WO2018002492A1

WO2018002492A1 - Method and device for assisting the composition of a new message

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Publication number: WO2018002492A1
Application number: PCT/FR2017/051683
Authority: WO
Inventors: Cédric Floury
Original assignee: Orange
Priority date: 2016-06-29
Filing date: 2017-06-23
Publication date: 2018-01-04
Also published as: FR3053487B1; FR3053487A1

Abstract

Method for assisting the composition of a new message in an input area of a user terminal, said method being intended to be implemented by said terminal and comprising, for each detection of a unique interaction of said user on an interface of said terminal, referred to as the first interaction: - a step (E40) of accessing a multimedia content recorded in a non-volatile memory that is accessible by said terminal, said memory comprising at least one multimedia content extracted from at least one preceding message processed by said terminal; and - a step (E60) of copying said content into said input area of said new message by replacing, as appropriate, a content already present in this area.

Description

Method and device for helping to compose a new message

Background of the invention

The present invention is in the general field of messaging systems. It relates more particularly to the composition of a message in an input area of a terminal.

Phone users and especially smartphones

("Smartphones" in English) are regularly brought to exchange messages with their contacts via courier services (SMS or dedicated applications).

Nevertheless, it was found that messages sent by a user had a similar content or even identical. For example, it is common for a user to send several times a week messages: "I come home" or "I go home" to one or more recipients.

In addition, certain messages or portions of messages are repeatedly sent to one or more specific people, to a particular schedule or location.

As an illustration, a user can send several days per week, for example from his place of work and at the end of the afternoon the message "I return from work" or the message "I return" to members of his family.

In the state of the art, each time a user wants to send a new message, he enters this new message. Thus, despite the eventual recurrence of the message, it must each time carry out a number of non-negligible and tedious actions to send the same message to one or more recipients.

The present invention aims a messaging system that does not have these disadvantages. Object and summary of the invention

Thus, according to a first aspect, the invention relates to a method of assisting the composition of a new message in a user's terminal entry zone, this method being intended to be implemented by this terminal. and including, for each detection of a single interaction of the user on a terminal interface, said first interaction:

a step of accessing a multimedia content from a set of multimedia contents stored in a non-volatile memory accessible by the terminal, these multimedia contents having been previously processed by the terminal during a processing step;

a detection step making it possible to detect whether the input area comprises multimedia content;

if the input area includes multimedia content, a step of deleting this content; and

a step of copying, in the input area of the new message, the accessed content.

Correlatively, the invention relates to a terminal for assisting the composition of a new message in an input area, comprising:

a module for detecting a first unique interaction of a user on an interface of the terminal;

a module for accessing a multimedia content from a set of multimedia contents stored in a non-volatile memory accessible by the terminal, these multimedia contents having been previously processed by the terminal during a processing step;

a detection module for detecting whether the input area comprises multimedia content;

a deletion module allowing, if the input area includes multimedia content, to delete this content; and

a copy module, in the input area of the new message, of the accessed content;

the access module, the detection module, the deletion module and the copy module being activated at each detection of the first single interaction.

An input area is an element of a messaging application implementing the invention.

It can be displayed on a graphical interface of a terminal and a user can insert and edit multimedia content, such as text, images, videos, etc. The user can enter text in the input area using a keyboard, possibly digital and / or tactile, or dictate via a microphone.

It can also add in this input area other multimedia content such as images or videos, for example by means of graphic elements of the interface, such as buttons.

The multimedia content present in the input area can be sent within a message to at least one recipient, for example on detection of a user's support on a "Send" button displayed on a touch interface of the terminal.

In the sense of the invention, when the terminal detects the first interaction of the user, it accesses a multimedia content in the non-volatile memory, then copies this content into the input area.

It thus advantageously provides, in a simple interaction, a fast copy of a content in the input area, without, for example, having to enter character-by-character text with a keyboard.

He can then edit this last content to adapt it to the context or to the recipient, then send it via the messaging application.

On the other hand, if the input field already contains content when the first interaction is detected, this content is deleted.

The copy of the multimedia content in the input area of the new message is therefore performed in replacement, if necessary, of content already present in this area.

