US 12,255,748 B2
Method and apparatus for processing abusing message in anonymous chatroom
Soo Bum Kim, Seongnam-si (KR); Jung Woo Choi, Seongnam-si (KR); Min Jeong Kim, Seongnam-si (KR); Keun Seop Lee, Seongnam-si (KR); and Chang Yong Lee, Seongnam-si (KR)
Assigned to KAKAO CORP., Jeju-si (KR)
Filed by KAKAO CORP., Jeju-si (KR)
Filed on Dec. 30, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/091,379.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0194299 (KR), filed on Dec. 31, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0216698 A1, Jul. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01); H04L 51/212 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 12/1822 (2013.01) [H04L 51/212 (2022.05); H04L 63/0421 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of processing an abusing message, performed by a message server, the method comprising:
providing a rule set of a latest version to an administrator terminal of an anonymous chatroom, in response to an account of the administrator terminal logging into a messaging service or entering the anonymous chatroom of the messaging service;
receiving a new message through the anonymous chatroom;
providing the new message to the administrator terminal of the anonymous chatroom;
receiving a request signal for hiding the new message from the administrator terminal, the request signal indicating that the new message is an abusing message based on 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 signal for hiding the new message.