Chat Transcript Segmentation for Content Relationship Maintenance

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Solution Overview

Problem

Instant messaging systems fail to maintain corresponding relationships between chat transcripts and related content, leading to difficulties in associating and retrieving relevant information, especially in enterprise and customer service environments where context is crucial.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a method and apparatus that establish a chat session, synchronize and display related chat content, insert changed content addresses into the chat transcript, and segment it to create a segmented transcript, while storing the relationship between the content and transcript segments for easy retrieval.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If chat transcripts are stored separately from related content, then storage and management is simple, but the corresponding relationship between chat transcript and related content cannot be maintained

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestorage management complexityVSAvoidcorresponding relationship information
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent embeds content address information directly within the chat transcript structure, creating a nested relationship where the transcript contains references to related content. This allows the transcript to self-contain the linkage information needed to retrieve associated content, resolving the contradiction between simple storage and maintaining relationships.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary mechanism that automatically captures and stores content addresses when content is displayed during chat sessions. This intermediary process bridges the gap between chat transcripts and related content, maintaining corresponding relationships without requiring complex manual association or separate storage systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Quantity of substance

If users search entire chat transcript history to retrieve required information, then all information is available, but retrieval efficiency is low and time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation availabilityVSAvoidinformation retrieval time
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments chat transcripts into distinct sections based on content addresses, creating organized blocks of chat history associated with specific content. This segmentation allows users to directly navigate to relevant segments rather than searching through entire transcripts, maintaining complete information availability while dramatically reducing retrieval time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary organization of chat transcripts by content address during the chat session itself. By pre-segmenting and indexing transcripts as they are generated, the system prepares retrieval structures in advance, eliminating the need for time-consuming searches when users need to access specific information later.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Stability of the object's composition

If chat content is displayed synchronously according to changed address, then content consistency is maintained, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent consistencyVSAvoidsynchronization system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements self-service synchronization where the chat client automatically monitors for content address changes and retrieves updated content without requiring complex centralized coordination. Each client independently manages its own synchronization state, maintaining content consistency while avoiding the overhead of complex distributed synchronization protocols.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS8694586B2Maintaining corresponding relationships between chat transcripts and related chat content
Publication Date: 2014.04.08 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

A method, apparatus, and system for maintaining corresponding relationships between at least one chat transcript and related chat content in an instant messaging system may include establishing a chat session in the instant messaging system. Corresponding chat content may be displayed synchronously according to a changed address of the chat content. The changed address of the chat content may be inserted into a chat transcript, and the chat transcript may be segmented into at least two segments to create a segmented chat transcript. The segmented chat transcript and corresponding relationship between the changed address of the chat content and corresponding chat transcript segments may be stored.