Advantageously, a user can start faster to write the content of a new message from a content stored in the non-volatile memory, without including erasing the content already present in the area.

Furthermore, the multimedia contents accessed by the terminal are contents stored in a non-volatile memory, unlike "copied-pasted" messages that are stored in a volatile memory.

In a particular embodiment, the access, detection, deletion and copy steps do not require any further user interaction after the first interaction.

Advantageously, a single interaction of the user is necessary to perform all the main steps of the method.

In a particular embodiment, the first interaction corresponds to a single support of the user on a first button of the terminal. This button may for example be included on a physical keyboard connected to the terminal or in a virtual / tactile keyboard displayed on an interface of this terminal.

Advantageously, a single press of a button thus makes it possible to access a content of the non-volatile memory, to copy it, to display it, and possibly to delete content already present in the input area.

The composition of the new message is thus simplified and accelerated.

In a particular embodiment, said graphical interface provides a "short press" event corresponding to a predetermined duration of contact between the cursor of the user and this interface below a certain duration and a "long press" event corresponding to a duration contact between the cursor of the user and the touch screen longer than this duration, and the single touch interaction corresponds to a "short press" event.

In a particular embodiment, this predetermined duration is substantially equal to one second.

In a particular embodiment, a keypad of the graphical interface comprises a "carriage return" button, and this "carriage return" button has the following functions:

- as long as no content has been entered or modified in the input area by the user (for example with the keyboard, with a voice command, with an insertion button of an image, etc.) from the last message sending, a push of the button

"Carriage return" corresponds to the first interaction of the invention, making it possible to copy a multimedia content in the input area, possibly replacing a content already present;

- as soon as a content is entered or modified in the input area, pressing the "carriage return" button is used to return to the line in this input area;

- optionally, an additional action, such as pressing a button, or selecting an option in a menu, or any other form of action performed on the terminal makes it possible to pass the carriage return button of one of the two functions stated above to each other.

Advantageously, a single button makes it possible to perform two different actions in two different situations, each of the two actions being adapted to its situation: in a first case the user wishes to insert a content into the input area (or to scroll through several contents until 'to choose one) and in this case go to the line has no use and the button' return carriage 'allows to perform this insertion; and in a second case the user wishes to edit or modify the contents of the input area, for example using of the keyboard, and in this case it may want to go to the line and the button "carriage return" to perform this return to the line.

In another embodiment, the first interaction is followed by a voice command of the user detected by the terminal.

In a particular embodiment, the step of processing the multimedia content comprises:

a step of inputting this content by the user into the input area; and

a step of recording, in the non-volatile memory, this content on detection of a second interaction of the user on the terminal.

In the prior art, when the user wishes to record a content present in the input area for later reuse, he must:

(i) copy this content;

(ii) open a backup area; and

(iii) stick to the contents;

which would have required at least three interactions.

In the sense of the invention, the user can advantageously record a multimedia content already entered in the input area, in a single and simple interaction, called second interaction.

This content can then be accessed and copied later if the user makes the first interaction mentioned above.

Thus, the user can simply and efficiently save the content he wants in a minimum of time.

In a particular embodiment, this second interaction corresponds to: a single press on a second button; or

- a single prolonged press on the first button.

Advantageously, if this second interaction corresponds to a prolonged press on the first button, the addition of another button is avoided and possibly allows to preserve space on a touch keyboard.

Moreover, in this embodiment, the recording is done intuitively since the same button allows both to record contents and then copy them in the input area.

In a particular embodiment, the step of processing the multimedia content comprises a step of recording, in the non-volatile memory, this content on detection that a number of sends of this content satisfies a predetermined criterion. Advantageously, the contents frequently sent by the user are detected and automatically stored in the non-volatile memory.

These contents correspond to the content that is judged to be the most likely to be sent again, so it is important to register them for the user.

In a particular embodiment, the predetermined criterion corresponds to:

a total number of sends of the content during a predetermined period greater than a predefined value;

a number of transmissions of the content during a predetermined period and at least one predetermined recipient greater than a predefined value;

a number of sends of the content during a predetermined period and in a predetermined time range greater than a predefined value; and or

a number of sends of the content over a predetermined period and from a predetermined geographical area greater than a predefined value. Content can be automatically saved if it checks one of these criteria.

