Instant Messaging Transcript Sharing for New Participants
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Solution Overview
Problem
In instant messaging sessions, newly added participants often lack context due to missing prior postings in their transcript view, hindering their ability to adequately participate as they only receive messages from the time they joined the session onwards.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for sharing at least a portion of the instant messaging transcript with new participants, allowing them to view and optionally log prior postings, determined by manual selection or established rules, ensuring they have necessary context through transcript sharing logic integrated with instant messaging servers and clients.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If new participants are added to an ongoing instant messaging session, then the session becomes more collaborative and inclusive, but the new participants lack context from prior postings
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by capturing and storing transcript data from prior postings before the new participant joins the session. This allows the historical conversation data to be prepared in advance and made available to new participants when they are added, ensuring they receive the complete context without delay.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism (the transcript sharing system) that bridges the gap between existing participants and new participants. This intermediary captures, stores, and transmits the historical transcript data, enabling new participants to access conversation context that occurred before their加入, thus resolving the information asymmetry.
2Loss of information
If the complete transcript is shared with new participants, then they gain full context, but system complexity and data transmission requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the necessary transcript data (prior postings) from the complete conversation history and transmits it to new participants. This selective extraction approach provides sufficient context without the need to share the entire transcript, thereby reducing system complexity and data transmission requirements while still resolving the information gap.
3Ease of operation
If transcript sharing is enabled for new participants, then participation quality improves, but security and access control requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements local quality by applying different access control rules to different portions of the transcript or to different participants. This allows the system to provide high-quality transcript sharing to authorized participants while maintaining security through differentiated permissions, thus resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and security control.
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AI summary
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to instant messaging and provide a method, system and computer program product for instant messaging transcript sharing for added participants to an instant messaging session. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for instant messaging transcript sharing for added participants to an instant messaging session can be provided. The method can include establishing an instant messaging session as between a set of initial parties, aggregating postings from the initial parties into a transcript, adding a new party to the instant messaging session, and sharing at least a portion of the transcript in a transcript view for the new party. Optionally, an ability of the new party to log shared portions of the transcript can be limited or prohibited.