IP Library Granted Patent US 11,012,380
Granted Patent B2
US 11,012,380 · App. 16/559,025 · Granted May 18, 2021

Message communication apparatus, non- transitory computer readable medium, and display control method

Inventors: Mamoru Sasamae (Kanagawa, JP); Kenji Nomura (Kanagawa, JP); Yujiro Kobayashi (Kanagawa, JP); Kiyoshi Yasukawa (Kanagawa, JP); Masaki Kurokawa (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
H04L51/02H04L51/04H04L51/26H04N1/00395H04N1/00411H04N1/00506
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Patent No.
US 11,012,380
App. No.
16/559,025
Granted
May 18, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A message communication apparatus includes an operating unit that activates a chat bot, the chat bot running in a messaging service in which users exchange a message, the chat bot exchanging a message with a user, a registration unit that registers the chat bot for each user, and a controller that, if a single first chat bot has been activated in a single chat room through operation of the operating unit by a first user, causes the first chat bot to execute, in response to a message from a second user different from the first user, a function of a second chat bot registered by the second user by using the registration unit.

Claims (30)

1. A message communication apparatus comprising:

a memory; and

a processor programed to

activate a chat bot, the chat bot running in a messaging service in which users exchange messages, the chat bot configured to exchange messages with the users using the messaging service;

register the chat bot for each user; and

if a single first chat bot has been activated in a single chat room through an operation made by a first user, cause the first chat bot to execute, in response to a message from a second user different from the first user, a function of a second chat bot registered by the second user based on (i) function inheritance information indicating whether each chat bot is configured to inherit the function of another chat bot and (ii) setting information for executing each function, the setting information associating each chat bot with an external device, wherein

the memory includes the function inheritance information and the setting information.

2. The message communication apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein

the processor causes the second chat bot to respond to a message from the second user, based on the function inheritance information.

3. The message communication apparatus according to claim 2 ,

wherein the processor causes the second chat bot to respond to a message from the second user, if the first chat bot and the second chat bot have a function inheritance relationship.

4. The message communication apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein for a message from the second user, the processor causes the second chat bot to be activated in a different messaging service by the first chat bot, and causes the second chat bot to respond to the message.

5. The message communication apparatus according to claim 4 ,

wherein in the different messaging service, the processor causes the first chat bot to send a message from the second user to the second chat bot on behalf of the second user.

6. The message communication apparatus according to claim 4 ,

wherein the processor causes the second user to be guided to the different messaging service by the first chat bot.

7. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process, the process comprising:

activating a chat bot, the chat bot running in a messaging service in which users exchange messages, the chat bot configured to exchange messages with the users using the messaging service;

registering the chat bot for each user; and

if a single first chat bot has been activated through an operation made by a first user, causing the first chat bot to execute, in response to a message from a second user different from the first user, a function of a second chat bot registered by the second user based on (i) function inheritance information indicating whether each chat bot is configured to inherit the function of another chat bot and (ii) setting information for executing each function, the setting information associating each chat bot with an external device.

8. A display control method comprising:

activating a chat bot, the chat bot running in a messaging service in which users exchange messages, the chat bot configured to exchange messages with the users using the messaging service;

registering the chat bot for each user; and

if a single first chat bot has been activated through an operation made by a first user, causing the first chat bot to execute, in response to a message from a second user different from the first user, a function of a second chat bot registered by the second user based on (i) function inheritance information indicating whether each chat bot is configured to inherit the function of another chat bot and (ii) setting information for executing each function, the setting information associating each chat bot with an external device, and causing a result to be displayed on a screen.

9. A message communication apparatus comprising:

operating means for activating a chat bot, the chat bot running in a messaging service in which users exchange messages, the chat bot configured to exchange messages with the users using the messaging service;

registration means for registering the chat bot for each user; and

control means for, if a single first chat bot has been activated in a single chat room through an operation of the operating means by a first user, causing the first chat bot to execute, in response to a message from a second user different from the first user, a function of a second chat bot registered by the second user by using the registration means based on (i) function inheritance information indicating whether each chat bot is configured to inherit the function of another chat bot and (ii) setting information for executing each function, the setting information associating each chat bot with an external device.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Apr 28, 2021
From: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
To: FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP.
Reel/Frame 056078/0098 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 3, 2019
From: SASAMAE, MAMORU; NOMURA, KENJI; KOBAYASHI, YUJIRO; YASUKAWA, KIYOSHI; KUROKAWA, MASAKI
To: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 050251/0062 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2019-054935 · Mar 22, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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