flowchart showing a process for changing a display mode of a message when the terminal which transmitted the message moves from the place from which the message was transmitted, and showing an example of exchange between devices of the communication system 1 .

In Fig. 22, since the processing up to step S405 is the same as the processing described using Fig. 4, the description is omitted.

Each terminal 20 that transmits the message transmits location information of its own terminal every predetermined time. The server 10 detects that a predetermined time has elapsed after the first location information cannot be received from the terminal 20b that has transmitted the first message (step S2201). Then, the server 10 instructs the terminals 20a and 20c participating in the chat room to change the display mode of the first message from the first display mode to the second display mode (step S2202).

Each of the terminals 20a and 20c receiving this instruction changes and displays the display mode of the first message transmitted from the terminal 20b from the first display mode to the second display mode (steps S2203 and S2204).

Fig. 23 is a flowchart showing an example of exchange of each device when, unlike the exchange shown in Fig. 22, the terminal 20 transmits the location information to the server 10, but moves from the place where the message is transmitted. In the flowchart shown in FIG. 23, the description of the process up to step S405 is omitted similarly to FIG.

As shown in Fig. 23, when the terminal 20b transmits the first message in step S402, it transmits location information different from the transmitted first location information to the server 10 (step S2301). At this time, the terminal 20b may transmit a message together with the location information.

When the server 10 receives the location information from the terminal 20b, the server 10 checks whether the location information is the same as the first location information when the message was previously transmitted. Then, when the server 10 detects that the location information received from the terminal 20b is different from the first location information, the server 10 changes the display mode of the first message from the first display mode to the second display mode, Instructs the terminals 20a and 20c participating in the operation (step S2302).

Then, the terminal 20a and terminal 20c receiving the instruction change the display mode of the first message from the first display mode to the second display mode, and display the first message (steps S2303 and S2304).

24 is a flowchart showing an operation example of the server 10 for realizing the exchange shown in FIGS. 22 and 23 .

As shown in Fig. 24, the server 10 instructs each terminal participating in the chat room to display in the first display mode as the display mode of the message received from the terminal 20 (step S2401). This processing corresponds to the processing of step S603 in FIG. 6 .

The message processing unit 111 of the server 10 determines whether a predetermined time has elapsed since the last reception of the location information from the user terminal participating in the chat room (step S2402). The predetermined time referred to herein is a time during which the credibility of the message transmitted by the user to the chat room may be diminished, and is not limited, and may be set to one hour as an example, but is not limited to one hour. The message processing unit 111 performs the processing of step S2402 for each user participating in the chat room. In addition, here, an example is shown in which judgment is made based on the passage of time from the time of message transmission, but the time when the credibility of the message may become sparse is divided into a predetermined time within a predetermined period (not limited, but one day). It may be done by doing. That is, as an example and not limitation, when the current time reaches a predetermined time, the display mode of the message may be switched. As an example and not limitation, when the closing time of the festival venue is 20:00, the display mode of the chat room may be configured to be switched at the timing after 20:00.

When there is a terminal in which a predetermined period of time has elapsed since the last location information was received, and there is a message in which the message sent by the terminal is instructed to be displayed in the first display mode ( Yes in step S2402), with respect to the message, through the communication I/F 14, each terminal 20 participating in the chat room is instructed to change the display mode of the message to the second display mode (step S2403) . When there is a terminal in which a predetermined time has elapsed since the last time the location information was received, and there is no message in which the message transmitted by the terminal has been instructed to display in the first display mode (step 111) No in S2402), the flow advances to the processing in step S2404.

On the other hand, when receiving the location information of the terminal from the user terminal participating in the chat room, the communication I/F 14 of the terminal 20 transmits the received location information to the control unit 11 . When the message processing unit 111 of the control unit 11 receives location information from a user terminal participating in the chat room, the received location information is the location information received from the terminal, and a location different from the last received location information. It is determined whether it is information (step S2404). If the positional information matches (No in step S2404), the process ends.

If the received location information and the previously received location information are different from the last received location information (YES in step S2404), the message processing unit 111 goes back from the present to the past and receives a predetermined value from the user terminal 20. It is determined whether a message for the chat room has been received within the time (step S2405). If not received (No in step S2405), the process ends.

When a message has been received (YES in step S2405), after confirming that the display mode of the message is indicated as the first display mode, the communication I/ Instructs all terminals 20 participating in the chat room via F 14 (step S2406), and the process ends.

25 is a flowchart showing an operation example of the terminal 20 for realizing the exchange shown in FIGS. 22 and 23 .

As shown in Fig. 25, the communication I/F 22 of the terminal 20 receives a user ID and a message display mode change instruction from the server 10 (step S2501). The communication I/F 22 transmits the received instruction to the control unit 21 .

