TWI682293B - Instant message reminding method and device - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides an instant message reminding method, which is applied to a server that stores the user's attention object when closing the message reminder. The method includes: receiving an instant message from the sender's terminal; if the instant message The sender of belongs to the recipient of the instant message when he closes the message reminder, and sends the instant message to the terminal of the receiver in a reminder manner. With the technical solution of the present invention, the user can obtain the news concerned in time without being disturbed by the news that is not concerned, which reduces the operation of the user and provides more convenience for the user.

Description

Instant message reminding method and device

The invention relates to the technical field of network communication, in particular to an instant message reminding method and device.

With the development of communication technology and the popularization of smart terminals, people increasingly use instant messaging for text, voice or video communication. Users can communicate with friends using the same instant messaging software, and can also communicate with multiple other users at the same time by joining the group.

When more groups join, more group members join the group, or the group members join the group are more active, users often receive a lot of group messages. If these group messages are sent to users as a reminder, it will cause serious interference to users. Therefore, many instant messaging software provides a group message do not disturb function, users can set to close the message reminder for the group they join, after the message reminder is turned off, the user's terminal does not receive all group messages of the group Remind users. However, while avoiding being disturbed, if users want to know the messages posted by the group members they follow in the group, they need to check the group messages themselves and find the messages sent by the concerned objects in them, which is not only time-consuming and labor-intensive, but also often not timely enough. .

In view of this, the present invention provides an instant message reminding method, which is applied to a server that stores the user's attention object when closing the message reminder. The method includes: receiving an instant message from the sender terminal ; If the sender of the instant message belongs to the attention object of the receiver of the instant message when the message reminder is turned off, the instant message is sent to the terminal of the receiver in a reminder manner.

The present invention provides an instant message reminding method, which is applied to a terminal and includes: receiving the attention object set by the user when closing the message reminder, and uploading it to the server; receiving the instant message sent by the server in the form of reminder. The sender of the instant message is the object of attention of the user when closing the message reminder.

The present invention also provides a reminder device for instant messages, which is applied to a server that stores the user's attention object when closing the message reminder. The device includes: an instant message receiving unit for receiving messages from The instant message of the party’s terminal; the attention message sending unit is used to send the instant message to the receiver in a reminder way when the sender of the instant message belongs to the attention object of the receiver of the instant message when the message reminder is turned off terminal.

An instant message reminding device provided by the present invention is applied to a terminal The above includes: the attention object upload unit, used to receive the attention object set by the user when the message reminder is closed, and uploaded to the server; the attention message receiving unit, used to receive the instant message sent by the server in the form of reminder, so The sender of the instant message is the object of attention of the user when closing the message reminder.

It can be seen from the above technical solutions that in the embodiment of the present invention, the attention object set by the user when closing the message reminder is stored on the server, and the server sends the message to the user's attention object by reminder The terminal sent to the user enables the user to obtain the concerned message in time without being disturbed by the unconcerned message, which reduces the operation of the user and provides more convenience for the user.

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of an instant message reminding method applied to a server in an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 2 is a flowchart of an instant message reminding method applied to a terminal in an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 3 is the present invention In the application example, a display interface for a user to set a group attribute; FIG. 4 is a display interface for a user to set a group member as an object of interest in the application example of the present invention; FIG. 5 is a usable interface in the application example of the present invention The user selects the interface of the notification object; FIG. 6 is a message display page displaying positioning display items in the application example of the present invention; FIG. 7 is an interface displaying all group messages with mandatory notification marks in the application example of the present invention; FIG. 8 is a type of terminal or server Hardware structure diagram; FIG. 9 is a logic structure diagram of an instant message reminder device applied to a server in an embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 10 is a logic structure of an instant message reminder device applied to a terminal in an embodiment of the present invention Figure.

