Text-messaging server with automatic conversion of keywords into hyperlinks to external files on a network
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsMichiaki Yoneda, Tsunetake Noma
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Abstract
An apparatus, a method and a medium for providing and processing information, whereby users of a chat system send easily and rapidly to one another a URL for uniquely designating the location of a file on the Internet. A hard disk drive of a WWW server records predetermined keywords and addresses for uniquely designating the locations of information corresponding to these keywords. A CPU of the WWW server receives any one of the keywords which is included in text data from an information processing apparatus, and translates the keyword into data with a tag related to the address corresponding to the keyword in question.
Claims9
A computer-based system configured for network text-messaging services, comprising:
- a first communications terminal configured to support network text-messaging;
- a second communications terminal configured to support network text-messaging;
- a server having an interface configured to relay text-messages exchanged between the first communications terminal and the second communications terminal;
- and
- a network connecting said first communications terminal, said second communications terminal, and said server, wherein said server further includes:
- a memory configured to store relations between a predetermined keyword and an address uniquely designating a file on said network, said file not located on said first communications terminal, said second communications terminal, or said server;
- a monitoring mechanism configured to monitor communications between said first communications terminal and said second communications terminal;
- a detection mechanism configured to recognize the presence of said predetermined keyword in said communications;
- and
- a text conversion mechanism configured to convert said predetermined keyword in said communications into data with a tag related to said address of the file on the network.
A server configured to support network text-messaging services, comprising:
- an interface configured to relay text-messages exchanged between a first communications terminal and a second communications terminal over a network;
- a memory configured to store relations between a predetermined keyword and an address uniquely designating a file on said network, said file not located on said first communications terminal, said second communications terminal, or said server;
- a monitoring mechanism configured to monitor communications between said first communications terminal and said second communications terminal;
- a detection mechanism configured to recognize the presence of said predetermined keyword in said communications;
- and
- a text conversion mechanism configured to convert said predetermined keyword in said communications into data with a tag related to said address of the file on the network.
A method for network text-messaging services, comprising:
- communicating between a first communications terminal and a second communications terminal over a network via network text-messaging;
- monitonn by a serve communications between said first communications terminal and said second communications terminal;
- storing relations between a predetermined keyword and an address uniquely designating a file on said network, said file not located on said first communications terminal, said second communications terminal, or said server;
- recognizing the presence of said predetermined keyword in said communications;
- and
- converting said predetermined keyword in said communications into data with a tag related to said address of the file on the network.
A method for supporting network text-messaging services, comprising:
- monitoring by a serve text-messaging communications over a network between a first communications terminal and a second communications terminal;
- storing relations between a predetermined keyword and an address uniquely designating a file on said network, said file not located on said first communications terminal, said second communications terminal, or said server;
- recognizing the presence of said predetermined keyword in said communications;
- and
- converting said predetermined keyword in said communications into data with a tag related to said address of the file on the network.
A computer program product containing instructions for supporting network text-messaging services, said instructions including instructions for:
- monitoring by a server text-messaging communications over a network between a first communications terminal and a second communications terminal;
- storing relations between a predetermined keyword and an address uniquely designating a file on said network, said file not located on said first communications terminal, said second communications terminal, or said server;
- recognizing the presence of said predetermined keyword in said communications;
- and
- converting said predetermined keyword in said communications into data with a tag related to said address of the file on the network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.