Ephemeral Content Recommendation via Contact List Segmentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional communication platforms limit users' awareness of their contacts' activities, such as posting of content, and do not allow seamless interaction with these activities, constraining potential communications and interactions.
Innovation Solution
The system determines scores for user contacts based on interaction probability and promotes contacts who have posted ephemeral content items by adjusting their scores or placing them in dedicated segments, allowing users to access and interact with these items through an interface that indicates availability and changes indication post-consumption.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If conventional communication platforms display contacts in a standard list format, then the interface is simple and easy to understand, but users cannot easily identify contacts with recent activity or accessible content items
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies color changes by displaying geometric shapes in different colors to indicate whether ephemeral content items have been consumed or remain accessible. For example, a first color indicates unconsumed content while a second color indicates consumed content, allowing users to quickly identify contacts with accessible content without complex interface elements.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the contact list by inserting geometric shapes between contact entries to visually separate and highlight contacts with accessible ephemeral content. This segmentation approach organizes information spatially without requiring a complete redesign of the contact list structure.
2Productivity
If the system promotes all contacts with content items to the top of the list, then users can easily access ephemeral content, but contacts without content items become less visible and user engagement may decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic positioning where geometric shapes are inserted conditionally based on the presence of ephemeral content items. The contact list structure adapts dynamically - contacts with content are separated and highlighted with geometric shapes, while contacts without content maintain their natural ordering, preserving both content access efficiency and overall list versatility.
3Loss of information
If the system provides detailed information about each contact's activity status, then users have complete awareness, but the interface becomes cluttered and harder to navigate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts activity status information from the contact entry details and represents it separately through geometric shapes positioned between contacts. This extraction separates the indication of content availability from the contact information itself, providing complete activity awareness while maintaining clean, navigable contact entries.
4Measurement precision
If the system uses multiple visual indicators for different content states, then users can distinguish content status clearly, but the interface elements increase and complexity rises
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses color changes in geometric shapes to precisely indicate content consumption status. A first color signifies unconsumed ephemeral content while a second color signifies consumed content, providing clear status differentiation with a single, consistent visual element type that minimizes interface complexity.
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AI summary
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are configured to perform operations comprising determining a list of contacts of a user of an application; identifying a contact in the list of contacts that has posted a content item that is accessible to the user; and causing, through an interface of the application, presentation of the contact in the list of contacts with an indication that the content item is accessible to the user.