An embodiment of the present invention proposes a new method for reminding instant messages. The user specifies one or more attention objects when closing the message reminder and uploads them to the server. The server sends messages to the attention objects to the server in a reminder manner. The user's terminal enables the user to conveniently and promptly obtain the message of the object of interest without being disturbed by other messages that are not of interest, so as to solve the problems in the prior art.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the sender terminal and the server of the instant message, and the receiver terminal and the server are accessible to each other via the network. Among them, the terminal (sender and/or receiver terminal) can be a mobile phone, tablet computer, PC (Personal Computer, personal computer), notebook and other devices; the server can be a physical or logical server, or can be composed of two Or more than two physical or logical servers sharing different responsibilities, and cooperate with each other to implement various functions of the server in the embodiment of the present invention. The embodiment of the present invention The types of terminals and servers, as well as the types and protocols of communication networks between the sender terminal and the server, and between the receiver terminal and the server are not limited.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the flow of the instant message reminding method on the server is shown in FIG. 1, and the flow on the terminal is shown in FIG. 2.

On the terminal, in step 210, the attention object set by the user when closing the message reminder is received and uploaded to the server.

In the prior art, the instant messaging software provides users with the function of setting the message do not disturb in different ranges. For example, the user can set all messages to turn off the message reminder, so that whether it is a group message or a pair of other users A message sent to the user will not be reminded; the user can also set the group message to turn off the message reminder, so that all group messages will not be reminded; the user can also set for one or more groups Close the message reminder, the group message of the group set to close the message reminder will not be reminded.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the user can set the attention object corresponding to the range of closing the message reminder. Specifically, if all messages are set as the closing message reminder, the user can use any of the same instant messaging software. Friends are set as followers; if the group message is set as a close message reminder, all other group members of all groups that the user joins can be set as followers; if a close message reminder is set for a group, the other Group members can be set as objects of interest by users.

After receiving the attention object set by the user when closing the message reminder, the terminal uploads the user's attention object corresponding to the scope of the closing message reminder To the server, the server saves it to the local memory or host computer and other devices accessible via the network.

On the server, in step 110, an instant message from the sender's terminal is received.

In instant messaging, the sender terminal of the instant message sends the instant message to the server, and the instant message carries information of the recipient, for example, the identity of a user or the identity of a group. The server can know which receiver's terminal or terminals to forward the instant message to based on the receiver's information.

On the server, in step 120, if the sender of the instant message belongs to the attention object of the receiver of the instant message when the message reminder is turned off, the instant message is sent to the terminal of the receiver in a reminder manner.

On the terminal, in step 220, the instant message sent by the server in the form of a reminder is received, and the sender of the instant message is the user's attention object when the message reminder is turned off.

After receiving the instant message from the sender's terminal, the server searches for each receiver of the instant message to save the attention object of the receiver when closing the message reminder, if the sender of the instant message belongs to the receiver When the object of interest when the message reminder is turned off, the instant message is sent to the receiver's terminal in a reminder.

For example, if the receiver has set a follower for all messages when the message reminder is turned off, according to the implementation of the instant messaging software, the server can send all instant messages (including group messages and group messages sent to the group) sent by the follower Non-group messages with one or more users as recipients) In wake-up mode, you can also send only the non-group messages sent by the attention object as a reminder; if the receiver sets the attention object for all groups when the message reminder is turned off, the server can send all group messages sent by the attention object (That is, the group message of each group where the sender and the receiver are co-located) is sent to the receiver terminal as a reminder; if the receiver sets a group of attention objects when the message reminder is turned off, the server will send the attention object to the group The group message of the group is sent to the receiver's terminal as a reminder.

In the embodiment of the present invention, after the instant message sent by the reminder method arrives at the receiver terminal, the receiver terminal will send a notification to the user; the notification includes vibration, ringtone, reminder information on the unlocked screen, and instant messaging software One to many types of application icon marks or other marks, banners on the screen after unlocking, etc. The specific implementation of sending an instant message by reminder is not limited in this embodiment, and various existing message transmission methods between the server and the receiver terminal can be adopted, for example, the server can push the instant message to the receiver The terminal of the server sends an instant message to the server in a push manner. The receiver's terminal sends a notification to the user after receiving it; the server can push the latest instant message to the receiver via a long connection established with the receiver's terminal The party's terminal can also push the instant message to the receiver's terminal's instant messaging software App through a dedicated message push server.

