Composite Action System Using LLMs for Unified Task and Content Management

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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 prioritizing tasks, providing a unified interface with content stacks, and automatically generating and inserting relevant content without user input, thereby enhancing flexibility and efficiency.

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 (task management, content access, communication) into a single integrated application interface. This unified interface allows users to access tasks, content items, and communication functions without switching between separate applications, thereby reducing device complexity while maintaining full functionality.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates a universal interface that performs multiple functions simultaneously. A single application provides task management, content access, and communication capabilities, making the system multi-functional and eliminating the need for separate specialized applications.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If separate applications are run for tasks, content access, and communication, then functionality is provided, but resource consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:

ImprovefunctionalityVSAvoidprocessing power and memory

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

By merging multiple application functions into a single application, the system eliminates redundant processing and memory allocation that would occur if separate applications were running simultaneously. This consolidation reduces overall resource consumption while maintaining all necessary functionalities.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Ease of operation

If drill-down navigation is used to access content items, then content access is provided, but user interface efficiency decreases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent accessVSAvoidnavigational operations

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the essential content access functionality from the traditional hierarchical folder structure and provides direct access to content items through the unified interface. This eliminates the need for multiple drill-down operations through nested folders, significantly reducing navigational time while maintaining ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

4Stability of the object's composition

If traditional file and folder hierarchy is used, then content organization is provided, but system flexibility decreases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent organizationVSAvoidsystem flexibility

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the static, rigid file and folder hierarchy with a dynamic unified interface that can adapt to different user needs and workflows. This dynamic system maintains content organization through intelligent grouping and tagging while providing flexibility to access and manipulate content in various ways without being constrained by a fixed hierarchical structure.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS20250111148A1Generating and maintaining composite actions utilizing large language models

Publication Date: 2025.04.03 DROPBOX INC

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.