Mobile terminal and method of controlling therefor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10056082-B2
Application number	US-201514976996-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 21, 2015
Priority date	Dec 22, 2014
Publication date	Aug 21, 2018
Grant date	Aug 21, 2018

Abstract

A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with a conversation partner; a display unit configured to display a conversation window displaying messages transceived with the conversation partner; and a controller configured to respond to a selection of a message among the displayed messages, display a virtual assistant in the conversation window and control the virtual assistance to output information related to the selected message, and in response to a user request, control the virtual assistant to output information related to the user request.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:
a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with a conversation partner;
a display unit configured to display a conversation window displaying messages transceived with the conversation partner; and
a controller configured to:
control a virtual assistant to output information within the conversation window and not transmit the information to the conversation partner,
in response to a received message from the conversation partner containing a question, control the virtual assistant to output information including an answer to the question within the conversation window and adjacent to the question from the conversation partner without transmitting the information to the conversation partner,
in response to a selection of a message among the displayed messages, display the virtual assistant in the conversation window and control the virtual assistant to output information related to the selected message, and
in response to a user request, control the virtual assistant to output information related to the user request.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the virtual assistant is displayed with an image of a virtual person.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein in response to a text string indicating a specific date being contained in the selected message, the controller is further configured to control the virtual assistant to display schedule information about the specific date.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 3 , wherein in response to the text string indicating the specific date not being contained in the selected message, the controller is further configured to use a date contained in a message received before or after the selected message, as the specific date.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , further comprising:
a microphone configured to receive the user request,
wherein the controller is further configured to:
in response to the user speaking into the microphone while a first region of the conversation window is touched, transmit a message containing text converted from the user speaking to the conversation partner, and
in response to the user speaking into the microphone while a second region of the conversation window is touched, control the virtual assistant to output information based on a meaning of words the user is speaking into the microphone.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 5 , wherein the controller is further configured to display the message transmitted to the conversation partner in the conversation window.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 6 , wherein the message transmitted to the conversation partner and the information output from the virtual assistant are visually distinguished from each other in the conversation window.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to:
in response to predetermined identification text not being contained in text input to a text input box of the conversation window, transmit a message containing the text to the conversation partner, and
in response to the predetermined identification text being contained in the text input to the text input box of the conversation window, control the virtual assistant to output information corresponding to the text.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to:
display a plurality of unread reception messages received from the conversation partner, and
control the virtual assistant to display summary information of the unread plurality of the reception messages.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein in response to a user input touching the information output by the virtual assistant, the controller is further configured to transmit the information to the conversation partner.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 1 , wherein the information comprises postings posted on an SNS (social network service) account of the conversation partner.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 11 , wherein in response to a part of the messages being selected, the controller is further configured to only output postings containing the selected part among the postings.

13. A method of controlling a mobile terminal, the method comprising:
wirelessly communicating, via a wireless communication unit, with a conversation partner;
displaying, via a display unit, a conversation window displaying messages transceived with the conversation partner;
in response to a selection of a message among the displayed messages, displaying a virtual assistant in the conversation window and controlling, via a controller, the virtual assistant to output information related to the selected message;
in response to a user request, controlling, via the controller, the virtual assistant to output information related to the user request;
controlling, via the controller, the virtual assistant to output the information within the conversation window and not transmit the information to the conversation partner; and
in response to a received message from the conversation partner containing a question, controlling, via the controller, the virtual assistant to output information including an answer to the question within the conversation window and adjacent to the question from the conversation partner without transmitting the information to the conversation partner.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the virtual assistant is displayed with an image of a virtual person.

15. The method of claim 13 , wherein in response to a text string indicating a specific date being contained in the selected message, the method further comprises controlling the virtual assistant to display schedule information about the specific date.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein in response to the text string indicating the specific date not being contained in the selected message, the method further comprises using a date contained in a message received before or after the selected message, as the specific date.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Kim Yongjae
• Kim Minjoo

Classifications

• H04M2250/22

  including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector · CPC title

• H04W88/04

  adapted for relaying to or from another terminal or user · CPC title

• H04M1/72566

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M1/72552

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04M2250/74

  with voice recognition means · CPC title