The criterion "predetermined time range" thus makes it possible to record the contents sent at a predetermined date and / or time, for example from Monday to Friday between 18H and 19H.

The criterion "predetermined period" makes it possible to keep in memory only the most recent contents, for example since the last six months, so as not to clutter the non-volatile memory.

Thus, the invention takes into account, in order to record a content, not only the frequency of sending the content, but also the context of sending the content, such as the place and time of sending, and also the one or more recipients of the content.

For example, if a particular set of words is frequently sent from a particular location and at particular times, this set is likely to check one or more of these criteria and thus be automatically stored in the memory.

Advantageously, since the terminal stores multimedia contents taking into account parameters other than the sending frequency, all the multimedia contents stored in the non-volatile memory reflect the behavior of the user.

In a particular embodiment, the accessed content is different from the last content copied in the input area.

In this embodiment, if the user performs the same first interaction again, the terminal accesses a new content, and the copy in the input area to replace the content present in this area. Advantageously, the user can display successively in the input area, by repeating this same first interaction, several different recorded multimedia contents, then stop performing this first interaction on the content of his choice.

The terminal may, for example, successively display all of the contents included in the memory. Once all the contents have been accessed a first time, the terminal can access it a second time, in the same order or in a different order.

If in a particular case of use the memory comprises only one multimedia content, then the terminal accesses only this content.

In this embodiment, if the user then performs the first interaction a second time, the content of the input area remains unchanged.

Alternatively, when it performs a second time this first interaction, the input area is empty. More generally, the content of the input area may, in this particular embodiment, be emptied and filled successively with the single content of the non-volatile memory at each detection of the first interaction.

In a particular embodiment:

the memory comprises a plurality of multimedia contents each associated with a number of transmissions of this content during a predetermined period; and

during the access step, the terminal selects the content according to the number of items associated with this content in the memory.

Thus, during the access step, a multimedia content may be accessed in a privileged manner with respect to another, depending on the frequency with which it was sent.

For example, the terminal can access the multimedia contents of the nonvolatile memory in decreasing order of sending frequency.

Advantageously, the contents accessed in priority are potentially more likely to match the one the user wants to use or even send.

Alternatively, the terminal can access content whose sending frequency exceeds a certain threshold.

In a particular embodiment:

the non-volatile memory comprises a plurality of multimedia contents each associated with sending characteristics;

the method includes a step of detecting a context for sending the new message; and

- During the access step, the terminal accesses the content if the sending characteristics associated with it comply with this sending context. The sending context of the new message may for example include the place where the new message is composed, the time at which the new message is composed, and / or its addressee (s).

Advantageously, the content or contents accessed by the terminal have sending characteristics that respect the sending context of the new message, and there is therefore a higher probability that these contents are those that the user wishes to access in this context. .

In a particular embodiment, the sending characteristics associated with a content comprise:

- one or more recipients to whom this content has been sent;

- one or more geographical areas of the terminal from which the content was sent; and or

- one or more time ranges during which this content was sent. Thus, multimedia content will be accessed if one or more of these characteristics respect the context of sending the new message.

For example, content may be accessed if a recipient to which it was previously sent corresponds to one of the recipients for whom the new message is intended.

Similarly, content may be accessed if the geographical area from which it was previously sent includes the place where the new message is composed.

Advantageously, the multimedia contents offered to the user by the terminal are adapted to the context of sending the new message.

Furthermore, in a particular embodiment, a content is selected if it has been sent a minimum number of times to a particular recipient, from a particular geographical area and / or in a particular time range.

In this way, the probability that this content corresponds to content that the user wants to access is potentially more important.

In a particular embodiment, the various steps of the method of assisting the composition of a message are determined by instructions of computer programs.

Consequently, the invention also relates to a computer program on an information medium, this program being capable of being implemented by a computer, this program comprising instructions adapted to the implementation of the help method. to the composition of a new message as mentioned above. This program can use any programming language, and be in the form of source code, object code, or intermediate code between source code and object code, such as in a partially compiled form, or in any other form desirable shape.

