WO2009092222A1

WO2009092222A1 - A method,a client and a communication system for sharing a communication object

Info

Publication number: WO2009092222A1
Application number: PCT/CN2008/073412
Authority: WO
Inventors: Bin Li
Original assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
Priority date: 2007-12-27
Filing date: 2008-12-10
Publication date: 2009-07-30
Also published as: CN101217504A; CN101217504B

Abstract

A method, a client and a network communication system for sharing a communication object are provided. In the network communication system, the client determines a waiting-shared communication object and at least one second user according to the instruction of the first user; the client provides the information of the waiting-shared communication object to the client which at least one second user logs on through a server. By the invention, the information of the communication object of the user is provided to the other users, the number of the interaction between the person and the machine is decreased, the error probability of the operation is reduced and the user uses it conveniently and the efficiency is higher.

Description

Method, client and communication system for sharing communication objects

Technical field

The present invention relates to network communication technologies, and more particularly to a method, client and communication system for sharing communication objects. Background of the invention

With the continuous development of the Internet and related application technologies, network communication systems have been widely used, such as instant messaging (IM) systems, web blog systems, web forum systems, etc., which have been used by most Internet users. Accepted, and gradually become an indispensable part of the user's daily life. Network communication tools are not only used in the user's work and life, but also used in the user's spare life. Users can communicate with contacts quickly and conveniently through the network. As users spend more time using network communication systems, the number of contacts is increasing. The contact person may be the user's colleague, classmate or other person with a common interest. In order to facilitate user management, the current network communication system can realize effective classification management of contacts by grouping contacts. For example, users can divide their contacts into class, classmates, family members and the like. At the same time, the network communication system also allows multiple users to form a chat group, and members in the same chat group can perform many-to-many communication. In most current network communication systems, some ways of information sharing are also provided, such as sharing certain files or movie data between certain IM groups, or sharing some music data between contacts, and the like.

With the development of social networks, many users of network communication systems will have a large number of common contacts. For example, many work units currently use IM tools for communication. Unit colleagues and colleagues are each other's contact relationships, so multiple colleagues may have some common contacts. When a new colleague arrives, the new colleague needs to be notified to other colleagues in the unit. An identifier in the network communication system, such as a Universal Internet Number (UIN), to facilitate the new colleague to add other colleagues as contacts.

When a situation similar to the above occurs, one user currently provides the UIN of multiple contacts to another user, usually by means of verbal notification, or sends the UIN of these contacts to the other user by mail or file.

In addition, in the IM system, the user can also input the UIN of multiple contacts into the IM client, and the IM client sends the input UIN as a normal IM message to the client of another user, and the other user receives the client through the client. After the content is the IM message of the UIN number, the operation of adding a contact is triggered in turn, and the user corresponding to each UIN number is added as a contact.

However, the technical method has the following disadvantages: the UIN of the plurality of contacts needs to be manually input into the client through a computer keyboard, and the manual operation is large, and the use is very inconvenient; since the contact needs to be manually typed UIN, it is prone to input errors, and the probability of error is also high. Summary of the invention

In view of this, embodiments of the present invention provide a method, a client, and a communication system for a network communication system to share a communication object, and can conveniently share a communication object of one user with other users.

A method for sharing a communication object provided by an embodiment of the present invention includes:

Determining, by the first user, the communication object to be shared and the at least one second user according to the instruction of the first user;

The client provides the information of the communication object to be shared to the client of the at least one second user login through the server.

A client provided by an embodiment of the present invention includes a selection module, configured to determine, according to an instruction of the first user, a communication object to be shared and at least one second user;

And an information transmission module, configured to provide, by the server, information about the communication object to be shared determined by the selection module to the client of the at least one second user login.

A communication system provided by an embodiment of the present invention includes a client and a server, wherein the client is configured to determine, according to an instruction of the first user, a communication object to be shared and at least one second user, to communicate the to-be-shared Sending information of the object and the at least one second user to the server;

The server is configured to provide information about the communication object to be shared to the client that the at least one second user logs in.

By using the invention, the information of the communication object of the user can be provided to other users, the number of human-computer interactions is reduced, and the error probability of the operation is reduced, which is very convenient for the user to use, and has high efficiency. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a method for sharing a communication object according to an embodiment of the present invention.

2 is a schematic structural diagram of a network communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing the composition of a shared information forwarding processing module in a server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a composition of a requesting module added to a client according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 5 is a flowchart of determining, by a client, a communication object and a target user to be shared according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of an operation of adding a communication object after a client receives a shared command data packet according to an embodiment of the present invention. Mode for carrying out the invention

The present invention will be further described in detail below by way of specific embodiments and the accompanying drawings.

