Messenger Profile Video Background Recommendation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Instant messaging services lack a feature to effectively recommend and display friends who have set videos as their profile background, limiting user interaction and engagement.

Innovation Solution

An operation method for a messenger application that receives a list of accounts with video backgrounds from a server, recommends these accounts to users, and displays the selected video as the background in a profile view, allowing users to navigate through recommended friends and edit their own profile views with video backgrounds.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a friend list is generated based on contact information and profile images, then the basic friend recommendation function is provided, but the user engagement and interaction are limited due to lack of video background features

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprofile view functionalityVSAvoiduser interaction

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The profile view is transformed from a static image-based display to a dynamic video-based display. Users can set videos as profile backgrounds that play automatically, creating a more engaging and lively profile view that enhances user interaction and engagement while maintaining ease of operation through intuitive video selection and playback controls.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Adaptability or versatility

If video backgrounds are added to profile views, then user engagement and profile representation are enhanced, but the system complexity and processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprofile view functionalityVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system separates video background functionality into distinct modules: video selection interface, video playback controller, and profile view renderer. This segmentation allows the video background feature to be added independently without complicating the core friend list and messaging functions, managing system complexity while enhancing profile view versatility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Users select and prepare video backgrounds in advance through a dedicated selection interface before applying them to their profiles. This preliminary action allows the system to pre-process and cache video data, reducing real-time processing requirements and minimizing system complexity during actual profile view rendering and playback.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Adaptability or versatility

If videos are played as profile backgrounds, then visual appeal and user engagement improve, but energy consumption and data usage increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveprofile view functionalityVSAvoidenergy consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

Video backgrounds play in periodic loops rather than continuously streaming new content. The video playback is configured to repeat within a set duration and can be paused or stopped, allowing users to control energy consumption while maintaining visual appeal and engagement during active viewing periods.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #19Periodic action

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses cached copies of video data stored locally on the user's device rather than continuously streaming from the server. This copying approach reduces real-time data transmission and energy consumption while maintaining smooth video playback performance for profile backgrounds.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

4Adaptability or versatility

If a list view showing accounts with video backgrounds is implemented, then friend recommendation is improved, but the interface complexity and development effort increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvefriend recommendationVSAvoiddevelopment effort

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The list view component is designed to serve multiple functions: displaying friend recommendations, showing video background thumbnails, and providing navigation to profile views. This multi-functional design allows a single interface element to handle friend recommendation and video display tasks, reducing overall interface complexity and development effort compared to separate specialized components.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS11632342B2Instant messaging service for providing profile view with video background

Publication Date: 2023.04.18 KAKAO CORP

AI summary

A messenger application for a second account related to at least one account in an instant messaging service receives, from a server, a list of at least one first account for which a video is registered and recommends a first account using a list view that shows the list of the at least one first account distinguished from a list of the at least one account.