WO2009018772A1

WO2009018772A1 - Method and system for managing dialog information in instant communication terminal

Info

Publication number: WO2009018772A1
Application number: PCT/CN2008/071889
Authority: WO
Inventors: Lei Song; Ni Wang
Original assignee: Tencent Technology(Shenzhen) Company Limited
Priority date: 2007-08-08
Filing date: 2008-08-06
Publication date: 2009-02-12
Also published as: CN101110792A

Abstract

A system for managing dialog information in an instant communication terminal, comprises: an un-read information storing unit, for storing abstract records of un-read dialog information; an un-read information management unit, for extracting the abstract records from the un-read dialog information and storing said abstract records in said un-read information storing unit; a first interface management unit, for displaying the whole abstract records in said un-read information storing unit on the first interface. A method corresponding to said system for managing dialog information in an instant communication terminal, comprises: extracting abstract records from received un-read dialog information and storing said abstract records in an un-read information storing unit; displaying the whole abstract records in said un-read information storing unit by a first interface.

Description

System and method for managing session messages in an instant messaging terminal. The present application claims to be filed on August 8, 2007 in the Chinese Patent Office, Application No. 200710075652.1, entitled "System and Method for Managing Session Messages in an Instant Messaging Terminal" The priority of the Chinese Patent Application, the entire contents of which is incorporated herein by reference.

Technical field

The present invention relates to an instant messaging terminal, and more particularly to a system and method for managing a conference message in an instant messaging terminal.

Background technique

With the development of the Internet, instant messaging (IM) is becoming more and more popular. IM realizes instant communication on the Internet through peer-to-peer technology, and even interaction between multiple users. It has become the communication tool used by most netizens. It is not only used in daily leisure and entertainment, but also widely used in work. usage of.

In the process of using two-way or multi-party conversations with instant messaging tools, instant messaging terminals often receive multiple instant messages from the same or different users. Usually, the instant messaging terminal prompts the user to receive a new message in a flashing icon manner on the operating system toolbar, or prompts the flashing icon on the operation interface. If you want to browse the newly received unread instant message, you must frequently click the flashing icon in the operating system toolbar; or you need to find the flashing icon in the associated user list of the instant messaging tool operation interface, because the instant communication terminal It often includes dozens to hundreds of icons representing different associated session objects, so the operation is time consuming and labor intensive. In addition, when browsing the above instant message, it is necessary to frequently open different tongue windows, occupying more resources of the system, and causing the system to run slowly.

Summary of the invention

The technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a system and method for managing a tongue message in an instant communication terminal in view of the problem that the instant messaging terminal is inconvenient to browse when receiving a plurality of unread session messages.

The technical solution of the present invention is to provide a system for managing a session message in an instant messaging terminal, including:

An unread message storage unit for storing a summary record of an unread session message;

An unread message management unit, configured to extract a summary record of the unread session message and store the summary record to the unread message storage unit; The first interface management unit is configured to display all the summary records in the unread message storage unit to the first interface.

The method may further include: a second interface management unit, configured to display a session message corresponding to the selected summary record in the first interface to the second interface.

The summary record includes an identification of the session message, the sender, and the number of unread session messages from the sender.

The unread message management unit may further include:

a determining subunit, configured to determine whether there is a digest record matching the session message in the unread message storage unit, where the matching digest record has the same sender as the session message; When the judgment is no, a new summary record is created, where the sender of the summary record is the sender of the session message and the number of unread session messages of the sender is 1; the summary record maintenance subunit is used for When the determination is yes, the number of unread session messages in the sender's digest record is incremented by one.

The unread message management unit may further include:

The summary record deletion subunit is configured to delete the summary record from the unread message storage unit when the session window of the summary record corresponding session message is opened.

The system can also include:

a third interface management unit, configured to instruct the third interface to display a summary record list in the unread message storage unit, where the summary record list includes an unread message sender and the number of the unread messages; A summary record list in the unread message storage unit is displayed according to the indication. The embodiment of the present invention further provides a method for managing a session message in an instant messaging terminal, including:

(a) extracting a summary record from the received unread message and storing the summary record in an unread message storage unit;

(b) displaying all summary records in the unread message storage unit through the first interface.

