Method of providing instant messaging service and multiple services expanded from instant messaging service
AssigneeKakao Corp.
InventorsSeung Hwan Van, Doo Shik Chung, Soo Wan Shin
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Abstract
Provided is a method of providing an instant messaging service and multiple services expanded from the instant messaging service, the method including displaying a chat window for a chat room related to an instant messaging service, receiving a touch event input by a user on the chat window, selecting one service among a plurality of services expanded from the instant messaging service in response to the touch event, and displaying a window related to the selected service.
Claims15
A method of providing an instant messaging service, the method comprising:
- providing a plurality of services being different from the instant messaging service in an instant messaging application installed in a terminal of a first user;
- identifying a service selected by the first user among the plurality of services;
- transmitting an invitation for the selected service to a terminal of a second user;
- wherein the invitation includes information for instructing an application corresponding to the selected service to be executed in the terminal of the second user and information for instructing the application corresponding to the selected service to be downloaded in the terminal of the second user.
A method of providing an instant messaging service, the method comprising:
- identifying information associated with a chat room in an instant messaging service installed in a terminal of a user;
- providing a plurality of services different from the instant messaging service based on information associated with the chat room;
- selecting a service by the user among the plurality of services;
- determining whether an application corresponding to the selected service is installed in the terminal of the user;
- in response to determining that the application corresponding to the selected service is installed in the terminal of the user, executing the application in the terminal of the user;
- and
- in response to determining that the application corresponding to the selected service is not installed in the terminal of the user, providing a window to install the application in the terminal of the user.
A method of providing an instant messaging service, the method comprising:
- displaying a chat window related to the instant messaging service in an instant messaging application installed in a terminal of a user;
- and
- displaying an indication of applications corresponding to a plurality of services different from the instant messaging service,
- wherein the indication of applications is displayed irrespective of whether the applications corresponding to the indication are installed in the terminal of the user,
- wherein the indication of absent applications is displayed in a distinguishable form from the indication of installed applications,
- wherein when the indication of an absent application is selected, a window is provided to install the absent application.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.