KR20140147442A - Method and server for transmiting notice message - Google Patents

Abstract

Provides a technique for transmitting a chat message displayed in a group chat service to a text message without checking and selecting a recipient's contact information. The public message transmission method according to an embodiment of the present invention is characterized in that the public message transmission server includes an interface in which a plurality of users are included as members and is a member registered in a group chat interface which is an interface capable of chatting in real- Receiving a selection input for a chat message of a chat message posted on a chat interface from a first terminal that is a terminal of one of the members; Transmitting a text transmission menu to a first terminal as a menu for transmitting a selected input chat message to a portable terminal of a member when receiving a selection input for a chat message; Extracting contacts of portable terminals of members registered in the group chat interface from the group chat interface management server upon receiving a selection input for the character transmission menu from the first terminal; And transmitting a text message including the content of the selected chat message to the extracted contact.

Description

METHOD AND SERVER FOR TRANSMITTING NOTICE MESSAGE [0002]

The present invention relates to a technology for transmitting a message to a plurality of users, and more particularly, to a method for transmitting a message to a plurality of users, And to easily transmit a message to a group such as a known message.

The utilization rate of the communication service using the portable terminal is rapidly increasing. Recently, a variety of chat service applications such as Kakao Talk have been provided. Users can communicate with other users in real time while exchanging messages with other users actively.

[0003] In accordance with the development of such applications, a group chat service, which is a service capable of communicating using chat, is provided not only between two users, but also between two or more users.

Small groups are actively promoting the announcement of group announcements through online chatting services, such as notifying important group members about the schedule.

Meanwhile, in order to inform a large number of users of important contents such as announcements, a chat message may be transmitted using the group chat room, a character containing the content may be transmitted using a text message of the portable terminal, It has been used in the form of notifying directly via telephone.

However, in the case of the group chat room, the user may not check the chat room at any time depending on the user, and the corresponding message can not be confirmed unless the chat message is confirmed by accessing the chat interface. In addition, in the case of a text message, a plurality of users can transmit a character at a time, and the confirmation can be promptly received. However, in order to transmit a text message, it is necessary to know the contacts of all recipient's portable terminals. There was an inconvenience that the user had to input. The form of notifying via direct phone also has the same problem as text message, and it has been pointed out that the time required for telephone conversation is large.

Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide a technique capable of easily transmitting a message to be transmitted to a plurality of users without having to input a contact address of a recipient in a text message.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a technology that enables a user who does not know a contact to easily transmit a text message through a portable terminal and easily transmit a known message to a plurality of users.

In order to achieve the above object, in a known message transmission method according to an embodiment of the present invention, a known message transmission server includes an interface in which a plurality of users are included as members, Receiving a selection input for a chat message of a chat message posted on the chat interface from a first terminal that is a terminal of any one of the members registered in the group chat interface; Transmitting a text transmission menu to the first terminal as a menu for transmitting the selected input chat message to a portable terminal of the members when receiving a selection input for the chat message; Extracting contacts of portable terminals of members registered in the group chat interface from a group chat interface management server upon receiving a selection input for the character transmission menu from the first terminal; And transmitting a text message including the content of the selected chat message to the extracted contact.

The transmitting of the text message may include extracting contents of the selected chat message; Generating a text message including the extracted content; And transmitting the generated text message to the extracted contact.

When receiving a selection input for the character transmission menu from the first terminal after transmitting the character transmission menu to the first terminal, selecting a member of at least one of the members registered in the chat interface And transmitting a receiver selection menu to the first terminal.

The step of extracting the contact information of the portable terminal may include extracting a contact of members corresponding to the selection input when receiving a selection input for at least one member of the members from the first terminal through the recipient selection menu .

The step of transmitting the text message may further include transmitting the selected text message as one of an SMS (Short Message Service) message and an MMS (Multimedia Message Service) message according to the data type and the number of characters included in the selected chat message. It is preferable to generate and transmit a text message containing the contents of the message.

