Method and apparatus for displaying interface for providing social networking service through anonymous profile

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11855950-B2
Application number	US-202218078091-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 9, 2022
Priority date	Aug 21, 2019
Publication date	Dec 26, 2023
Grant date	Dec 26, 2023

Abstract

A method of providing information on a social networking service (SNS) activity to a chatroom, performed by a user terminal, includes: transmitting, to a server, an SNS request for each of a plurality of anonymous profiles created to be interlinked with an account of a user for an instant messaging service (IMS); displaying information on an SNS activity performed through a first anonymous profile selected by the user in correspondence with a chatroom in which the user participates in the IMS, from among the plurality of anonymous profiles, in the chatroom; receiving an input of changing a profile of the user, selected corresponding to the to chatroom, from the first anonymous profile to a second anonymous profile; and displaying information on an SNS activity performed through the second anonymous profile in the chatroom.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of providing information on a social networking service (SNS) activity to a chatroom, performed by a user terminal, the method comprising:
transmitting, to a server, an SNS request for each of a plurality of anonymous profiles created to be interlinked with an account of a user for an instant messaging service (IMS);
receiving a list of chatrooms currently participated in using any one of the plurality of anonymous profiles from the server and displaying the list of chatrooms;
receiving, from the user, a selection of at least one chatroom to share an SNS activity performed through a first anonymous profile in the list of chatrooms;
displaying information on the SNS activity in the selected chatroom; receiving an input of changing a profile of the user, selected corresponding to the selected chatroom, from the first anonymous profile to a second anonymous profile;
and displaying information on an SNS activity performed through the second anonymous profile in the selected chatroom.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the displaying of the information on the SNS activity performed through the first or second anonymous profile comprises displaying the information on the SNS activity performed through the first or second anonymous profile in the form of a rich feed distinct from a speech balloon in a chat display region of the chatroom.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the displaying of the information on the SNS activity performed through the first or second anonymous profile comprises displaying, in response to an input of the user, the information of the SNS activity performed through the first or second anonymous profile in the form of a list in a pre-allocated region of the chatroom.

4. The method of claim 2 , further comprising: displaying an interface for providing the SNS activity performed through the first or second anonymous profile in response to an input of selecting the rich feed.

5. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform the method of claim 1 .

Assignees

• Kakao Corp

Inventors

• Lee Ji Sun
• Park Hyun Young
• Lim Seong Mi
• Park Young Min
• Lee Doo Won
• Ko Eun Jung
• Lee Jae Lin
• Lim Kwang Hui
• Shim Ki Yong
• Choi Sun Ho
• Choi Kwang Hoon
• Lee Hwa Young
• Lee Jae Gil
• Kim Kyong Rim
• Cho Soo Min

Classifications

• H04L51/52 Primary

  for supporting social networking services · CPC title

• H04L51/04 Primary

  Real-time or near real-time messaging, e.g. instant messaging [IM] · CPC title

• H04L51/10

  Multimedia information · CPC title

• H04L51/216

  Handling conversation history, e.g. grouping of messages in sessions or threads · CPC title

• H04L63/0421

  Anonymous communication, i.e. the party's identifiers are hidden from the other party or parties, e.g. using an anonymizer · CPC title