After step (b), it may also include:

(c) displaying, by the second interface, the session corresponding to the selected summary record in the first interface, the summary record includes: the identifier of the session message, the sender, and the number of unread session messages from the sender. Step (a) may further include:

(al) receiving a session message;

(a2) determining, in the unread message storage unit, whether there is a digest record having the same sender as the session message received in step (al), performing step (a3) if not present, and performing step (a4) if present ;

(a3) generating a new summary record, the sender of the summary record is the sender of the session message, and the number of unread session messages of the sender is 1;

(a4) Add 1 to the number of unread session messages in the sender summary record.

Step (c) may further include:

(d) when the summary window corresponding to the session message is opened, the summary record is deleted from the unread message storage unit.

Step (b) may also include:

(el) displaying, by the third interface, a list of summary records in the unread message storage unit, where the summary record list includes an unread message sender and the number of the unread messages, and the third interface includes: opening the first interface Control

(e2) after the summary record in the list of the summary records is clicked, opening a session window corresponding to the summary record;

(e3) After the control in the third interface is clicked, all the summary records in the unread message storage unit are displayed through the first interface.

The present invention relates to a system and method for managing session messages in an instant messaging terminal. By using an unread message storage unit to store summary records of unread session messages, the user can selectively select to browse session messages. By using the present invention, it is possible to avoid frequent clicks on the newly received message prompt icon in the instant communication tool, and to avoid opening the extra tongue window, and also to reduce the occupation of system resources and make the system run more smoothly.

DRAWINGS

The present invention will be further described below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and embodiments, in which:

1 is a schematic structural view of a first embodiment of a system for displaying a tongue message at an instant messaging terminal according to the present invention;

2 is a detailed structural diagram of the unread message management unit of FIG. 1; 3 is a schematic structural diagram of a second embodiment of a system for displaying a session message in an instant messaging terminal according to the present invention;

4 is a schematic structural diagram of a third embodiment of a system for displaying a tongue message at an instant messaging terminal according to the present invention;

5 is a flow chart showing a first embodiment of a system for displaying a tongue message in an instant messaging terminal according to the present invention;

Figure 6 is a detailed flow chart of storing the summary record in Figure 5;

FIG. Ί is a schematic flowchart of a second embodiment of a system for displaying a tongue message in an instant messaging terminal according to the present invention;

8 is a schematic diagram showing information displayed by the first interface and the second interface;

Fig. 9 is a schematic diagram showing information displayed on the third interface.

detailed description

The invention facilitates the user to browse the unread session message by managing the unread session message in the instant messaging terminal. The unread message preview provided by the present invention enables the user to perform a summary preview and a content preview on the session message that has not been extracted. The above-mentioned unextracted view session message, that is, the unread session message, refers to a session message that is not displayed in the session window.

As shown in FIG. 1, a schematic diagram of a first embodiment of a system for managing session messages in an instant messaging terminal of the present invention includes an unread message management unit 11 and an unread message storage unit 12.

The unread message storage unit 12 is used to store a summary record of unread messages. The unread message management unit 11 extracts the digest information from the unread session message received from the instant communication terminal, and stores the digest record in accordance with the digest information to the unread message storage unit 12. Further, the unread message management unit 11 deletes the corresponding summary record in the unread message storage unit 12 when the session message is read. In this embodiment, the digest record includes the identification number (ID) of the session message, the sender, and the number of unread session messages from the sender. Of course, the summary record can also include time, brief content, and the like.

In a specific implementation, the unread message management unit 11 may also add a function of counting, traversing, and sorting the summary records corresponding to the unread messages in the unread message storage unit 12.

As shown in FIG. 2, the unread message management unit 11 in FIG. 1 may further include: a judgment subunit 111, a summary record creation subunit 112, and a digest record maintenance subunit 113.

The determining sub-unit 111 is configured to determine whether there is a session with the received message in the unread message storage unit 12. The summary record of the message match, the sender of the matched summary record is the same as the sender of the received unread message.

The summary record creation unit 112 is configured to create a new summary record when the determination sub-unit 111 determines that the same session record as the sender of the received session message does not exist in the unread message storage unit 12, and the sender of the summary record is a session message. The sender and the sender's unread session message value value is used by the digest record maintenance sub-unit 113 when the judging sub-unit 111 determines that there is the same session record in the unread message storage unit 12 as the sender of the received session message. , increments the number of unread messages in the same summary record of the sender.