The invention also relates to a computer-readable information medium, comprising instructions of a computer program as mentioned above.

The information carrier may be any entity or device capable of storing the program. For example, the medium may comprise storage means, such as a ROM, for example a CD ROM or a microelectronic circuit ROM, or a magnetic recording medium, for example a floppy disk or a disk. hard.

On the other hand, the information medium may be a transmissible medium such as an electrical or optical signal, which may be conveyed via an electrical or optical cable, by radio or by other means. The program according to the invention can be downloaded in particular on an Internet type network.

Alternatively, the information carrier may be an integrated circuit in which the program is incorporated, the circuit being adapted to execute or to be used in the execution of the method in question. Brief description of the figures

Other characteristics and advantages of the invention will appear on reading the description which follows, made with reference to the appended drawings in which:

FIGS. 1 to 3 show a help terminal for the composition of a new message according to the invention;

FIG. 4 represents the main steps of a method of assisting the composition of a new message according to the invention;

FIGS. 5 and 6 show a particular embodiment of a method of assisting the composition of a new message according to the invention;

FIGS. 7 and 8 represent a non-volatile memory according to the invention; and

- Figures 9 to 13 show an interface of a terminal according to the invention. Detailed description of embodiments

Figure 1 shows a terminal T according to the invention.

This terminal T implements the various steps of a method of assisting the composition of a new message as described with reference to FIGS. 4 to 6.

This terminal T may consist for example of a telephone, a smartphone (or "Smartphone" in English), a computer, a tablet or any connected object.

In the embodiment described here, the terminal T has the hardware architecture of a computer.

Thus, the terminal T comprises a processor 10, a memory 11 of the ROM type (for

"Read Only Memory"), a rewritable non-volatile memory 12 (flash type for example), a random access memory type RAM (for "Random Access Memory" in English) 13 and a COM communication module.

The non-volatile memory 12 of the terminal T constitutes a recording medium in accordance with the invention, readable by the processor 10 and comprising a non-volatile memory MEM.

As a variant, the non-volatile memory MEM is included in a remote network R of the terminal T, with which it communicates. This embodiment is shown in FIG.

The non-volatile memory MEM comprises multimedia contents previously processed by the terminal T.

These multimedia contents may for example consist of text, images, videos, or any form of content.

Content processed by the terminal T may consist of content that has been stored in the memory MEM in any way, for example automatically or by an action of the user.

In a particular embodiment and as will be detailed later, a content processed by the terminal T may also consist of content that has been sent within a message from the terminal T.

It should be noted that the elements that are common or similar to several figures bear the same reference signs and have identical or similar characteristics, so that these common elements are generally not again described for the sake of simplicity.

Figure 3 shows the terminal T of Figure 1 or Figure 2 according to a particular embodiment. The terminal T implements a method of assisting the composition of a new message according to the invention.

The terminal T comprises a first DET module for detecting a first interaction of a user on an interface of the terminal.

This first interaction may, for example, consist of a single support of a user on a first button B1 of the terminal T.

In a particular embodiment, this first button B1 is a virtual button included in a keyboard CL displayed on a touch interface INT of the terminal T.

This interface INT is shown with reference to FIGS. 10 to 13.

In this embodiment, the keyboard CL allows to insert characters in a Z input area, also displayed on the INT interface. This keyboard CL can also include buttons for inserting images or videos in the Z input area.

The content inserted in the input zone Z can then be sent to a recipient D1, or even to several recipients, by pressing a SEND button displayed on the INT interface of the terminal T.

Messages previously sent to this recipient D1 or to these recipients can also be displayed in a zone Z2 of the INT interface of the terminal T.

In this embodiment, the CL keyboard, the Z input zone, the SEND button and the Z2 zone are part of a messaging application proposed by the terminal T and implementing the invention.

Alternatively, the button B1 may consist of a physical button of a physical keyboard not shown.

In another embodiment, the first interaction is followed by a voice command of the user detected by the terminal T, for example by a microphone included in the terminal T or connected to the terminal T, not shown.

