Conversation Membership List for Social Network Feed Clutter
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Solution Overview
Problem
In online social networks, managing conversation members becomes cumbersome due to lengthy feeds caused by unnecessary mentions without accompanying text, making it difficult for users to determine who is participating in the conversation, leading to frustration and wasted time.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a conversation membership list accessible via a graphical user interface (GUI), which allows members to easily view and manage the list of participants, and filtering feeds to remove non-substantive mentions, thereby simplifying the identification of conversation members and reducing clutter.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If members are mentioned in conversation feeds without requiring accompanying text, then conversation participation is facilitated, but feed clutter increases and member identification becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent separates member mentions from the main conversation feed by creating a dedicated member list view. This segmentation allows mentions to be tracked and displayed independently, preventing feed clutter while maintaining the ability to identify all conversation participants.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary member list that acts as a bridge between the conversation feed and participant information. This intermediary structure filters and organizes member data separately, allowing users to access participant information without it cluttering the main conversation flow.
2Loss of information
If all conversation members are displayed in the feed, then participant visibility is improved, but time to sort through information increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent pre-processes and separates member identification information from the conversation content. By automatically extracting and listing members in a dedicated view before users need to analyze the conversation, the system eliminates the time users would otherwise spend sorting through mentions in the feed.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent moves member information from the horizontal timeline of the conversation feed into a vertical sidebar or separate panel. This dimensional reorganization allows participants to be viewed alongside the conversation rather than embedded within it, enabling simultaneous access to both conversation content and participant lists without increasing sorting time.
3Ease of operation
If mentions are filtered to remove non-substantive content, then feed readability is improved, but member addition capability is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the member addition function from the feed filtering process. By separating the act of adding members via mentions from the display of mentions in the feed, the system can filter non-substantive mentions from the conversation view while still allowing members to be added through the same mention mechanism.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for managing members of online social network conversations. A user can access a list of members of an online social network conversation by interacting with a user interface element of a graphical user interface (GUI). The list of members can be modified directly via interaction with the list.