Method, server and SNS system for message interaction

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9705836-B2
Application number	US-201414322819-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 2, 2014
Priority date	Jan 29, 2013
Publication date	Jul 11, 2017
Grant date	Jul 11, 2017

Abstract

A method for message interaction includes: receiving, at a server, a first multi-media message recorded and published by a first terminal when the server detects that the first terminal in a social network service (SNS) system carries out a message publishing operation; performing, at the server, a transcoding process on the first multi-media message to generate at least one second multi-media message, and storing the first multi-media message and the at least one second multi-media messages; and allocating, at the server, a publishing identifier and sending the publishing identifier to the first terminal to inform the first terminal that the message publishing operation is successful. Further, a server and a SNS system are also described. In the present disclosure, message interaction can be performed based on multi-media messages in the SNS system, thereby enriching variety of message contents, improving efficiency of message interaction, and enhancing convenience of social activities.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for message interaction, comprising the steps of:
receiving, at a server, a first multi-media message recorded and published by a first terminal when the server detects that the first terminal in a social network service (SNS) system carries out a message publishing operation;
performing, at the server, a transcoding process on the first multi-media message to generate at least one second multi-media message, and storing the first multi-media message and the at least one second multi-media messages;
allocating, at the server, a publishing identifier and sending the publishing identifier to the first terminal to inform the first terminal that the message publishing operation is successful, the publishing identifier being used for identifying a storage address of the first multi-media message and a storage address of each of the second multi-media messages;
obtaining, at the server, the publishing identifier carried in a multi-media message play request and detecting a system parameter of a second terminal, when the server receives the multi-media message play request sent by the second terminal in the SNS system;
searching, at the server, according to the publishing identifier, for the storage address of the first multi-media message and the storage address of the at least one second multi-media message which are identified by the publishing identifier; and
selecting, at the server, according to the system parameter of the second terminal, one storage address of a multi-media message adapted to the second terminal from the storage address of the first multi-media message and the storage address of the at least one second multi-media message which are obtained by searching, and sending to the second terminal with the storage address of the multi-media message adapted to the second terminal, to make the second terminal play the adapted multi-media message.

2. The method of claim 1 , after receiving, at the server, the first multi-media message recorded and published by the first terminal and before the server carries out the transcoding process on the first multi-media message, the method further comprising:
judging, at the server, whether the first terminal has a publishing permission of multi-media message,
wherein, if the first terminal has the publish permission of multi-media message, the step of performing, at the server, the transcoding process on the first multi-media message is executed; the publishing identifier is a view link of a message published by the first terminal, or the publishing identifier is a piece of voice key and is used for indicating that the message published by the first terminal is a multi-media message.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of performing, at the server, the transcoding process on the first multi-media message to generate at least one second multi-media message, and storing the first multi-media message and the at least one second multi-media messages, comprises:
parsing, at the server, the first multi-media message to obtain an audio/video message in a first format;
performing, at the server, the transcoding process on the audio/video message in the first format to generate at least one audio/video message in a second format; and
storing, at the server, the audio/video message in the first format and the at least one audio/video message in the second format;
wherein, the first multi-media message comprises the audio/video message in the first format, and the second multi-media message comprises the audio/video message in the second format.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of performing, at the server, the transcoding process on the first multi-media message, generating at least one second multi-media message, and storing the first multi-media message and the at least one second multi-media messages comprises:
parsing, at the server, the first multi-media message to obtain a picture message and an audio/video message in a first format;
performing, at the server, the transcoding process on the audio/video message in the first format to generate at least one audio/video message in a second format;
storing, at the server, the picture message, the audio/video message in the first format, and the at least one audio/video message in the second format, and relating the picture message respectively to the audio/video message in the first format and each of the audio/video messages in the second format;
wherein, the first multi-media message comprises the picture message and the audio/video message in the first format, and the second multi-media message comprises the picture message and the audio/video message in the second format, the audio/video message in the second format being related to the picture message.

5. The method of claim 1 , after receiving, at the server, a multi-media message play request sent by the second terminal in the SNS system and before obtaining the publishing identifier carried in the multi-media message play request, the method further comprising:
judging, at the server, whether the second terminal has a permission to publish multi-media message;
wherein, if the second terminal has the permission to publish multi-media message, the step of obtaining, at the server, the publishing identifier carried in the multi-media message play request is executed.

6. The method of claim 1 , after sending, at the server, to the second terminal with the storage address of the multi-media message adapted to the second terminal, the method further comprising:
judging, at the server, whether the second terminal has a forwarding permission of multi-media message, when the server detects that the second terminal carries out a forwarding operation on the adapted multi-media message;
performing, at the server, a forwarding process on the adapted multi-media message according to the forwarding operation by the second terminal, if the second terminal has the forwarding permission of multi-media message.

7. The method of claim 2 , wherein the step of performing, at the server, the transcoding process on the first multi-media message to generate at least one second multi-media message, and storing the first multi-media message and the at least one second multi-media messages, comprises:
parsing, at the server, the first multi-media message to obtain an audio/video message in a first format;
performing, at the server, the transcoding process on the audio/video message in the first format to generate at least one audio/video message in a second format; and
storing, at the server, the audio/video message in the first format and the at least one audio/video message in the second format;
wherein, the first multi-media message comprises the audio/video message in the first format, and the second multi-media message comprises the audio/video message in the second format.

8. The method of claim 2 , wherein the step of performing, at the server, the transcoding process on the first multi-media message, generating at least one second multi-media message, and storing the first multi-media message and the at least one second multi-media messages comprises:
parsing, at the server, the first multi-media message to obtain a picture message and an audio/video message in a first format;
performing, at the server, the transcoding process on the audio/video message in the first format to generate at least one audio/video message in a second format;
storing, at the server, the picture message, the audio/video message in the first format, and the at least one audio/video message in the second format, and relating the picture message respectively to the audio/video message in the first format and each of the audio/video messages in the second format;
wherein, the firs

Assignees

• Tencent Tech Shenzhen Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zheng Zhihao
• Liang Zhu
• Wang Huixing
• Huang Xiaojun
• Ji Mingzhong
• Xu Huabin
• Deng Lijin
• Yang Yong
• Zheng Yanqiang
• Wen Guanghai
• Wu Zhihua
• Liu Changqing
• Zhang Mingwei

Classifications

• H04L51/32 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L51/52 Primary

  for supporting social networking services · CPC title