The transmitting of the text message may include selecting whether to transmit the text message before transmitting the text message if it is determined that the type of the generated text message is an MMS message, To the first terminal; And transmitting the text message upon receiving a selection input for the transmission confirmation menu from the first terminal.

The transmitting of the text message may include dividing the selected chat message into a plurality of text messages when the number of characters included in the selected chat message exceeds the number of threshold characters set according to the text message service desirable.

The known message transmission server according to an embodiment of the present invention is an interface in which a plurality of users are included as members, and is a member of any of the members registered in the group chat interface, which is an interface capable of chatting in real- A chat message receiving unit for receiving a selection input for a chat message among chat messages posted on the chat interface from a first terminal that is a member terminal; And transmitting a text transmission menu to the first terminal as a menu for transmitting the selected input chat message to a portable terminal of the members when receiving a selection input for the chat message, A contact extraction unit for extracting a contact of a portable terminal of members registered in the group chat interface from a group chat interface management server upon receiving a selection input for the character transmission menu; And a text message transmission unit for transmitting a text message including the content of the selected chat message to the extracted contact.

Wherein the contact extraction unit is operable to select at least one member of the members registered in the chat interface upon receiving a selection input for the character transmission menu from the first terminal, When receiving a selection input for at least one member of the members from the first terminal through the recipient selection menu, extracts the contacts of the members corresponding to the selection input.

Preferably, when the number of characters included in the selected and inputted chat message exceeds the number of threshold characters set according to the text message service, the text message transmission unit divides the selected input chat message into a plurality of text messages and transmits the text messages.

According to the present invention, since a chat message transmitted and received in real time is selected through a chat interface, processed into a text message, and transmitted to a contact of a member registered in the chat interface, even a user who can not check a chat message in the chat room, Since the text message is transmitted by extracting the contact from the chat service management server, it is possible to transmit the text message to a large number of users without inputting the contact information of a plurality of users. There is an effect.

In addition, since the text message is transmitted to all users belonging to the group chat room without having to know the contacts of all the recipients in order to transmit the text message, it is possible to transmit important messages such as announcements to all users who want to easily transmit the contents .

1 is a flowchart of a known message transmission method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 illustrates a flow of setting a recipient of a text message according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 and 4 illustrate an example of a flow in which a text message is transmitted according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a block diagram of a known message transmission server according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6 to 9 show examples of screens displayed on a portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, a known message transmission method and a server according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. The following examples are intended to illustrate the present invention and should not be construed as limiting the scope of the present invention. Accordingly, equivalent inventions performing the same functions as the present invention are also within the scope of the present invention.

In addition, in adding reference numerals to the constituent elements of the drawings, it is to be noted that the same constituent elements are denoted by the same reference numerals even though they are shown in different drawings. In the following description of the present invention, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the subject matter of the present invention rather unclear.

In describing the components of the present invention, terms such as first, second, A, B, (a), and (b) may be used. These terms are intended to distinguish the constituent elements from other constituent elements, and the terms do not limit the nature, order or order of the constituent elements. When a component is described as being "connected", "coupled", or "connected" to another component, the component may be directly connected to or connected to the other component, It should be understood that an element may be "connected," "coupled," or "connected."

1 is a flowchart of a known message transmission method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, a known message transmission method according to an embodiment of the present invention can be performed by each configuration of a known message transmission server to be described below. Hereinafter, the known message transmission server will be referred to as a server.

The server is an interface in which a plurality of users are included as members. The server is a member of any of the members registered in the group chat interface, which is an interface that enables sending and receiving of chat messages, (S10) a selection input for a chat message from any of the chat messages posted to the chat interface from the first terminal.

The group chat interface means an interface provided to the user terminal when using an application or other service for using the above-mentioned chat service. The chat service providing server provides a chat application or a chat web page to provide a chat service among the users.

The group chat interface is an interface that is displayed on the terminals of the users according to the use of the chat service, and refers to an interface through which three or more users can send and receive chat messages.

When a chat message is input through the group chat interface, the members included in the group chat interface can confirm the chat message input by the other user through the chat interface output to the user terminal, You can enter a message.

