Display Control Unit for Cross-Group Content Transfer
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional display control methods for social network services do not allow users to seamlessly transfer and display contents from one group to another, even when users overlap between groups, making it difficult to associate and display contents across different groups on a terminal screen.
Innovation Solution
A display control method that allows users to select and transfer contents from one group to another, enabling the display of contents from overlapping users in a different visual aspect, with the ability to generate subgroups or take over states from existing groups, allowing for proper association and display of content states across groups.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If contents are transmitted and received within multiple groups simultaneously, then users can communicate with different groups at the same time, but it is not possible to take over contents from one group to another group
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments group contents by identifying overlapping users between groups. When a user belongs to multiple groups, the system separates and identifies contents from different groups, allowing selective takeover of specific contents from one group to another while maintaining clear boundaries between group communications.
Solution Approach 2:
The terminal acts as an intermediary that manages content transfer between groups. The display control unit mediates the takeover process by identifying contents from a first group and transferring them to a second group when users overlap between groups, enabling seamless content portability without requiring complex user interventions.
2Loss of information
If contents from different groups are displayed separately, then group boundaries are maintained clearly, but contents from overlapping users cannot be associated across groups
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges content display from multiple groups into a unified interface when users overlap between groups. The display control unit combines contents from a first group and a second group on the same screen, enabling users to associate and manage contents from different groups simultaneously while maintaining the ability to distinguish their origins.
3Productivity
If individual processes are activated for each group, then content transmission and reception can be managed separately, but the process requires multiple separate operations
Solution Approach 1:
The terminal's display control unit provides multi-functional capability by handling both individual group processes and cross-group content takeover through a single integrated system. When users overlap between groups, the same display control unit manages both the original group contents and the transferred contents, reducing the need for separate process management while maintaining operational clarity.
Data Source
AI summary
A display control method is provided on a terminal of a user belonging to a group to transmit and receive a content with a terminal of another user belonging to the group via an information processing apparatus. The display control method includes displaying on a screen, in response to receiving from the user a selection of a part of users belonging to the group, a content having the part of the users as a sender in a displaying aspect different from a displaying aspect of other contents; transmitting to the information processing apparatus, in response to receiving a command from the user, a request for activating an individual process of individually transmitting and receiving the content with a terminal of the part of the users; and executing the individual process in response to receiving a response indicating that the individual process has been activated.