Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for providing a counseling service. A method of operating a counseling center server interworking with an instant messaging service includes providing a profile of at least one expert account for counseling linked to a channel of a second user to a terminal of a first user, identifying an initiation condition for a counseling ticket for counseling with a first expert account, creating a counseling ticket to be allocated to the first expert account, and transmitting counseling content through a chat room for counseling of the channel in which the first expert account and an account of the first user participate.

Abstract: Disclosed are a message service provision method for providing a message service via an open chat room corresponding to link information, and a message server and a terminal for executing the message service provision method. The message service provision method comprises the steps of: transmitting, to a message server, a request for issuing link information for an open chat room via a message application; receiving, from the message server, link information generated in response to the request for issuing link information; sharing the link information according to a request for sharing inputted by a user of a host terminal; and performing chatting with a user of a guest terminal participating in the open chat room by means of the shared link information; wherein the user of the guest terminal and the user of the host terminal are users who subscribed to a message service provided via the message server.

Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for providing a counseling service. A method of operating a counseling center server interworking with an instant messaging service includes acquiring, based a search request for a message transmitted to a channel registered in the service, a search result of a chatbot server linked to the channel, providing an interface for inputting a value of at least one parameter included in the search result to a terminal of a counselor linked to the channel, acquiring an entity corresponding to the parameter based on the message, determining a value of the parameter based on at least one of the acquired entity and data input through the interface, and requesting, based on the determined value of the parameter, an instant messaging server configured to provide the service to transmit a response message corresponding to the search result.

Abstract: A method for displaying a message in a messenger service by a user terminal is proposed. The method may include receiving the message from a server. The method may also include receiving a mask command for the message from the server when text information extracted from the message satisfies a preset condition. The method may further include displaying a mask message corresponding to the message in a chat room of the messenger service based on the mask command.

Abstract: A method for processing an abusing message in an anonymous chatroom includes providing a rule set of a latest version to an administrator terminal of the anonymous chatroom when the administrator terminal logs in to an account through a message application or enters the anonymous chatroom, receiving a new message in the anonymous chatroom, providing the new message to the administrator terminal, receiving a request for hiding the new message from the administrator terminal when the new message is determined to be an abusing message based on at least one of a spam keyword and the rule set stored in the administrator terminal, and transmitting a command to hide the new message to a user terminal that joins the anonymous chatroom according to the request for hiding the new message.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for an instant messaging service to provide a schedule service. A schedule management server according to an example embodiment includes receiving a schedule creating request, selecting any one of a first type of calendar belonging to a chatroom in which the schedule creating request is created and a second type of calendar belonging to a user account which creates the schedule creating request, according to a schedule type included in the schedule creating request; and creating a schedule corresponding to the selected type of calendar.

Abstract: An application processing method for providing a group video call and a terminal for performing a group video call are disclosed. The application processing method of providing a group video call may include executing a group video call comprising a plurality of participants, based on a number of the participants, displaying views corresponding to the participants by pagination, based on a predetermined action of a first participant whose view is not displayed on a predetermined page of a plurality of pages generated by the pagination, selecting one of participants whose view is displayed on the predetermined page as a second participant, and displaying the views by swapping a position of the view corresponding to the selected second participant and a position of the view corresponding to the first participant.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for an instant messaging service to provide a schedule service. A schedule management server according to an example embodiment includes receiving a schedule creating request, selecting any one of a first type of calendar belonging to a chatroom in which the schedule creating request is created and a second type of calendar belonging to a user account which creates the schedule creating request, according to a schedule type included in the schedule creating request; and creating a schedule corresponding to the selected type of calendar.

Abstract: Provided is a method for recommending emoticons using a custom keyword, the method including: receiving, by a user terminal, matching information in which a custom keyword is matched with at least one metadata, wherein the metadata is information on attributes of an emoticon; storing the matching information or transmitting the matching information to a server by the user terminal; receiving, by the user terminal, the custom keyword through a message input window; and displaying, by the user terminal, at least one emoticon related to the metadata.

