Messaging Interface Credential Verification

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current methods for verifying user credentials in electronic devices are cumbersome, inefficient, and energy wasteful, particularly in battery-operated devices, leading to reduced user satisfaction and increased battery drain.

Innovation Solution

The development of faster and more efficient credential verification methods and interfaces for electronic devices, including the display of a messaging session with a credential verification affordance and detection of user inputs for authentication, which reduces the number and nature of user inputs and conserves power.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If complex credential verification interfaces with multiple key presses and extraneous user interfaces are used, then authentication security is maintained, but user operation time and cognitive burden increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveauthentication securityVSAvoiduser operation time

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the credential verification process from traditional complex UI hierarchies and implements it through a simplified messaging interface. The verification affordance is pulled out as a discrete element within the message bubble, allowing authentication to occur inline rather than through separate navigation steps, thereby reducing operation time while maintaining security

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The verification process is segmented into distinct visual states within the messaging interface: the verification affordance appears as a separate element that can be independently interacted with, and the authentication flow is divided into clear phases (affordance display → user interaction → verification completion), reducing cognitive load while preserving security checks

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Reliability

If traditional credential verification methods with multiple extraneous user interfaces are used, then authentication completeness is ensured, but energy consumption increases due to prolonged device active state

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveauthentication completenessVSAvoiddevice energy consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the credential verification interface with the existing messaging user interface, combining authentication functionality directly within the message bubble rather than requiring separate UI contexts. This integration reduces the time the device must remain in active state, thereby lowering energy consumption while ensuring complete authentication through the verification affordance

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The verification affordance is presented preliminarily within the message flow before full authentication is required, allowing the system to prepare the authentication state in advance. This preliminary presentation reduces the duration of high-power processing by pre-positioning verification elements, thus conserving energy while maintaining authentication completeness

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If multiple extraneous user interfaces and key presses are required for credential verification, then thorough authentication is achieved, but ease of operation deteriorates due to increased cognitive burden

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveauthentication thoroughnessVSAvoiduser interaction simplicity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The messaging interface is given multi-functionality by integrating both communication and credential verification functions within the same UI context. The message bubble serves dual purposes: conveying information and presenting the verification affordance, eliminating the need for users to navigate between separate authentication interfaces and reducing cognitive burden while maintaining thorough authentication

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The verification affordance acts as an intermediary element within the messaging interface, mediating between the user and the authentication system. This intermediary presents verification requirements directly in context without requiring users to understand or navigate complex authentication hierarchies, simplifying operation while ensuring thorough verification through the affordance interaction

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS10893036B2Business messaging interface

Publication Date: 2021.01.12 APPLE INC

AI summary

The present disclosure generally relates to messaging user interfaces. The method includes displaying a messaging session between a user of the device and a respective participant in the message session other than the user of the device in a messaging user interface, wherein the respective participant is associated with a user account of the user. While the messaging session is active, the method also includes displaying, on the display, a first credential verification affordance in the messaging user interface. The method further includes detecting one or more user inputs to authenticate with the user account. After detecting the one or more user inputs to authenticate with the user account, in accordance with a determination that the authentication with the user account was successful, the method further includes providing an indication that the user was successfully authenticated with the user account to the respective participant via the messaging user interface.