As shown in FIG. 3, in the second embodiment of the system for managing session messages in an instant messaging terminal of the present invention, in addition to the unread message storage unit 32 and the unread message management unit 31, the first interface management unit is further included. 33. The second interface management unit 36, the first interface 34, and the second interface 35. In this embodiment, the first interface 34 and the second interface 35 are graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for displaying specified information. In a specific implementation, the first interface 34 and the second interface 35 may be located in the same operation window.

The first interface management unit 33 is for displaying all the summary records in the unread message storage unit 22 to the first interface 34. The second interface management unit 36 is configured to display the session message corresponding to the selected summary record in the first interface 34 to the second interface 35. In a specific implementation, the second interface management unit 33 acquires the content of the session message according to the identification number of the message in the summary record. For example, in Fig. 8, the first interface 34 located above displays all summary records, and the second interface 35 located below displays the content of the session message corresponding to the selected summary record.

As shown in FIG. 4, it is a schematic diagram of a third embodiment of a system for displaying a session message in an instant messaging terminal according to the present invention. As with the second embodiment, the system includes an unread message management unit 41, an unread message storage unit 42, a first interface management unit 43, a second interface management unit 46, a first interface 44, and a second interface 45. The system of this embodiment further includes a third interface 47 and a third interface management unit 48.

The third interface 47 is for displaying the summary record in the unread message storage unit 42 in a list manner under the control of the third interface management unit 48. The content displayed in the third interface 47 includes the sender of the unread session message and the number of unread session messages sent by the sender, as shown in FIG. In this embodiment, The third interface 47 is opened when the mouse moves to the icon of the instant messaging client in the toolbar, and when any summary record in the third interface 47 is clicked, the corresponding tongue window is opened. Additionally, a first control 471 and a second control 472 may also be included in the third interface 47. When the first control 471 is clicked, the unread message management unit 41 deletes all the summary records in the unread message storage unit 42; when the second control 472 is clicked, the first and second interface management units 43, 46 respectively The first interface 44 and the second interface 45 are opened to display detailed information of all summary records and all unread session messages corresponding to the selected summary records.

In another embodiment of the present invention, a session window opening unit (not shown) is further included. The session open window is used to open a session window corresponding to the selected summary record in the first interface 14, that is, a session window corresponding to the summary message corresponding to the session message initiator. The session window opening unit can be triggered by a specified button in the graphical user interface to open the corresponding session window; or the corresponding session window can be started by double-clicking the corresponding summary record trigger in the first interface 14. Further, the unread message management unit 11 may include, in addition to the judgment sub-unit 111, the digest record creation sub-unit 112, and the digest record maintenance sub-unit 113, a digest record deletion sub-unit (not shown). The summary record deletion subunit is configured to delete any of the above summary records from the unread message storage unit 12 when the session window of any summary record corresponding session message is opened.

As shown in FIG. 5, it is a flowchart of a first embodiment of a method for managing a session message in an instant messaging terminal according to the present invention. The method includes:

Step S51: Store the summary record corresponding to the received unread session message to the unread message storage unit. In this embodiment, the unread session message is received by the instant messaging terminal, and the summary record is generated according to the summary information of the session message, specifically including the identification number (ID) of the session message, the sender, and the unread session message from the sender. quantity.

Step S52: Delete the corresponding summary record in the unread message storage unit when the session message is read. For example, when a certain session message window is opened, the corresponding session message will be displayed in the session window, and the above session message becomes read, so that the corresponding summary record in the unread message storage unit is deleted.

It should be noted that the above steps do not have a strict order relationship. In a specific implementation, step (b) may be performed one or more times after performing one or more steps (a); step (a) may also be performed after performing one or more steps (b).

As shown in FIG. 6, it is a flowchart of storing the summary recording step (step S51) in FIG. This step Specifically include:

Step S61: Receive a session message by using an instant messaging terminal, and obtain an unread session message therefrom. Step S62: It is judged whether there is a summary record in the unread message storage unit that is the same as the sender of the unread message received in step S51. In this embodiment, the unread message is received by the instant communication terminal, and the digest record is generated according to the digest information of the session message, specifically including the sender of the session message and the number of unread session messages from the sender.

