Instant Messaging Personalization Rendering Before Communication

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current instant messaging systems do not effectively allow personalization items to be made perceivable to the sender before communication with the intended recipient, limiting the user's online experience and interaction.

Innovation Solution

The system enables personalization items to be perceived and rendered on the sender's interface by accessing and retrieving identifiers associated with the intended recipient, allowing for the display of items such as icons, sounds, and wallpapers before communication, even before a connection is established or a message is sent or received.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If personalization items are made perceivable to the sender before communication with the intended recipient, then the user's online experience and interaction are enhanced, but the system complexity increases due to the need to access, retrieve, and manage identifiers and personalization items

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser online experienceVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system retrieves and stores personalization item identifiers in advance before communication occurs. The sender's system proactively accesses the host system to obtain identifiers associated with the intended recipient, enabling personalization items to be displayed immediately when the communication interface is opened, without requiring prior interaction with the recipient.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

A host system acts as an intermediary between senders and recipients. The host system maintains a database of identifiers associated with personalization items and mediates the retrieval process. When a sender intends to communicate with a recipient, the host system provides the necessary identifiers, enabling personalization without direct interaction between the sender and recipient.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If personalization items are displayed immediately upon opening the communication interface, then the interaction is improved, but the time required to retrieve and process personalization items increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinteraction speedVSAvoidtime to retrieve personalization items

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary retrieval of personalization item identifiers when the communication interface is opened, before any actual communication occurs. By proactively accessing the host system and obtaining identifiers in advance, the system minimizes delays and enables immediate display of personalization items without requiring time-consuming operations during the communication process.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS7689649B2Rendering destination instant messaging personalization items before communicating with destination

Publication Date: 2010.03.30 MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC

AI summary

Perception of a personalization item in an instant messaging communications session may be enabled by perceiving an identifier corresponding to an intended instant message recipient designated by an instant message sender system, accessing personalization items corresponding to the perceived identifier, and making perceivable the personalization items corresponding to the received identifier to the instant messaging sender system for rendering in an instant messaging application running on the instant messaging sender system, where the personalization items are made perceivable prior to communication with the intended instant message recipient.