Method and system for providing mini-map in chatroom
AssigneeLINE Plus Corporation
InventorsSangmo Goo, Min Hwang, Yubin Kim, Jihun Im, Jay Lee, Yeon Jin Jin
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Abstract
Disclosed is a method and system for providing a mini-map in a chatroom. A mini-map providing method including displaying a first portion in a sequence of contents included in instant messages sent and received through a session corresponding to a chatroom on a message display region of a screen for displaying the chatroom, displaying a second portion that includes the first portion in the sequence of contents on a mini-map display region on the screen for displaying the chatroom, and interacting with the message display region and the mini-map display region may be provided.
Claims18
A mini-map providing method performed by a computer apparatus comprising at least one processor, the mini-map providing method comprising:
- displaying, by the at least one processor, a first portion in a sequence of contents included in instant messages sent and received through a session corresponding to a chatroom on a message display region on a screen for displaying the chatroom;
- displaying, by the at least one processor, a second portion in the sequence of contents on a mini-map display region on the screen for displaying the chatroom, a sequence of contents included in the second portion including a set of contents including a sequence of contents included in the first portion in an abridged manner;
- and
- interacting, by the at least one processor, with the message display region and the mini-map display region,
- wherein a size of each content included in a subsequence of the second portion is less than a size of each content included in a subsequence of the first portion.
A mini-map providing method performed by a computer apparatus comprising at least one processor, the mini-map providing method comprising:
- displaying, by the at least one processor, a first portion in a sequence of contents included in instant messages sent and received through a session corresponding to a chatroom on a message display region on a screen for displaying the chatroom;
- displaying, by the at least one processor, a second portion in the sequence of contents on a mini-map display region on the screen for displaying the chatroom, a sequence of contents included in the second portion including a set of contents including a sequence of contents included in the first portion in an abridged manner;
- and
- interacting, by the at least one processor, with the message display region and the mini-map display region,
- wherein the interacting comprises,
- in response to changing the first portion displayed on the message display region, changing the second portion to include the changed first portion to be displayed on the mini-map display region, and
- in response to selecting a specific content or a subsequence of contents from the second portion displayed on the mini-map display region, changing the first portion displayed on the message display region to include the selected content or subsequence of contents in the first portion.
A computer apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor configured to execute a computer-readable instruction,
- wherein the at least one processor is configured to cause the computer apparatus to,
- display a first portion in a sequence of contents included in instant messages sent and received through a session corresponding to a chatroom on a message display region of a screen for displaying the chatroom,
- display a second portion in the sequence of contents on a mini-map display region on the screen for displaying the chatroom, a sequence of contents included in the second portion including a set of contents including to a sequence of contents included in the first portion in an abridged manner, and
- interact with the message display region and the mini-map display region,
- wherein a size of each content included in a subsequence of the second portion is less than a size of each content included in a subsequence of the first portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.