Instant Messenger Data Aggregation Across Multiple Chatrooms

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face difficulties in accessing, integrating, and managing data sent and received across multiple chatrooms in instant messenger applications, as well as safely storing and organizing this data.

Innovation Solution

The operating method provides a structured view for users to select and access data types across chatrooms, integrating and displaying them based on categories, with options for searching, deleting, and managing data, including favorite data, and offers storage solutions based on user account levels, utilizing local and cloud storage.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If data from multiple chatrooms is accessed separately through individual chatroom interfaces, then data security and chatroom-specific organization are maintained, but user convenience and data accessibility deteriorate as users must manually navigate through each chatroom to find specific data

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata accessibilityVSAvoidinterface structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments data from multiple chatrooms into a unified view that displays data types (images, videos, files, texts) from all chatrooms simultaneously. This allows users to access data across chatrooms without manually navigating each chatroom interface, improving accessibility while maintaining the underlying chatroom structure for security and organization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary unified data view that sits between the user and the multiple chatroom data sources. This intermediary layer aggregates data from various chatrooms and presents it in a consolidated manner, allowing users to search and access data across chatrooms without directly interacting with each chatroom interface, thus improving convenience while preserving data security.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

If data from multiple chatrooms is integrated into a single view, then user convenience and data management efficiency are improved, but data security and chatroom-specific access control may deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata management efficiencyVSAvoiddata security
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the unified data view by data types (images, videos, files, texts) while maintaining the ability to trace data back to its source chatroom. This segmentation allows efficient integration and management of data from multiple chatrooms while preserving the organizational structure needed for security and access control.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The unified data view acts as an intermediary layer that aggregates data from multiple chatrooms without compromising the underlying access control mechanisms. Users can search and manage data efficiently in this unified view, while the system maintains chatroom-specific security policies by controlling how data is accessed and displayed in the unified interface.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Ease of operation

If detailed search functions are provided for finding specific data across chatrooms, then data accessibility and user convenience are improved, but system complexity and processing requirements deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata search capabilityVSAvoidsearch system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the search function into specific data type categories (images, videos, files, texts). Users can search within each data type category separately, which simplifies the search process compared to searching through all data types simultaneously. This segmentation reduces the complexity of the search system while improving usability by allowing targeted searches.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS11695714B2Apparatus and operating method of instant messenger application
Publication Date: 2023.07.04 KAKAO CORP
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AI summary

An operating method of an instant messenger application includes providing a first view including types of data sent and received through a chatroom, receiving a selection with respect to one of the types, and providing a second view integrating and displaying data corresponding to the selected type, among data sent and received in a plurality of chatrooms in which a user participates.