KR20070073180A - Method and system for providing adjunct information with message - Google Patents

Abstract

A method and a system for providing supplemental information associated with a message are provided to enable information exchange to be conveniently executed between a sender and a receiver by providing bulletin board information, which the sender and the receiver use in common, to the sender or the receiver as supplemental information in case the sender transmits a message. A supplemental information service system maintains a user information database which stores user information(S301). If a sender inputs a message through an input window, the supplemental information service system transmits the inputted message to a receiver(S302). The supplemental information service system creates supplemental information associated with the user information of the sender or receiver, based on the user information database, and transmits the created supplemental information to the sender or the receiver(S303,S304).

Description

Method and system for providing additional information associated with a message {METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ADJUNCT INFORMATION WITH MESSAGE}

1 is a view showing an embodiment of a message transmission result confirmation message according to the prior art.

2 is a diagram illustrating a network connection of a method of providing additional information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a process of providing additional information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4 is a diagram illustrating one embodiment of a user information database of the present invention;

5 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of additional information provided by the additional information providing system of the present invention.

6 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of generating additional information by analyzing message content according to the present invention.

7 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a system for providing additional information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

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701: message sending module

702: User Information Database

703: additional information providing module

704: Additional Information Database

The present invention relates to a method and a system for providing additional information associated with a message. More particularly, the present invention relates to generating and providing additional information by referring to user information of a message sender or a receiver, or analyzing the content of the message and analyzing the content of the message. The present invention relates to a method and a system for providing additional information useful to a user who sends and receives a message by generating and providing the message.

As various forms of communication have been developed today, various methods for transmitting and receiving messages between users have been developed. For example, users may use a device such as a mobile phone or a computer to send a message to a counterpart using SMS, messenger, email, message, file transfer, chat service, or the like.

1 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of a message transmission result confirmation message according to the prior art. Referring to Figure 1, the prior art message transmission system provides a result confirmation message to the sender's user terminal after the sender sends a message to the receiver, the result confirmation message is a phrase 101 to confirm that the message has been sent and the advertisement 102 and the like.

However, as described above, the result confirmation message of the related art includes a message transmission confirmation phrase 101 and an advertisement 102, and does not provide information related to a sender or a receiver. In addition, the advertisement 102 included in the result confirmation message of the prior art has a disadvantage in that the effect of the advertisement exposure to the user is reduced in that the advertisement 102 has nothing to do with the message sender or recipient.

Therefore, when the sender sends a message to the receiver, the method and system for providing additional information that can provide useful information to the message user, including additional information related to the sender or receiver and additional information related to the message content, etc. Development is urgently needed.

When the sender sends a message, the present invention provides additional information associated with the message that can easily exchange information between the sender and the receiver by providing the sender or the receiver with additional information of the bulletin board shared by the sender and the receiver. It is an object of the present invention to provide a method and system.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a method and system for providing additional information associated with a message that can provide specialized content information according to the information characteristics of a message sender or receiver to the sender or receiver.

In addition, the present invention provides the content information associated with the sender of the service information associated with the message receiver as additional information, so that the sender does not need to search for the service information associated with the receiver, and sends the message directly to the receiver. It is another object to provide a method and system for providing additional information associated with a message that can be provided.

In addition, the present invention is associated with a message that allows the receiver to receive the service information related to itself of the service information provided by the service providing server associated with the sender through additional information just by receiving the message from the sender as additional information. It is another object to provide a method and system for providing additional information.

In addition, the present invention provides a method and system for providing additional information associated with a message that can provide information of interest as additional information to both sender and receiver by providing content information related to the content of the message as additional information. Another purpose.

In order to achieve the above object and to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, a method for providing information associated with a message according to an embodiment of the present invention, maintaining a user information database for storing user information, the caller Transmitting a message input through an input window to a receiver, and generating additional information related to user information of the sender or the receiver with reference to the user information database, and generating the generated additional information to the sender or the receiver Transmitting.

In addition, according to another embodiment of the present invention, a method for providing information associated with a message includes transmitting a message input by a sender through an input window to a receiver, and analyzing the content of the message to add information related to the content of the message. Generating information and transmitting the generated additional information to the sender or the receiver.