The message processing unit 211 receives the instruction received from the server 10, and specifies a message corresponding to the received user ID from among the messages displayed in the chat room (step S2502).

Then, the message processing unit 211 instructs the display processing unit 212 to change the display mode of the specific message from the first display mode to the second display mode. The display processing unit 212 receives this instruction, displays the designated message on the display unit 24 in the second display mode (step S2503), and ends the processing.

The change example of the display mode in this case is an example, and is the same as the display example shown in FIG.

<Effect of Embodiment 4>

When the server 10 receives a message from a user terminal participating in the chat room, it is determined whether the location information associated with the message includes the same location information as the message sent by the user in the past to the chat room. . When the server 10 determines that they do not have the same location information, the server 10 transmits, to the terminal 20, an instruction to change the display mode of a message sent by the user in the past.

In this way, each user participating in the chat room can confirm that the message transmitted from each place has passed over time or that the reliability of the message has deteriorated due to movement from the place where the user sent the message.

<Embodiment 5>

In the modification of the first embodiment described above, an example of filtering in the message display mode has been described. In the fifth embodiment, an example in which the message is displayed in a chat room by filtering at the sending location of the message will be described.

Fig. 26 is a flowchart showing the exchange between the terminal 20 and the server 10 when filtering different from the display mode is performed as a filtering condition.

As shown in Fig. 26, the terminal 20a accepts place designation as a message filtering condition (step S2601). The terminal 20a transmits the received information on the location as the filtering condition to the server 10 (step S2602).

When the server 10 receives the condition regarding the place as the filtering condition, the server 10 specifies the message transmitted from the designated place (step S2603). The server 10 transmits information about a specific message to the terminal (step S2604).

The terminal 20a displays only the received message (step S2605).

Fig. 27 is a flowchart showing an operation example of the terminal 20 for realizing the exchange shown in Fig. 26;

As shown in FIG. 27 , the input/output unit 23 of the terminal 20 receives an input of a filtering condition for displaying only messages having attributes designated by the user (step S2701). The input/output unit 23 transmits the accepted filtering condition to the control unit 21 .

The message processing unit 211 of the control unit 21 transmits the received filtering condition to the server 10 via the communication I/F 22 (step S2702). Accordingly, a message according to the filtering condition or information about the message is transmitted from the server 10 . The message or message-related information is information that can specify the message itself or the message transmitted to the chat room in the past.

The communication I/F 22 of the terminal 20 receives a message or message-related information from the server 10 (step S2703). The terminal I/F 22 transmits the received message or information about the message to the control unit 22 .

The message processing unit 211 instructs the display processing unit 212 to display only a message specified from the received information. The display processing unit 212 displays the chat room including only the designated message on the display unit 24 (step S2704), and ends the processing.

Fig. 28 is a flowchart showing an example of operation of the server 10 for realizing the exchange shown in Fig. 26;

As shown in Fig. 28, the communication I/F 22 of the server 10 receives information about the location as a filtering condition from the terminal 20 (step S2801). The communication I/F 22 transmits to the control unit 11 the received information on the location as the filtering condition.

The message processing unit 111 of the control unit 11 specifies, with respect to the received message transmitted to the chat room in which the filtering condition is set, the place where the message is transmitted. Then, the message processing unit 111 specifies a message matching the position as a filtering condition (step S2802).

The message processing unit 111 transmits a message regarding a specific filtering condition or information about the message to the terminal 20 via the communication I/F 14 (step S2803), and ends the processing.

In addition, in FIGS. 26-28, although the mode which the terminal 20a inquires to the server 10 for the message suitable for a filtering condition was shown, it is not limited to this. When the server 10 transmits the message transmitted from the terminal 20 to the chat room to the other terminals 20 participating in the chat room, when the server 10 also transmits information on the sending location of the message, the terminal 20a transmits the message to the server ( 10), it is also possible to filter each message and display the chat room after filtering.

<Effect of Embodiment 5>

When the terminal 20 displays the message of the chat room, the terminal 20 may filter the message to be displayed. As an example, when the user wants to check a message about a specific place, an input for designating a place is inputted as a filtering condition to the terminal 20 . The terminal 20 displays only the message transmitted from the input place. In addition, the filtering of which message is displayed may be performed by the server 10 or the terminal 20. As shown in FIG.

Thereby, the user can check only the messages according to the filtered condition. For example, when an input from a specific place is accepted as a filtering condition, a message transmitted from the specific place is displayed, so that only messages with high reliability from the place designated by the user can be checked.

<Embodiment 6>

In the sixth embodiment, a display mode of the chat room in which it is easy to recognize from which place the users participating in the chat room are sending messages, the number of people and the number of messages will be described. That is, in a chat room, the mode of displaying information resulting from the number of people who transmitted messages from a certain place or the total number of messages sent from that place is shown.