Abstract: A method of providing a chat service in a map-based virtual space includes receiving a place selection signal based on map information and/or a motion detection signal from user terminals, determining location information and FoV information of the corresponding account in the virtual space, determining image information of a perspective view and one or more other accounts to be displayed on the corresponding user terminal, receiving a chat request from a first user terminal, receiving a result regarding whether to accept a chat in response to the chat request from a second user terminal, determining whether an account of the first user terminal and the other account of the second user terminal on the street view satisfy a preset condition, and providing the chat service between the first user terminal and the second user terminal based on whether the chat is accepted and whether the preset condition is satisfied.

Abstract: A method for determining a spam URL includes: (a) extracting a URL from an e-mail; (b) determining whether the extracted URL is a redirecting URL; (c) when the extracted URL is a redirecting URL, accessing a redirection URL that is connected as a result of access to the extracted URL; (d) when the redirection URL is a redirecting URL, accessing a redirection URL that is connected as a result of access to the redirection URL; (e) repeating operation (d); (f) when a last accessed URL in one of operations (c), (d), and (e) is not a redirecting URL, determine whether the last accessed URL is a spam URL; and (g) when it is determined that the last accessed URL is a spam URL, determining the extracted URL, the last accessed URL and any redirection URL connected between the extracted URL and the last accessed URL as spam URLs.

Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for providing a counseling service. A method of operating a counseling center server interworking with an instant messaging service includes activating a connection with a chatbot server linked to a channel in a chat room, calling a chatbot block corresponding to a specific task included in the chatbot server through the chat room, transmitting a message received from a terminal of a user connected to the chat room to the chatbot server as an input of the chatbot block, and transmitting an output of the chatbot block in response to the message received from the chatbot server to the terminal of the user.

Abstract: An operation method of an application system includes receiving a chat room-entry event notifying that a user enters the chat room from a terminal in which an application is installed, generating an entry trigger based on the chat room enter event, and providing user context suitable information inferred based on a user key included in the entry trigger to the chat room.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for a messaging service are disclosed. A method of operating a terminal on which an application for a messaging service is installed includes detecting a keyword from a text input through a message input window, cumulatively displaying the detected keyword on a suggest area, setting information about a link to a selected keyword in the text, and separately displaying the selected keyword from a non-selected keyword on the suggest area.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing a service based on a digital card connected to a digital code are provided. A service providing server is configured to generate a digital code connected to a service account of a partner terminal by connecting a plurality of digital codes selected by the partner terminal to a digital code and a user terminal is configured to use a digital card associated with the a user account among the plurality of digital cards connected to the digital code by scanning the digital code displayed on an online area and an offline area.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing an email service is provided. The method includes sorting received emails into preset categories, providing an interface for reading an email for each category, and determining whether to delete an email based on an automatic deletion option set for each category.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for a messaging service are disclosed. A method of operating a server that provides a reserved message function interlinked with an app for a messaging service includes identifying a reserved message scheduled to be sent, determining whether a chat room corresponding to a destination of sending the identified reserved message is valid, and sending the identified reserved message through the chat room.

Abstract: A method of providing a calendar service includes obtaining time-series data, determining whether the time-series data correspond to an outlier, obtaining, based on the determination that the time-series data correspond to an outlier, non-time-series data linked to the time-series data corresponding to the outlier, and displaying at least one of the non-time-series data and the time-series data corresponding to the outlier on a calendar page.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for operating and participating in a voice chat room subordinate to a message chat room is disclosed. The method for operating a voice chat room subordinate to a message chat room includes: managing, by a server, messages transmitted and received through the message chat room in which a first user and a second user participate; receiving, by the server, a request for creation of the voice chat room subordinate to the message chat room from the first user; creating, by the server, the voice chat room in response to the received request for creation of the voice chat room; providing, by the server, information that the voice chat room is being operated to the second user through the message chat room; providing, by the server, information that the voice chat room is being operated to the second user through a message chat room list.

Abstract: A link shared through a chat room in a chat application is displayed. When a selection of the link is received, a content execution result corresponding to the link through an in-app browser of the chat application or an external browser distinct from the chat application is displayed. A notification for a new chat message is then displayed while the content execution result is being displayed through the in-app browser or the external browser. When a selection for the notification of the new chat message is received, the display of the content execution result is switched to a display of the chat room in which the new chat message was received. A content box, which enables access to the content execution result, is displayed on the switched display of the chat room.