WO2018088801A1 - Method and device for providing keyword-based conversation service - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and a device for providing a keyword-based conversation service. According to the present invention, the method by which a keyword-based conversion service providing device provides a conversation service based on a keyword comprises the steps of: receiving a keyword from a user; allowing the user to participate in a conversation group corresponding to the received keyword; and mediating conversation messages between the user and another user participating in the conversation group.

Description

Method and apparatus for providing keyword-based chat service

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing a keyword-based chat service, and more particularly, by using a keyword as identification information of a talk group, a plurality of users form a talk group based on the keyword and perform a real-time chat based on the keyword. A method and apparatus for dividing are provided.

Due to the personalization of information processing terminals and the development of communication technologies, various social services such as real time messaging, micro blogs, social media platforms, and mobile communities have become commonplace. These social services are generally used for everyday or topical sharing among friends.

However, there is a problem that the use of the service is limited in the conversation or sharing information around a common topic by limiting the service range to individual acquaintances.

In addition, in order to share common interests with others, it was difficult to join or approve closed communities or find communities related to their interests through search. There was a limitation.

Conventional technology for sharing interests is disclosed in Korean Patent Application Publication No. 10-2008-0011579 'Web Community Service System and Method'. According to this prior art, users with common interests exchange messages to form a common community. However, even with such a system and method, since it takes a lot of effort and time in forming a real community, there is a problem that it is difficult to share an immediate response or opinion of others with interest in real time.

Therefore, there is a need for a technique for solving the above problems.

On the other hand, the background art described above is technical information that the inventors possess for the derivation of the present invention or acquired in the derivation process of the present invention, and is not necessarily a publicly known technique disclosed to the general public before the application of the present invention. .

One embodiment of the present invention is to provide a method or apparatus for providing a conversation service that is easy to share information about interests in real time.

In addition, an embodiment of the present invention has an object to enable a free conversation with a plurality of anonymous users who share a concern.

Furthermore, an embodiment of the present invention has an object to provide a method and apparatus for providing a chat service that can form a chat group capable of real-time participation based on keywords.

In addition, an embodiment of the present invention facilitates the participation in a talk group related to a popular keyword that is a topic in real time, and conversely, depending on the number of users participating in the talk group or the amount of conversations exchanged with the users, It is an object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for providing a conversation service that can derive related keywords as popular keywords.

As a technical means for achieving the above-described technical problem, according to the first aspect of the present invention, the method of providing a chat service based on a keyword according to the present invention is performed by a keyword-based chat service providing apparatus, and receives a keyword from a user. Receiving; Joining the user to a talkgroup corresponding to the received keyword; And mediating a conversation message between the user and another user participating in the conversation group.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, an apparatus for providing a chat service based on a keyword according to the present invention includes a keyword receiving unit for receiving a keyword from a user; A talk group manager that manages each keyword and a talk group in association; And a message relay unit for relaying a conversation message generated for the talk group corresponding to the keyword received by the keyword receiver to the user.

According to any one of the above-described problem solving means of the present invention, an embodiment of the present invention can provide a method or apparatus for providing a conversation service that is easy to share information about the interest in real time.

In addition, according to any one of the problem solving means of the present invention, one embodiment of the present invention can be free to chat with a plurality of anonymous users who share a concern.

Furthermore, according to any one of the problem solving means of the present invention, an embodiment of the present invention can provide a method and apparatus for providing a chat service that can form a chat group capable of real-time participation based on a keyword.

According to one of the problem solving means of the present invention, an embodiment of the present invention facilitates participation in a talk group related to a popular keyword which is a topic in real time, and conversely, the number of users participating in the talk group. A method and apparatus for providing a chat service that can derive keywords associated with a corresponding talk group as popular keywords according to the amount of conversations users exchange.

The effects obtainable in the present invention are not limited to the above-mentioned effects, and other effects not mentioned above may be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description. will be.

1 is a network diagram illustrating an apparatus for providing a keyword-based chat service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a block diagram illustrating a specific function of an apparatus for providing a keyword-based conversation service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a keyword-based chat service according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a block diagram illustrating a keyword-based chat service providing method according to another exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

5 to 7 are exemplary views for explaining an embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art may easily implement the present invention. As those skilled in the art would realize, the described embodiments may be modified in various different ways, all without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention. In the drawings, parts irrelevant to the description are omitted in order to clearly describe the present invention, and like reference numerals designate like parts throughout the specification.

