Patents Assigned to LINE Plus Corporation
  • Publication number: 20220327293
    Abstract: A message processing method performed by a computer system comprising at least one processor, the at least one processor being configured to execute computer-readable instructions included in a memory, the message processing method including recognizing, by the at least one processor, a language related to a conversation space based on a conversation context and a translation-related option to obtain a recognized language, the translation-related option being set for the conversation space, and providing, by the at least one processor, at least one translated text according to the recognized language for a message in the conversation space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventors: Donghyun KIM, Hoyoung CHO, Sung Ho PARK
  • Patent number: 11470024
    Abstract: A method, a system, and a non-transitory computer readable record medium for providing a reminder message are provided. A reminder providing method may include recognizing a reminder request message among one or more messages exchanged through a chatroom; creating a reminder message based on the reminder request message; and sending the reminder message in the chatroom at a time preset for the reminder request message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventors: Seung Won Lee, Jihun Im, Hyojin Lim, Jun Hyuk Park
  • Patent number: 11470127
    Abstract: Disclosed is a reaction display method performed by a computer apparatus including processing circuitry, the reaction display method including displaying, by the processing circuitry, a content sharing screen with a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) call screen during a VoIP call, the content sharing screen including shared media content, and a user of the computer apparatus participating in the VoIP call, receiving, by the processing circuitry, a position at which a reaction is input from the user during the VoIP call, sending reaction information and the position to at least one other user participating in the VoIP call, the reaction information corresponding to the reaction, and displaying an indication of the reaction on the VoIP call screen or the content sharing screen based on the position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: LINE PLUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: DeokYong Ahn, Hwan Kim, Min Jeong Kim, Jaehyun Lee, Seongsu Kim, Kyoung Min Kim, Sanghyuk Suh, Jeongrok Kim, Tae Jeong Lee, Jeong Hyeon Kwon, Keumryong Kim, Na Young Kim, Inah Kim, Jungjun Park
  • Publication number: 20220300144
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable record mediums for providing a chatroom in a three-dimensional (3D) form. A chatroom display method including recognizing a screen switch event for a chatroom displayed on the electronic device, switching a screen to display the chatroom in a form of a 3D space in response to the screen switch event, and representing a distance between a user of the electronic device and a chat partner included in the chatroom as depth information of the 3D space based on location information of the electronic device and location information of at least one chat partner may be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventor: SeokJu HONG
  • Publication number: 20220295182
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for controlling audio using an asymmetric channel of an audio conference. An audio control method may include establishing, by a processor included in a computer apparatus, a bi-directional media session having an asymmetric channel structure between a first participant among a plurality of participants participating in an audio conference and a mixer, receiving, by the processor, first audio data from the first participant through a media session of a first channel structure in the bi-directional media session, mixing, by the processor, second audio data of at least two participants excluding the first participant from among the plurality of participants, using a multichannel, and transferring, by the processor, the mixed audio data of the at least two participants mixed using the multichannel to the first participant through a media session of a second channel structure in the bi-directional media session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventor: Jungnam GWOCK
  • Publication number: 20220263781
    Abstract: A method for managing avatar usage rights including transmitting a request to use an avatar of a second user who is registered as a messenger friend of a first user of a user terminal on an instant messaging service, and in response to the request to use the avatar of the second user being accepted by the second user, allowing the use of the avatar of the second user in the user terminal associated with the first user may be provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventor: Yunji LEE
  • Publication number: 20220263783
    Abstract: Disclosed is technique for a user context detection and interaction with a messaging service based on a user context in a messaging service environment. An interaction method of a mobile device may include acquiring information associated with a context of at least one of a mobile device and a user of the mobile device under control of an application installed and executed on the mobile device in association with a messaging service, determining a context of the user based on the acquired information, verifying a function to be provided to the user through the messaging service based on the determined context of the user, dynamically determining a configuration of a user interface based on the determined context of the user, and providing the function through the user interface of which the configuration is dynamically determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventor: Hyukjae JANG
  • Patent number: 11416315
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable record media for managing event messages may be provided. A message management method may include generating, by at least one processor, an event related to a chatroom based on an event message input from the chatroom, assigning, by the at least one processor, a reply to the event message, from among messages in the chatroom, to the event, and displaying, by the at least one processor, the reply to the event message in association with the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventors: Seung Won Lee, Jihun Im, Hyojin Lim, Jun Hyuk Park
  • Patent number: 11418469
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable record mediums for providing a fiction through a messenger may be provided. A fiction providing method including receiving content and an output time interval associated with the content from a content provider terminal, storing the content and the output time interval, registering a fiction that comprises the content, and providing the content to a first user terminal to replay the content included in the fiction at the output time interval based on a first user setting associated with a first user account through a chatroom in which the first user account and a bot account related to the fiction participate on a messenger installed on the first user terminal may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventors: Seung Wook Han, Su Ahn Lee, Youngsub Park, Jaeyun Jung, Hee Jong Lee
