Unified Chat Interface Merging Multiple Conversation Streams
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Existing chat services do not allow for seamless integration or merging of conversations across multiple chat rooms, limiting users' ability to view and manage discussions from multiple topics or groups within a single interface.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for creating multiple chat rooms and merging their content, allowing users to select and display visual signs from one or more chat rooms on a single screen, with options to create secondary chat rooms for specific conversations and merge visual signs based on user permission, enabling concurrent and simultaneous display of multiple chat room contents.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate chat rooms are used for different conversations, then conversation topics can be separated and managed independently, but users cannot view and manage all conversations in a single interface
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple chat room contents into a single unified chat room interface. The server receives chat data from multiple chat rooms and transmits merged chat data to terminal devices, allowing users to view and manage all conversations in one place while maintaining the ability to separate and manage individual conversation topics independently.
2Loss of information
If all chat room contents are displayed together, then users can confirm all conversation contents at once, but it becomes difficult to distinguish conversations from different topics
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by displaying chat data from different chat rooms with distinct visual characteristics. Each chat room's content is displayed with unique identification markers or visual styles, allowing users to easily distinguish the source of each message while viewing all conversations in a unified interface.
3Ease of operation
If users can select specific participants for secondary chat rooms, then focused conversations can be established, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the chat room system into multiple hierarchical levels. Users can create primary chat rooms and then selectively create secondary chat rooms with specific participants from the primary room. This segmentation allows focused conversations with selected participants while maintaining the overall system structure through a standardized creation process.
Data Source
AI summary
A method of providing a chat service between a first device and a plurality of second devices, includes: creating a first chat room configured to display visual signs transmitted and received between the first device and the plurality of second devices; receiving a command to select one or more of the plurality of second devices while the first chat room is displayed on the first device; selecting the one or more of the plurality of second devices based on the command; and creating a second chat room configured to display visual signs transmitted and received between the first device and the selected one or more of the plurality of second devices.