Core Conversation Extraction for Unread Chat Previews

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Solution Overview

Problem

Messenger services cause inefficiencies due to the need for employees to manually review and confirm numerous messages, especially in corporate settings, leading to time-consuming and cumbersome processes for identifying core conversations.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus for providing a core conversation preview that identifies and displays key messages without requiring users to enter each chat room, using criteria such as relevance to business, recent interactions, and user profiles to determine important conversations, and allows quick replies and one-to-one chats directly from the preview window.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If employees manually review all messages in each chat room one by one, then they can grasp all conversation contents, but it consumes a lot of time and requires numerous user manipulations

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompleteness of conversation understandingVSAvoidtime to read and understand messages
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the core conversations from the unread messages in a chat room and displays them in a preview window. This allows users to quickly grasp important information without reviewing every single message, thereby reducing time loss while maintaining essential information completeness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of requiring users to review all messages (excessive action), the system performs partial action by selectively displaying only core conversations that contain important information. This partial review approach significantly reduces the time required while still capturing essential business content.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

2Loss of information

If employees enter and exit multiple chat rooms to confirm messages, then they can access all conversations, but the manipulation process becomes cumbersome and inefficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccess to conversation contentsVSAvoidconvenience of accessing messages
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the functionality of viewing chat room lists with viewing conversation previews. By displaying core conversation previews directly in the chat room list interface, users can access conversation contents without needing to enter and exit multiple chat rooms, significantly improving operational ease.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The preview window serves multiple functions: it displays core conversations, allows quick replies, and provides navigation to full chat rooms. This multi-functional design eliminates the need for separate operations to view and respond to messages, streamlining the user experience.

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

3Loss of information

If the system displays all unread conversations in a chat room, then users can see complete message history, but the interface becomes complex and requires more screen navigation

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompleteness of message historyVSAvoidinterface complexity and screen navigation
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the unread messages into core conversations and other messages. Only core conversations are displayed in the preview window, while other messages remain accessible upon entering the chat room. This segmentation simplifies the interface by filtering out non-essential information while maintaining access to complete message history when needed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS12407637B2Method for providing core conversation preview of unread conversations, and apparatus for implementing the same
Publication Date: 2025.09.02 SAMSUNG SDS CO LTD
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AI summary

A method for providing a core conversation preview of an unread conversation, the method being performed by at least one processor and includes: determining, in response to an input for a first chat room in a list of chat rooms, at least one core conversation of unread conversations included in the first chat room; and displaying a preview window comprising the at least one core conversation.