Chat Content Collection Sharing with Duplicate-Free Notifications
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face inefficiencies and frustrations when creating and sharing content collections due to the tedious process of selecting recipients and managing duplicate content item notifications, leading to increased time and resource consumption.
Innovation Solution
The system intelligently determines whether a content item is shared with both a collection and an individual recipient, and shares a link to access the item within a communication session rather than duplicating the content, reducing the need for duplicate notifications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If content items are shared individually with each recipient, then each recipient receives direct access to the content item, but duplicate notifications are sent and time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges individual content sharing with collection sharing by detecting when a recipient is already associated with the collection. Instead of sending separate notifications for each content item, the system combines the sharing action into the existing collection notification, eliminating duplicate communications while ensuring reliable content delivery.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a logical copy of the sharing relationship by associating the content item with the recipient through the collection context. Rather than establishing separate sharing relationships for each content item, the system uses the collection as a container that replicates the sharing effect across multiple recipients simultaneously.
2Use of energy by moving object
If content items are added to collections for group viewing, then resource consumption is reduced, but the process of selecting recipients and managing collections becomes tedious and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs automatic recipient detection and collection association without requiring manual user input. The system service itself identifies which recipients are already associated with collections and handles the content sharing through those existing associations, eliminating the tedious manual process while maintaining resource efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The system leverages pre-established collection-recipient associations to streamline content sharing. By detecting existing relationships between recipients and collections before the sharing action, the system prepares the sharing pathway in advance, avoiding the need for users to manually select recipients or create new collections.
3Loss of information
If recipients are notified about content items through both collection access and individual sharing, then content visibility is ensured, but duplicate notifications cause confusion and frustration
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback by detecting the association between recipients and collections before sending notifications. This feedback mechanism allows the system to adjust the notification strategy - sending a single consolidated notification when a recipient is already associated with the collection, rather than sending duplicate notifications through multiple channels.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods and systems are disclosed for sharing collections of content items in chat sessions. The methods and systems receive a request to share a first content item and present a GUI comprising a first set of options and a second set of options, the first set of options being associated with adding the first content item to a collection of content items that is accessible to a plurality of recipients, the second set of options being associated with sending the first content item to individual recipients. The methods and systems determine a set of target recipients of the first content item and select a content sharing link between a first link to the collection of content items and a second link directly to the first content item. The methods and systems send, to a target recipient, the content sharing link that has been selected.