Online Messenger Notification Control via Keyword Importance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of online messengers face disruptions due to indiscriminate message notifications, especially when on vacation or in meetings, leading to increased fatigue and the risk of missing important messages.
Innovation Solution
A message notification method that determines the importance of received messages based on keywords and user interaction, classifying messages into groups and controlling notification displays according to user status, ensuring only important messages are notified during inappropriate times.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If notification displays are provided for all received messages, then users can be aware of all incoming messages, but users experience increased fatigue and disruption especially during meetings or vacations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by providing different notification treatments to different messages based on their importance. Important messages (those containing keywords or from important contacts) receive full notification displays, while non-important messages receive suppressed or reduced notifications. This allows the notification system to have varying properties across different messages rather than treating all messages uniformly.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the notification parameter (notification intensity or suppression) based on the importance level of messages. By analyzing message content for keywords and determining importance scores, the system dynamically adjusts notification behavior - providing full notifications for high-importance messages and suppressed notifications for low-importance messages, thereby resolving the contradiction between awareness and fatigue.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If notification displays are suppressed for all messages during certain periods, then user fatigue is reduced, but users may miss important messages
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a conceptual copy or representation of message importance by analyzing message content against predefined keywords and contact importance levels. This importance classification acts as a copy of the message's significance, allowing the system to make notification decisions based on this derived importance metric rather than treating all messages equally, thus preventing important messages from being missed during suppression periods.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring message content, determining importance levels, and adjusting notification behavior accordingly. The feedback loop analyzes each incoming message, compares it against importance criteria, and provides appropriate notification feedback - ensuring important messages break through suppression while non-important messages remain suppressed, thus preventing information loss.
3Measurement precision
If users manually control notifications for each chat room, then notification precision can be improved, but device complexity and user burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies self-service by automatically analyzing message content, determining importance levels, and controlling notifications without requiring manual user intervention. The system serves itself by using keyword matching and importance scoring algorithms to autonomously decide which messages warrant notifications, eliminating the need for complex manual per-chat-room configuration while maintaining high notification precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal notification control mechanism that applies across all chat rooms and message types. Instead of requiring separate control settings for each chat room, the system implements a single importance-based classification framework that universally evaluates all incoming messages and applies appropriate notification rules, thereby simplifying the control mechanism while maintaining precision.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure relates to a message notification method of an online messenger, and a computing device using the same. The message notification method of the online messenger according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes determining, when a new message is received, the importance of the new message based on keywords included in the new message; identifying a user status configured within the online messenger; and controlling a notification display indicating reception of the new message based on the importance of the new message and the user status.