Throughout the specification, when a part is "connected" to another part, this includes not only "directly connected" but also "electrically connected" with another element in between. . In addition, when a part is said to "include" a certain component, which means that it may further include other components, except to exclude other components unless otherwise stated.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a keyword-based chat service providing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a view for explaining a specific function of a keyword-based chat service providing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. It is a block diagram.

The apparatus 100 for providing a keyword-based chat service according to the present invention may include a client installed in the user terminal 10 and a server device 20 communicating with the user terminal 10 in which the client is installed. In this case, the client installed in the user terminal 10 is installed in the user terminal 10 as an application program for providing a chat service according to the keyword-based chat service providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention and communicates with the server device 20. .

At this time, the user terminal 10 and the server device 20 communicates via the network (N).

The network N may include a local area network (LAN), a wide area network (WAN), a value added network (VAN), a personal local area network (PAN), and a mobile communication network (PAN). It can be implemented in all kinds of wired / wireless networks such as mobile radio communication network (Wibro), wireless broadband Internet (Wibro), mobile WiMAX, high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA), or satellite communication network.

The user terminal 10 may be implemented as a computer, a portable terminal, a television, a wearable device, or the like, connected to a remote server through a network or connected to other terminals and servers. Here, the computer includes, for example, a laptop, desktop, laptop, etc., which is equipped with a web browser, and the portable terminal is, for example, a wireless communication device that ensures portability and mobility. , Personal Communication System (PCS), Personal Digital Cellular (PDC), Personal Handyphone System (PHS), Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), Global System for Mobile communications (GSM), International Mobile Telecommunication (IMT) -2000, Code CDMA Division Multiple Access (2000), all types of handhelds such as W-Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA), Wireless Broadband Internet (Wibro), Smart Phones, and Mobile Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX). It may include a (Handheld) based wireless communication device. In addition, the television may include an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), an Internet Television (Internet Television), a terrestrial TV, a cable TV, or the like. Further, the wearable device is, for example, an information processing device of a type that can be worn directly on a human body such as a watch, glasses, accessories, clothes, shoes, etc., and is connected to a remote server or another terminal via a network directly or through another information processing device. It can be connected with.

The server device 20 is an information processing device provided with a server program communicating with a client, and may be a computer or a group of computer systems communicating with a plurality of terminals or other servers via a network. In particular, the server device may be configured to include a load balancing server for distributing and processing traffic in some cases, and may communicate with a database server in which information necessary to provide a chat service is recorded.

In addition, the embodiment of the present invention may include a third party server (30). Specifically, the server device 20 of the keyword-based chat service providing apparatus 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention implemented as a client-server system may receive various information from the third party server 30. In this case, the various information may be, for example, a schedule of a broadcast program, information on a current screening movie, information on a popular search word, or the like. In addition, the server device 20 may receive e-mail address information of other users registered in the user account of the e-mail service used by the user from the third party server 30. Accordingly, the third party server 30 may be, for example, a server of a service providing information on a broadcast program or a movie, a server of a search service providing information on a popular search word, or an e-mail server.

In addition, the server device 20 of the keyword-based chat service providing apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention may be provided with contact information stored in the user terminal 10 from the user terminal 10. This will be described later in detail.

Meanwhile, the apparatus 100 for providing a keyword-based conversation service according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a keyword receiver 101 as shown in FIG. 2. The keyword receiving unit 101 may receive or select a keyword from the user. The keyword receiving unit 101 may provide a graphic user interface through which a user may directly input a keyword, or may provide a graphic user interface for selecting one of a plurality of keywords presented in advance.

Furthermore, the keyword receiving unit 101 may recognize a character string from an image acquired by the camera provided in the user terminal 10 and select one of the recognized at least one character string as a keyword.

In addition, the apparatus 100 for providing a keyword-based chat service according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a talk group manager 102. The talkgroup manager 102 generates a talkgroup corresponding to each keyword and maintains the created talkgroup.

Here, the conversation group is a set of conversations exchanged by one or more users and is formed corresponding to one keyword. In this case, "conversation" is unit content including text, image, audio, video, or a combination thereof registered by the user. In this embodiment of the present invention, only one talk group may be formed for the same keyword.

The talkgroup may have a keyword corresponding thereto as identification information or match the talkgroup identification information that is one-to-one associated with the keyword corresponding to the talkgroup.

