Chat Content Collection Sharing Without Duplicate Notifications
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face inefficiencies in creating and sharing content collections, as selecting recipients and managing access can be tedious, leading to duplicate notifications and resource waste, and existing systems do not efficiently manage sharing links between collections and individual recipients.
Innovation Solution
The system determines whether a content item is shared with both a collection and an individual recipient, intelligently sharing a link to access the item in a communication session rather than duplicating it, thereby reducing time and resource consumption.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If content items are shared with both a collection and individual recipients, then comprehensive content distribution is achieved, but duplicate notifications are generated causing resource waste
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a communication session as an intermediary mechanism between content sharing and notification delivery. The system shares content items within the communication session context, using the session identifier as a mediator to track and prevent duplicate notifications across different recipient types (collection members vs. individual recipients).
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by monitoring notification delivery status and using it to determine whether to send duplicate notifications. The server tracks which recipients have already been notified through the collection share, and uses this feedback information to suppress redundant individual notifications, thereby eliminating resource waste.
2Reliability
If content items are shared individually with each recipient, then precise content delivery is achieved, but time and resource expenditure increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges individual content sharing operations with collection sharing operations by implementing a unified sharing mechanism. Instead of separately managing individual shares and collection shares, the system combines them into a single operation that occurs within the context of a communication session, thereby reducing the time and steps required for content distribution.
Solution Approach 2:
The communication session mechanism serves multiple functions simultaneously: it acts as a container for content items, a tracker for notification delivery, and a coordinator for preventing duplicates. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for separate management systems for individual and collection-based sharing.
3Extent of automation
If content items are shared with collections, then automated distribution is achieved, but access control and link management becomes complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the link management complexity from the content sharing process by separating the notification delivery function from the content access function. The system sends notifications through the communication session mechanism without embedding complex access links, thereby simplifying the sharing process while maintaining automated distribution capabilities.
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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.