US 12,294,555 B2
Method and apparatus for managing messages on instant messaging application
Keumryong Kim, Seongnam-si (KR)
Assigned to LINE PLUS CORPORATION, Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed by LINE Plus Corporation, Seongnam-si (KR)
Filed on Jul. 26, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/873,398.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0098354 (KR), filed on Jul. 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0031018 A1, Feb. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/00 (2018.01); G06F 17/00 (2019.01); G06Q 10/10 (2023.01); H04L 51/02 (2022.01); H04L 51/04 (2022.01); H04L 51/224 (2022.01); H04W 4/16 (2009.01)
CPC H04L 51/02 (2013.01) [H04L 51/04 (2013.01); H04L 51/224 (2022.05)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for managing messages on an instant messaging application, the method being executed by one or more processors of a user terminal associated with a user and comprising:
receiving a new message from another user through a chat room of the instant messaging application, the user and the another user belonging to the chat room;
displaying the new message on a display of the user terminal;
sending a waiting message to the another user;
displaying, in response to a first user input for requesting display of a user interface of the chat room, the user interface of the chat room and content of the new message in the chat room on the display of the user terminal, after sending the waiting message;
terminating, in response to a second user input for requesting to terminate the display of the user interface of the chat room, the display of the user interface of the chat room; and
until the user sends a subsequent message to the new message in the chat room,
causing to maintain the new message on the display of the user terminal of the user and a display of another user terminal of the another user as an unread message, and
notifying the user of a presence of the new message that has not been read on the display of the user terminal.