The talkgroup manager 102 may search for a talkgroup corresponding to the keyword received through the keyword receiver 101, and may create a new talkgroup when the talkgroup corresponding to the keyword is not searched.

In addition, the talk group manager 102 stores conversations belonging to each talk group in association with a keyword corresponding to the talk group or identification information of the talk group, and arranges and records the conversations according to the order or time at which the conversation is registered. Can be.

Furthermore, the talkgroup manager 102 may additionally manage users participating in the talkgroup for each talkgroup. That is, the talk group manager 102 may maintain a list of users participating in each talk group (hereinafter, referred to as a “participant user list”) and manage them in real time.

In addition, according to an embodiment, the message broker 103 to be described later included in the apparatus 100 for providing a keyword-based conversation service according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a list of talk groups in which each user participates (hereinafter referred to as 'list of participation groups'). In this case, the talkgroup manager 102 may not maintain a list of users participating in each talkgroup.

Furthermore, in some embodiments, the talkgroup manager 102 may create two or more talkgroups corresponding to specific keywords. Specifically, in the above-described embodiment, all users who select the same one keyword are managed to belong to one talkgroup, whereas in some embodiments, different talkgroups are generated for each user who inputs the keyword for the same keyword. Can be.

When the keyword includes personal identification information such as an e-mail address, a phone number, a vehicle number, and the like, when the keyword is identified as including the personal identification information in the keyword by parsing the keyword inputted from the user, The talk group can be created separately for each user who inputs the keyword. In this case, the talk group manager 102 may generate a new talk group without joining a user who inputs the same keyword later in the existing talk group even if there is a talk group that is already generated by receiving the corresponding keyword from another user. . In this case, the talkgroup is identified using other identification information than the keyword.

In this case, in order to identify users corresponding to personal identification information such as an email address, a phone number, a vehicle number, and the like, an email address, a phone number, a vehicle number, etc. of each user are registered in advance in the keyword-based chat service providing apparatus 100. Can be. That is, if personal identification information such as an e-mail address or a vehicle number is registered in advance as the user's personal information, a user corresponding to the personal identification information can be engaged in a talk group using the personal identification information as a keyword. Alternatively, the keyword-based conversation service providing apparatus 100 receives and stores the vehicle number and the owner's information (including the owner's e-mail address or telephone number) from the public vehicle number database, and when the vehicle number is received as a keyword, Corresponding user can join the chat group.

For example, when a user has registered his / her vehicle number in his personal information in advance, if another person inputs the vehicle number as a keyword or photographs it through a camera of another user's user terminal 10, the vehicle number is recognized. In addition, a user who registers the vehicle number as a counterpart of the chat group generated by using the vehicle number as a keyword may participate in the chat group. This allows others to create a chat group with the owner using only the vehicle number.

In addition, the apparatus 100 for providing a keyword-based conversation service according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a message broker 103. The message broker 103 transmits a set of conversations held by the talk group manager 102 in association with each keyword to users participating in the talk group, thereby relaying a chat message between users participating in the same talk group. It plays a role. In this case, whenever a new conversation message is registered for one keyword, the message broker 103 may relay the message to users in real time.

That is, when the keyword receiving unit 101 receives a specific keyword from an arbitrary user, the message relay unit 103 may transmit a conversation set stored by the talk group managing unit 102 to the client of the corresponding user in response to the received keyword. . In this case, the message broker 103 may mediate only the chat messages registered in the talk group corresponding to the keyword after the time point at which the keyword is received, or may also relay messages registered before the time point at which the keyword is received.

Specifically, in the client of the user, when the user enters or selects a specific keyword, a virtual space corresponding to the keyword, for example, a chat room or a bulletin board-type space is provided to the user, and the chat messages are arranged in the registration order in the space. Can be. In a state in which a virtual space corresponding to a specific keyword is exposed to the client of the user, the message broker 103 may broker a message in real time with respect to the client so that a newly registered message for the keyword is displayed in real time. have.

In this case, the message broker 103 may transmit a talk message of a talk group corresponding to a specific keyword only to users included in the list of participating users held by the talk group manager 102.

Alternatively, as another example, the message broker 103 may manage a list of participating groups in which each user participates, in which case the message broker 103 is a conversation message registered for a specific talkgroup. May be transmitted only for users who have the talkgroup in the participation group list.

That is, the message broker 103 may mediate a message generated for a talk group corresponding to the same keyword by inputting or selecting the corresponding keyword, among users participating in the talk group.

