US 11,863,506 B2
Messenger-linked service system and method using a social graph of a messenger platform
JungHo Shin, Seongnam-si (KR); and Jungmin Lee, Seongnam-si (KR)
Assigned to LINE Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by LINE Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jun. 10, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/837,210.
Application 17/837,210 is a continuation of application No. 15/334,730, filed on Oct. 26, 2016, granted, now 11,388,119.
Application 15/334,730 is a continuation of application No. 13/730,137, filed on Dec. 28, 2012, abandoned.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2012-0062882 (KR), filed on Jun. 12, 2012.
Prior Publication US 2022/0303235 A1, Sep. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 51/046 (2022.01); H04L 51/52 (2022.01); H04L 51/214 (2022.01); H04W 4/21 (2018.01); H04L 67/50 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 51/046 (2013.01) [H04L 51/214 (2022.05); H04L 51/52 (2022.05); H04L 67/535 (2022.05); H04W 4/21 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium including computer executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor included in a smart device of a sending user, causes the smart device to:
generate, using a messenger application installed in the smart device of the sending user, a messenger graphical user interface (GUI), the messenger application associated with at least one messenger service;
extract, using the messenger application installed in the smart device of the sending user and associated with the at least one messaging service, at least one of a first social graph of a friend relationship of the sending user, a second social graph of a group relationship of the sending user, a chat history of the group relationship, or a chat history of the friend relationship, to provide one or more potential targets;
receive a message input from the sending user on the messenger GUI, the message input including a message and a selection of a message alert type associated with the message from a plurality of message alert types;
receive a selection input from the sending user on the messenger GUI, the selection input including a selection of at least one target for the message from among the one or more potential targets; and
transmit the message to the at least one target based on the selected message alert type.