Group Communication Digest System for Reducing Data Transmission

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional messaging systems face challenges in effectively summarizing and prioritizing important content from continuous conversations, leading to overwhelming data volumes and missed important information for users.

Innovation Solution

A method and system for intelligently analyzing group-based communication channels to curate a digest of relevant messages by extracting topics, generating queries, and selecting conceptually related communications based on user parameters, aggregating them into an electronic digest, and transmitting it to user devices.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If all group-based messaging communications are transmitted to users, then users receive complete information, but data transmission volume and storage requirements become overwhelming

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompleteness of informationVSAvoiddata transmission volume
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts only the most relevant and important messaging communications from the group-based channel based on user parameters, interests, and interaction patterns. This selective extraction reduces the quantity of transmitted data while maintaining the essential information content that users need to access.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system customizes the content of communications for each individual user based on their specific parameters, interests, and interaction history. Each user receives a tailored subset of communications that is locally optimized for their needs, rather than a uniform complete set for all users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Loss of information

If comprehensive messaging communications are provided to users, then all important content is available, but user ability to identify important information becomes overwhelmed

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveavailability of important contentVSAvoiduser ability to identify important information
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and prioritizes important messaging communications based on relevance analysis, user parameters, and interaction patterns. By pulling out only the most significant communications and presenting them in a curated format, the system maintains availability of important content while eliminating the overwhelming effect of presenting all communications equally.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Measurement precision

If detailed analysis of all messaging communications is performed, then relevant content is accurately identified, but processing power and time requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of content relevance identificationVSAvoidprocessing power requirements
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSPower

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs detailed relevance analysis focused on specific user parameters, interests, and interaction patterns rather than applying uniform comprehensive analysis to all communications for all users. This localized precision approach maintains accurate identification of relevant content while reducing overall processing requirements by tailoring analysis depth to individual user needs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS10805386B2Reducing transmissions by suggesting digital content for display in a group-based communication interface
Publication Date: 2020.10.13 SALESFORCE INC
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AI summary

Provided is a group-based communication interface and an apparatus configured to programmatically generate and provide digests of relevant group-based communications transmitted between a plurality of client devices and a group-based communication system.