At this time, the server receives the selection input from the first terminal for one of the plurality of chat messages output to the chat interface through step S10.

Here, the first terminal means a terminal of a member who wants to transmit a chat message by a text message by performing the function of the present invention. That is, it means any member of the members included in the group chat interface.

The server receiving the selection input for one of the chat messages from the first terminal transmits a text transmission menu to the first terminal as a menu for transmitting the selected input chat message to the portable terminal of the members as a text message Step S20 is performed.

The text transmission menu may be transmitted to be output to a separate area from the chat window according to the chat interface, or may be transmitted so as to be output to an area adjacent to the selected chat message.

Upon receiving the selection input from the first terminal for the character transmission menu output to the first terminal, the server receives a member registered in the group chat interface from a server managing the group chat interface, that is, a user information database of the chat service providing server, (S30) of extracting a contact of the portable terminal.

In the present invention, a contact of a portable terminal of a member means a contact of a terminal capable of receiving a text message. For example, if the group chat interface is being output to be available through a portable terminal (e.g., a smart phone), the phone number of the portable terminal will be the contact of the present invention.

The chat service is available by executing the chat application provided from the chat service providing server as mentioned above. At this time, in order to utilize the chat service, the user's contact information is generally registered, and accordingly, the user's contact information can be stored in the user's information in the chat service management server.

The server accesses the chat service management server to request the user's contact information to the database storing the user's information, and extracts the contact information of the user corresponding thereto.

If the contacts of the portable terminals of the members are extracted through step S30, the server performs step S40 of transmitting a text message containing the contents of the chat message selected and inputted through the step S10 to the extracted contacts.

The transmission of the text message including the contents of the chat message in step S40 means that the same message is generated and transmitted as a text message when the chat message is a text message.

For example, in the case where the chat message is "announcement, gather up until 9:00 am", a text message containing the same character information is generated, and the generated text message is transmitted to the extracted contact.

To this end, the server extracts the content of the selected chat message, generates a text message containing the extracted content, and transmits the generated text message to the extracted contact.

That is, a message that can be confirmed only in the chat interface through step S40 is transmitted as a text message (including SMS and MMS) of the mobile phone.

Since the text message can be checked in real time by the user and is transmitted separately even if the chat proceeds, a user who has not confirmed the chat message through the group chat interface can check the content.

In addition, since it is possible to transmit a text message to all the members by selecting a chat message output to the group chat interface without inputting a contact of another user to transmit the text message, a member included in the group chat interface It is possible to easily transmit the important contents to be transmitted to the user via the text message.

In addition, even a user who does not know the contact can send a text message only if it is included in the group chat interface. Therefore, it is not necessary to know the contacts of all the recipients in order to transmit a text message, It is possible to transmit important contents such as announcements to all users who want to easily transmit the contents.

FIG. 2 illustrates a flow of setting a recipient of a text message according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, when the server receives a selection input for a text transmission menu, the server transmits a recipient selection menu to the first terminal as a menu for selecting at least one member of the members registered in the chat interface S31).

When receiving a selection input for at least one member of the members included in the group chat interface from the first terminal through the receiver selection menu transmitted in step S31, the server, unlike FIG. 1, A step S32 of extracting only contacts is performed.

Thereafter, as in FIG. 1, a text message having the same content as the chat message will be transmitted to the extracted contact.

There may be chat messages that need to be sent only to some of the members included in the group chat interface. For example, in a chat interface configured to allow members of a group to chat with each other, there may be a message that needs to be notified only to the management of the group.

At this time, when the corresponding message is transmitted to all the members, an unnecessary text message is transmitted according to the contents of the characters, thereby providing inconvenience to the members, and contents that other members should not check may be transmitted. In this case, conventionally, the corresponding message had to be transmitted as a character to some members.

In the embodiment of FIG. 2, in order to prevent the above-described problem, by selecting a member to transmit a text message, according to an embodiment of the present invention, a service for transmitting a chat message as a text message can be increased, So that the transmission function can be performed.