It can be seen that in the embodiment of the present invention, the user specifies the attention object when closing the message reminder and uploads it to the server. After receiving the instant message sent by the attention object to the user, the server sends it as a reminder, so that The user-specified attention object becomes an exception to the closing message reminder, so Users can keep abreast of the messages sent by the object of interest, and at the same time avoid being disturbed by other unfocused messages. It is no longer necessary to find out whether the object of interest has sent a message, which reduces the user's operation and provides users with more convenience.

In one implementation, the sender can specify the recipient to arrive in a reminder when sending the group message, so that the sender can ensure that important group messages are notified to the receivers closely related to the group message in time, even if they are closed. The recipients of the group's message reminders can also be notified; in other words, the group's messages will be forcibly notified to the designated recipients. Specifically, on the sending terminal, the group message of the group where the user is located and one or more notification objects of the group message specified by the user are sent to the server for the server to send the group message to as a reminder Notify the target terminal. After receiving the group message from the sender's terminal and the notification object of the group message designated by the sender on the server, the group message is sent to the notification object's terminal in a reminder manner. Among them, the sender and the receiver are group members of the same group, and the group message sent is also the group message of the group. The sender can designate one or more group members other than itself as the notification object, or it can designate all group members as the notification object.

For the instant message specified by the sender to be reached by the reminder, a mandatory notification flag can be added to the message, so that the receiver's terminal can identify the group message sent in this way by the mandatory notification flag It can be displayed and managed differently from other group messages, so that the recipient user can easily view and review these important group messages. The mandatory notification flag can be added by the sender terminal In the group message sent, the server may add the group message sent to the specified notification object after receiving the group message with the specified notification object.

After receiving the group message with the mandatory notification flag sent by the server in a reminder mode, the receiving terminal displays the reminder information of the group message to the user. The reminder information can be text or images that the user can see in the current state of the terminal, such as the reminder text on the unlocked screen, the icon mark or other mark on the instant messaging software application, and the unlocked screen. Banner etc. When the user performs scheduled viewing operations on the reminder information (such as clicking on the reminder text or banner, clicking on the icon mark, pressing a predetermined shortcut key or shortcut key combination, etc.), the message display page of the corresponding group is opened. Under normal circumstances, the message display page will display the most recently received group messages. Group messages with a mandatory notification tag may be displayed on the message display page, or the message display page may be occupied by other group messages received later and cannot be displayed. Group messages with mandatory notification flags. If the group message with the mandatory notification mark fails to be displayed on the opened message display page, the positioning display item of the group message with the mandatory notification mark may be displayed on the message display page. The targeted display item may be a floating window displaying part or all of the message content, an icon or a button, or other forms of page elements. After the user specifies a predetermined positioning operation for the positioning display item (such as clicking a floating window, clicking an icon or button, pressing a predetermined shortcut key or shortcut key combination, etc.), the terminal scrolls the message display page to show that there is a mandatory notification Mark the location of the group message and display the group message to the user.

On the receiver's terminal, the group messages with mandatory notification tags received in a group can be filtered out and displayed to the user, so that the user can unify Check the important messages sent to him in the group, or find these important messages afterwards. After receiving the user's scheduled filtering operation, it displays the group message that has been received by a certain group with the mandatory notification flag. You can provide a menu item for viewing all group messages with mandatory notification flags in the instant messaging software of the recipient terminal, and select this menu item as a predetermined filtering operation; you can also display buttons on the group message display page or setting page Or preset shortcut keys, click buttons or press shortcut keys as a predetermined filtering operation; the embodiment of the present invention is not limited.

In an application example of the present invention, user A, as a recipient, sets a group's attention object when closing the message reminder. Assuming that the group name is "playing together", the interface for the user to set the attributes of the group is shown in FIG. 3, where "message do not disturb" is an on mode indicating that user A has turned off the group's message reminder, "ta "Following news" is a menu item for setting the group of attention objects. When user A clicks on "ta message follow", he can select other group members in the group except user A himself as the target of attention. The interface displayed on the terminal can be as shown in Figure 4, under "following ta" The user A is selected as the group member of the attention object, and the item of "unconcerned ta" is the group member that has not become the attention object. User A can also turn on or off the attention object function of the group. Assume that the attention objects of the "playing together" group set by user A are Zhang Zhenren and Rees.

