Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2019222541-A1
Application number	US-201916245512-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jan 11, 2019
Priority date	Jan 18, 2018
Publication date	Jul 18, 2019
Grant date	—

Abstract

An information processing apparatus includes a reception processing portion, a display processing portion, and a notification processing portion. The reception processing portion receives a first message from a first information processing apparatus. The display processing portion displays, on a display portion, the first message received from the reception processing portion. When an input operation is started, the notification processing portion associates input start information indicating that the input operation has started, with identification information of the first message, and transmits the input start information and the identification information to the first information processing apparatus, the input operation being an operation of inputting one or more characters for a second message to be transmitted to the first information processing apparatus, in an input field displayed on the display portion.

First claim

1 . An information processing apparatus, comprising:
a reception processing portion configured to receive a first message from a first information processing apparatus; a display processing portion configured to display, on a display portion, the first message received by the reception processing portion; and a notification processing portion configured to, when an input operation is started, associate input start information indicating that the input operation has started, with identification information of the first message, and transmit the input start information and the identification information to the first information processing apparatus, the input operation being an operation of inputting one or more characters for a second message to be transmitted to the first information processing apparatus, in an input field displayed on the display portion.

2 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
the notification processing portion notifies the first information processing apparatus that the one or more characters for the second message that is a reply message in response to the first message, are being input in the information processing apparatus.

3 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising
a message processing portion configured to transmit the second message to the first information processing apparatus, wherein the message processing portion adds, to the second message, time information indicating when the input operation was started, and transmits the second message to the first information processing apparatus.

4 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
when the reception processing portion receives a third message from the first information processing apparatus after the input operation of the second message is started and before a transmit command to transmit the second message is received, the display processing portion displays the third message adjacent to the first message on the display portion.

5 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein
when the transmit command to transmit the second message is received, the display processing portion displays the second message in between the first message and the third message on the display portion.

6 . The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
when at least one message is received from the first information processing apparatus after the input operation of the second message is started and before a transmit command to transmit the second message is received, the notification processing portion associates the input start information with the identification information of the first message, and transmits the input start information and the identification information to the first information processing apparatus.

7 . An information processing system configured to transmit and receive messages between a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus, comprising:
the second information processing apparatus, comprising a first reception processing portion configured to receive a first message from the first information processing apparatus, a first display processing portion configured to display, on a first display portion, the first message received by the first reception processing portion, and a first notification processing portion configured to, when an input operation is started, associate input start information indicating that the input operation has started, with identification information of the first message, and transmit the input start information and the identification information to the first information processing apparatus, the input operation being an operation of inputting one or more characters for a second message to be transmitted to the first information processing apparatus, in an input field displayed on the display portion; and the first information processing apparatus, comprising a second display processing process configured to display the first message on a second display portion, and a second notification processing portion configured to, when the input start information is received from the first notification processing portion, based on the identification information of the first message associated with the input start information, add to the first message notification information indicating that one or more characters for the second message are being input in the second information processing apparatus, and display the notification information in the second display portion.

8 . An information processing method, comprising:
receiving a first message from a first information processing apparatus; displaying, on a display portion, the first message that is received; and when an input operation has started, associating input start information indicating that the input operation has started with identification information of the first message, and transmitting the input start information and the identification information to the first information processing apparatus, the input operation being an operation of inputting one or more characters for a second message to be transmitted to the first information processing apparatus, in an input field displayed on the display portion.

Assignees

• Kyocera Document Solutions Inc

Inventors

• Akimoto Tadaaki

Classifications

• H04L51/04 Primary

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

• H04L51/06

  Message adaptation to terminal or network requirements · CPC title

• H04L51/16

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L51/24

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L51/216

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