Content Sharing Panel Combining Multi-Selection and Messaging

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current content sharing processes in applications are cumbersome and inefficient, often requiring multiple steps and panel collapses, failing to meet diverse user sharing scenarios and resulting in a poor user experience.

Innovation Solution

A panel for content sharing that supports multiple selection modes, allowing flexible selection of sharing objects and simultaneous messaging, maintaining the panel's presentation during content sharing operations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If traditional content sharing process is used, then content can be shared to recipients, but the process is cumbersome and requires multiple steps causing panel collapse

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent sharing processVSAvoidsharing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines the content sharing functionality and messaging functionality into a single integrated panel. The sharing panel remains open and displays both the list of recipients and a message input field simultaneously, allowing users to complete both sharing and messaging in one continuous operation without panel collapse or navigation between screens.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The sharing panel is designed to serve multiple functions: displaying the list of sharing recipients, enabling selection of one or more recipients, providing message input capability, and executing both content sharing and message sending operations. This multi-functional design eliminates the need for separate interfaces for sharing and messaging.

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

2Adaptability or versatility

If traditional content sharing process is used, then content can be shared, but flexibility for diverse sharing scenarios is limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesharing scenario flexibilityVSAvoiduser experience
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The panel implements dynamic selection modes that can switch between single-selection and multi-selection based on user interaction. The message input field dynamically adapts to send messages either to a single selected recipient or to multiple selected recipients simultaneously. This dynamic behavior provides flexibility for different sharing scenarios while maintaining ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Ease of operation

If panel collapses after sharing, then sharing operation is completed, but simultaneous messaging is not possible

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemessaging capabilityVSAvoidpanel structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the sharing completion state and messaging capability into the same panel state. Instead of collapsing the panel after sharing, the panel remains open and presents a message input field, allowing users to compose and send messages to the selected recipient(s) without leaving the sharing interface.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS20250284376A1Method, apparatus, device and storage medium for content sharing
Publication Date: 2025.09.11 BEIJING ZITIAO NETWORK TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

The embodiments of the disclosure provide methods, apparatuses, devices and a storage medium for content sharing. The method includes: presenting a panel for sharing target content, the panel displaying a list of objects to which the target content can be shared; detecting a selection of an object in the list of objects based on an activated selection mode of a plurality of selection modes; in response to detecting a selection operation on at least one of the list of objects, sharing the target content to the at least one object; and providing a control for supporting sending a message to the at least one object while maintaining the presentation of the panel. In this way, the efficiency and flexibility of content sharing can be improved, diversified demands in a sharing scene are met, and user experience is improved.