Belonging-Related Stream Interface for Social Networking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Social networking users face difficulties in isolating and viewing product-related posts among a mix of other posts, leading to valuable posts being buried and inaccessible.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that provide a user interface for displaying a stream of belonging-related posts, allowing users to select and view posts associated with their belongings, including user links and belonging links, enabling organized sharing and tracking of activities related to owned, borrowed, or wished-for items.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If users view all posts in a mixed feed, then they can see diverse content from contacts, but product-related posts get buried and become inaccessible
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the mixed feed into separate categories: a general feed showing all posts and a dedicated belonging-related stream showing only product-related posts. This segmentation allows users to access product posts without sifting through unrelated content, directly resolving the issue of buried information while maintaining ease of access through separate, organized streams.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts belonging-related posts from the mixed feed and creates a separate belonging stream. This extraction ensures that product-related posts are not lost or buried in the general feed, making them easily accessible through the dedicated stream while users retain control to switch between views as needed.
2Loss of information
If users create separate streams for different topics, then product-related posts become accessible, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a multi-functional stream system where a single platform handles both general social feeds and dedicated belonging streams. The system universally manages multiple stream types through unified data structures and interfaces, reducing overall complexity despite supporting multiple organized streams. Users can switch between stream types without needing separate applications or complex management procedures.
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AI summary
A system and machine-implemented method for providing a user profile associated with a first user for display including a stream area displaying one or more belonging-related posts including a user link to a user associated with the post and a belonging link to a belonging associated with the post, receiving an indication of a user selection of the user link associated with a post, providing a contact profile of a user associated with the post for display upon receiving the indication of the user selection of the user link, receiving an indication of a user selection of the belonging link to the belonging associated with a post and providing a belonging profile of the belonging associated with the post for display upon receiving the indication of the user selection of the belonging link by the first user.