Co-Present Digital Messaging Streak Indicators
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current digital messaging systems lack features to effectively signal and enhance co-present moments between users, limiting interactive capabilities and organization of messaging threads.
Innovation Solution
Implementing visual indicators such as digital streaks, interactive emojis, and availability elements within digital messaging threads to signal co-present moments, enable real-time group interactions, and archive activities, while allowing for video and audio calling, screen sharing, and virtual activities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If digital messaging systems implement visual indicators and interactive features to signal co-present moments, then user interaction and engagement are enhanced, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple functions into unified visual indicators within the messaging thread interface. Co-present detection, visual signaling through streaks, and interactive activity suggestions are merged into a single integrated system that operates automatically without requiring separate mechanisms for each function.
Solution Approach 2:
The visual indicators serve multiple purposes simultaneously: they signal co-present moments, organize message threads, suggest group activities, and provide contextual information about user presence. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate features while enhancing interactivity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the system provides multiple interactive elements and activity suggestions during co-present moments, then user engagement increases, but the number of user inputs required increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically detects co-present users and generates appropriate visual indicators and activity suggestions without requiring users to manually activate these features. The system serves itself by monitoring thread access patterns and autonomously presenting interactive elements when conditions are met.
Solution Approach 2:
The system prepares and presents activity suggestions and visual indicators in advance during co-present moments, allowing users to naturally engage with the features without having to search for or request them. The interactive elements are proactively made available based on detected user presence.
3Loss of information
If visual indicators are displayed for each message during co-present moments, then co-present signaling is enhanced, but data organization complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Visual indicators are applied selectively to specific messages and time periods rather than uniformly across the entire thread. The streaks and indicators are localized to co-present moments, providing enhanced signaling where needed while maintaining standard thread organization elsewhere.
Solution Approach 2:
The messaging thread is segmented into co-present and non-co-present sections, with visual indicators applied to distinguish these segments. This segmentation allows the system to organize data differently based on user presence patterns, improving signaling without overwhelming the entire thread structure.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for co-present digital messaging may include (1) providing a group of users with access to a digital messaging thread that enables the users to exchange messages, (2) detecting a co-present moment in which two or more of the users are accessing the digital messaging thread at the same time, and (3) displaying a digital streak indicator proximate each message posted to the digital messaging thread during the co-present moment to visually identify the messages posted to the digital messaging thread during the co-present moment. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.