Unified Messaging and Media Search Interface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional messaging applications require users to exit and switch between apps to send multimedia content, such as digital photos or videos, which is inconvenient for integrating multimedia items into messages.
Innovation Solution
A combined messaging and digital media item search interface is provided, allowing users to search and select local and connected multimedia items directly from the keyboard of a messaging application using an AI-powered visual recognition system, with features like a digital media item search query field, tag field, and preview frame, enabling seamless integration of multimedia content into messages.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users exit the messaging application to access multimedia content in separate applications, then they can access digital photos or videos, but they must perform multiple steps of copying and pasting which increases operation complexity and time consumption
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the messaging application interface with a digital media search interface into a single unified interface. Users can search for and select digital media items (photos, videos) directly within the messaging application without switching to separate applications. This merging eliminates the need for copying and pasting between apps, reducing operational steps while maintaining access to multimedia content.
Solution Approach 2:
The messaging application is enhanced with multi-functionality by integrating digital media search and selection capabilities directly into the keyboard interface. The system can perform text input, emoji selection, and digital media search/selection within the same interface, eliminating the need for separate applications for each function.
2Productivity
If a combined messaging and digital media item search interface is provided, then users can search and select multimedia items directly from the keyboard, but the interface complexity increases with additional fields and components
Solution Approach 1:
The combined interface is segmented into distinct functional regions: a messaging region for text input and a digital media search region with a query field, tag field, and preview frame. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function clearly while maintaining an organized overall structure that manages complexity through functional separation.
Solution Approach 2:
The digital media search interface acts as an intermediary layer between the user and the digital media library. Instead of requiring direct access to file systems or separate applications, the search interface with its query field, tag field, and preview frame provides a mediated environment where users can search, filter, and select media items before inserting them into messages.
Data Source
AI summary
Keyboard-based search of local and/or connected digital media items may be facilitated. A digital media item search interface may be presented in the same view as a messaging interface. The digital media item search interface may receive input such as from an on-screen keyboard to facilitate editing of user-provided search queries and submission of the user-provided search queries. The digital media item search interface may present digital media item tags relating to context information based on input received by the digital media item search query field. The digital media item search interface may present visual previews of local and/or connected digital media items corresponding to digital media item tags presented in the digital media item tag field. The digital media item search interface may receive user selections of individual digital media items to be communicated to one or more other users via the messaging interface.