Messaging Ticketing with Lightweight App Clips and WebSockets
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing messaging applications on client devices lack the capability to efficiently facilitate tasks such as purchasing tickets without requiring a full application installation, leading to inefficiencies in the ticket purchasing process.
Innovation Solution
Implementing an abbreviated version of a client application, known as an App Clip, within a messaging application to enable ticket selection and purchase, utilizing a messaging service to launch the App Clip, and integrating real-time seat availability updates through websockets for seamless transaction processing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a full client application is installed to enable ticket purchasing, then the functionality and reliability are improved, but the installation overhead and device complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the ticket purchasing application into a lightweight App Clip that can be launched independently from the messaging application. This segmentation allows users to access ticket purchasing functionality without installing a full client application, thereby reducing installation overhead while maintaining the necessary functionality for selecting tickets and making payments.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the essential ticket purchasing functionality from the full client application and implements it as a standalone App Clip. This extracted version contains only the necessary components for ticket selection and payment, eliminating the need for users to install and manage a complete application while preserving core functionality.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a full client application is installed, then the adaptability and versatility are improved, but the ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables the messaging application to serve multiple functions by integrating App Clip launch capability directly into the messaging interface. Users can access ticket purchasing functionality through a simple link in a message, eliminating the need to separately search for or launch a dedicated application, thus improving ease of operation while maintaining versatility.
3Productivity
If real-time seat availability updates are implemented, then the productivity and transaction efficiency are improved, but the use of energy and system resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements real-time seat availability updates through a feedback mechanism where the server pushes updates to the App Clip via websockets. This allows the ticket purchasing system to respond immediately to seat availability changes, improving transaction efficiency by ensuring users always see the most current information without requiring continuous polling of the server.
Data Source
AI summary
In various examples, system, methods, and techniques for implementing communication between a messaging application (e.g., a texting application) on a client device (e.g., a mobile device) and one or more different applications. In at least one embodiment, a server application transmits a link to a messaging application performed by a client device. Selection of the link in the messaging application causes the client device to launch an abbreviated version of a client application. The abbreviated version implements less than a full version of the client application. The abbreviated version of the client application transmits ticket selection information to the server application, and causes the messaging application to initiate a payment process.