Group Chat Sub-Object Segmentation for Information Overload
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Solution Overview
Problem
In large group instant messaging sessions, it becomes difficult for participants to follow relevant information as users join and leave, engage in side conversations, and produce multiple messages, leading to information overload and potential misinterpretation of instructions.
Innovation Solution
The system generates sub-objects within a collaboration session, allowing the host to edit content and delegate editing permissions, with summaries of messages aggregated in expandable lists, and customizes user interfaces to isolate relevant messages from non-relevant discussions, ensuring hosts can maintain focus and clarity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the group IM session size increases to accommodate more participants, then the collaboration capability is improved, but the difficulty of following relevant information increases due to message overload and side conversations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the group IM session into multiple sub-objects or threads, allowing participants to segment discussions by topic, project, or conversation type. This segmentation enables users to follow relevant information more easily while maintaining the ability to accommodate large numbers of participants across different discussion streams.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism in the form of a structured interface that mediates between the large group session and individual participants. This intermediary organizes and presents information in a manageable way, filtering and displaying relevant messages while hiding unrelated side conversations.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple messages and side conversations are allowed in the group IM session, then the communication flexibility is improved, but the clarity of instructions deteriorates due to information overload
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the communication stream into distinct sub-objects or threads, allowing multiple conversations to occur simultaneously without interfering with each other. Instructions can be posted in dedicated threads where they remain visible and uncluttered, while side conversations occur in separate segments.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts important instructions and relevant information from the general message stream and places them in highlighted or dedicated sections. This extraction ensures that critical information remains visible and accessible even as multiple side conversations occur simultaneously.
3Ease of operation
If users can join and leave the group IM session at different times, then the accessibility is improved, but the complexity of managing relevant information increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-organizing information into structured sub-objects and threads before users join. When users enter the session, the information is already segmented and organized, reducing the complexity they would otherwise face in managing information in a dynamic group with constant joiners and leavers.
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AI summary
A method, computer program product, and computer system for maintaining, between a plurality of participating computing devices, a collaboration session that includes a group instant messaging session within an object, wherein the plurality of participating computing devices includes a host computing device and one or more non-host computing devices in the group instant messaging session. A first sub-object of a plurality of sub-objects is generated within the object, wherein the first sub-object is rendered on the host computing device and the one or more non-host computing devices. Permission is assigned to the host computing device to edit content in the first sub-object, wherein the content in the first sub-object is rendered on the host computing device and the one or more non-host computing devices, and wherein the non-host computing devices are precluded from editing the content in the first sub-object.