Instant Messaging Chat Window Configuration and Notification Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current instant messaging clients lack the ability to configure display and notification options for individual chats, leading to a single configuration setting for all chat windows, which makes it difficult for users to manage multiple chats effectively.

Innovation Solution

The chat control program allows users to select and configure display and notification parameters for specific chat sessions, enabling customizable options such as font, text size, color, and notification behaviors for each chat window, independent of the operating system's task bar.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a single configuration setting is applied to all chat windows, then the system is simple to operate, but users cannot personalize display and notification options for individual chats

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecustomization of display and notification optionsVSAvoidconfiguration management complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides the chat window management system into separable components: display options and notification options can be independently configured for each chat window. This segmentation allows users to customize individual aspects (font, text size, color, notification behaviors) without affecting other chats, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and complexity by enabling granular control through modular configuration.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements local quality by allowing different display and notification configurations to be applied to different chat windows individually. Each chat window can have its own customized settings (such as font size, color, notification preferences) while other windows maintain different settings, enabling personalized control for specific local instances rather than uniform global configuration.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

2Area of stationary object

If multiple chat windows are minimized to icons in the task bar, then screen space is optimized, but visibility of chat-specific information is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvescreen space utilizationVSAvoidchat-specific information visibility

Core Design Contradiction:

Area of stationary objectVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies color changes by allowing users to assign distinct colors to different chat windows through customizable display options. Even when minimized to icons, each chat window can be identified by its unique color designation, enabling users to distinguish between multiple minimized chats and retrieve specific chat information without restoring the entire window, thus maintaining screen space optimization while reducing information loss.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #32Color changes

Data Source

PatentUS9563876B2Control options for instant message display and notification

Publication Date: 2017.02.07 KYNDRYL INC

AI summary

An instant messaging program is configured by receiving a chat selection input signal from the input device indicating the selection of a chat session; displaying selectable chat configuration parameters on the display; receiving a configuration input signal from the selection device indicating the selection of a chat configuration parameter; and linking the selected chat configuration parameter to the selected chat session so that the selected chat configuration parameter controls the subsequent display of the selected chat session.