In addition, according to still another embodiment of the present invention, a method for providing information associated with a message includes a user information database storing user information, a message transmitting module for transmitting a message input by a sender through an input window to a receiver, and the user information. And an additional information providing module for generating additional information related to user information of the sender or the receiver by referring to a database, and transmitting the generated additional information to the sender or the receiver.

In addition, according to another embodiment of the present invention, a system for providing information associated with a message includes a message transmission module for transmitting a message input by a sender through an input window to a receiver, and contents of the message by analyzing the contents of the message. And an additional information providing module for generating additional information related to and transmitting the generated additional information to the sender or the receiver.

Hereinafter, a method and a system for providing additional information according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

2 is a diagram illustrating a network connection of a method of providing additional information according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The user terminals 201 and 202 are connected to the additional information providing system 203 through a wired or wireless communication network. When the caller inputs a message to be transmitted to the receiver in the user terminals 201 and 202, the additional information providing system 203 provides the additional information while transmitting the message to the user terminal of the receiver. At this time, the additional information may be provided to the user terminal of the sender or the receiver.

The user terminals 201 and 202 of the present invention are a code division multiplexing access (CDMA) module, Bluetooth, such as a PC, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a smart phone, a handheld PC, a mobile phone, an MP3 player, and the like. A predetermined communication module, such as a module, an infrared communication module (IrDA), a wired / wireless LAN card, may be provided, and a terminal having a predetermined computing power may be collectively provided by mounting a predetermined microprocessor.

Meanwhile, hereinafter, the case in which the additional information providing system of the present invention is network connected to a user terminal will be described as an embodiment, but all or some components of the additional information providing system may be included in a user terminal and implemented. Of course, this can also be applied.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a process of providing additional information according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 3, a process of providing additional information according to an embodiment of the present invention is as follows.

In step S301, the additional information providing system of the present invention maintains a user information database that stores user information.

4 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of a user information database of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 4, the user information database stores information 404 for each user identifier 401.

The user information database stores information related to the user, such as the user's name, age, area of interest, bulletin board information, address, e-mail address, telephone number, and related content, corresponding to the user identifier 401.

The user identifier 401 includes all information for identifying a user, such as a user's telephone number, member ID, social security number, EPC, object address, VoIP, IP address, Internet address, keyword address, email address, electronic barcode, natural language address, and the like. The concept is to include.

At this time, the bulletin board information is information about the bulletin board that the user can share with one or more other users. For example, a user may create one or more 1: 1 bulletin boards with other users who have exchanged messages, and may create a bulletin board with a plurality of other users who have exchanged messages.

In the present invention, the user may be not only a natural person but also a predetermined organization, corporation, organization, etc., and the user information database may store the organization name, the location of the organization, a related field, a telephone number, etc. in correspondence with the organization, corporation, organization, and the like.

In step S302, the additional information providing system of the present invention transmits a message input by the sender through the input window to the receiver.

At this time, the input window includes all of the windows provided in conjunction with a predetermined program or a predetermined service server installed in the sender's user terminal. That is, the input window of the present invention is not only a window provided in conjunction with a web browser, a messenger program, a mobile message transmission program, and an automatic message generation program installed in the sender's user terminal, but also with a service server such as a search server or a portal server. It includes all windows such as search box, address bar, keyword input box.

In step S303, the additional information providing system of the present invention generates additional information related to the user information of the sender or the receiver by referring to the user information database, and in step S304, the additional information is generated. Send to the recipient.

5 is a view showing an embodiment of additional information provided by the additional information providing system of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 5, when the sender inputs a message in the input window 501, the additional information providing system recognizes the receiver expressions 502 and 503 and transmits the message to the user corresponding to the receiver “sunhee” 503. Then, additional information such as 500 is generated and transmitted to the sender or the receiver.

The additional information includes recipient information 504, reply message 505 of the recipient, content 506 associated with the content of the message, service information 507 associated with the recipient, and shared bulletin board information 508 of the sender and recipient.

The receiver information 504 is user information related to the receiver, and the additional information providing system may generate the receiver information as additional information by referring to a user database. For example, the recipient information includes the recipient's picture and web page link information.

In addition, according to the embodiment, the additional information includes information registered in advance by the receiver, for example, a reply greeting 505, and the like.

In addition, according to an embodiment, the additional information may include shared bulletin board information 508 of the sender and the receiver. For example, when the sender "Ban" enters a message in an input window and transmits the message to "Sunhee", the additional information providing system of the present invention displays the shared bulletin board information of the sender "Ban" and the recipient "Sunhee". Judging from the user information database, the shared bulletin board is generated as additional information and provided to the sender or the receiver.