In a particular embodiment, a "carriage return" RETURN button is included in a CL keyboard, as shown in FIG. 9. This button allows a user to switch to the line when he has begun to enter content into the Z input field

In this embodiment, as long as the user has not entered content in the input zone Z, the "carriage return" button corresponds to the first button B1, as represented in FIG. Indeed, usually, the button "return carriage" of a messaging application is disabled when the input area is not being edited, since it is not then necessary for a user to move to line.

Advantageously, the same button, that is to say a button positioned at the same place on a keyboard, can have two different functions depending on whether the input area Z is being edited or not, namely in a first case allow the user to go to the line or in a second case perform the first interaction, that is to say, to propose previously processed contents in the Z input area, by scrolling them, which allows to save space on the CL keyboard displayed on the INT touch interface.

On the other hand, if the CL keyboard is a touch keyboard displayed on the INT interface of the terminal

T, then the graphical content of the button can optionally be modified according to whether this button is a button to switch to the line or a button B1 to perform the first interaction, as shown in Figures 9 and 10.

As a variant, the first interaction corresponds to a pressing on another button B2 as represented in FIG. 13, different from the "carriage return" button RETURN.

The terminal T also includes an ACC module for accessing multimedia content from a set of multimedia contents stored in the non-volatile memory MEM accessible by the terminal T.

It is recalled that the memory MEM comprises multimedia contents previously processed by the terminal T.

The terminal T also comprises an unrepresented editing module making it possible to detect whether the input area Z comprises a multimedia content, as well as a deletion module that is also not shown, enabling, if this is the case, the deletion of this multimedia content.

The terminal T also comprises a module COP making it possible to copy, in the entry zone Z of the new message, the content accessed by the access module ACC.

The terminal also comprises an information carrier SUP in which a program PG is stored, the medium and the program being both in accordance with the invention, the program PG comprising instructions for carrying out the steps of a method of aid in the composition of a new message according to the invention, the steps of which will be detailed with reference to FIGS. 4 to 6.

FIG. 4 represents a general method of assisting the composition of a new message according to the invention. This method can be implemented by a terminal T as described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 3.

In this method, the main steps E40, E60, and the so-called "detection" and "deletion" steps are triggered at each detection, by the detection module DET, of the first interaction, for example at each support by the user on the button B1 as shown in FIGS. 10 to 13.

The first step E40, triggered by the first interaction, constitutes a step of accessing a multimedia content from a set of multimedia contents stored in the non-volatile memory MEM accessible by the terminal T, these contents having been previously processed by the terminal T .

For example, and with reference to FIG. 7, the non-volatile memory MEM comprises a table TAB1, and this table TAB1 comprises a set of multimedia contents M1, M2, M3 and M4.

Alternatively, the media contents are stored in the MEM memory in list form, in a tree structure, or in some other way.

The number of multimedia contents stored in the non-volatile memory MEM is not necessarily limited, or may simply be limited by the capacity of this memory MEM.

As explained above, these multimedia contents constitute contents previously processed by the terminal T.

For example, in a particular embodiment, the contents Ml, M2 and M4 have each been previously sent from the terminal T within messages. The content M3 was simply registered directly by the user in the non-volatile memory MEM, without having been previously sent within a message.

In this example, the contents Ml and M4 correspond respectively to the texts:

"I come back" and "I come back in lh", the content M2 corresponds to a photo and the content M3 corresponds to a text recorded directly by the user.

In a particular embodiment, if the memory MEM has several multimedia contents, during the access step E40, the terminal T accesses a different content of the last content copied to the input area Z in a previous step E60 copy that will be described later.

For example, the terminal T first accesses the content M1 and copies this content M1 to the input area Z during the step E60. Then if it detects the first interaction again, the terminal T then accesses a content different from the content Ml previously copied, for example the content M2. Thus, several contents Ml, M2 are successively accessed in the memory MEM each time the first interaction is detected, and copied to the input area, which subsequently allows the user to choose from among these contents.

The terminal may also successively display all the contents Ml to M4 included in the memory. Once all the contents have been accessed a first time, the terminal can access it a second time, in the same order or in a different order.

