Communication App Rich Preview for Message Identification

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face difficulty in identifying and searching for important messages within communication applications due to similar appearances of messages, leading to inefficiency in managing communications on smaller computing devices.

Innovation Solution

A communication application analyzes communications to identify relevant items such as images, videos, documents, links, and tasks, creating a rich preview summary with dynamic sizing and interaction elements to manage their presentation, enhancing user interaction and efficiency.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Difficulty of detecting and measuring

If messages are displayed in a standard list format, then the user interface remains simple and consistent, but users cannot easily identify or search for important messages

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveDifficulty of identifying important messagesVSAvoidMessage display complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Difficulty of detecting and measuringVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the message display into two distinct views: a standard list view for basic messages and a rich preview view for messages containing relevant items (images, videos, documents, etc.). This segmentation allows the system to present simplified information when needed while providing enhanced detail when relevant content exists, resolving the contradiction between simplicity and identifiability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The message display dynamically adapts its complexity based on the message content. When a message contains relevant items, the system automatically transitions to a rich preview display with interactive elements; otherwise, it maintains the simple list view. This dynamic behavior enables the interface to optimize itself for each specific message without requiring manual user configuration.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Ease of operation

If users open a reading pane to act on messages, then users can access full message details, but user efficiency decreases due to additional steps

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveEase of accessing message detailsVSAvoidTime to access and act on messages

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by extracting and displaying relevant items (images, videos, documents, links, tasks) directly within the message list view before the user needs to access full details. This preliminary presentation of key information allows users to quickly identify important messages and make decisions without having to open a reading pane, thereby reducing time loss while maintaining ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Difficulty of detecting and measuring

If the communication application analyzes and extracts relevant items from communications, then the rich preview summary provides better message identification, but processor load and memory usage increase

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveMessage relevance detection accuracyVSAvoidProcessor load and memory usage

Core Design Contradiction:

Difficulty of detecting and measuringVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies extraction by isolating and separating relevant items (images, videos, documents, links, tasks) from the main message body and presenting them as distinct elements within the rich preview. This extraction approach allows the system to focus computational resources only on identifying and processing relevant content rather than analyzing every message component, thereby reducing overall processor load while maintaining high detection accuracy.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies local quality by providing enhanced display and interaction features only for messages containing relevant items, rather than uniformly processing all messages. The analysis and extraction operations are concentrated locally on messages that require rich preview treatment, while standard list view messages receive minimal processing, thus optimizing the balance between detection accuracy and computational resource consumption.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

4Productivity

If the communication application provides rich preview with interaction elements, then user interaction efficiency improves, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveUser interaction efficiencyVSAvoidInterface complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The rich preview interface is designed with multi-functionality, serving multiple purposes: displaying message information, presenting relevant items (images, videos, documents), providing interaction elements for direct action, and enabling search and filtering. By consolidating these functions into a single unified view, the system achieves high user interaction efficiency without proportionally increasing interface complexity, as users interact with a single consolidated interface rather than multiple separate components.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS10412029B2Providing rich preview of communication in communication summary

Publication Date: 2019.09.10 MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC

AI summary

A rich preview of a communication in a communication summary is provided. A communication application analyzes a communication to identify relevant items within the communication. A communication summary of the communication is created with the relevant items. Next, the communication summary is presented with the relevant items. Interaction elements are also provided to manage a presentation of the relevant items.