Fig. 29 is a flow chart showing the exchange of each device for displaying the number of messages associated with a place. Knowing the number of messages pertaining to a place can be a criterion for how many users are interested in that place.

As shown in Fig. 29, the terminal 20b receives the input of the first message from the user (step S401).

The terminal 20b transmits the received first message and the first location information indicating the location of the terminal 20b to the server 10 (step S402).

The server 10 checks whether the received first location information is within a predetermined area, that is, a place related to a chat room, and counts the number of messages transmitted from within the area (step S2903). Then, the server 10 transmits, to the terminal 20, each message participating in the chat room together with the message received along with the counted number of messages and an instruction to be displayed in the first display mode as a display mode of the message. (Step S2904).

When the terminal 20 receives the message from the server 10, an indication of its display mode, and information on the number of messages transmitted from the location of the terminal 20b that sent the message, it displays the message in the indicated display mode in the chat room. . In addition, the terminal 20 displays information on the number of messages transmitted from each place, as a message in the chat room, for each place where the message is transmitted (step S2905).

30 is a flowchart showing an operation example of the server 10 for realizing the exchange shown in FIG.

As shown in Fig. 30, the communication I/F 14 of the server 10 receives the user ID and location information together with the message from the terminal 20 (step S601). The communication I/F 14 transmits each received information to the control unit 11 .

The message processing unit 111 of the control unit 11 determines whether the location information of the received message has been transmitted from a location associated with the chat room (step S602).

When the received message is transmitted from a location associated with the chat room (YES in step S602), the message processing unit 111 counts the total number of messages in the chat room transmitted from that location (step S3003). Then, the message processing unit 111 transmits a display instruction for displaying the received message in the first display mode, the received message, the user ID, and the counted number of messages, to the chat room through the communication I/F 14 . It transmits to each participating terminal 20 (step S3005), and the process ends.

On the other hand, if the received message is not transmitted from the location associated with the chat room (NO in step S602), the display instruction in the second display mode, the received message, and the user ID are communicated via the communication I/F 14 , is transmitted to each terminal 20 participating in the chat room (step S3004), and the process ends. At this time, the message processing unit 111 may be configured to count and transmit the total number of messages instructed to be displayed in the second display mode.

Fig. 31 is a flowchart showing an operation example of the terminal 20 for realizing the exchange shown in Fig. 29;

As shown in Fig. 31, the communication I/F 22 of the terminal 20 receives from the server 10 a user ID, a message, an indication of a message display mode, and information about the number of messages (step S3101). The communication I/F 22 transmits each received information to the control unit 11 .

The message processing unit 211 of the control unit 11 instructs the display processing unit 212 to display the received message in the indicated display mode. In addition, the message processing unit 211 instructs the display processing unit 212 to display the number of messages indicating the number of messages existing in the chat room transmitted from the location associated with the chat room. The display processing unit 212 displays the indicated message on the display unit 24 in the indicated display mode. In addition, the display processing unit 212 displays, as an example, and not by way of limitation, the message attributes in the chat room, on the display unit 24, information indicating the number of messages for each location where the messages are transmitted (step S3102), and ends the processing. do. Note that the message attribute is not limited to the location where the message was sent, and other attributes may be used.

Fig. 32 is a screen diagram of a terminal showing an example of displaying the number of messages for each place where a message is transmitted. As shown in Fig. 32, each message sent to the chat room is displayed in the indicated display mode. In addition, as shown in FIG. 32, in the display area of the display part 24 of the terminal 20, the information of the sending place of a message as a message attribute, and the number of messages 3201 transmitted at the sending place are displayed. In the example of FIG. 32, the example in which 11, 36, and 18 were respectively correlated as the total number of messages transmitted from A store, B store, and C store in the AA festival venue is shown. In addition, although Fig. 32 shows an example showing the number of messages, this may be information indicating the number of different users who have transmitted messages from each place instead of the number of messages.

<Effect of Embodiment 6>

With respect to the messages transmitted to the chat room, the terminal 20 displays the total number of messages transmitted from the places for each place where the messages are transmitted.

According to this configuration, the user of the terminal 20 can understand which topic is popular in the chat room. Moreover, according to this structure, a user can use it as an index of how popular each place itself is, and at the same time, conversely, can confirm which place is vacant.

Therefore, as an example and not limitation, if the chat room is information about an amusement park such as an amusement park, and the number of messages displayed is not limiting, but is displayed in correspondence with a store or an attraction in the amusement park, which amusement ride or It is possible to know whether a store is popular, and conversely, if the number of messages is small, it is possible to recognize whether a store or play equipment that can be entered immediately is available.