In the above example, when the additional information providing system determines that the shared bulletin boards of the user withdrawal and Sunhee correspond to the bulletin board identifier "1002", the additional information providing system corresponds to the bulletin board identifier "1002" with reference to the additional information database. Create a shared bulletin board with additional information and send it to the sender or receiver.

In this case, the shared bulletin board may be distributed and stored in a separate server or storage means, and the additional information providing system may generate additional information by reading the shared bulletin board in the server or storage means.

The shared bulletin board may be generated for each user combination, and may be generated as many as can be generated by the combination of the sender and the receiver.

In addition, the shared bulletin board may be a bulletin board associated with the message content sent by the sender to the receiver, or may be a bulletin board associated with the field of interest among the user information of the sender or the receiver.

Therefore, when the sender transmits a message, the bulletin board information shared by the sender and the receiver is provided to the sender or the receiver as additional information, so that information exchange between the sender and the receiver can be easily performed.

In addition, the additional information of the present invention includes content information 507 corresponding to the characteristics of the user information of the sender or the receiver. At this time, the additional information providing system of the present invention maintains an additional information database for storing content information classified by characteristics of user information, and corresponds to the characteristics of the user information of the sender or the receiver with reference to the additional information database. The additional information may be generated by reading content information. The characteristic of the user information refers to a part of items of the user information, and for example, content information may be stored according to one or more characteristics of gender, age, and interests.

For example, the additional information providing system maintains the corresponding content information in the additional information database when the field of interest is the same "game" among the items of the user information, and the "field of interest" of the caller's user information is "game" In this case, additional information may be generated by reading content information corresponding to “game”. The content information may include one or more of information, knowledge, related goods, related services, related users, multimedia content, and news about "games".

Therefore, the present invention has the effect of providing the sender or receiver with specialized content information according to the information characteristics of the message sender or receiver as additional information.

In addition, the additional information may be service information 507 associated with the receiver, for example, product information of a service associated with the receiver, membership information, news information, multimedia information, bulletin board, music, video, control signal, etc. There may be more than one.

In addition, the additional information may be content information associated with the sender's user information among the service information associated with the receiver. For example, when the service associated with the receiver is "direct insurance", the sender's information among the information related to "direct insurance" may be used. It may be one or more of product information, membership information, news information, and multimedia information related to the user information.

In addition, the additional information providing system may read content information corresponding to the sender's user information from the service providing server associated with the receiver, generate the additional information, and provide the additional information. For example, the additional information providing system retrieves the content information corresponding to the "game" of the sender's area of interest from the service providing server associated with the receiver, searches for goods, news, community, etc. related to the game and provides it to the sender or the receiver. can do.

Similarly, the additional information may be content information associated with user information of the receiver among service information associated with the sender. At this time, the additional information providing system may read the content information corresponding to the user information of the receiver from the service providing server associated with the sender, generate and provide it as additional information.

Accordingly, the present invention provides content information related to a sender as additional information among service information associated with a message receiver, so that the sender does not need to search for service information associated with the receiver, but directly sends the message to the receiver. There is an effect that can be provided.

In addition, likewise, the receiver can receive news, products, bulletin boards, and community related to himself from among the service information provided by the service providing server related to the sender through additional information by simply receiving a message from the sender. .

Further, according to an embodiment, the additional information providing system of the present invention analyzes the content of the message, generates additional information 506 related to the content of the message, and transmits the additional information 506 to the sender or the receiver. Hereinafter, a process of generating additional information by analyzing message content will be described with reference to FIG. 6.

6 is a diagram illustrating an embodiment of generating additional information by analyzing message content according to the present invention. Referring to FIG. 6, the additional information providing system of the present invention maintains an additional information database 601 that stores a plurality of keywords 603 and a related URL list 604 corresponding to the keywords. The additional information database 601 stores, for example, a related URL list 604 corresponding to the keyword "flower".

Referring to FIG. 6, a sender inputs a message to a receiver through an input window, and the additional information providing system of the present invention transmits the message to the receiver. For example, the sender "Cheol" can send the message "What kind of flowers do you like?" To the receiver "Young-hee".