In one particular embodiment, a plurality of multimedia contents M1, M2 and M4 stored in the non-volatile memory MEM are associated in the table TAB1 with sending numbers FREQ of these contents in a predetermined period.

Thus, in a particular embodiment and as shown in FIG. 7, the content Ml is associated with a sending number FREQ, in a predetermined period, with the content Ml equal to 16.

For example, 16 messages with the content "I enter" may have been sent by the user within a period of one month.

Likewise, the content M2 is associated with a sending number FREQ equal to 8 and the content M4 with a sending number FREQ equal to 14.

This number of sending FREQ can in other words be assimilated to a frequency of sending a content.

In this particular embodiment, the memory MEM is updated with each new sending of the content Ml or a message containing the content Ml, because the number of sending FREQ varies at the time of this sending.

More generally, the memory MEM can be updated each time a content it comprises is sent by a user or at the end of the predetermined period, for example at the end of each month, of each year, or when the user decides.

In a particular embodiment, during this access step E40, the terminal selects a multimedia content in the memory MEM according to this number of sending FREQ.

For example, the terminal selects the contents by decreasing FREQ sending number.

In this embodiment, the terminal may, for example, access the associated content Ml in the table TAB1 in priority to the maximum sending number FREQ, here 16. Then in a subsequent access step, that is to say when the first interaction or support on the Button Bl is detected again, the terminal accesses the M4 content associated with the second highest FREQ send number, here 14.

In this way, the terminal has priority access to the most frequently sent content, and therefore to the content potentially having more chance of being sent again by the user.

As a variant, the terminal T only accesses the multimedia content whose sending number FREQ exceeds a predefined value. For example, the terminal T accesses only the contents whose sending number FREQ exceeds 10, in this embodiment only the contents Ml and M4.

In another embodiment, the terminal T accesses the multimedia contents of the memory MEM in a random manner.

In a particular embodiment and with reference to FIG. 8, the memory MEM has several associated contents M1, M2 and M4 in a table TAB2 with sending characteristics DEST, H, and L.

In this embodiment, the contents Ml, M2 and M3 are contents previously sent by the user from the terminal T. Their sending characteristics define the context in which they were sent.

In this table TAB2, each content is associated with the following sending characteristics:

- the DEST recipient (s) of the content;

the geographical area or areas L in which the terminal was located when sending the content; and or

the time slot (s) H during which the content was sent. In this example, the content Ml has previously been sent to the recipients D1 and D2, to the schedule H1 and to the locations L1 and L2. The M2 content was sent to the recipient D3, schedules H2 and H3 and place L4. Finally, the content M3 has been sent simultaneously to the recipients D4 and D5, the recipient D6, the schedule H4 and in one or indeterminate places.

In this embodiment, the method comprises an unrepresented step of detecting a sending context of the new message, this step preceding the access step E40.

During this detection step, the terminal T can detect its own location, for example by means of a GPS system, the recipient (s) of the new message possibly entered by the user, and a schedule during which this new message is composed. . These different pieces of information define the sending context of the new message. In this embodiment, during the access step E40, the terminal T accesses the content Ml in the memory MEM only if one or more of the sending characteristics of this content Ml respects the sending context.

For example, the terminal T can access the content M1 only if the new message is intended for the recipient D1 or D2, if this new message is dialed at the time H1 and in the place L1 or L2.

As a variant, the terminal T accesses a content if only one of these characteristics respects the sending context of the new message, or if any combination of these characteristics respects this context.

For example, the terminal T can access the content M2 if the new message is dialed for the recipient D3 in the location L3.

Similarly, the terminal T can access the content M3 if the new message is intended for the two recipients D4 and D5, and dialed in any location.

Thus, the accessed content will be appropriate to the context of sending the new message and will potentially have more chance to match the content desired by the user in this particular context.

The general step E40 of the method is followed by a detection step for detecting whether the input area Z comprises a multimedia content.

If the input zone Z comprises multimedia content, the detection step is followed by a step of deleting this multimedia content.

This deletion step is followed by a step E60 of copying the accessed content in the input area Z of the terminal T.

This content accessed in the non-volatile memory is therefore copied, replacing, if necessary, a content already present in this zone Z.