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10: Server
11: Control
111: message processing unit
112: judgment unit
113: specific part
12: input/output unit
13: display
14: Communication I/F (Communication Department)
15: storage
20: terminal
21: control unit
211: message processing unit
212: display processing unit
22: Communication I/F
23: input/output unit
231: touch panel
232: microphone
233: speaker
234: camera
24: display unit (display)
25: location information acquisition unit
28: storage
30: network
40: beacon transmitter
411: Communication I/F
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Claims (18)

As a program executed in a terminal communicating with a server,
Displaying a chat room including a user of a first terminal and a user of a second terminal different from the first terminal on the display unit of the terminal;
receiving the first content from the server by a communication unit of the terminal on the basis of the first content transmitted by the first terminal being received by the server;
Based on the reception of the first information about the location and the second content transmitted from the second terminal to the server, the second information and second content based on the first information are transmitted by the communication unit of the terminal to the receiving from the server;
Displaying the first content and the second content in a display mode different from the first content based on the second information in the chat room
A program that is executed in the terminal. The method of claim 1,
The second content in which the display mode is different includes displaying location information based on the location information based on the second information. 3. The method according to claim 1 or 2,
Based on an input by a user of the terminal, displaying the second content with the different display mode in the chat room and not displaying the first content in the chat room is executed in the terminal. 4. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3,
sending third information about the location to the server by the communication unit;
Receiving the privilege information based on the third information from the server by the communication unit
A program that is executed in the terminal. 5. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4,
acquiring the fourth information about the location by the control unit of the terminal;
acquiring information of the chat room based on the fourth information by the control unit;
Based on the reception of the information of the chat room, displaying the chat room on the display unit
A program that is executed in the terminal. 6. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 5,
Based on the lapse of a set time or a set time, displaying the display mode of the second content in the same display mode as that of the first content in the chat room
A program that is executed in the terminal. 6. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 5,
receiving, by the communication unit, the fifth information transmitted from the server based on the fact that the first information is not received by the server;
based on the fifth information, setting the display mode of the second content to the same display mode as that of the first content to display in the chat room
A program that is executed in the terminal. 3. The method of claim 2,
The location information includes a place, a place name, or a name of a store, the program. 9. The method of claim 8,
and displaying the second content in the chat room, and not displaying the first content in the chat room, based on the information of the location selected by the user of the terminal, is executed in the terminal. 10. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 9,
receiving, by the communication unit, information on the number of contents transmitted from the terminal transmitting the first information from the server;
Displaying a display based on the information on the number of contents on the display unit
A program that is executed in the terminal. 11. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 10,
The program, wherein the first information is location information of the second terminal obtained by the GPS of the second terminal. 12. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 11,
The first information is information transmitted from an electronic device different from the second terminal. 13. The method of claim 12,
The program, wherein the first information is associated with the first information and the location information by a storage unit of the server. 14. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 13,
transmitting, by the communication unit, third content to the first terminal and the second terminal;
displaying the third content in the chat room
A program to be executed by the terminal. As an information processing method of a terminal communicating with a server,
Displaying a chat room including a user of a first terminal and a user of a second terminal different from the first terminal on the display unit of the terminal;
receiving the first content from the server by a communication unit of the terminal on the basis of the first content transmitted by the first terminal being received by the server;
Based on the reception of the first information about the location and the second content transmitted from the second terminal to the server, the second information and second content based on the first information are transmitted by the communication unit of the terminal to the receiving from the server;
displaying the first content and the second content in a display mode different from the first content based on the second information in the chat room;
Methods of processing information, including. As a terminal communicating with a server,
receiving the first content from the server based on the first content sent by the first terminal being received by the server, and transmitted from a second terminal different from the first terminal a communication unit configured to receive, from the server, second information and second content based on the first information, based on the information and the second content being received by the server;
a chat room including the user of the first terminal and the user of the second terminal is displayed, and the first content and the second content in which a display mode is different from the first content based on the second information Display unit displayed in the chat room
A terminal comprising a. As a terminal communicating with a server,
A processor that reads a program stored in the memory and executes processing based on the program,
The processor is
Displaying a chat room including a user of a first terminal and a user of a second terminal different from the first terminal on the display unit of the terminal;
receiving the first content from the server by a communication unit of the terminal on the basis of the first content transmitted by the first terminal being received by the server;
Based on the reception of the first information about the location and the second content transmitted from the second terminal to the server, the second information and second content based on the first information are transmitted by the communication unit of the terminal to the receiving from the server, and
displaying the first content and the second content in a display mode different from the first content based on the second information in the chat room;
terminal. A program executed by a server communicating with a terminal, comprising:
receiving, by a communication unit of the server, a first content transmitted by a first terminal different from the terminal;
transmitting the first content to the terminal by the communication unit;
receiving, by the communication unit, first information about a location and second content transmitted from the terminal and a second terminal different from the first terminal, and
transmitting, by the communication unit, the second content and second information for displaying the second content on the display unit of the terminal in a display mode different from the first content, to the terminal based on the first information;
A program to be executed by the server.

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