Patent ID: 11949643
Assignee: SAMSUNG SDS CO., LTD.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 11:
12. An announcement display method performed by a computing device for an instant messaging service, the announcement display method comprising:
displaying an announcement creation window in response to an announcement creation trigger, the announcement creation trigger being a user manipulation performed in an intro screen including a friend account list of a user account, the intro screen being different from a screen displaying messages of a chat room;
determining at least one account of the friend account list as a visibility range of an announcement input to the announcement creation window; and
displaying the announcement in an announcement list of the at least one account determined as the visibility range,
wherein the announcement list is fixedly displayed at a top of the intro screen of the at least one account determined as the visibility range and is separately displayed from the friend account list;
wherein the determining the at least one account of the friend account list as the visibility range comprises,
in response to a friend account being dragged into the announcement creation window while displaying the friend account list in the intro screen, determining the friend account as the visibility range of the announcement.