Message Reply Layout for Segment Quoting Clarity

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing communication software allows users to quote and reply to entire historical messages, leading to unclear intentions for recipients and reduced conversational efficiency.

Innovation Solution

A message processing method and apparatus that enables users to selectively quote and reply to specific message segments, displaying the quoted segments and replies in a targeted manner, with identifiers to indicate the quoted content and maintain a consistent layout.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If users quote and reply to entire historical messages, then the reply function is provided, but the recipient cannot accurately know the user's intention and conversational efficiency is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvereply functionVSAvoidintention clarity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the historical message into multiple selectable message segments, allowing users to quote only the specific portions they wish to reply to. This segmentation enables precise targeting of reply content, solving the problem of unclear intentions when replying to entire historical messages.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies local quality by allowing different parts of the historical message to have different quoting states. Users can selectively quote specific message segments while leaving others unquoted, creating a localized quoting effect that precisely conveys which parts of the original message the reply addresses.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

2Ease of operation

If users quote and reply to entire historical messages, then the reply function is provided, but conversational efficiency is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvereply functionVSAvoidconversational efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements partial action by allowing users to quote only the necessary portions of the historical message rather than the entire message. This partial quoting approach reduces unnecessary information processing and improves conversational efficiency while maintaining the core reply function.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple reply identifiers are displayed, then multiple message segments can be quoted, but the layout consistency may be affected

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemultiple quotingVSAvoidlayout consistency

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSShape

Solution Approach 1:

The patent resolves layout conflicts by transitioning from a horizontal arrangement to a vertical arrangement of reply identifiers. This dimensional change allows multiple reply identifiers to be displayed without compromising the compactness and consistency of the message bubble layout, enabling versatile multi-segment quoting while maintaining visual coherence.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentUS12483524B2Message processing method and apparatus, and electronic device

Publication Date: 2025.11.25 VIVO MOBILE COMM CO LTD

AI summary

A message processing method and apparatus, and an electronic device, are provided. The message processing method includes: when a communication interface displays a first message, receiving a first input performed by a first user on the first message; and in response to the first input, displaying a second message on the communication interface, where the second message includes the first message and a reply message quoting a first message segment in the first message.