If there is no summary record in the unread message storage unit that is the same as the sender of the unread session message received in step S61, step S63 is performed; otherwise, step S64 is performed.

Step S63: Obtain summary information from the unread session message, and generate a new summary record according to the summary information, where the sender of the summary record is the sender of the session message, and the sender's unread session message value is 1.

Step S64: Add 1 to the number of unread session messages in the sender summary record.

As shown in the figure, in the first embodiment of the method for managing a session message in an instant messaging terminal of the present invention, the method includes the following steps:

Step S71: Store the summary record corresponding to the received unread session message to the unread message storage unit.

Step S72: deleting the corresponding summary record in the unread message storage unit when the session message is read.

Step S73: Display all the summary records in the unread message storage unit using the first interface. The step may specifically include: opening a third interface when the mouse moves to the icon of the instant messaging client in the toolbar, and displaying a list of summary records in the unread message storage unit (as shown in FIG. 8 ), the list may only include The sender of the unread message and the number of unread session messages sent by the sender, and the third interface includes a control for opening the first interface. When any summary record in the third interface is clicked, the corresponding session window is opened; when the control in the list of the third interface is clicked, the first interface is used to display all the summary records in the unread message storage unit. The summary record displayed in the first interface may include the sender, the brief content of the first unread session message sent by the sender, the time of transmission, the number of unread session messages, and the like.

Step S74: Display, by using the second interface, the corresponding tongue record of the selected summary record in the first interface. There is no strict sequence between the above steps S71 and S72, and there is no strict sequence between steps S73 and S74 and steps S71 and S72.

In another embodiment of the method of the present invention, after step S74, the method further comprises: deleting any of the summary records described above from the unread message storage unit when the session window corresponding to the session message is opened.

A person skilled in the art can understand that all or part of the steps of implementing the above embodiments can be completed by a program to instruct related hardware, and the program can be stored in a computer readable storage medium, the above mentioned storage. The medium can be a read only memory, a magnetic disk or a compact disk or the like.

The system and method for managing a session message in an instant messaging terminal provided by the embodiment of the present invention are described in detail. For those skilled in the art, according to the idea of the embodiment of the present invention, in the specific implementation manner and application scope There are variations, and the description should not be construed as limiting the invention.

Claims

Rights request

A system for managing a session message in an instant messaging terminal, comprising: an unread message storage unit, configured to store a summary record of an unread session message;

An unread message management unit, configured to extract a summary record of the unread session message and store the summary record to the unread message storage unit;

And a first interface management unit, configured to display all the summary records in the unread message storage unit to the first interface.

2. The system according to claim 1, further comprising:

The second interface management unit is configured to display the tongue message corresponding to the selected summary record in the first interface to the second interface.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the summary record comprises: an identification of a session message, a sender, and an amount of unread session messages from the sender.

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein the unread message management unit further comprises:

The system according to claim 4, wherein the unread message management unit further comprises:

6. The system of claim 1 further comprising:

a third interface management unit, configured to instruct the third interface to display a summary record list in the unread message storage unit, where the summary record list includes an unread message sender and the number of the unread messages; A summary record list in the unread message storage unit is displayed according to the indication.

A method for managing a session message in an instant messaging terminal, comprising: (a) extracting a summary record from the received unread message and storing the summary record in an unread message storage unit;

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein after step (b), the method further comprises: (c) displaying, by the second interface, a session cancellation corresponding to the selected summary record in the first interface.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein the summary record comprises: an identifier of the session message, a sender, and a number of unread session messages from the sender.

The method according to claim 7, wherein the step (a) further comprises: (al) receiving the message;

The method according to claim 8, wherein after step (c), the method further comprises: (d) storing the summary record from the unread message when the session window of the summary record corresponding session message is opened Removed from the unit.

The method according to any one of claims 7 to 11, wherein the step (b) further comprises:

(el) displaying, by using the third interface, a list of summary records in the unread message storage unit, where the summary record list includes an unread message sender and the number of the unread messages, and the third interface includes: opening the first interface Control

(e2) after the summary record in the list of the summary records is clicked, open the corresponding tongue window of the summary record;