After the user A completes the setting of the attention object of the "playing together" group, the terminal uploads the attention object of the "playing together" group set by the user A to the server. The server saves user A, the "playing together" group, and the corresponding objects of interest (Zhang Zhenren and Rees).

When the server receives the group message of the "play together" group from the sender's terminal, it searches for the attention object set by each group member in the saved "play together" group, if the sender of the group message is a group member The object of interest, then push the group message to the terminal of the group member; otherwise, the server does not use the push method to send the group message. For example, after Zhang Zhenren arrives at the server with the group message sent by his terminal, the server finds that Zhang Zhenren is the target of user A's attention, and then pushes the group message sent by Zhang Zhenren to user A's terminal.

The terminal of user A receives the group message of the "play together" group pushed by the server. Although user A has enabled the message of the group of "play together" to avoid disturbing, the terminal will still send a notification to user A. In this way, when the terminal of user A receives the group message sent by Zhang Zhenren and Rees, it will remind user A so that user A can check it in time.

As the sender, user A can set the notification object of the group message when sending the group message of the group to which it belongs. The notification object can be one or more other group members of the group, or all group members of the group. An interface for selecting a notification object may be as shown in FIG. 5, and user A selects "Everyone in the group" to send a group message to all group members including himself in a reminder manner.

Suppose that user A selects "everyone in the group" as the notification object when sending the group message of "playing together" group, and the terminal of user A sends the group message and the notification object designated by the user to the server. The server adds a mandatory notification flag to the group message of user A, and then pushes the group message with the mandatory notification flag to each group member of the "play together" group.

After the terminal of user A receives the group message with the mandatory notification flag pushed by the server, the content of the group message is used as a reminder text in the lock screen state and displayed to the user. At the same time, the ringtone and And/or vibration to notify the user. When user A clicks on the reminder text, he enters the "play together" group message display page, and displays the group message on the message display page, or displays the positioning display item of the group message (when the latest group message is occupied When the message is displayed on the page and the group message cannot be displayed). An interface for displaying the positioning display item of the group message on the message display page is shown in FIG. 6. On the upper edge of the message display page, part of the content of the group message is displayed in the positioning display item in the form of a floating window. When user A clicks on the floating window, the message display page scrolls to the position where the group message is displayed.

User A can view all group messages with a mandatory notification flag in a group that has been received. For example, please refer to the group property setting page shown in FIG. 3, when the user clicks on the "@我的信息" menu item, the message display page shown in FIG. 7 is opened, and all received messages with Forced notification of marked group messages.

Corresponding to the above process implementation, the embodiments of the present invention also provide a reminder device for instant messages applied on the server, and a reminder device for instant messages applied on the terminal. Both devices can be implemented by software, or by hardware or a combination of hardware and software. Taking software implementation as an example, as a logical device, it is formed by reading the corresponding computer program instructions into the memory by the CPU (Central Process Unit) of the terminal or server. From the hardware level, in addition to the CPU, memory and non-volatile memory shown in Figure 8 In addition, the terminal where the instant message reminder device is located usually also includes a chip and other hardware used for wireless signal transmission and reception, and the server where the instant message reminder device is located usually includes a board card and the like for implementing network communication functions. Hardware.

FIG. 9 shows an instant message reminding device provided by an embodiment of the present invention, which is applied to a server, which stores a user’s attention object when closing a message reminder, and the device includes an instant message receiving unit and Concern message sending unit, wherein: the instant message receiving unit is used to receive instant messages from the sender's terminal; the focused message sending unit is used when the sender of the instant message belongs to the attention object of the instant message receiver when closing the message reminder, Sending the instant message to the terminal of the receiver in a reminder manner.

Optionally, the instant message includes: a group message of a user's group; the attention object includes: other group members of the user's group.

In an implementation manner, the instant message receiving unit is specifically configured to: receive a group message from a sender terminal and a notification object of the group message specified by the sender; the device further includes a notification message sending unit for Sending the group message to the notification target terminal in a reminder manner.

In the above implementation, the notification object may include: one or more designated group members, or all group members.

In the above implementation manner, the group message may carry a mandatory notification flag; the mandatory notification flag is used by the receiving terminal to present the group message.

