Live Comment Grouping via Ratio Thresholds

Solution Overview

Problem

In live commenting scenarios, especially during high-volume events like live broadcasts, the rapid update of user comments can overwhelm users, limiting their ability to see the content and interact effectively, as existing methods either flood them with all comments or group users in a way that restricts the diversity of comments displayed.

Innovation Solution

A method that calculates the ratio of live commenting messages to a threshold, groups both messages and users accordingly, and sends these grouped messages to corresponding terminals, ensuring a balanced and enriched display of comments.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If all live commenting messages are provided to users, then the completeness of information is improved, but the message update speed becomes too fast for users to read

Engineering Contradiction:
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the stream of live commenting messages into discrete groups that can be managed and displayed at controlled intervals. By dividing the continuous flow of comments into manageable segments, the system prevents information overload while maintaining completeness, allowing users to read comments at a reasonable pace without missing content.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Loss of time

If users are divided into different groups with limited comment sources, then the message update speed is controlled, but the diversity of displayed comments is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic grouping where user groups and comment assignments are not fixed but adapt based on real-time conditions. The system dynamically adjusts which comments are assigned to which user groups, ensuring that each group receives diverse and relevant comments while maintaining controlled update speeds. This dynamic approach prevents monotony and maintains comment diversity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Productivity

If live commenting messages are updated rapidly to reflect all user inputs, then the real-time interactivity is improved, but users cannot see the content of messages

Engineering Contradiction:
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies periodic action by updating comment displays in regular intervals rather than continuously. Comments are collected and then displayed in periodic batches to user groups, allowing the system to maintain real-time processing capability while providing users with periodic, readable updates at a pace they can consume effectively.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #19Periodic action

Data Source

PatentUS10944700B2Processing live commenting messages based on the ratio of the total number of live commenting messages to a threshold number of live commenting messages displayable on the screen of a terminal
Publication Date: 2021.03.09
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AI summary

The present disclosure provides a method and a device for processing live commenting messages, and a terminal. The method includes: obtaining a total number of a plurality of first live commenting messages sent by a plurality of first terminals in a unit time; calculating a ratio of the total number of the plurality of first live commenting messages to a first threshold; grouping the plurality of first live commenting messages based on the ratio, wherein the grouped plurality of first live commenting messages serve as second live commenting messages; grouping a plurality of second terminals based on the ratio, wherein the plurality of second terminals are configured to receive the second live commenting messages; and sending the second live commenting messages in each group to a corresponding group of second terminals.