Gateway Mediator for User Expression Service Integration
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional social network services are limited in providing immersive and integrated content-viewing and communication experiences, failing to satisfy users' desires for interactive media experiences and efficient resource management.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus for managing user expressions in an immersive social centre service, which includes configuring user preference information, converting messages between different systems, and selectively transmitting user expression requests and results based on user preferences, using a gateway that connects the social centre system and content providers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If user expression requests are transmitted to all user terminals, then complete user feedback can be collected, but communication resources are wasted and system efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by configuring user preference information in advance before user expression requests are generated. The system pre-stores which users want to receive expression requests in the server or gateway, so when a request needs to be sent, the system can immediately query and filter based on pre-configured preferences without wasting communication resources on users who wouldn't accept such requests.
2Productivity
If user preference information is configured and checked before transmitting user expression requests, then communication efficiency is improved and resources are saved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a gateway as an intermediary component between the content server and user terminals. The gateway handles the complexity of querying user preference information and filtering recipients, shielding the content server from this complexity. This intermediary approach improves communication efficiency by preventing unnecessary request transmissions while avoiding increasing the complexity of core systems.
3Adaptability or versatility
If messages are converted between different system formats, then seamless integration across systems is achieved, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway serves as a message conversion intermediary that translates between different system message formats (e.g., SIP messages and internal system messages). By concentrating conversion operations in the gateway rather than distributing them across multiple systems, the patent achieves seamless integration while minimizing total processing time through centralized, optimized conversion logic.
Data Source
Figure 1
Figure 2
Figure 3
AI summary
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for proving a user expression service in a communication system. The method in a server may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a gateway connected to a contents server, a message requesting a user expression from a terminal of a user viewing contents; determining whether the user terminal prefers to receive the message requesting the user expression; if the user terminal prefers to receive the message requesting the user expression, delivering, to the user terminal, the message requesting the user expression; and receiving, from the user terminal, the message including user expression information and delivering the message to the gateway.