Independent Task List Creation for Scattered Task Management

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face challenges in managing multiple scattered tasks, leading to low management efficiency and poor user experience.

Innovation Solution

A task list creation method and apparatus that generates a task list independently of other application entities, allowing users to create and manage tasks flexibly through a first client interface, with features like role-based permissions and task list sharing across different chats.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If tasks are scattered across different application entities, then tasks can be integrated into a unified task list, but the task list creation process becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetask management flexibilityVSAvoidtask list creation process

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the task list creation function from existing application entities (documents, chats, projects) and makes it independent. Users can now create task lists without being tied to any specific entity, thereby simplifying the creation process while maintaining the ability to integrate scattered tasks from various sources.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The task list is designed as a universal container that can hold tasks from any application entity (documents, chats, projects). This multi-functional design allows the task list to adapt to various task management scenarios without requiring separate systems for each entity type.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Ease of operation

If task lists are created independently of application entities, then operation flexibility is improved, but the dependency on existing entities is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetask list operation flexibilityVSAvoidintegration with application entities

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the task management system into independent components: task lists, tasks, and application entities. Task lists are separated from their traditional dependencies on specific entities, allowing them to be created and operated independently while still being able to associate with multiple entities as needed.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The task list acts as an intermediary layer between users and multiple application entities. Instead of users directly managing tasks within each entity, the task list serves as a central hub that can pull tasks from various entities, providing flexible operation while maintaining connections to the underlying entities.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS20260050733A1Task list creation method and apparatus, and device and medium

Publication Date: 2026.02.19 BEIJING ZITIAO NETWORK TECH CO LTD

AI summary

Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a task list creation method and apparatus, a device, and a medium. When a first user triggers a task list creation operation in a first client interface, task list related information entered by the first user is obtained. A first task list is generated based on the obtained task list related information, the first task list being a task container. Moreover, the first task list does not depend on another entity in an application to which the first client interface belongs, and may exist independently.