Remember that this copy step E60 is, as the access step E40, triggered at each detection of the first interaction.

Thus, when this first interaction is detected, the content of the message is first accessed during the access step E40, then copied during the copy step E60 in the input area Z, and a multimedia content already present in the input box is deleted if necessary.

For example, with reference to FIGS. 10 to 13, a messaging application embodying the invention is displayed on a touch interface INT of the terminal T.

This application includes a virtual keyboard CL, a Z input area, an SEND button to send the content of the input area, and Z2 area with messages already sent. The keyboard CL has a button B1, and pressing this button B1 is the first unique interaction for triggering the access steps E40 and E60 copy according to the invention.

In FIG. 10, the user has not yet entered content in the input zone Z. The "carriage return" button represented in FIG. 9 is therefore replaced by the button B 1 enabling the first interaction to be performed.

When the user presses the button B1, the message Ml: "I enter" is accessed in the memory MEM and then copied to the input area Z, as shown in FIG.

If the user presses again on the button B1, then the terminal T accesses another content, for example the content M4, "I come back in lh", different from the content M1, and the copy in the input box to replace Ml content, as shown in Figure 12.

If the user wishes to use the content M4, he then stops pressing the button B1 and then edits this content M4.

In this case, the "carriage return" button resumes its initial function making it possible to go to the line in the input area.

If the user wishes again to be able to insert a multimedia content of the non-volatile memory with the button "return carriage", he can select an option in a menu (not represented) of the graphic interface or to carry out another form of action allowing this button "carriage return" to become again the button for allowing the first touch interaction triggering the steps of access and copy of a multimedia content.

Once the M4 content is edited, the user can then send the M4 content by pressing the SEND button.

This sending can then automatically trigger the passage of the "carriage return" button to go to the line to the button B1 to perform the first interaction.

FIG. 5 represents the steps of a method of assisting the composition of a new message according to a particular embodiment of the invention.

This method can be implemented in a terminal T as described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 3.

This method takes the general steps E40 and E60 of the method as described above.

In this embodiment, the step of processing the multimedia content comprises a step E10 of entering the multimedia content M1 by the user in the input area Z. This multimedia content Ml can be any, and include text, photos and / or videos.

The step of processing the multimedia content also comprises a following step E20 of recording, in the memory MEM, of the content entered on detection of a second user interaction on the terminal T.

Thus, the user can enter any text and save it as a single interaction in the MEM memory to be able to access thereafter by performing the first interaction.

In a particular embodiment, the second interaction corresponds to a single prolonged pressing of the user on the first button B1. For example, this second interaction corresponds to a single prolonged press on the button B1 of the touch interface INT such that shown with reference to Figures 10 to 13.

As a variant, this second interaction corresponds to a single press on a second button, for example a button included in the keyboard CL represented in FIGS. 10 to 13.

FIG. 6 represents the steps of a method of assisting the composition of a new message, according to a particular embodiment of the invention.

This method takes steps E40, E60, and so-called "detection" and "removal" steps of the method as described above.

In this embodiment, the processing step comprises a step E30 of recording in the non-volatile memory MEM of the multimedia content on detection that a number of sends of this content in a predetermined period verifies one or more predetermined criteria.

In this embodiment, the content can be automatically recorded as soon as it verifies one of the criteria.

These criteria may correspond to:

a number of sends of the content during a predetermined period and to one or more predetermined recipients greater than a predefined value;

a number of sends of the content during a predetermined period and in a predetermined time range greater than a predefined value; and or a number of sends of the content over a predetermined period and from a predetermined geographical area greater than a predefined value.

Content can therefore be automatically recorded if it or the message (s) from which it is checked (s) one of these criteria.

Thus, the invention takes into account, for recording content, both the sending frequency of the content and the context of sending the content, such as the place and time of sending, and also the recipient or recipients content.

For example, the message M1 may be automatically registered in the table TAB1 if it has been sent at least 10 times by the user in total.

Alternatively, the message M1 is recorded if it has been sent at least 10 times to a particular recipient, or to a group of particular recipients.

The message Ml can also be recorded if it has been sent a number of times, in a predetermined period, in a specific place, or at a specific time.