At this time, the additional information providing system extracts a keyword from the message content to extract "sunhee", "flower", "like", etc., and refers to the additional information database 601 and the related URL corresponding to the extracted keyword. The list is read to generate the additional information. The semantic or contextual analysis method of the keyword may be applied to the keyword extraction, and a semantic code or other various notation codes may be used instead of the keyword.

In the present invention, the keyword is not limited to the word, but includes all expressions that can be obtained through the analysis of the character code level, morpheme level, syntax level, semantic level, and voice level from the input message. In addition, even though the expression is not directly included in the message, even keywords inferred and derived from the message are included in the keyword analysis result.

The additional information may include advertisements, products, news, multimedia contents, knowledge information, and the like related to keywords.

Accordingly, the present invention provides the additional information by providing content information related to the content of the message as additional information.

The method for providing additional information according to the present invention may be implemented in the form of program instructions that can be executed by various computer means and recorded in a computer readable medium. The computer readable medium may include program instructions, data files, data structures, etc. alone or in combination. Program instructions recorded on the media may be those specially designed and constructed for the purposes of the present invention, or they may be of the kind well-known and available to those having skill in the computer software arts. Examples of computer-readable recording media include magnetic media such as hard disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tape, optical media such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, and magnetic disks, such as floppy disks. Magneto-optical media, and hardware devices specifically configured to store and execute program instructions, such as ROM, RAM, flash memory, and the like. The medium may be a transmission medium such as an optical or metal wire, a waveguide, or the like including a carrier wave for transmitting a signal specifying a program command, a data structure, or the like. Examples of program instructions include not only machine code generated by a compiler, but also high-level language code that can be executed by a computer using an interpreter or the like. The hardware device described above may be configured to operate as one or more software modules to perform the operations of the present invention, and vice versa.

7 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a system for providing additional information according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 7, the additional information providing system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a message transmitting module 701, a user information database 702, an additional information providing module 703, and an additional information database 704. Can be configured.

The message transmitting module 701 transmits a message input by a sender through an input window to a receiver. The input window may be an input window provided in association with a predetermined program or a predetermined service server installed in the caller's user terminal, and the caller or the receiver may be a phone number, VoIP, IP address, or member entered in the input window. As described above, the ID, social security number, EPC, Internet address, keyword address, email address, electronic barcode, natural language address, and user identifier may be identified.

The user information database 702 stores user information. An embodiment of the user information database 702 has been described with reference to FIG. 4.

The additional information providing module 703 generates additional information related to user information of the sender or the receiver with reference to the user information database, and transmits the generated additional information to the sender or the receiver.

At this time, according to an embodiment, the additional information providing module reads content information corresponding to characteristics of user information of the sender or the receiver with reference to the service information database 704 to generate the additional information.

In addition, the additional information may include bulletin board information of the sender and the receiver, and may include service information associated with the receiver.

 According to an embodiment, the additional information providing module 703 may analyze the content of the message, generate additional information related to the content of the message, and transmit the generated additional information to the sender or the receiver.

At this time, the additional information providing module extracts a keyword from the content of the message, and generates the additional information by reading a related URL list corresponding to the keyword with reference to the additional information database.

The additional information database 704 stores content information classified according to characteristics of user information and content information generated as additional information. In this case, the additional information database may not only store content information, but may be connected to a network for providing content information, and receive and provide content information from the servers. According to an embodiment, a plurality of keywords and a list of related URLs corresponding to the keywords are stored.

On the other hand, the database of the present invention is a concept that includes not only a commercial database but also a configuration for storing predetermined data. In addition, the user information database or the additional information database of the present invention is a conceptually divided configuration, may be implemented in one database configuration, or may be implemented in a physically separated database configuration.

The additional information providing system according to the present invention has been described so far, and thus the technical contents described in the above embodiments may be applied to the additional information providing system of FIG. 7 as it will be omitted.

As described above, the present invention has been described by way of limited embodiments and drawings, but the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, which can be variously modified and modified by those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains. Modifications are possible. Accordingly, the spirit of the present invention should be understood only by the claims set forth below, and all equivalent or equivalent modifications thereof will belong to the scope of the present invention.

According to the present invention, when the sender sends a message, the bulletin board information shared by the sender and the receiver is provided to the sender or the receiver as additional information, so that information exchange between the sender and the receiver can be easily performed.