The present invention is applicable to all network communication systems, such as network IM systems, network blog systems, and network forum systems, and the like. The network communication system is composed of a client and a server. The client is set on the user side, and the server is set on the network side. The user can send the login information to the server through the client, and the server can be sent to the server through the server. Network users send data and receive data from other network users.

In the following, the method for sharing a communication object according to the present invention will be described by taking an IM system as an example. The method for sharing in other network communication systems can be implemented by referring to the method of the following embodiments.

The communication objects mentioned here may include contacts, chat groups, and the like.

The method mainly includes: determining, by the client, the communication object to be shared and the at least one second user according to the instruction of the first user; the client sending the information of the communication object to be shared to the at least one second user by using a server Client.

The above process may be initiated when the client receives a request from the second user to obtain the communication object of the first user.

The client may further receive the information of the communication object to be shared by the third user sent by the third user and provide the information to the first user, where the first user may select the communication object to be added as the communication object according to the requirement, and the client according to the first The user's instruction sends a request to add a communication object to the client to which the communication object selected by the first user logs in.

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a method for sharing a communication object according to an embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, H殳 User C, User D, User E, and User F are IM contacts of User A, but are not IM contacts of User B. For convenience of description, the IM client that user A logs in is called the first client, user B is the target IM user of the shared operation, and the IM client that user B logs in is called the second client. Referring to FIG. 1, the specific method in which user A shares his own IM communication object to user B is as follows.

Step 101: After the user A successfully logs in to the IM system through the first client, the first client determines a communication object list to be shared according to the selection instruction of the user A, and determines the target user.

For example, this step may be implemented in the manner shown in FIG. 5. FIG. 5 is a flowchart of determining, by the client, a communication object and a target user to be shared according to an embodiment of the present invention.

(1011) The first client receives the UIN (for example, an IM account) and the password input by the user A, and sends a verification message for verifying the validity of the account and the password through a communication channel with the IM server, if the IM server verifies the account and the password. If valid, user A successfully logs in to the first client.

(1012) The first client displays all communication objects of user A, and may include a contact, a contact group, a chat group, and detect a user's selection instruction.

(1013), the first client determines, according to the selection instruction of the user A, the communication object to be shared, wherein if a contact is selected, the contact is determined as a communication object to be shared; if a contact group is selected Then, all contacts in the contact group are determined as communication objects to be shared; if a certain chat group is selected, the chat group is determined as a communication object to be shared. It is assumed here that users C, D, E, and F are selected as communication pairs to be shared.

(1014), the user A ends the selection operation, for example, clicking the completion button, the first client detects the end selection operation and prompts the user A to input the target user or the target user list of the sharing operation, and detects the user's selection instruction, according to the detection. The selection command to the selected target user is assumed, and the target user selected by user A here is user B. Here, the user may select a plurality of contacts as the target users, or may select a certain contact group or a chat group as the target user list. In this process, the first client may also prompt the user A to select the target user, then prompt the user A to select the communication object to be shared, or prompt the user A to select the target user while selecting the communication object to be shared.

(1015) The first client extracts, from the user database, the determined information of the communication object to be shared, such as the identifier of the contact and/or the chat group, may be saved as an identifier list, and extract the information of the target user. For example, the identity of user B.

Step 102: The first client determines the information of the communication object to be shared, such as the user identifier, the chat group identifier, and the like, in the form of a list or other forms, and the information of the target user, that is, the user B, such as the user identifier. Etc., organized into the uplink signal, for example, carried in the uplink shared command data packet, or piggybacked in other uplink packets, and sent to the IM server. Since the uplink signal is sent by the first client, the identifier of the sender, that is, the identifier of the user A, may also be included in the data packet.

User A can also share the to-be-shared contacts to multiple target users or share them to a certain contact group or chat group, then the first client can share the contact information and multiple target users, or The information of each user in the contact group or chat group is sent to the IM server.

Step 103: After receiving the data packet, the IM server, if it is determined that the information related to the sharing operation is carried, for example, parsing out the data packet as the uplink sharing command data packet, parsing the information of the user A included therein and the user B Information, as well as information about the shared IM contacts and/or chat groups.