3 and 4 illustrate an example of a flow in which a text message is transmitted according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the server first determines whether to transmit a text message to a Short Message Service (SMS) or a Multimedia Message Service (MMS) according to the type and the number of characters included in the selected chat message, And determines whether the determined type of the text message is an MMS message (S41).

If the text message is an MMS message, the server transmits a transmission confirmation menu to the first terminal, which is a menu for selecting whether or not to transmit the text message before transmitting the text message to the contact of the portable terminal of the extraction source member (S42), and when the selection input for the transmission confirmation menu is received from the first terminal, a step S43 of transmitting a text message is performed.

The form of the text message may be SMS or MMS as mentioned above. If the number of characters exceeds a preset number of characters (for example, 80 bytes), or if the message includes information such as an image or an image, the MMS text message may be generated and transmitted. In the present invention, the number of characters means the size of data occupied according to characters input in a text message.

In the currently available text messaging service, the MMS may not want to transmit the character to the MMS depending on the user because the transmission price is much larger than the SMS message.

According to the embodiment of FIG. 3, when the text message becomes the MMS, the user can confirm whether or not the text message is once again transmitted, thereby providing the user with convenience for the price burden in providing the service have.

On the other hand, referring to FIG. 4, the server performs step S44 of determining whether the number of characters included in the selected input chat message exceeds a predetermined number of characters (for example, 80 bytes) set in accordance with the text message service.

Thereafter, if it is determined that the number exceeds the threshold number of characters, the server divides the chat message into a plurality of text messages and transmits the divided text messages to the contacts of the portable terminals of the extracted members (S45 and S46).

As mentioned in the embodiment of FIG. 3, in case of MMS, the transmission price is much larger than the SMS message. In the embodiment of FIG. 4, when a chat message is composed of only characters and is an MMS message divisible into a plurality of SMS messages, the MMS message is divided into a plurality of SMS messages and transmitted, thereby reducing the price burden on the user's transmission of a text message There is an effect that can be.

5 is a block diagram of a known message transmission server according to an embodiment of the present invention. In the following description, portions overlapping with the description of Figs. 1 to 4 will be omitted.

Referring to FIG. 5, the known message transmission server 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a chat message receiving unit 11, a contact extracting unit 12, and a message transmitting unit 13.

1, the chat message receiving unit 11 receives any one of the chat messages posted on the chat interface from the first terminal 20, which is the terminal of any one of the members included in the group chat interface And receives a selection input for a chat message.

When the chat message receiving unit 11 receives the selection input for the chat message from the first terminal 20, the contact extracting unit 12 accesses the chat service providing server 30 and registers And extracts the contacts of the portable terminals 20 and 50 of the members.

2, it is possible to select a member to receive a text message by transmitting a receiver selection menu to the first terminal 20 and inputting the receiver selection menu. In this case, The contact of the terminal can be extracted.

The message transmission unit 13 transmits a text message including the contents of the chat message selected by the chat message reception unit 11 to the contact extracted by the contact extraction unit 12. [

For this purpose, the contents of the chat message can be extracted and processed as a text message.

3 and 4, since the text message can be generated by the SMS or the MMS according to the chat message, the message transmission unit 13 may transmit the SMS or MMS message according to the number of characters or the data type. A text message can be generated in any form.

As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, according to the selection input from the first terminal 20 for the transmission confirmation menu, a text message generated in an MMS message may be transmitted, or a plurality of SMS messages may be divided into a plurality of SMS messages according to the number of characters .

6 to 9 show examples of screens displayed on a portable terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

First, an example of the group chat interface 100 is shown in Fig. In the group chat interface 100, a plurality of users can input a chat message 101, and the members registered in the group chat interface 100, i.e., the members participating in the chat, (100).

At this time, upon receipt of a selection input for a chat message, the text transmission menu 102 is outputted and the text message can be transmitted as mentioned above.

FIG. 7 shows an example of the recipient selection menu 110 in which the embodiment of FIG. 2 is implemented. When the user selects the text transmission menu 102 of FIG. 6, the recipient selection menu 110 is output, and a member to select a text message can be selected through the selection button 111.

