Context-Aware Collaboration Platform with Queued Update Delivery

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current collaboration platforms fail to provide effective, engaging, and efficient dialog in a business environment, lacking real-time, lossless, persistent, and well-structured information exchange, and context-aware communication.

Innovation Solution

A collaboration platform that includes a communication device for transmitting a content creating interface, a processing device for generating conversational content based on context, and a storage device for storing updates, enabling real-time, temporally persistent, and context-aware conversations with a queuing mechanism to prevent disruption during content creation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If real-time updates are provided to users during conversations, then information exchange efficiency is improved, but user distraction and disruption during content creation increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation exchange efficiencyVSAvoiddistraction-free content creation
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by queuing updates before they are delivered to users. Updates are prepared and staged in a queue mechanism, allowing the system to control the timing and manner of delivery, thus preventing disruption during critical content creation moments while maintaining real-time exchange capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts update delivery based on user state and context. The queuing mechanism allows the system to adaptively control when updates are pushed to users, switching between immediate delivery and queued delivery based on whether the user is actively creating content or in a state where updates are appropriate, thus balancing productivity and ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Measurement precision

If comprehensive user information is collected and analyzed, then conversation scope determination accuracy is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconversation scope determination accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments user information into distinct categories (user preferences, conversation context, participant roles, historical data) and processes each segment separately through dedicated analysis modules. This segmentation allows for comprehensive data collection while managing system complexity through modular processing, improving conversation scope determination accuracy without overwhelming system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary processing layer between raw user information collection and conversation scope determination. This intermediary layer includes the queuing mechanism and analysis system that buffer, organize, and process user information before using it to determine conversation scope, thereby reducing the direct complexity impact while maintaining high determination accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Loss of information

If conversational content is structured with context and persistence, then information exchange quality is improved, but processing time and system resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation exchange qualityVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary structuring of conversational content by organizing data into standardized formats with embedded context metadata before storage and transmission. This preliminary action includes creating persistent structures that capture conversation state, participant information, and contextual relationships in advance, reducing the need for complex processing during real-time exchange while maintaining high information quality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates structured copies of conversational content with embedded context and persistence metadata. Rather than processing raw unstructured data in real-time, the system maintains structured copies that can be quickly retrieved and exchanged, preserving information quality while reducing processing time through pre-prepared formatted representations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS11531965B2Collaboration platform for facilitating conversations between users
Publication Date: 2022.12.20 DHALIWAL SWARN SINGH
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AI summary

Disclosed herein is a collaboration platform for facilitating conversations between users. The collaboration platform includes a communication device configured for transmitting a content creating interface to a plurality of user devices associated with a plurality of users, receiving content information through the content creating interface from at least one user device, receiving user information associated with a user from a user device and transmitting at least one of an update and a conversational content corresponding to the update to the user device. The collaboration platform includes a processing device configured for generating the conversational content associated with at least one context, generating at least one update corresponding to the conversational content, analyzing the user information, determining a conversation scope associated with the user, and identifying the update of at least one update. The collaboration platform includes a storage device configured for storing the conversational content.