Floating Instant Messaging Window Display Method
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current instant messaging methods require users to constantly switch between messaging clients and web browsers, making it inconvenient to check messages in real-time while browsing other webpages.
Innovation Solution
An instant messaging window display method that converts a regular messaging window into a floating small window, allowing it to remain on top of the browser page, enabling users to check messages without interrupting their browsing experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the instant messaging window is displayed as a full-size window on the foreground, then the message content is clearly visible and easy to read, but it blocks the browser content and requires users to switch windows frequently
Solution Approach 1:
The instant messaging window is segmented from the browser window into a separate floating window. This allows the messaging window to be independently positioned and sized, enabling users to view messages without blocking the entire browser content. The segmentation resolves the contradiction by allowing both full message visibility and uninterrupted browsing access.
Solution Approach 2:
The instant messaging window transitions from a two-dimensional plane within the browser to a three-dimensional floating window that can be positioned above the browser content. This dimensional change allows the messaging window to occupy a different spatial layer, making it visible without blocking the browser content underneath, thus resolving the contradiction between message visibility and browsing convenience.
2Ease of operation
If the instant messaging window is converted to a small floating window, then users can browse webpages without being blocked, but the message content becomes smaller and harder to read
Solution Approach 1:
The floating window system allows dynamic adjustment of window size and position. Users can resize the floating window to an optimal reading size and reposition it to a convenient location on the screen. This dynamic capability resolves the contradiction by allowing the window to be small enough not to block browsing while being large enough and positioned well enough to maintain readability.
3Loss of information
If users switch between the instant messaging client and browser to check messages, then the full messaging interface is available, but the operation becomes inconvenient and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The instant messaging window and browser window are merged into a unified floating window system where both can coexist and overlap on the screen. This merging eliminates the need to switch between separate applications or windows, as users can access messages directly in the floating window while remaining on the browser page, thus resolving the contradiction between message access and time efficiency.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure discloses an instant messaging window display method, including the following steps: running an instant messaging window on a user terminal; receiving a small window instruction; extracting, in response to the small window instruction, the instant messaging window run on the user terminal as a to-be-converted window; converting the to-be-converted window into a floating small window; and displaying the floating small window on the top of a current page of a browser. Therefore, the terminal converts the instant messaging window into the floating small window, and always keeps displaying the floating small window on the top of the current page of the browser. When the user browses and operates another webpage on the browser, the display of the floating small window is not affected. This is convenient for the user to check an instant messaging interaction message in time, thereby improving convenience of instant messaging interaction.