Patent ID: 9621492
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method that uses a processor to provide information through an instant messaging application, the method comprising: receiving a request from a terminal through the instant messaging application for adding a software bot as a friend; registering, using the processor, the software bot as the friend of a user of the terminal; transmitting a guidance about how to use the software bot to the terminal as a message by the software bot; transmitting an input request message to the terminal as a message by the software bot the input request message including a message asking the user to input position identification and a message asking the user to input an alarm time at which a response to the reply message is to be transmitted to the terminal each day; receiving a reply message by the user from the terminal in response to the input request message, the reply message including position identification and an alarm time at which a response to the reply message is to be transmitted to the terminal each day; storing the reply message as terminal information associated with the terminal; retrieving a response to the reply message as a query from a database; and transmitting the response to the terminal as a message by the software bot, wherein the instant messaging application is configured to display all the messages between the software bot and the user as a thread, and wherein the transmitting the response to the terminal comprises periodically transmitting the response associated with a region corresponding to the position identification at the alarm time, included in the reply message, each day through the messaging application based on the database information.