Chat Mute Override Using Keyword-Based Auto-Unmute Alerts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of text-based messaging applications face challenges in managing multiple chat channels, as muting features often result in missed important messages due to the lack of notification for muted channels, leading to distractions and inefficiencies.
Innovation Solution
An auto-unmute feature that analyzes incoming messages for user-specified search targets, such as keywords or topics, to generate notifications only when relevant content is detected, ensuring important information is not missed.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If a mute feature is activated to suppress message notifications for a chat channel, then user distraction is reduced and focus is improved, but important messages may be missed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism (the auto-unmute feature with keyword analysis) between the mute feature and the user. This intermediary automatically detects important keywords in muted channel messages and selectively triggers notifications, thus mediating between the need to block distractions and the need to receive important information.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides self-service by automatically analyzing incoming messages in muted channels for important keywords and autonomously deciding when to trigger notifications without requiring user intervention. The user simply activates the feature and defines keywords, then the system handles the rest automatically.
2Loss of information
If notifications are generated for all messages in a chat channel, then users receive complete information, but user distraction and inefficiency increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by differentiating the notification treatment of different messages within the same chat channel. Instead of uniform notification for all messages, the system analyzes each message's content and applies selective notification based on whether it contains important keywords, thus giving different quality levels to different messages.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs partial action by generating notifications for only some messages (those containing important keywords) rather than all messages. This partial notification approach provides sufficient information for user productivity without the excessive action of notifying about every single message.
3Ease of operation
If the mute feature is used to avoid distractions from multiple chat channels, then focus is improved, but the complexity of managing mute settings across channels increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the notification system universal by implementing a single auto-unmute feature that can be applied across multiple chat channels simultaneously. Users define keywords once, and the system automatically applies the same intelligent filtering logic to all muted channels, eliminating the need for separate configurations for each channel.
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AI summary
A method of selectively generating message notifications for chat messages to a user of a chat channel. The method includes: activating a mute feature for the chat channel; activating an auto-unmute feature for the chat channel; receiving a search target defining a message characteristic; receiving a first new message; analyzing the first new message to determine if the message characteristic of the search target is present in the first new message; if the search target is determined to not be present in the first new message, maintaining the mute feature so that, in relation to the first new message, no message notification is generated; and if the search target is determined to be present in the first new message, overriding the mute feature so that, in relation to the first new message, a first message notification is generated.