Interaction Tracking for Cross-Platform Participant Connections

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Solution Overview

Problem

Participants in digital environments lose contact with each other after interaction thresholds are exceeded due to expiration of invitations or user status changes, preventing future reconnection.

Innovation Solution

A system that tracks participant interactions in digital environments and recommends connecting on a different platform when interaction thresholds are met, providing means for continued communication.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If users interact extensively on a first platform, then connection strength increases, but contact availability decreases when invitation periods expire or user status changes

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontact availabilityVSAvoidinvitation period
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDuration of action of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by tracking interactions during the invitation period and proactively generating connection recommendations before the invitation expires. This allows users to establish connections on the second platform while still accessible, preventing loss of contact information when the first platform invitation period ends.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system acts as an intermediary by monitoring interactions on the first platform and facilitating connection establishment on a second platform. This mediator function bridges the gap between temporary first-platform interactions and permanent connection establishment, ensuring contact availability persists beyond invitation expiration.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If connection recommendations are generated based on interaction tracking, then reconnection capability improves, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvereconnection capabilityVSAvoidtracking system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system achieves universality by implementing a tracking mechanism that serves multiple functions: monitoring interaction frequency, measuring interaction intensity, identifying candidate connections, and generating platform-specific recommendations. This multi-functional approach enables comprehensive reconnection capability without proportionally increasing complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies parameter changes by establishing thresholds for interaction frequency and intensity that trigger connection recommendations. These adjustable parameters allow the system to adapt to different interaction patterns and platform characteristics, providing versatile reconnection capability while maintaining manageable complexity through configurable criteria.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS12418629B2Recommending connecting on a platform based on participant interaction
Publication Date: 2025.09.16 LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE LTD
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AI summary

Apparatus, methods, and computer program products that recommend connecting on a platform based on participant interaction are disclosed. One apparatus includes a processor and a memory. The memory includes instructions executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to track interaction between a pair of participants of a digital environment conducted on a first platform and recommend that the pair of participants connect on a second platform in response to the interaction between the pair of participants exceeding a predetermined threshold of interactions. Methods and computer program products that include and/or perform the operations and/or functions of the apparatus are also disclosed.