Optionally, the attention message sending unit is specifically used for: The sender of the message belongs to the receiver of the instant message, and when the attention object at the time of message reminding is turned off, the instant message is pushed to the terminal of the receiver.

FIG. 10 shows an apparatus for prompting an instant message provided by an embodiment of the present invention, which is applied to a terminal and includes an attention object uploading unit and an attention message receiving unit, where the attention object uploading unit is used to receive a closing message set by a user The attention object at the time of reminding and upload to the server; the attention message receiving unit is used to receive the instant message sent by the server in a reminding manner, and the sender of the instant message is the attention object of the user when the message reminder is turned off.

Optionally, the attention object includes: other group members of the user's group; the instant message includes: group message of the user's group.

Optionally, the device further includes: a notification message sending unit, configured to send a group message of the user's group and a notification object of the group message specified by the user to the server for the server to send the group message A terminal that sends the notification object as a reminder; the notification object includes one or more other group members of the user's group, or all group members.

Optionally, the device further includes a notification message reminding unit and a quick positioning display unit, wherein the notification message reminding unit is used to receive a group message with a mandatory notification flag sent by the server in a reminder manner, and send the group message The reminder information is displayed to the user; the quick positioning display unit is used to display the group message or the positioning display item of the group message on the message display page after receiving the user's scheduled viewing operation on the reminder information; The positioning display item is used for a user to perform a predetermined positioning operation on it to display the group message on the message display page.

Optionally, the device further includes a notification message receiving unit and a notification message filtering unit, wherein: the notification message receiving unit is used to receive a group message with a mandatory notification flag sent by the server in a reminder manner; the notification message filtering unit is used to After receiving the user's scheduled screening operation, the received group message with the mandatory notification flag is displayed.

The above are only preferred embodiments of the present invention and are not intended to limit the present invention. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included in the present invention Within the scope of protection.

In a typical configuration, the computing device includes one or more processors (CPUs), input/output interfaces, network interfaces, and memory.

Memory may include non-permanent memory, random access memory (RAM) and/or non-volatile memory in computer-readable media, such as read-only memory (ROM) or flash memory ( flash RAM). Memory is an example of computer-readable media.

Computer-readable media, including permanent and non-permanent, removable and non-removable media, can be stored by any method or technology. The information can be computer readable instructions, data structures, modules of programs, or other data. Examples of computer storage media include, but are not limited to, phase change memory (PRAM), static random access memory (SRAM), dynamic random access memory (DRAM), other types of random access memory (RAM) , Read-only memory (ROM), electrically erasable and programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), flash memory or other memory technologies, read-only disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), digital versatile disc (DVD) or other optical storage, magnetic cassette tapes, magnetic tape storage or other magnetic storage devices or any other non-transmission media can be used to store information that can be accessed by computing devices. According to the definition in this article, computer-readable media does not include temporary computer-readable media (transitory media), such as modulated data signals and carrier waves.

It should also be noted that the terms "include", "include" or any other variant thereof are intended to cover non-exclusive inclusion, so that a process, method, commodity or device that includes a series of elements includes not only those elements, but also includes Other elements not explicitly listed, or include elements inherent to this process, method, commodity, or equipment. Without more restrictions, the element defined by the sentence "include one..." does not exclude that there are other identical elements in the process, method, commodity or equipment that includes the element.

Those skilled in the art should understand that the embodiments of the present invention may be provided as methods, systems, or computer program products. Therefore, the present invention may take the form of a complete hardware embodiment, a complete software embodiment, or an embodiment combining software and hardware. Moreover, the present invention can take the form of computer program products implemented on one or more computer usable storage media (including but not limited to disk memory, CD-ROM, optical memory, etc.) containing computer usable program code .

