Group Chat Gift Sending With Clear Co-Sender Attribution
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing online gifting services primarily support one-on-one exchanges, making it difficult for multiple participants to jointly send a gift, which complicates identification of senders and convenience for both recipients and contributors.
Innovation Solution
A method and system allowing a representative sender to select co-senders through a group chat room, providing joint-sending information to both co-senders and recipients, including item details, sending time, and congratulatory messages, with features like AI-generated voice messages and payment interfaces.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If online gifting services support only one-on-one exchanges, then the service structure remains simple, but multiple participants cannot jointly send gifts
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the gifting process into distinct functional modules: sender selection module, item selection module, payment module, and notification module. This allows multiple senders to participate while maintaining clear separation of concerns in the system architecture, resolving the contradiction between joint gifting capability and service structure complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal gifting platform that handles both traditional one-on-one gifting and new joint gifting scenarios through a unified interface. The system supports multiple senders, multiple recipients, and various gifting modes (surprise gifts, group gifts, etc.) within a single service framework, enabling adaptability without proportionally increasing complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple senders participate in joint gifting, then gifting versatility is enhanced, but identification of senders becomes complicated
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where each sender receives real-time updates about the gifting status, payment confirmation, and recipient notification. The system provides clear feedback loops that confirm each sender's identity and contribution, preventing information loss about who sent what and ensuring proper attribution to all participants.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a mediator component (the gifting platform server) that manages sender identities, tracks contributions, and coordinates the gifting process. This intermediary maintains a centralized record of all senders and their roles, ensuring accurate identification and information distribution without requiring direct communication between multiple senders.
3Ease of operation
If joint-sending information is provided through chat rooms, then user convenience is enhanced, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the gifting functionality with existing chat room infrastructure. By integrating gift selection, payment, and coordination features directly into familiar chat interfaces, the system enhances ease of operation without requiring users to learn new complex systems. The chat room serves as both communication channel and gifting interface.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables senders to self-organize joint gifting activities through chat rooms without requiring complex system intervention. Participants can autonomously select items, divide costs, coordinate timing, and manage the gifting process through natural chat interactions, reducing the burden on system complexity while maintaining user convenience.
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AI summary
Proposed is a method for jointly sending an item by a representative sender terminal. The method may include receiving information on a recipient account which is to receive the item, and providing the representative sender terminal with information on at least one chat room where the representative sender and the recipient participates. The method may also include receiving selection information for a selected chat room among the at least one chat room from the representative sender terminal, and providing terminals of co-senders with the information associated with sending the item to the recipient. The co-senders may include at least one participant in the selected chat room and the representative sender. The method may further include providing joint-sending information to a recipient terminal, wherein the joint-sending information includes information on the item and the co-senders.