Messaging-System Friend Carousel for Unified In-App Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of applications are often unaware they are interacting with friends from a messaging system within the application, and existing applications do not provide seamless access to messaging system features or friend information, leading to a barrier in using and recognizing friends within the application.
Innovation Solution
A carousel application or module that provides access to related entities (friends) within a messaging system, enabling users to send messages, see friend status, and invite friends to participate in the application, while displaying avatars and nicknames from the messaging system, and ordering friends based on interactions and application relevance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the application provides separate friend lists and messaging interfaces, then the application can maintain its own social features, but users cannot easily recognize or access their messaging system friends within the application
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the friend list from the messaging system with the application's friend list by displaying a unified carousel of friends. This carousel integrates friends from both the messaging system and the application, allowing users to recognize and access messaging system friends directly within the application interface without needing separate friend lists or switching between different interfaces.
2Ease of operation
If the application does not integrate messaging system features, then the application maintains simplicity, but users cannot send messages or access messaging functions with their friends within the application
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements multi-functionality by enabling the carousel to serve multiple purposes: displaying friends from both the messaging system and the application, providing messaging capabilities, and offering friend status information. Users can send messages, view status, and interact with friends from the messaging system all within the application interface, eliminating the need to switch between different applications or interfaces.
3Ease of operation
If the application displays all friends equally, then the interface remains simple, but users cannot easily access frequently interacted-with friends or prioritize relevant connections
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic friend ordering by prioritizing friends based on their interaction history and relevance within the application. The carousel dynamically adjusts the display order of friends, placing frequently interacted-with friends at the top of the list. This dynamic reordering based on user behavior patterns allows users to quickly access their most relevant connections without requiring complex manual sorting interfaces.
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AI summary
A carousel module that enables a user of an application to access related entities which may be friends where the friends are friends to the user within a messaging system. The carousel module accesses profile information of the friends from the messaging system and makes the profile information available within the application. The carousel module provides new functions related to friends for the user within the application. Methods include a carousel module accessing from a messaging system a list of friends of a user of an application, the list of friends indicating friends of a user within the messaging system. The methods include causing a carousel to be displayed for the user on a computing device and causing a status within the application of the friends of the carousel to be displayed on the computing device.