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An instant message reminding method, applied to a server, characterized in that the server stores a user's attention object when closing the message reminder, the method includes: receiving instant messages from the sender's terminal; and if The sender of the instant message belongs to the attention object of the receiver of the instant message when the message reminder is turned off, and sends the instant message to the terminal of the receiver in a reminder manner, wherein the reception is from the sender The instant message of the party terminal includes: receiving a group message from the sender terminal and a notification object of the group message designated by the sender; the method further includes: sending to the terminal of the notification object in a reminder manner The group message, wherein the group message carries a mandatory notification flag; the mandatory notification flag is used by the recipient terminal to present the group message. The method according to item 1 of the patent application scope, wherein the instant message includes: a group message of a user's group; and the attention object includes: other group members of the user's group. The method according to item 1 of the patent application scope, wherein the notification object includes: one or more designated group members, or all group members. The method according to item 1 of the patent application scope, wherein the sending the instant message to the receiver's terminal in a reminder manner includes: pushing the instant message to the receiver's terminal. An instant message reminding method, applied to a terminal, is characterized in that it includes: receiving the attention object set by the user when closing the message reminder, and uploading it to the server; receiving the instant message sent by the server in the form of reminder. The sender of the instant message is the user's attention when closing the message reminder; the group message with the mandatory notification flag sent by the server in the reminder mode; and after receiving the user's scheduled filtering operation, it is displayed Group messages received with mandatory notification flags. The method according to item 5 of the patent application scope, wherein the object of interest includes: other group members of the user's group; and the instant message includes: group message of the user's group. The method according to item 5 of the patent application scope, wherein the method further comprises: sending a group message of the user's group and a notification object of the group message specified by the user to the server; The group message sends the terminal of the notification object as a reminder; the notification object includes one or more other group members of the user's group, or all group members. The method according to item 5 of the patent application scope, wherein the method further comprises: receiving a group message with a mandatory notification flag sent by the server in a reminder manner, and displaying reminder information of the group message to the user ; After receiving the user’s scheduled viewing operation of the reminder information, at The message display page displays the group message, or the positioning display item of the group message; the positioning display item is used for a user to perform a predetermined positioning operation on it to display the group message on the message display page. An instant message reminder device is applied to a server. The server is characterized by storing a user's attention object when closing the message reminder. The device includes: an instant message receiving unit for receiving from the sender The terminal's instant message and the notification object receiving the group message from the sender's terminal and the group message specified by the sender; focus on the message sending unit, used when the sender of the instant message belongs to the receiver of the instant message and the message is closed When paying attention to the object at the time, the instant message is sent to the terminal of the recipient in a reminder manner, and a notification message sending unit is used to send the group message to the terminal of the notification object in a reminder manner, wherein the The group message carries a mandatory notification flag; the mandatory notification flag is used by the recipient terminal to present the group message. The device according to item 9 of the patent application scope, wherein the instant message includes: a group message of a user's group; and the attention object includes: other group members of the user's group. The device according to item 9 of the patent application scope, wherein the notification object includes: one or more designated group members, or all group members. The device according to item 9 of the patent application scope, wherein the attention message sending unit is specifically used to: when the sender of the instant message belongs to The receiver of the instant message pushes the instant message to the terminal of the receiver when closing the object of interest during the message reminder. An instant message reminder device, which is applied to a terminal, is characterized by comprising: a focus object uploading unit, which is used to receive a focus object set by a user when closing a message reminder, and upload it to a server; a focus message receiving unit, It is used to receive the instant message sent by the server in the form of a reminder. The sender of the instant message is the user's attention object when closing the message reminder; the notification message reminding unit is used to receive Group messages marked with mandatory notifications, and display the reminder information of the group messages to the user; and a quick positioning display unit, which is used to display the message display page after receiving the user's scheduled viewing operation of the reminder information Displaying the group message, or a positioning display item of the group message; the positioning display item is used for a user to perform a predetermined positioning operation on it to display the group message on a message display page. The device according to item 13 of the patent application scope, wherein the object of interest includes: other group members of the user's group; and the instant message includes: group message of the user's group. The device according to item 13 of the patent application scope, wherein the device further comprises: a notification message sending unit for sending a group message of the user's group and the group message specified by the user to the server Object for the server to send the notification message to the group message as a reminder The terminal of the icon; the notification object includes one or more other group members of the user's group, or all group members. The device according to item 13 of the patent application scope, wherein the device further comprises: a notification message receiving unit for receiving a group message with a mandatory notification flag sent by the server in a reminding manner; a notification message filtering unit for After receiving the user's predetermined screening operation, the received group message with the mandatory notification flag is displayed.

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