Chat File Transmission Automation via User Context Analysis

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing message service systems complicate the process for file transmission in chat rooms by requiring users to inquire about and manage access rights and file modifications for recipients, leading to operational inefficiencies for senders.

Innovation Solution

A message providing system that includes an acquisition unit for user information and a processor to determine necessary file processes based on user data, allowing the system to inquire and perform actions such as granting access rights or modifying file size and format only from the sender's perspective, reducing the complexity for the transmitter.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the system checks user information and determines necessary processes for file transmission, then file security and appropriateness are improved, but the operational complexity for the sender increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefile securityVSAvoidoperability for sender
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically performs file process determination by itself without requiring the sender to manually check user information or decide on appropriate processes. The determination unit automatically acquires user information, determines necessary processes, and executes them, allowing the system to serve itself rather than burdening the user with complex operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The determination unit acts as an intermediary between the file transmission function and the user. It handles the complex tasks of acquiring user information, determining appropriate processes, and executing them, thereby shielding the user from operational complexity while maintaining file security.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If the system automatically determines and performs file processes based on user information, then operability for senders is improved, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoperability for senderVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The determination unit merges multiple functions into a single integrated component: acquiring user information, determining necessary processes, and executing those processes. This consolidation manages system complexity by organizing related functions together rather than scattering them across multiple separate systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The determination unit is designed as a universal component that can handle various types of file processes (access control, conversion, compression) based on different user information, making it adaptable to multiple scenarios without requiring separate specialized systems for each function.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentEP4227835A1Message providing system and program
Publication Date: 2023.08.16 FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP
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AI summary

A message providing system includes an acquisition unit that acquires user information about a user who communicates a message in a chat room in a message service, and a processor configured to run a program, determine whether a process for a file is needed based on the user information in a case where a message that shares the file is transmitted, inquire at a first user who is a transmitter of the message about the process if it is determined that the process for the file is needed and perform the process for the file in a case where an instruction for performing the process is received from the first user.