Extensible Messaging Platform With Composer Apps
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in adopting new messaging applications due to the need to sign up for a new network and convince friends and contacts to do the same, leading to slow adoption and limited access to new messaging features.
Innovation Solution
An instant messaging service provides an extensible platform that allows composer apps to interact with IM clients, enabling users to log in with existing credentials and access various messaging experiences without signing up for new services, leveraging existing message transport capabilities and user populations to streamline app development and adoption.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users adopt new messaging applications, then they can access new messaging features and experiences, but they need to sign up for a new network and convince friends and contacts to do the same
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal messaging platform where a single IM service supports multiple composer applications. Users authenticate once with the IM service and can access various messaging experiences through different composer apps without needing separate accounts for each app, making the system universally accessible while supporting diverse messaging features.
Solution Approach 2:
The IM service acts as an intermediary between composer apps and users. It handles authentication, user management, and message transport, allowing composer apps to focus on providing messaging experiences without dealing with the complexity of user accounts and network infrastructure.
2Adaptability or versatility
If developers create new messaging applications, then they can provide unique features and experiences, but they need to handle transport mechanics, user authentication, and app deployment
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complex infrastructure responsibilities (authentication, user management, message transport) from composer apps and places them in the IM service. Composer apps only need to implement messaging logic and can leverage the IM service's existing capabilities, significantly reducing development complexity while maintaining feature versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
The IM service provides universal infrastructure support for multiple composer applications. A single IM service instance can support numerous different messaging experiences through different composer apps, allowing developers to focus on creating unique features without rebuilding fundamental messaging infrastructure.
3Adaptability or versatility
If users sign up for new messaging services, then they can access new features, but the adoption process becomes slow and limited
Solution Approach 1:
Users perform the authentication action in advance by signing up for the IM service once. This preliminary authentication enables them to immediately access multiple composer applications and messaging features without repeated sign-up processes, significantly reducing the time required to adopt new messaging experiences.
Solution Approach 2:
A single IM service account provides universal access to multiple composer applications and messaging features. Users don't need to create separate accounts for each messaging app, allowing rapid adoption of new features while maintaining a single authenticated identity across the platform.
Data Source
AI summary
An instant messaging (IM) service interacts with IM clients operating on computing devices to implement an extensible platform with which individual composer applications (“apps”) may interact to support a variety of different messaging user experiences for users of respective local and remote devices. Each IM client exposes an application programming interface for utilization by a local composer app to package content that the IM service then transparently transports to a remote device. An IM client on the remote device provides the package to an identified associated remote composer app that can unpack the content and use it to support the app's customized messaging experience for the remote user. The composer app also provides a preview of the experience supported by the packaged content that the clients on the respective local and remote devices may utilize in a messaging history and/or as a launching point to the composer app's user experience.