Step 104: The IM server determines whether the communication object to be shared and the user B both have a true contact relationship with the user A; if yes, execute step 105; otherwise, send a sharing failure message to the first client, For example, the user identifier that does not have a contact relationship with the user A may be sent to the first client to prompt a certain contact to fail to share, and the process ends. Here, if the communication target to be shared is an IM user, it is determined whether the IM user is It is the contact of user A; if the communication object to be shared is a chat group, it is determined whether user A is a member of the chat group. This step is an optional step. The main function is to prevent the hacker from changing the program of the IM client, and the fake contact performs the sharing operation. After this step, the relationship between the user who initiated the sharing and the shared communication object is performed by the IM server. For further verification, only the verification can be performed to perform the subsequent process, thereby further ensuring data security during the sharing process.

Step 105: The IM server organizes the information about the communication object to be shared, such as the contact identifier, the chat group identifier, and the like into the downlink signal, for example, carried in the downlink shared command data packet or piggybacked in other downlink packets. Other information such as the display name of each IM contact may also be organized into a downlink signal and sent to the second client.

When there are multiple target users, the server only needs to send the information of the shared contact and/or the chat group to the client to which each target user logs in.

Step 106: After the user B successfully logs in to the second client, the second client parses the information of the communication object to be shared from the received downlink signal, for example, the downlink shared command data packet, and provides the information to the user B, according to the user. The instruction of B issues a request to add a communication object to the communication object to be shared. Here, for the IM user, the request to add the communication object indicates that the IM user is required to be added as a contact; for the chat group, the request to add the communication object indicates that the chat group is required to join.

For example, this step 106 can be implemented in the manner shown in FIG. 6. FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a request for adding a communication object after the client receives the shared command data packet according to an embodiment of the present invention.

(1061), the IM client that the user B logs in, that is, the second client receives the account and password input by the user B, and sends a verification request for verifying the validity of the account and the password through the channel with the IM server, if the IM server verifies the account If the password is valid, User B successfully logs in to the IM client. (1062), the second client receives the downlink signal sent by the IM server, for example, the downlink shared command data packet, performs possible decryption, and the parsing operation confirms that it is a valid data packet, and extracts the protocol command therein, and confirms that it is a shared communication object. After the command, the datagram is parsed according to the agreed format.

(1063), the second client extracts the identifiers of the communication objects shared by the user A to the user B and the possible display names according to the agreed format, and the creation window displays the communication object list shared by the user A to the user B, and detects the user B. The selection instruction, the user B can select which communication objects in the list to initiate a request to add a communication object through the window, such as a request to add a contact, a request to join a chat group, and the like.

(1064), the second client selects the communication object according to the user's selection instruction, and when the user B confirms that the communication object shared by the user A is selected to be added as the contact of the user B (for example, the user is selected here) C, D, E, F), the second client organizes the identifiers of the user B, the user A, and the selected communication object into a data packet to which the communication object is requested, to the selected communication object The client issues a request to add a communication object. Here, when the selected communication object is a contact, the added communication object requests to add a contact request; when the selected communication object is a chat group, the second client sends a request to add a communication object to the chat group The administrator of the group or the client corresponding to the initiator, the add contact request is a request to join the chat group. In addition, the second client may also add request description information similar to "User A shares you to User B, User B wishes to be your friend" to the data packet of the added communication object request to further communicate to the communication. The object indicates the shared source, that is, the way in which the communication object user B is notified to find the communication object.

Here, the second client may organize the identifiers of all selected communication objects into an add communication object request packet and send the same to the IM server; the IM server parses out the communication object identifier from the data packet, respectively, to each of the The IM client corresponding to the communication object sends an add communication object request to request each communication object to accept the target IM user as a contact. If the selected one of the communication objects is online, the second client may also send the add communication object request to the IM client corresponding to the selected communication object by using the point-to-point method instead of sending the add communication object request through the IM server. . The second client may also separately send an add communication object request to the IM server for each selected communication object, and the IM server sends an add communication object request to the client of the corresponding communication object for each of the added communication object requests, and the subsequent operation Similar to the above, it will not be described here.

Step 107: The communication object (for example, the user C, D, E, F) logs in to the IM client, and after receiving the request for adding the communication object, the IM client confirms whether to agree to add the user B according to the selection of the communication object. For the request of the contact, if the communication object chooses to agree to add, the user B is added as the contact of the communication object according to the existing processing method. Generally, in this case, since user A and user B are in a contact relationship, such user B's request to add a communication object is more likely to be allowed, and the integration of interpersonal relationships is accelerated.

