Kakao Corporation

Sung Yong Chang

Hye Ryeon Lee

Ho Jun Lee

Jung Han Choi

Ji Soo Hwang

Bo Mi Hong

June Kwon Moon

Sang Hyeon Seo

Han Yong Park

Yu Mi Kim

Seon Hwa Kim

Younghae Lee

Young Jin Huh

Jin Hwan Kim

Jisoo Hwang

Sook Young Lee

Provided are a method and apparatus for providing a counseling service. A method of operating a counseling center server interworking with an instant messaging service includes providing a profile of at least one expert account for counseling linked to a channel of a second user to a terminal of a first user, identifying an initiation condition for a counseling ticket for counseling with a first expert account, creating a counseling ticket to be allocated to the first expert account, and transmitting counseling content through a chat room for counseling of the channel in which the first expert account and an account of the first user participate.

Method and apparatus for providing counseling service

Provided are a method and apparatus for providing a counseling service. A method of operating a counseling center server interworking with an instant messaging service includes acquiring, based a search request for a message transmitted to a channel registered in the service, a search result of a chatbot server linked to the channel, providing an interface for inputting a value of at least one parameter included in the search result to a terminal of a counselor linked to the channel, acquiring an entity corresponding to the parameter based on the message, determining a value of the parameter based on at least one of the acquired entity and data input through the interface, and requesting, based on the determined value of the parameter, an instant messaging server configured to provide the service to transmit a response message corresponding to the search result.

Provided are a method and apparatus for providing a counseling service. A method of operating a counseling center server interworking with an instant messaging service includes activating a connection with a chatbot server linked to a channel in a chat room, calling a chatbot block corresponding to a specific task included in the chatbot server through the chat room, transmitting a message received from a terminal of a user connected to the chat room to the chatbot server as an input of the chatbot block, and transmitting an output of the chatbot block in response to the message received from the chatbot server to the terminal of the user.

An operation method of an application system includes receiving a chat room-entry event notifying that a user enters the chat room from a terminal in which an application is installed, generating an entry trigger based on the chat room enter event, and providing user context suitable information inferred based on a user key included in the entry trigger to the chat room.

Method for providing information based entry trigger, application system, user terminal, and application implementing the same

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