On the other hand, as another embodiment, the message broker 103 may determine the sending target and the sending method of the message generated for the talk group based on the keyword corresponding to the talk group.

In detail, the keyword matching the specific talk group may include personal identification information such as an email address, a phone number, a vehicle number, and a third party SNS account information. In this case, the message broker 103 may transmit a message generated for the talk group corresponding to the keyword including the personal identification information to the user identified by the personal identification information.

For example, if a vehicle is open while a trunk is open or a light is turned on while parking, and a person is concerned about battery discharge, a chat group may be created using the vehicle number of the vehicle. At this time, when the keyword-based conversation service providing apparatus 100 detects that a keyword having a form of a vehicle number is received, the keyword-based conversation service providing apparatus 100 searches for and identifies a user whose vehicle number is registered as personal information, and searches the user and the vehicle number as keywords. A chat group including the input user may be created to mediate a conversation message between the two users. As a result, the vehicle number may be used to transmit information about the state of the vehicle to the owner of the specific vehicle. In addition, for example, an illegal parking vehicle may move a vehicle only with a vehicle number or a conversation message for towing guidance.

At this time, if a specific user is not identified by the personal identification information, or if the user is not a member of the keyword-based conversation service providing apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention, the message intermediary 103 is the personal identification information. Depending on the format of, you can mediate the message in different ways. That is, for example, the message broker 103 may send a message generated in a talk group corresponding to a keyword including personal identification information in an e-mail format by e-mail using the corresponding e-mail address. In addition, a message generated in a talk group corresponding to a keyword including personal identification information in a phone number format may be sent as a text message using the corresponding phone number.

Or, if a keyword in the form of a vehicle number is entered and the user corresponding to the vehicle number is not a member of the keyword-based conversation service according to an embodiment of the present invention, the telephone number or e-mail of the individual corresponding to the owner of the vehicle number Check whether the address is included in the information provided from the public license plate database, and if a phone number or email address is retrieved, the conversation message can be mediated in the form of an email or a text message using the email address or the telephone number as described above. have.

Specifically, for example, when a certain user inputs a specific e-mail address as a keyword, the talk group manager 102 creates a talk group for the corresponding user having the e-mail address as a keyword. The user is then entered into a virtual space having the input email address as a keyword. When the user inputs a chat message in the virtual space, the message broker 103 may send the input chat message by email using an email address.

Meanwhile, the e-mail sent at this time may include URL information for subscribing to a keyword-based chat service provided by the keyword-based chat service providing apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention or installing a client that provides a keyword-based chat service. . Accordingly, the other party receiving the email may flow into the keyword-based chat service.

Furthermore, the address of the email account to which the keyword-based chat service providing apparatus 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention has access rights may be written in the sender information of the email sent. When replying to the e-mail, the apparatus 100 for providing a keyword-based chat service according to an embodiment of the present invention reads the body of the reply e-mail, and the user inputs the e-mail address of the other party as a keyword. Can be sent as a chat message.

In this case, the user who is provided with the keyword-based chat service can send an e-mail or text message to another person in the service using an e-mail address or a phone number, and the reply of the e-mail or text message can be received as a message in the service. Can be.

Meanwhile, the apparatus 100 for providing a keyword-based conversation service according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a keyword list providing unit 104. The keyword list providing unit 104 provides a keyword list to the user's client. In this case, the keyword list may be, for example, a list of popular search words or a list of topics such as a list of broadcast programs currently being broadcast and a list of movies currently being played. Alternatively, the keyword list may be a list of keywords previously input by the user.

In addition, the keyword list providing unit 104 may provide the user with an e-mail address or phone number list extracted from the user's contact information, a vehicle number list, a list of acquaintances (SNS account identification information of acquaintances) registered in the SNS, and the like.

In this case, the keyword list providing unit 104 may receive related information from the third party server 30 to provide such a keyword list. Alternatively, the contact information may be collected by receiving access authority to the contact information stored in the user terminal 10.

Accordingly, the keyword list providing unit 104 may provide a keyword list including two or more different keywords through the user's client screen and select one of them. In this case, when the user selects a specific keyword, the above-described keyword receiving unit 101 may treat the selected keyword as if the user inputs it.