In addition, the process can also be triggered based on the request of the target user. For example, the user B sends a request for acquiring the shared communication object of the user A to the server through the second client, and the server forwards the request to the first client. The first client provides the request to the user A, for example, to the user via a system message, a pop-up window, or the like. User A then initiates the operation of sharing the communication object to User B according to the above procedure. 2 is a schematic diagram showing the composition of a network communication system according to the present invention. Referring to FIG. 2, the network communication system includes a client and a server, and the basic function is the same as that of the client and the server of each current network communication system, for example, an IM system, including an IM client and an IM server, for existing The functions of the present invention are not described here. The functions of the client and the server in the embodiment of the present invention are mainly described below.

The client includes a sharing management module 100, which includes:

The communication module 201 is configured to communicate with a server.

The selecting module 202 is configured to determine, according to the user's selection instruction, a communication object to be shared, such as a contact and/or a chat group, and a target user. The information transmission module 203 is configured to organize, by the communication module 201, the communication object to be shared determined by the selection module 202 and the information of the target user, such as the identifier of the user, the identifier of the chat group, and the like, into the uplink sharing command data packet. A client that sends to the server for the server to provide login to the target user.

The adding request module 204 is configured to parse the information of the shared communication object from the downlink shared command data packet sent by the server received by the communication module 201, and send the communication object to the shared communication object through the communication module 201. request.

The client may further include a request receiving module 205 for receiving a request sent by another user to obtain the user's communication object and providing the user with the request. At this time, the user can initiate the process of sharing the communication object according to the request of other users.

The server includes a shared information forwarding processing module 200, configured to parse out the shared communication object and the information of the target user from the uplink shared command data packet uploaded by the client, and organize the information of the communication object into the downlink shared command data packet. In, sent to the client where the target user is located.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a composition of a shared information forwarding processing module of the server. Referring to FIG. 3, the shared information forwarding processing module 200 of the server specifically includes a communication module 301, an analysis module 302, a determination module 303, a forwarding module 304, and a response module 305.

The communication module 301 is configured to perform data communication with the client. The parsing module 302 is configured to parse the communication object shared by the user and the information of the target user from the received uplink shared command data packet.

The determining module 303 is configured to determine whether the shared communication object and the target user have a contact relationship with a user corresponding to the client that uploads the uplink sharing command data packet, and if yes, trigger the forwarding module 304 to connect the communication object. The information is organized into a data packet and sent to the client where the target user is located through the communication module 301; otherwise, the trigger response module 305 sends a sharing failure response to the client that uploads the uplink shared command data packet. In addition, the shared information forwarding processing module 200 may further include a request forwarding module 306, configured to forward the sharing request message sent by the first user to the second user to the client that is logged in by the second user. After the first user receives the shared communication object of the second user, and sends a request to add a communication object to the communication object shared by the second user, requesting the forwarding module

306 can also be used to forward the request of the first user's add communication object to the client to which the communication object is logged. When the communication object is a user, the request forwarding module 306 sends a request for adding a contact to the client of the user; when the communication object is a chat group, the request forwarding module 306 sends the administrator to the chat group. The client sends a request to join the chat group.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of the composition of adding a request module in the client. Referring to FIG. 4, the adding request module specifically includes:

The parsing module 401 is configured to parse the information of the shared communication object from the downlink shared command data packet received by the communication module 201.

The selecting module 402 is configured to provide information of the shared communication object to the user, and detect a selection instruction of the user, and select a communication object among the shared communication objects according to the detected selection instruction.

A request sending module 403 is configured to issue a request to add a communication object to the selected communication object.

The request sending module 403 may include a combined request transmitting module 431 and a separate request transmitting module 432.

The combination join request sending module 431 is configured to combine the information of the selected plurality of communication objects into one add communication object request data packet and send the information to the server. The combined request forwarding module in the shared information forwarding processing module in the server parses the information of the communication object from the added communication target request packet, and transmits an add communication target request to each client of the communication target. The individual request sending module 432 is configured to send a request to add a communication object to the client logged in by the communication object in a peer-to-peer manner when a selected communication object is online.

By using the invention, the user of the network communication system can notify the target user of the local contact identifier (for example, UIN) by directly selecting the contact identifier and clicking the share transmission, thereby reducing the number of human-computer interactions, reducing the workload, and facilitating the user. Sharing contact information can also reduce the probability of error in information transfer operations. After receiving the shared contact list, the client of the target user of the present invention can parse the identifier of the shared contact, and automatically send the joining contact request to the client corresponding to the shared contact identifier through a server or a peer-to-peer method. By adding a contact operation, the target user can avoid the contact invitation operation one by one, further reducing the number of human-computer interactions of the target user and reducing the workload. The invention can further perform further security verification by the server on the contact relationship between the user identifier that initiates the sharing and the contact between the shared contacts, so as to prevent the hacker from modifying the client's program, and the fake contact performs the operation of sharing the contact, thereby further Ensure data security during the sharing process.

