Chat Session Management in Augmented Reality Interfaces

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current chatbot systems struggle to seamlessly manage and merge paused conversations, leading to inefficiencies in user interactions, particularly when resuming or transferring ongoing discussions with AI voice assistance systems.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that allow for the pausing and merging of computer-based chat sessions, enabling users to select and resume previous conversations using augmented reality (AR) enabled AI voice assistance, allowing for dynamic management of multiple conversation topics and participants.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If multiple chat sessions are conducted simultaneously, then user productivity and interaction efficiency are improved, but conversation context management and session organization become complex and difficult to maintain

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinteraction efficiencyVSAvoidsession management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments chat sessions into distinct, manageable units that can be independently paused, stored, and resumed. Each session is treated as a separate entity with its own context, allowing users to organize multiple conversations without overwhelming complexity. The system divides the overall chat management into modular components including session creation, pausing, storing, and resuming functionalities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a temporal dimension to chat session management by enabling sessions to be paused and stored for later resumption. This transforms the traditional linear chat flow into a multi-dimensional structure where sessions can exist in different states (active, paused, stored) and be retrieved across different time points, adding organizational depth without increasing operational complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Duration of action of stationary object

If chat sessions are paused and resumed later, then conversation continuity is maintained, but context retention and seamless resumption become challenging

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconversation continuityVSAvoidcontext retention
Core Design Contradiction:
Duration of action of stationary objectVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pausing and storing the chat session context before resumption. The system proactively saves the current state, including message history and conversation parameters, when a session is paused. This preliminary preservation of context ensures that when the session is resumed later, all contextual information is already in place, eliminating the need for manual context re-establishment and preventing information loss.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple chat sessions are merged into one, then consolidated discussion and information integration are improved, but session organization and participant management become more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvediscussion consolidationVSAvoidparticipant management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent enables merging of multiple paused chat sessions into a single consolidated session. The system combines message histories, participant lists, and conversation contexts from multiple source sessions into one unified session. This merging functionality allows users to integrate分散 discussions while the system automatically manages the complexity of participant coordination and message organization, presenting a simplified unified view to users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS11736420B2Management and organization of computer based chat type conversations
Publication Date: 2023.08.22 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

Computer technology for management and organizing paused and ongoing conversation in an augmented reality (AR) user interface (for example, an interface for products like Google Glass) and for creating a dynamic user interface with the paused and ongoing computer based chat conversations that include: (i) merger of two or more paused conversation content to a single resumed conversation content; and/or (ii) handing over one or more paused conversation to other users.