Chatroom Content Recommendation via Intermediary Server

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users of instant messaging services face inconvenience when trying to explore content shared through IMS, as they need to exit the chatroom and search for related content on another platform, lacking a seamless way to discover recommended content within the chatroom.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that allows users to participate in chatrooms, receive and display instant messages with content information, detect user interest through actions, and provide recommended content related to the shared content within the chatroom, using a content providing server to extract and transmit relevant content and recommendations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If users share content information through instant messaging, then users can communicate content references, but users must exit the chatroom to search for related content on external platforms

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent discovery convenienceVSAvoidtime to exit and search externally

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the content search function with the instant messaging chatroom by integrating a content providing server that delivers recommended content directly within the chat interface. This eliminates the need for users to switch between applications, as the content discovery feature is combined with the existing messaging environment.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a content providing server as an intermediary component that receives content information from user devices, extracts related content, and transmits it back to the chatroom. This mediator handles the content retrieval and recommendation process, allowing users to access related content without leaving the chatroom interface.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Loss of information

If users exit the chatroom to search for related content, then users can find additional information, but the seamless chat experience is interrupted

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaccess to related contentVSAvoidchat continuity

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines content search functionality with the chatroom interface by having the content providing server deliver recommended content directly within the messaging environment. This integration ensures users can access related content without interrupting their chat flow or switching applications.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary content extraction and recommendation preparation by the content providing server before users need to view the content. When content information is shared in the chatroom, the server proactively retrieves and prepares related content, so it is immediately available when users interact with it, eliminating delays and maintaining chat continuity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Adaptability or versatility

If a content providing server extracts and transmits recommended content, then personalized content recommendations are provided, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepersonalized content recommendationVSAvoidsystem architecture

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The content providing server is designed as a multi-functional component that handles content extraction, related content retrieval, recommendation generation, and transmission to user devices. By consolidating these diverse functions into a single server, the system achieves personalized recommendations without proportionally increasing overall system complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The content providing server acts as an intermediary that simplifies the interaction between user devices and content sources. It handles the complex tasks of content extraction and recommendation logic, while presenting a simple interface to users through the existing chatroom, thereby managing system complexity centrally rather than distributing it across multiple components.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS11388124B2Method, user device and contents provision server for recommending contents related to contents

Publication Date: 2022.07.12 KAKAO CORP

AI summary

A method is performed by a user device. The method includes participating in a chatroom created through an instant messaging application managed by a messaging management server, displaying, on the chatroom, an instant message including information related to a content input from another user device participating in the chatroom, receiving an action of interest in the related information of the displayed instant message, displaying the content corresponding to the related information in which the action of interest has been received, returning to the chatroom from the displayed content, and displaying, on the chatroom, at least one recommended content related to the content.