For example, the message M1 can be recorded if it has been sent at least 10 times between 5 pm and 6 pm

Claims

Method of assisting the composition of a new message in an input area (Z) of a user's terminal (T), said method being intended to be implemented by said terminal (T) and comprising, for each detection of a single tactile interaction of said user on an interface of said terminal (T), said first interaction:

a step (E40) of access to a multimedia content (M1) from a set of multimedia contents (M1, M2, M3, M4) recorded in a non-volatile memory (MEM) accessible by said terminal (T), said contents multimedia (Ml) having been previously processed by said terminal (T) during a processing step;

a detection step making it possible to detect whether said input area (Z) comprises a multimedia content;

if said input zone (Z) contains multimedia content, a step of deleting this content; and

- A copy step (E60) in said input area (Z) of said new message, said accessed content (Ml).

The method of claim 1, wherein said first interaction corresponds to a single support of said user on a first button (B1) of said terminal.

The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein said accessing (E40), detecting, deleting and copying (E60) steps do not require any further user interaction after said first interaction.

The method of claim 1, wherein said first interaction is followed by voice control of said user detected by said terminal (T).

The method of any one of claims 2 to 4, wherein said treating step comprises:

a step (E10) for inputting said multimedia content (M1) by said user into said input area (Z); and

a step (E20) of recording, in said memory (MEM), said content on detection of a second tactile interaction of said user on an interface of said terminal (T).

The method of claim 5, wherein said second interaction (ACT2) consists of:

a second button press; or

- a prolonged support on said first button (Bl).

7. Method according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein said processing step comprises a step (E30) of recording, in said memory (MEM), said multimedia content (Ml) on detection that a number of sending said content over a predetermined period (FREQ) verifies at least one predetermined criterion.

8. The method of claim 7, in said at least one predetermined criterion corresponds to:

a total number of sends of said content during a predetermined period (FREQ) greater than a predefined value;

a number of items of said content during a predetermined period and at least one predetermined recipient greater than a predefined value;

a number of sends of said content during a predetermined period and in a predetermined time range greater than a predefined value; and or

a number of sends of said content over a predetermined period and from a predetermined geographical area greater than a predefined value. The method of any of claims 1 to 8, wherein said content (M1) is different from the last content copied in said input area (Z).

The method of any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein:

said memory (MEM) comprises a plurality of multimedia contents (Ml, M2, M3, M4), each associated with a number of transmissions of said content during a predetermined period; and

during said access step (E10), said terminal selects said content as a function of said number of items associated with said content in said memory (MEM).

The method of any one of claims 1 to 10, wherein said memory (MEM) comprises a plurality of multimedia contents (Ml, M2, M3) each associated with at least one sending characteristic (DEST, H, L);

said method comprises a step of detecting a sending context of said new message; and

during said access step (E40), said terminal (T) selects said content

(Ml) if at least one sending characteristic associated with it respects said sending context.

The method of claim 11, wherein said at least one sending characteristic associated with one of said contents comprises:

at least one recipient to whom said content has been sent;

- at least the geographical area from which the said content was sent; and or

at least one time period during which said content has been sent.

13. Terminal (T) for assisting the composition of a message in an input zone (Z), comprising:

a module (DET) for detecting a first unique interaction of a user on a terminal interface (T);

a module (ACC) for accessing a multimedia content (Ml) from a set of multimedia contents (Ml, M2, M3, M4) stored in a non-volatile memory (MEM) accessible by said terminal (T), said contents having been previously processed by said terminal (T) during a processing step - a detection module for detecting whether said input area (Z) comprises a multimedia content;

a deletion module enabling, if said input area (Z) contains multimedia content, to delete this content; and

a copy module (COP) making it possible to copy, in said zone (Z) for inputting said new message, said content (M1); said access module, said detection module, said deletion module and said copy module being activated at each detection of said first single interaction.

A computer program comprising instructions for performing the steps of a method of assisting the composition of a new message according to any one of claims 1 to 12 when these instructions are executed by a computer. 15. A computer-readable recording medium on which is recorded a computer program comprising the instructions for performing said steps of a method of assisting the composition of a new message according to any one.