Chat Terminal Synchronizing Match Data and Messages

Solution Overview

Problem

Existing chat systems for sports matches or similar events fail to effectively associate and display the changing match situation with corresponding chat messages in real time, making it difficult to review the match situation and chat content after the event.

Innovation Solution

A chat terminal device and system that acquires match situation data and chat data from a server, stores them in association with upload time, and displays them in different areas of a display unit, allowing for synchronized viewing of score data and chat data in real time and post-event review.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If match situation data and chat data are displayed separately without time association, then the display is simple, but it becomes difficult to check the change of match situation and chat messages in association with each other

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveassociation between match situation and chat messagesVSAvoiddata storage and management structure

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces upload time as an intermediary parameter to associate match situation data and chat messages. Both types of data are stored with their respective upload timestamps, enabling chronological correlation between match events and corresponding chat content without requiring a complex direct linking structure.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary action by storing upload time information with each data entry as it is acquired. This pre-association of temporal metadata enables efficient post-event review and synchronization of match situation and chat data without requiring complex real-time processing during data acquisition.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Loss of time

If only real-time display is implemented, then current match information is available, but post-match review of situation changes and chat content is difficult

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveability to review match content after eventVSAvoiddata retrieval and display process

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of timeVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by storing upload time information with each data entry as it is acquired. This pre-association of temporal metadata enables efficient post-event review and synchronization of match situation and chat data without requiring complex real-time processing during data acquisition.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements feedback by enabling users to review and correlate match situation changes with corresponding chat messages after the match concludes. The time-based association allows users to trace back through the chronological sequence of events and communications, providing feedback on how chat content reflected actual match developments.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If match situation data and chat data are stored without time association, then storage is simple, but synchronization for simultaneous display is difficult

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesynchronization of displayed dataVSAvoiddata storage structure

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces upload time as an intermediary parameter to associate match situation data and chat messages. Both types of data are stored with their respective upload timestamps, enabling chronological correlation between match events and corresponding chat content without requiring a complex direct linking structure.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS11271764B2Chat terminal device, chat system, chat display method, and chat display program

Publication Date: 2022.03.08 JVC KENWOOD CORP

AI summary

A chat terminal device includes a communication unit, a storage unit, and a control unit. The communication unit acquires match situation data representing the situation of a match and chat data representing a chat content corresponding to the match from a server to which the match situation data and the chat data are uploaded, the storage unit stores the match situation data and the chat data which are acquired by the communication unit, in association with upload time at which the data are uploaded to the server, and the control unit causes different areas of a display unit to display the match situation data and the chat data which are stored in the storage unit.