Message Processor Application Prompt Triggering

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing communication systems in computer networks lack the ability to easily invoke applications from electronic messages, requiring users to navigate away from message threads to initiate services like financial transactions.

Innovation Solution

A method that identifies special characters in messages to trigger application prompts, allowing users to initiate actions such as money transfers or invoke applications directly within the message thread, eliminating the need to log into separate portals.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If users navigate away from message thread to initiate applications or services, then application functionality is accessible, but user convenience and operational efficiency deteriorate due to additional navigation steps

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of invoking applicationVSAvoidtime to initiate service

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the application invocation interface with the message thread interface by displaying application prompts directly within the message thread. This allows users to initiate applications or services without navigating away from the current message context, thereby improving ease of operation and reducing time loss.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary action by pre-loading and displaying application prompts within the message thread before the user actually needs to invoke an application. This anticipatory approach allows users to access application functionality immediately when needed, without requiring separate navigation steps.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If message interface displays only text content, then message clarity is maintained, but functionality and user interaction capabilities are limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvefunctional versatilityVSAvoidinterface complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the message interface into distinct functional zones: the message content area and the application prompt area. This segmentation allows the interface to maintain message clarity while incorporating additional interactive elements. The application prompts are displayed as separate, identifiable components within the message thread, preserving the overall simplicity while enhancing functionality.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies local quality by making specific portions of the message interface interactive while keeping other portions static. Application prompts are rendered with interactive capabilities (such as tap-to-invoke functionality) only where needed, while the rest of the message thread maintains its traditional read-only characteristics. This selective interactivity enhances versatility without unnecessarily complicating the entire interface.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS20210342796A1Message processor with application prompts

Publication Date: 2021.11.04 SNAP INC

AI summary

A computer implemented method includes identifying a special character in a message generated by a sender. A money transfer prompt is supplied to the sender in response to the special character. A transfer amount is validated. An account transfer for the transfer amount is initiated. The message is sent to a recipient with indicia of the account transfer.