Furthermore, the apparatus for providing a keyword-based conversation service 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a popular keyword selecting unit 105. The popular keyword selecting unit 105 may include at least one of a number of conversation messages generated per unit time for a talk group corresponding to different keywords, or a number of users currently participating in talk groups corresponding to different keywords. Popular keywords can be selected based on the.

That is, in the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, all keywords except the keyword including personal identification information are matched to one talk group, so that the number of users participating in each talk group or the conversation message generated in each talk group is used. The quantity can be used to evaluate the popularity of each keyword.

Therefore, the popular keyword selecting unit 105 may select a popular keyword according to the number of participating users or the amount of messages generated.

Furthermore, the selected popular keyword may be provided to the third party server 30, and may be provided to the keyword list providing unit 104 described above so that the popular keyword is provided as a keyword list to the user.

Hereinafter, a method of providing a keyword-based chat service using the apparatus 100 for providing a keyword-based chat service according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for providing a keyword-based chat service according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a method for providing a keyword-based chat service according to another embodiment of the present invention. 7 is an exemplary view for explaining an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 3, the keyword-based chat service providing apparatus 100 may specifically receive a keyword from any user among a plurality of users (S310). To this end, the client or the keyword-based chat service providing apparatus 100 installed in the user terminal 10 may provide a user interface for receiving a keyword from the user terminal 10. As illustrated in FIG. 5, the keyword-based chat service providing apparatus 100 may receive a keyword as text or may select one keyword from a keyword list provided to the user. For example, a real-time popular keyword list may be provided to the user terminal and the user may select one of the popular keywords included in the list. In this case, the real-time popular keyword list may be provided in a tag cloud form as shown in FIG. 5 or may be provided in a sorted order according to popularity ranking.

The keyword-based chat service providing apparatus 100 may search for a talkgroup corresponding to a keyword input or selected by a user terminal in a database to check whether a talkgroup corresponding to the keyword exists (S320). In this case, the keyword-based chat service providing apparatus 100 may generate each talk group by matching the keywords, and store and manage related data, and may use the stored data to connect the users to the chat group matched with the keyword. Message exchange can be mediated. The related data may include a chat message generated for each talk group.

To this end, the keyword-based chat service providing apparatus 100 may use identification information of a talkgroup as a keyword or match 1: 1 with the identification information of a talkgroup. Here, the keyword may be composed of a string.

In operation S320, the apparatus 100 for providing a keyword-based chat service may search for a talk group using a keyword received from a user in step S310, and generate a talk group corresponding to the received keyword if the talk group is not searched (step S310). S330). Here, creating a talkgroup means assigning an account to a talkgroup so that one talkgroup and another talkgroup can be distinguished from each other, and the account has a keyword or another character string matching 1: 1 to the keyword as identification information. do. All data generated later in relation to the talkgroup are stored in association with identification information of an account assigned to the talkgroup.

On the other hand, if a talkgroup corresponding to the keyword received in step S320 is not searched and a new talkgroup is created, or if a talkgroup corresponding to the keyword is found, the keyword-based chat service providing apparatus 100 inputs the user who inputs the keyword. Joining the talk group corresponding to the keyword and providing a virtual space, for example, a chat room, corresponding to the talk group in which the user participates (S330). Here, the space corresponding to the talk group is a space in which messages or contents exchanged between users participating in the talk group are arranged to be viewed, and may be a general chat room or a bulletin board type space.

In addition, the keyword-based chat service providing apparatus 100 may mediate a chat message exchanged between talkgroup users through a virtual space provided to the user terminal 10 of the user (S340). In this case, the keyword-based chat service providing apparatus 100 may mediate only a chat message generated after a user joins a chat group or a chat message generated before the user joins a chat group.

Through this, users participating in a talk group corresponding to a single keyword may exchange information related to the keyword while exchanging a chat message with each other.

In this case, by using the keyword as identification information of the talk group, it is possible to minimize the depth of input required to access the talk group and to provide a simple and convenient user experience.

Furthermore, the keyword-based chat service providing apparatus 100 may provide each user with a list of keywords input by the user in the past so that the user can immediately enter a chat group in which the user participated.

Meanwhile, referring to FIG. 2, another exemplary embodiment of the keyword-based conversation service providing apparatus 100 may periodically receive real-time popular search terms from a third party service, for example, a search engine, and feed the feed. By using each of the popular search terms as a keyword, each of the matched talk groups may be hyperlinked to the popular search word to provide a list of the popular search terms to the users.

Accordingly, when a user selects one search term from the list of popular search terms, the user may directly participate in the matched talk group using the search term as a keyword.