The above is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, but the scope of protection of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily think of changes or replacements within the technical scope of the present invention. All should be covered by the scope of the present invention.

Claims

Claim

A method for sharing a communication object, comprising:

The method according to claim 1, further comprising: before the client determines the communication object to be shared and the at least one second user according to the instruction of the first user, receiving at least one of the second users to send A request to acquire a communication object of the first user is provided to the first user.

The method according to claim 1, further comprising: the client providing the received information of the communication object shared by the third user to the first user, according to the first user The instruction determines, in the communication object shared by the third user, the communication object selected by the first user, and sends a request to add a communication object to the client that is logged in by the communication object selected by the first user by the server.

The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the communication object to be shared comprises a contact and/or a chat group.

The method according to claim 4, wherein the determining the communication object to be shared comprises:

The client displays all contacts and/or contact groups and/or chat groups of the first user;

The client determines the communication object to be shared according to the user's selection instruction, wherein if the user selects a contact, the contact is determined as the communication object to be shared; if the user selects a contact group, the contact is All contacts in the person group are determined to be shared The communication object; if the user selects a certain chat group, the chat group is determined as the communication object to be shared.

The method according to claim 4, further comprising: the server determining whether the contact to be shared and the at least one second user both have a contact relationship with the first user, if Providing, to the client of the at least one second user login, the information of the contact to be shared; and/or

The server determines whether the first user is a member of the chat group to be shared, and whether the first user has a contact relationship with the at least one second user, and if yes, the to-be-shared The information of the chat group is provided to the client of the at least one second user login.

The method according to claim 3, wherein the communication object shared by the third user comprises a contact and/or a chat group;

If the contact shared by the third user selected by the first user is online, the client sends a request for adding a contact to the client logged in by the contact shared by the third user in a peer-to-peer manner; and/or

If the administrator of the shared chat group shared by the third user selected by the first user is online, the client sends a request to join the chat group to the client logged in by the administrator in a peer-to-peer manner.

The method according to claim 3, wherein the client that is logged in to the contact shared by the third user selected by the first user issues an add contact request and/or selects the first user. The third user sharing the large chat group administrator login client sends a join chat group request including:

The client sends the add contact request and/or join chat group request to the server, and when the contact is online, the server sends a request for adding a contact to the client logged in by the contact, And/or when the administrator of the chat group is online, the server Send a request to join the chat group to the client logged in by the administrator.

9. A client, characterized in that,

a selection module, configured to determine, according to an instruction of the first user, a communication object to be shared and at least one second user;

The client according to claim 9, further comprising: a request receiving module, configured to receive, by the at least one second user, a request for acquiring a communication object of the first user, to provide the first user.

The client according to claim 9, further comprising: an adding requesting module, configured to provide the received information of the communication object shared by the third user to the first user, according to the first A user's instruction determines a communication object selected by the first user among the communication objects shared by the third user, and sends an add communication object request to the client that is logged in by the server to the communication object selected by the first user.

A communication system, comprising a client and a server, wherein the client is configured to determine, according to an instruction of the first user, a communication object to be shared and at least one second user, and to communicate the communication object to be shared And transmitting information of the at least one second user to the server;

13. The communication system of claim 12, wherein:

The server is further configured to determine whether the contact in the communication object to be shared and the at least one second user have a contact relationship with the first user, and if yes, the contact to be shared The person's information is provided to the client of the at least one second user login; and/or Determining, by the server, whether the first user is a member of a chat group in the communication object to be shared, and whether the first user has a contact relationship with the at least one second user, and if yes, The information describing the shared fixed chat group is provided to the client of the at least one second user login.

14. The communication system of claim 12, wherein:

The client provides the received information of the communication object shared by the third user to the first user, and determines the first user among the communication objects shared by the third user according to the instruction of the first user. a selected communication object, sending a request for adding the communication object of the determined communication object to the server;

When the determined contact in the communication object is online, the server sends a request to add a contact to the client logged in by the contact, and/or when the administrator of the chat group in the determined communication object is online, the server The client logged in by the administrator sends a request to join the chat group.

A communication system according to any one of claims 12 to 14, wherein said network communication system is an instant communication system.