In addition, the present invention has an effect that can provide the sender or the receiver as the additional information to the specialized content information according to the information characteristics of the message sender or receiver.

In addition, the present invention provides the content information associated with the sender of the service information associated with the message receiver as additional information, so that the sender does not need to search for the service information associated with the receiver, and sends the message directly to the receiver. There is an effect that can be provided.

In addition, the present invention has the effect that the receiver can receive the service information related to itself from the service information provided by the service providing server associated with the sender through the additional information just by receiving a message from the sender as additional information. .

In addition, the present invention provides the additional information by providing the content information related to the content of the message, the additional information of interest to both the sender and the receiver.

Claims (18)

A method of providing information associated with a message, Maintaining a user information database for storing user information; Transmitting the message input by the sender through the input window to the receiver; And Generating additional information related to user information of the sender or the receiver by referring to the user information database, and transmitting the generated additional information to the sender or the receiver; Additional information providing service method comprising a. The method of claim 1, Maintaining an additional information database storing content information classified by characteristics of user information; More, The step of generating the additional information, And additional information is generated by reading content information corresponding to characteristics of user information of the sender or the receiver by referring to the additional information database. The method of claim 1, The user information, Includes bulletin board information corresponding to the user, More, The additional information, The additional information providing service method comprising the shared bulletin board information of the sender and the receiver. The method of claim 1, The additional information, And information related to the user information of the caller among the service information associated with the receiver or information related to the user information of the receiver among the service information associated with the caller. The method of claim 4, wherein Service information associated with the receiver or service information associated with the caller, Service information provided by a service providing server associated with the receiver or service information provided by a service providing server associated with the caller. A method of providing information associated with a message, Transmitting the message input by the sender through the input window to the receiver; And Analyzing the content of the message to generate additional information related to the content of the message, and transmitting the generated additional information to the sender or the recipient Additional information providing service method comprising a. The method of claim 6, Maintaining an additional information database storing a plurality of keywords and a list of related URLs corresponding to the keywords More, The step of generating the additional information, Extracting a keyword from the content of the message, and reading the list of related URLs corresponding to the keyword by referring to the additional information database to generate the additional information. The method according to claim 1 or 6, The input window, The additional information providing service method, characterized in that the input window provided in conjunction with a predetermined program or a predetermined service server installed in the user terminal of the caller. The method according to claim 1 or 6, The sender or the receiver is identified by any one or more of a phone number, member ID, VoIP, IP address, Internet address, keyword address, email address, electronic barcode, natural language address, user identifier entered in the input window Additional information providing method. A computer-readable recording medium in which a program for executing the method of any one of claims 1 to 7 is recorded. A system for providing information associated with a message, A user information database for storing user information; A message sending module for sending a message input by a sender through an input window to a receiver; And Additional information providing module for generating additional information related to the user information of the sender or the receiver with reference to the user information database, and transmits the generated additional information to the sender or the receiver Additional information providing system comprising a. The method of claim 11, Service information database that stores content information classified by characteristics of user information More, The additional information providing module, And additional information is generated by reading content information corresponding to characteristics of user information of the sender or the receiver by referring to the service information database. The method of claim 11, The user information, Includes bulletin board information corresponding to the user, More, The additional information, Additional information providing system, characterized in that it comprises a shared bulletin board of the sender and the receiver. The method of claim 11, The additional information, And additional information related to the user information of the caller among the service information associated with the receiver. A system for providing information associated with a message, A message sending module for sending a message input by a sender through an input window to a receiver; And Additional information providing module for analyzing the content of the message to generate additional information related to the content of the message, and to transmit the generated additional information to the sender or the receiver Additional information providing system comprising a. The method of claim 15, An additional information database storing a plurality of keywords and a list of related URLs corresponding to the keywords More, The additional information providing module, And extracting a keyword from the contents of the message, and reading the list of related URLs corresponding to the keyword by referring to the additional information database to generate the additional information. The method of claim 11 or 15, The input window, The additional information providing system, characterized in that the input window provided in conjunction with a predetermined program or a predetermined service server installed in the sender's user terminal. The method of claim 11 or 15, The sender or the receiver is identified by any one or more of a phone number, member ID, VoIP, IP address, Internet address, keyword address, email address, electronic barcode, natural language address, user identifier entered in the input window Additional information providing system.

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