Context-Sensitive Graphical User Interface Elements for Social Networking

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current social networking systems lack context-sensitive illustrated graphical user interface elements that adapt to user intent and context, leading to a less engaging and relevant messaging experience on mobile devices.

Innovation Solution

A context-sensitive illustrated graphical user interface elements system that analyzes user communications, profile information, location, and calendar events to recommend relevant graphical elements, prioritizing promoted, owned, and unowned elements, while providing advertising opportunities and incentives for sharing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional non-context-sensitive graphical elements are used in social networking messaging, then the system is simpler to implement, but user engagement and relevance are reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontext-sensitivity of graphical elementsVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-processes user profile information, communication intent, location data, and calendar events before they are needed for graphical element selection. This preliminary analysis enables the system to quickly retrieve and present contextually relevant graphical elements without complex real-time processing, thus improving adaptability while managing system complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces intermediary components including a graphical elements management component, context determination component, and graphical elements recommendation component. These intermediaries bridge the gap between raw user data and the final graphical element selection, organizing complex processing into manageable stages that improve context-sensitivity without overwhelming system complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If context determination using multiple data sources is implemented, then relevance of recommended elements improves, but processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of context determinationVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The context determination process is segmented into distinct components: user profile analysis, communication intent determination, location-based context, and calendar event integration. Each segment processes specific data types independently and contributes to the overall context picture, improving accuracy while allowing parallel processing to reduce total time

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

User profile information and other static context data are pre-processed and stored in optimized formats before being needed for graphical element recommendations. This preliminary preparation reduces the computational burden during actual recommendation generation, maintaining high accuracy while minimizing processing time

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Productivity

If promotional graphical elements are prioritized in recommendations, then brand recognition and advertising revenue increase, but user experience may be compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadvertising effectivenessVSAvoiduser experience quality
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The recommendation system applies different prioritization strategies to different types of graphical elements based on their properties. Promotional elements receive enhanced visibility and prioritization in the recommendation list, while non-promotional elements maintain their contextual relevance ranking. This local differentiation allows advertising effectiveness to improve without compromising overall user experience, as users still receive relevant promotional content alongside contextually appropriate elements

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS11644953B2Techniques for context sensitive illustrated graphical user interface elements
Publication Date: 2023.05.09 META PLATFORMS INC
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AI summary

Techniques for context sensitive illustrated graphical user interface elements, comprising a social networking application. The social networking application may include, among other components, a social networking graphical elements management component to provide a list of recommended graphical element identifier information, in response to a request for the list of recommended graphical element identifier information, a context determination component to determine user context information representative of the at least one user context based at least partially on user communications intent information, user profile information, device location information, calendar event information, and/or external event information, and a graphical elements recommendation component to generate the list of recommended graphical element identifier information based at least partially on the user profile information, graphical elements promotion information, and/or the user context information.