Real-time Messaging Platform with Embedded Third-party Content
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional instant messaging systems, particularly in group settings, fail to provide adequate identity privacy and often overburden messaging infrastructure, leading to increased user effort and infrastructure stress.
Innovation Solution
A real-time messaging platform that allows a third party to contribute messages to a two-party or multi-party messaging session without requiring users to add the third party, reducing the number of individual messages transmitted and the need for users to access their devices, while maintaining privacy by not revealing identities or phone numbers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a third party is added to a messaging session to enable content contribution, then messaging functionality is enhanced, but device complexity and user setup effort increase due to requiring group creation and address entry
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary mechanism where the third party's message is routed through the first user's device without requiring the third party to be a formal participant in the messaging session. The communication application acts as a mediator that embeds the third party's message content into the existing two-party message flow, allowing content contribution while avoiding group setup complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The messaging system is enhanced with multi-functionality to handle both traditional two-party messaging and third-party content contribution through a unified interface. The same communication application that handles user-to-user messaging also supports embedded third-party messages, eliminating the need for separate group chat functionality
2Reliability
If multiple separate messages are transmitted for third party content, then message delivery is reliable, but infrastructure loading increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges the third party's message content with the user's outgoing message into a single combined message transmission. Instead of sending separate messages for user content and third-party content, both are embedded within one message framework that is transmitted once through the messaging infrastructure, reducing overall message volume while maintaining delivery reliability
3Loss of information
If third party messages are sent as separate communications, then message content is delivered, but user time and effort increase due to multiple device accesses
Solution Approach 1:
The communication application combines multiple message sources (user input and third-party content) into a single unified message display that the user accesses once. The third party's message is embedded within the same message framework as the user's message, allowing both content types to be viewed simultaneously in one device access rather than requiring separate accesses for different messages
4Adaptability or versatility
If a group messaging session is established for three parties, then all participants can communicate, but memory usage increases due to storing multiple addresses
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses the first user's device as an intermediary that handles third-party message routing without requiring the third party's address to be stored on the second user's device. The communication application mediates the message flow, embedding third-party content while maintaining privacy by not exposing addresses, thus reducing memory storage requirements
Solution Approach 2:
The system extracts the address storage requirement from the messaging participation functionality. Instead of requiring all participant addresses to be stored on each device for group communication, the system separates address management from message content delivery, allowing third-party participation without increasing address storage on user devices
Data Source
AI summary
A real-time messaging system platform receives from, a communication application installed on a first user communication device, a first user identifier, an indication that a messaging service message composed by the first user is being directed to a first destination associated with a second user, and an identification of data present in the messaging service message. The identification of the data and a message transmission history of the first user is used to enable selection of a message of a first entity. The selected message of the first entity is caused to be displayed by the communication application within a message framework that frames the first user messaging service message. The first entity message is caused to be included in the messaging service message transmitted to the second user device, wherein the first entity is not provided with access to the identity of the first user or the second user.