Instant Messaging Message Grouping for Continuous Playback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current instant messaging (IM) systems lack the ability to automatically play all unread voice messages and do not allow for continuous playback of voice messages, limiting user convenience and efficiency in managing IM communications.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that allow users to select and merge multiple IM messages of a preset type into a message group, enabling continuous playback of all messages in the group through touch control operations, enhancing playback flexibility and efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If voice messages are played one by one by clicking individually, then each message can be played, but the playback efficiency and user convenience are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple voice messages into a single selectable unit (message group), allowing users to play multiple messages simultaneously through one selection action rather than clicking each message individually, thereby improving playback efficiency and operation convenience
Solution Approach 2:
The message group function serves multiple purposes: it allows selective playback of multiple messages, enables continuous playback, and provides a unified interface for message management, making the system more versatile and efficient
2Adaptability or versatility
If only unread voice messages are automatically played, then unread messages are processed, but read messages cannot be continuously played
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adapts its playback behavior based on user needs, allowing both automatic playback of unread messages and manual selection/playback of read messages through the same interface, providing flexible and efficient message management
Solution Approach 2:
The message group feature universally applies to both unread and read voice messages, enabling a single mechanism to handle different message states and user scenarios, thereby improving overall system versatility and management efficiency
3Ease of operation
If voice messages are selected and merged into a message group, then continuous playback is enabled, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
By merging multiple individual message playback operations into a single message group selection, the system reduces the number of separate operations the user must perform, improving convenience despite the added grouping functionality
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-processes message grouping and selection before playback, allowing users to define their playback needs in advance through simple selection actions, thereby simplifying the actual playback operation and improving user convenience
Data Source
AI summary
A method for playing an instant messaging (IM) message includes: displaying a received IM message in a dialog window of an IM client; selecting multiple target IM messages according to an indication of a touch control operation when the touch control operation used for merging IM messages of a preset type is detected; merging the selected multiple target IM messages into a message group and displaying the message group in the dialog window; continuously playing all IM messages in the message group when a touch control operation used for playing the IM messages in the message group is detected. In addition, the present disclosure further provides an apparatus for playing an IM message. By using the foregoing method and apparatus, the IM messages can be quickly played, and the efficiency of managing the IM messages can be improved.