And then transmit the text message to the contacts of the portable terminal of the selected members by selecting the transmission menu 112. [

On the other hand, an example of the transmission confirmation menu 120 is shown in Fig. As described in the description of FIG. 3, when the text message is to be transmitted through the MMS, the transmission confirmation menu 120 may be output to allow the user to select whether or not to transmit the text.

An example of the text message 130 is shown in Fig. The chat message output through the chat interface is transmitted to the portable terminal through the text message 130 as in the text message 130 of FIG.

The above-described method of transmitting a known message according to an embodiment of the present invention can be executed by an application installed in a terminal (which may include a program included in a platform or an operating system basically installed in the terminal) (I.e., a program) directly installed on the terminal by a user via an application providing server such as an application store server, an application, or a web server associated with the service. In this sense, the public message transmission method according to the embodiment of the present invention described above is implemented as an application (i.e., a program) installed in a terminal or directly installed by a user and recorded on a computer readable recording medium such as a terminal .

Such a program may be recorded on a recording medium that can be read by a computer and executed by a computer so that the above-described functions can be executed.

In order to execute the public message transmission method according to each embodiment of the present invention, the above-mentioned program may be stored in a computer-readable code such as C, C ++, JAVA, Code).

The code may include a function code related to a function or the like that defines the functions described above and may include an execution procedure related control code necessary for the processor of the computer to execute the functions described above according to a predetermined procedure.

In addition, such code may further include memory reference related code as to what additional information or media needed to cause the processor of the computer to execute the aforementioned functions should be referenced at any location (address) of the internal or external memory of the computer .

In addition, when a processor of a computer needs to communicate with any other computer or server, etc., to perform the above-described functions, the code may be stored in a computer's communication module (e.g., a wired and / ) May be used to further include communication related codes such as how to communicate with any other computer or server in the remote, and what information or media should be transmitted or received during communication.

The functional program for implementing the present invention and the related code and code segment may be implemented by programmers in the technical field of the present invention in consideration of the system environment of the computer that reads the recording medium and executes the program, Or may be easily modified or modified by the user.

Examples of the computer-readable recording medium on which the above-described program is recorded include ROM, RAM, CD-ROM, magnetic tape, floppy disk, optical media storage, and the like.

Also, the computer-readable recording medium on which the above-described program is recorded may be distributed to a computer system connected via a network so that computer-readable codes can be stored and executed in a distributed manner. In this case, any of at least one of the plurality of distributed computers may execute some of the functions presented above and transmit the result of the execution to at least one of the other distributed computers, and transmit the result The receiving computer may also perform some of the functions described above and provide the results to other distributed computers as well.

In particular, a computer-readable recording medium storing an application that is a program for executing a public message transmission method according to each embodiment of the present invention includes an application store server, an application or a web server associated with the service A storage medium (e.g., a hard disk, etc.) included in the application provider server of the application server or an application providing server itself.

A computer capable of reading a recording medium on which an application, which is a program for executing a known message transmission method according to each of the embodiments of the present invention, can be read by a computer such as a smart phone, a tablet PC, a PDA Personal digital assistants (PDAs), mobile communication terminals, and the like, and it should be interpreted as all devices capable of computing.

In addition, a computer that can read a recording medium on which an application, which is a program for executing a public message transmission method according to an embodiment of the present invention, is read may be a mobile terminal such as a smart phone, a tablet PC, a PDA (Personal Digital Assistants) , The application may be downloaded to the general PC from the application providing server and installed in the mobile terminal through the synchronization program.

While the present invention has been described in connection with what is presently considered to be the most practical and preferred embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments. That is, within the scope of the present invention, all of the components may be selectively coupled to at least one. In addition, although all of the components may be implemented as one independent hardware, some or all of the components may be selectively combined to perform a part or all of the functions in one or a plurality of hardware. As shown in FIG. The codes and code segments constituting the computer program may be easily deduced by those skilled in the art. Such a computer program can be stored in a computer-readable storage medium, readable and executed by a computer, thereby realizing an embodiment of the present invention. As a storage medium of the computer program, a magnetic recording medium, an optical recording medium, or the like can be included.

