Composite Action System Using LLMs to Reduce Navigation Operations

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing digital content systems are inflexible and inefficient, requiring multiple applications and excessive computer resources for accessing tasks, content items, and communication, with rigid navigation and inefficient user interfaces.

Innovation Solution

A composite action system utilizing large language models to generate and maintain composite actions by collecting user account data, prioritizing tasks, and generating content stacks, which integrates tasks and content items within a single interface, reducing the need for separate applications and minimizing navigation operations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If separate applications are used for accessing tasks, content items, and communication, then functionality is provided, but device complexity and resource consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovefunctionalityVSAvoidnumber of applications
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple separate applications (file management, task management, communication tools) into a single integrated digital content system. The system provides unified access to content items, tasks, and communication features through one application interface, eliminating the need for users to switch between multiple separate applications while maintaining all necessary functionalities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The digital content system is designed to perform multiple functions within a single application. It can manage files and content items, handle task creation and tracking, facilitate communication between users, and provide search capabilities all through one universal platform, making the system adaptable to diverse user needs without requiring separate specialized applications.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple separate applications are run simultaneously, then various functions are accessible, but computer resources such as processing power and memory are excessively consumed

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefunction accessibilityVSAvoidcomputer resource consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

By merging multiple application functions into a single digital content system, the patent eliminates the overhead of running multiple separate application processes. The unified architecture shares common resources such as memory space, processing threads, and data storage, significantly reducing overall computer resource consumption while maintaining access to all necessary functions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The universal platform performs multiple functions through shared codebases and common operational frameworks, reducing redundant resource consumption. Instead of each separate application requiring its own full set of system resources, the single multi-functional system efficiently allocates and shares resources across different operations including file management, task processing, and communication.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Stability of the object's composition

If traditional drill-down navigation is used to access content items, then hierarchical organization is maintained, but user interface efficiency and access speed deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvehierarchical organizationVSAvoidcontent access speed
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces advanced search and filtering capabilities that allow users to access content items directly through keyword search, tags, or metadata without following the hierarchical folder structure. This adds a new dimensional approach to content access that operates parallel to the traditional hierarchical navigation, enabling users to bypass multiple drill-down steps and reach target content immediately.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces a smart search and recommendation intermediary that acts as a bridge between users and content items. Instead of requiring direct navigation through folders, the intermediary processes user queries, analyzes metadata and content relationships, and presents relevant results, thereby mediating the access process and eliminating the need for lengthy drill-down sequences while preserving the underlying hierarchical organization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS20250111149A1Generating and maintaining composite actions utilizing large language models
Publication Date: 2025.04.03 DROPBOX INC
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AI summary

The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for generating composite actions for a user account. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems determine a set of tasks performable by the user account using software tools on a client device. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems generate a task initialization prompt to provide to a large language model. Additionally, in some implementations, the disclosed systems generate a composite action comprising a hybridized combination of the set of tasks performable by the user account along with a set of content items relevant to the set of tasks. Moreover, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems provide access to the composite action and the set of content items via a user interface of the client device. Furthermore, in some implementations, the disclosed systems generate and insert predicted content into a content item without user input.