  • Patent number: 11418474
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for processing a notification using a notification preset. A notification processing method may include providing, by the at least one processor, a notification preset setting function for setting a notification preset, the notification preset including a preset condition and a preset result, creating, by the at least one processor, at least one notification preset instance through the notification preset setting function, monitoring, by the at least one processor, whether a condition meets one of the at least one notification preset instance, and dynamically changing, by the at least one processor, a notification setting of the computer apparatus from a first state to a second state in response to a result of the monitoring indicating that the condition meets a first notification preset instance, from among the at least one notification preset instance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: LINE PLUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hoyoung Cho
  • Publication number: 20220255765
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable record medium for creating a chatroom according to a condition. The chatroom creation method may include providing an instant messaging service; registering a chatroom creation condition related to a specific account of the instant messaging service; retrieving at least one account of accounts of the instant messaging service that meets the chatroom creation condition; and automatically creating a chatroom of the specific account joined by the retrieved accounts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventors: Sungwhan KIM, Chaewon JUNG, Hyun Jung LEE, Seo Hyun CHO, Eun Jung JOUNG
  • Publication number: 20220256115
    Abstract: A method, a system, and a non-transitory computer-readable record medium for providing a communication using a video call bot are disclosed. A video call method implemented by a computer apparatus, may include: in response to a request for inviting a chat bot to a video call in which a plurality of users comprising a user of the computer apparatus participate, displaying the chat bot on a display screen for the video call; transmitting, to a server, a command line that is associated with the chat bot and is extracted from an a voice input that is input to the computer apparatus during the video call; and in response to the command line, outputting a response to the command line through the chat bot that participates in the video call.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventor: Na Young KIM
  • Publication number: 20220254364
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for noise reduction of a full-band signal. A noise reduction method includes down-sampling a first signal of a first band to obtain a first signal of a second band, the first signal of the first band being an input speech signal including noise, and the second band being a lower portion of the first band, removing noise from the first signal of the second band to obtain a second signal of the second band, estimating band-by-band energy of a third band based on the second signal of the second band to obtain estimated band-by-band energy, the third band being a portion of the first band remaining after excluding the second band, and generating a signal from which noise of the third band is removed based on the estimated band-by-band energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventor: Ki Jun KIM
  • Patent number: 11411906
    Abstract: Provided is a method and system for providing an answer message to a query message. An answer message providing method may include managing a plurality of chatrooms of an instant messaging service; receiving a query message in a preset form from a first user of a first chatroom among the plurality of chatrooms; forwarding the query message to second users through the instant messaging service; receiving an answer message to the query message from at least one of the second users; and providing the received answer message to be displayed through the first chatroom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: LINE PLUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sungwhan Kim, Chaewon Jung, Hyun Jung Lee, Seo Hyun Cho, Eun Jung Joung
  • Publication number: 20220247706
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method, system, and non-transitory computer-readable record medium for filtering chatroom messages. The message processing method includes setting at least one filter condition related to a chatroom for at least one chatroom on a messenger; and displaying a message corresponding to the filter condition among messages included in the chatroom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventor: Jaesik SIM
  • Publication number: 20220237365
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventors: Sangmo GOO, Min HWANG, Yubin KIM, Jihun IM, Jay LEE, Yeon Jin JIN
  • Publication number: 20220231982
    Abstract: A method, a system, and a non-transitory computer-readable record medium are provided to display content of interest. A content display method may include analyzing a user interest based on a user activity on an application; generating a customized content in response to receiving from a server, information that matches the user interest; and displaying the customized content through an interface related to a specific event when the specific event occurs on the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventors: Min HWANG, Sangmo GOO, Jihun IM, Jay LEE, Yeon Jin JIN, Yubin KIM
  • Publication number: 20220229544
    Abstract: A method for providing a graphic object based on a display mode, may include receiving the graphic object, displaying the graphic object on a display of the user terminal, detecting a change of the display mode of the user terminal from a first display mode to a second display mode, and in response to detecting the change of the display mode of the user terminal from the first display mode to the second display mode, changing a color of at least a portion of the graphic object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventors: Yubin KIM, Min HWANG, Sangmo GOO, Jihun IM, Jay LEE, Yeon Jin JIN
  • Patent number: D958818
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventors: Jungon Kim, Joohyung Lee
  • Patent number: D966286
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: LINE Plus Corporation
    Inventors: Eunsun Hwang, Eun-Joon Lee, Jeong Yub Lee, Seung Jun Park, Ji Young Yoon