Meanwhile, the keyword-based chat service providing apparatus 100 may select a popular keyword without the help of a third party service. As illustrated in FIG. 2, the apparatus 100 for providing a keyword-based chat service 100 may provide information about the number of messages generated per unit time in each talk group and / or information about the number of users currently participating in each talk group in real time. Can be collected (S410).

And based on the collected information, it is possible to select the top popular talk group (S420). Here, the popular talk group may be selected from talk groups with a large number of participating users or a large number of messages generated per unit time.

Subsequently, the apparatus 100 for providing a keyword-based conversation service may include a keyword corresponding to the selected conversation group in a real-time popular keyword list and provide the user with a popular keyword list (S430).

Here, the popular search word list or the popular keyword list may be provided in the form of a tag cloud as described above or may be provided in a sorted order according to the ranking. That is, as shown in FIG. 5, popular keywords may be arranged in a tag cloud form on a user interface for inputting a keyword.

In this way, a user interface for selecting a popular search word or a popular keyword may be provided on one screen together with an interface for inputting a search word. Such a screen may be provided as the first screen when the above-described client is executed in the user terminal. In addition, the screen may be provided with a list of keywords that the user has entered in the past.

As a result, the user can select a live search term or keyword from the first screen or one of his or her own keywords to immediately join the conversation group, or enter a keyword to immediately join a conversation group that matches the keyword entered. have.

As a result, time and effort required for a user to enter a virtual space corresponding to a specific keyword can be minimized, thereby providing a user-friendly and intuitive user experience.

Furthermore, users can objectively select popular keywords in real time based on the number of users participating in each talk group or the number of exchanged messages, and then list them again and provide them to users. Or encourage participation.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 6, in the method of providing a chat service according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the third party server includes a list of programs currently being broadcast along with a user interface for the keyword-based chat service providing apparatus 100 to receive keywords. 30) can be provided and displayed. Accordingly, users can select a program of interest from among programs that are currently being broadcast, and likewise, exchange a message in real time with other users interested in the program.

Similarly, in the chat service providing method according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the keyword-based chat service providing apparatus 100 receives and displays a list of movies currently being screened from another service, or displays a list of stock items from the stock information providing service. Can be provided and displayed. Accordingly, users interested in a movie or stock event can form a talk group together to send and receive chat messages.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 7, in the method of providing a chat service according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the keyword-based chat service providing apparatus 100 accesses the corresponding e-mail server by using user account information of an e-mail service used by the user. E-mail addresses of acquaintances of the user included in the e-mail record can be obtained and displayed as a keyword list. Accordingly, the user may select one of a plurality of email addresses included in the keyword list to form a talkgroup.

As described above, the user can use the keyword-based chat service and the counterpart can exchange the chat using an e-mail through the corresponding talk group.

In this case, the e-mail address may be replaced with a phone number. When a talk group is formed using the phone number, a chat message for the other party of the user is sent as a text message, and the reply text message of the other party is a keyword-based chat service providing device ( If the keyword-based chat service providing apparatus 100 receives the corresponding text message, it may display the text message as a chat message in the user's talk group.

In addition, personal identification information such as e-mail address, telephone number, and vehicle number can be used to identify members in the keyword-based conversation service. In this case, a conversation group whose personal identification information is a keyword may be inputted or selected by the user. It may be formed as a 1: 1 chat room between members identified using the information.

The conversation service providing method according to the embodiments described with reference to FIGS. 3 to 7 may also be implemented in the form of a recording medium including instructions executable by a computer, such as a program module executed by the computer. Computer readable media can be any available media that can be accessed by a computer and includes both volatile and nonvolatile media, removable and non-removable media. In addition, computer readable media may include both computer storage media and communication media. Computer storage media includes both volatile and nonvolatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data. Communication media typically includes computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules, or other data in a modulated data signal such as a carrier wave, or other transmission mechanism, and includes any information delivery media.

In addition, the chat service providing method according to an embodiment of the present invention may be implemented as a computer program (or computer program product) including instructions executable by a computer. The computer program includes programmable machine instructions processed by the processor and may be implemented in a high-level programming language, an object-oriented programming language, an assembly language, or a machine language. . The computer program may also be recorded on tangible computer readable media (eg, memory, hard disks, magnetic / optical media or solid-state drives, etc.).