It is also to be understood that the terms such as " comprises, "" comprising," or "having ", as used herein, mean that a component can be implanted unless specifically stated to the contrary. But should be construed as including other elements. All terms, including technical and scientific terms, have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs, unless otherwise defined. Commonly used terms, such as predefined terms, should be interpreted to be consistent with the contextual meanings of the related art, and are not to be construed as ideal or overly formal, unless expressly defined to the contrary.

The foregoing description is merely illustrative of the technical idea of the present invention, and various changes and modifications may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the essential characteristics of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are intended to illustrate rather than limit the scope of the present invention, and the scope of the technical idea of the present invention is not limited by these embodiments. The scope of protection of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all technical ideas within the scope of equivalents should be construed as falling within the scope of the present invention.

Claims (10)

The notification message transmission server transmits,
A method for providing a chat service, the method comprising: transmitting, from a first terminal, which is a terminal of any one of the members registered in a group chat interface that is an interface capable of chatting in real time among the members, Receiving a selection input for one of the chat messages;
Transmitting a text transmission menu to the first terminal as a menu for transmitting the selected input chat message to a portable terminal of the members when receiving a selection input for the chat message;
Extracting contacts of portable terminals of members registered in the group chat interface from a group chat interface management server upon receiving a selection input for the character transmission menu from the first terminal; And
And transmitting a text message including the content of the selected chat message to the extracted contact. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the transmitting the text message comprises:
Extracting contents of the selected chat message;
Generating a text message including the extracted content; And
And transmitting the generated text message to the extracted contact message. The method according to claim 1,
After the step of transmitting the character transmission menu to the first terminal,
Transmitting a recipient selection menu to the first terminal as a menu for selecting at least one member of the members registered in the chat interface upon receiving a selection input for the character transmission menu from the first terminal; Further comprising the steps of: The method of claim 3,
The step of extracting the contact information of the portable terminal includes:
When receiving a selection input for at least one member of the members from the first terminal through the recipient selection menu, extracts the contacts of the members corresponding to the selection input. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the transmitting the text message comprises:
A text message including the contents of the selected and inputted chat message in one of SMS (Short Message Service) message and MMS (Multimedia Message Service) message according to the data type and the number of characters included in the selected chat message And transmitting the generated notification message. 6. The method of claim 5,
Wherein the transmitting the text message comprises:
Transmitting a transmission confirmation menu to the first terminal as a menu to select whether to transmit the text message before transmitting the text message if it is determined that the type of the generated text message is an MMS message; And
And transmitting the text message upon receiving a selection input for the transmission confirmation menu from the first terminal. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the transmitting the text message comprises:
Wherein the selected chat message is divided into a plurality of text messages and transmitted when the number of characters included in the selected chat message exceeds the number of threshold characters set according to the text message service. A method for providing a chat service, the method comprising: transmitting, from a first terminal, which is a terminal of any one of the members registered in a group chat interface that is an interface capable of chatting in real time among the members, A chat message receiving unit receiving a selection input for a chat message among the chat messages;
And transmitting a text transmission menu to the first terminal as a menu for transmitting the selected input chat message to the portable terminal of the members when receiving the selection input for the chat message, A contact extraction unit for extracting a contact of a portable terminal of members registered in the group chat interface from a group chat interface management server upon receiving a selection input for the character transmission menu; And
And a text message transmission unit for transmitting a text message including the content of the selected chat message to the extracted contact. 9. The method of claim 8,
The contact extracting unit extracts,
When receiving a selection input for the character transmission menu from the first terminal, transmitting a recipient selection menu to the first terminal as a menu for selecting at least one member of the members registered in the chat interface, And when receiving a selection input for at least one member of the members from the first terminal through the selection menu, extracts contacts of the members corresponding to the selection input. 9. The method of claim 8,
The text message transmission unit transmits,
Wherein the selected chat message is divided into a plurality of text messages and transmitted when the number of characters included in the selected chat message exceeds the number of threshold characters set according to the text message service.

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