Anonymous Chatroom Abuse Message Filtering via Admin Rule Sets

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Solution Overview

Problem

Anonymous chatrooms face challenges in effectively managing and filtering out abusing messages, such as those containing sexual expressions or swear words, due to the anonymous nature of users.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus that provide a rule set to an administrator terminal for filtering out abusing messages, allowing keywords for spam filtering to be registered, and enabling administrators to manage abusing messages through various processing options.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If anonymous chatroom allows free communication among unspecified users, then accessibility and user freedom are improved, but risk of abusing messages increases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveaccessibilityVSAvoidabusing messages
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an administrator terminal as an intermediary between users and the chatroom system. The administrator terminal receives abusing messages, determines whether they violate rules using stored rule sets, and selectively hides appropriate messages. This mediator approach maintains user freedom while filtering harmful content through a dedicated management interface.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If administrator terminal manually reviews each message, then filtering accuracy is improved, but processing time and workload increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefiltering accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements preliminary action by storing rule sets in advance in the administrator terminal. These rule sets contain predetermined criteria for identifying abusing messages. When messages are received, the system compares them against pre-stored rules, enabling automated preliminary filtering before administrator review, thus reducing processing time while maintaining accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If all messages are hidden to prevent abusing content, then safety is improved, but legitimate communication is restricted

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovesafetyVSAvoidcommunication freedom
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by implementing selective message hiding based on specific rule violations. Rather than hiding all messages uniformly, the system evaluates each message against the rule set and hides only those that match violating patterns. This localized approach maintains safety by filtering harmful content while preserving legitimate communication that does not violate rules.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS12255748B2Method and apparatus for processing abusing message in anonymous chatroom
Publication Date: 2025.03.18 KAKAO CORP
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AI summary

A method for processing an abusing message in an anonymous chatroom includes providing a rule set of a latest version to an administrator terminal of the anonymous chatroom when the administrator terminal logs in to an account through a message application or enters the anonymous chatroom, receiving a new message in the anonymous chatroom, providing the new message to the administrator terminal, receiving a request for hiding the new message from the administrator terminal when the new message is determined to be an abusing message based on at least one of a spam keyword and the rule set stored in the administrator terminal, and transmitting a command to hide the new message to a user terminal that joins the anonymous chatroom according to the request for hiding the new message.