Accordingly, the method of providing a chat service according to an embodiment of the present invention may be implemented by executing the computer program as described above by the computing device. The computing device may include at least a portion of a processor, a memory, a storage device, a high speed interface connected to the memory and a high speed expansion port, and a low speed interface connected to the low speed bus and the storage device. Each of these components are connected to each other using a variety of buses and may be mounted on a common motherboard or otherwise mounted in a suitable manner.

Here, the processor may process instructions within the computing device, such as to display graphical information for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) on an external input, output device, such as a display connected to a high speed interface. Instructions stored in memory or storage. In other embodiments, multiple processors and / or multiple buses may be used with appropriately multiple memories and memory types. The processor may also be implemented as a chipset consisting of chips comprising a plurality of independent analog and / or digital processors.

The memory also stores information within the computing device. In one example, the memory may consist of a volatile memory unit or a collection thereof. As another example, the memory may consist of a nonvolatile memory unit or a collection thereof. The memory may also be other forms of computer readable media, such as, for example, magnetic or optical disks.

In addition, the storage device can provide a large amount of storage space to the computing device. The storage device may be a computer readable medium or a configuration including such a medium, and may include, for example, devices or other configurations within a storage area network (SAN), and may include a floppy disk device, a hard disk device, an optical disk device, Or a tape device, flash memory, or similar other semiconductor memory device or device array.

The foregoing description of the present invention is intended for illustration, and it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention may be easily modified in other specific forms without changing the technical spirit or essential features of the present invention. will be. Therefore, it should be understood that the embodiments described above are exemplary in all respects and not restrictive. For example, each component described as a single type may be implemented in a distributed manner, and similarly, components described as distributed may be implemented in a combined form.

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing a keyword-based chat service. The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing a chat service for chatting with anonymous people having the same interest by allowing a chat room to be created based on interests using keywords. There is industrial applicability for.

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Performed by the keyword-based chat service providing apparatus, Receiving a keyword from a user; Joining the user to a talkgroup corresponding to the received keyword; And And mediating a conversation message between the user and another user who participated in the conversation group. The method of claim 1, Receiving a keyword from the user, Providing a keyword list including a plurality of keywords to the user; And And selecting one of a plurality of keywords included in the keyword list from the user. The method of claim 2, The keyword list is How to provide a keyword-based chat service, a list of popular search terms. The method of claim 2, The keyword list is Method for providing a keyword-based chat service, which is at least one of a broadcast program list or a movie list. The method of claim 2, The keyword list is At least one of a list of e-mail addresses or phone numbers of acquaintances of the user, Mediating the conversation message, And sending the user's chat message in an e-mail or a text message using an e-mail address or a phone number corresponding to the received keyword. The method of claim 5, The sending step, And sending, by the keyword-based chat service providing apparatus, an email or text message including any email address or any telephone number capable of receiving an email or text message as caller information. Mediating the conversation message, Receiving a reply email or reply text message to the sent email or text message; And Mediating the body of the received reply email or reply text message to the user. The method of claim 2, The method, Selecting a popular talkgroup based on at least one of the number of users participating in each talkgroup and the number of chat messages generated per unit time in each talkgroup; And And selecting a keyword corresponding to the selected popular talk group as a popular keyword. The method of claim 7, wherein Providing the keyword list, And providing a list of selected keywords in the selecting of the popular keyword. The method of claim 1, Joining the user to a talk group corresponding to the received keyword, Retrieving a talkgroup corresponding to the received keyword; Generating a talkgroup corresponding to the received keyword if the talkgroup is not searched; And Joining the user to a talkgroup corresponding to the received keyword. In the keyword-based chat service providing apparatus, A keyword receiving unit which receives a keyword from a user; A talk group manager that manages each keyword and a talk group in association; And And a message broker for relaying to the user a chat message generated for a talk group corresponding to the keyword received by the keyword receiver. The method of claim 10, The device, Further comprising a keyword list providing unit for providing a keyword list including a plurality of keywords to the user, The keyword list providing unit, And providing the user with at least one of a popular search word list, a broadcast program list, a movie list, a stock item list, and a list of personal identification information of acquaintances of the user. The method of claim 10, The device, And a popular keyword selector configured to select a popular keyword based on at least one of the number of users participating in each talk group and the number of chat messages generated per unit time in each talk group. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for performing the method of claim 1. A computer program executed by a keyword-based conversation service providing apparatus and stored in a recording medium for performing the method of claim 1.

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