Activity Stream Resource Check-In Context

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Solution Overview

Problem

Activity streams often overwhelm users with hundreds of posts in chronological order, making it time-consuming for users to find relevant recent events related to a specific resource they are working on, as the most interesting posts are buried within the first few posts.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that allows users to check-in to a resource, specifying a time duration, which modifies the activity stream to prioritize and display recent events related to that resource, and reverts to show unrelated events after the time duration expires.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If activity streams display all posts in chronological order, then completeness of information is maintained, but user time to find relevant content increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecompleteness of informationVSAvoiduser time to find relevant content

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The activity stream is segmented into resource-specific sections based on check-in data. Posts are grouped by resource context rather than displayed as a single chronological list, allowing users to quickly locate relevant content while maintaining complete information availability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different portions of the activity stream are given different organizational qualities. Check-in context creates local sections with specific sorting and filtering characteristics, while the overall stream maintains chronological completeness. This allows relevant content to be locally optimized without losing global information integrity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

2Loss of information

If activity streams show all collaborative actions, then comprehensive awareness is achieved, but relevance of displayed content to current work decreases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecomprehensive awarenessVSAvoidrelevance of displayed content

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

Users perform check-in actions in advance to establish context before viewing the activity stream. This preliminary action allows the system to pre-organize and pre-filter content based on anticipated relevance, presenting highly relevant content first while maintaining comprehensive awareness through complete information display.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Stability of the object's composition

If activity streams maintain chronological order, then temporal accuracy is preserved, but accessibility of recent relevant events deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetemporal accuracyVSAvoidaccessibility of recent relevant events

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The activity stream organization becomes dynamic based on user check-in context. While the underlying data maintains chronological accuracy, the displayed presentation dynamically reorganizes content by resource context, bringing recent relevant events to the forefront while preserving temporal relationships in the complete dataset.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS9948537B2Modifying an activity stream to display recent events of a resource

Publication Date: 2018.04.17 AIRBNB INC

AI summary

Modifying an activity stream to display recent events of a resource includes checking-in a user to a resource to provide context about the resource, specifying a time duration for which the user is checked-in to the resource, and modifying, based on the time duration, an activity stream of the user to display recent events of the resource.