Mobile Image Sharing Linked to Calls and Push Notifications
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing social network applications do not integrate user posts, such as status, commentary, and photographs, with smartphone telephony interactions, limiting their use to specific social networks and lacking the ability to personalize and dynamically share content with individual contacts or groups.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for enhancing data sharing between computing devices, allowing users to submit images with defined recipients and time periods, updating interfaces for display, sending push notifications, and integrating image sharing with phone calls, using applications to associate images with contact lists and display images during calls.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If social network applications are designed specifically for use within respective social networks, then user posts can be displayed within the social network platform, but the applications cannot be used for real-time native smartphone telephony interactions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal system that enables social network applications to function across multiple platforms including native smartphone telephony interactions. The system allows user posts to be shared not only within social networks but also during phone calls, text messages, and video conferences, making the application universally applicable across different communication channels
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary system that bridges social network applications and telephony interactions. This intermediary enables the integration of social media content sharing capabilities with native smartphone communication functions, allowing seamless operation across both domains without requiring complete system redesign
2Adaptability or versatility
If social networks do not integrate user posts with smartphone telephony interactions, then the system logic remains simple and focused, but users cannot share personalized content with individual contacts during telephony interactions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements local quality by enabling personalized content sharing with specific contacts during telephony interactions. Users can select and share particular posts, photos, or status updates with individual contacts or groups, rather than broadcasting uniformly to all contacts. This allows tailored communication experiences while maintaining manageable system complexity through selective data integration
3Adaptability or versatility
If social network applications lack logic to mix user posts with smartphone telephony interactions, then the application structure remains simple, but dynamic content sharing with selected recipients is not available
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces dynamic content sharing capabilities that allow users to selectively share different posts and content types with different contacts during telephony interactions. The system dynamically matches user posts with selected recipients based on user preferences and interaction context, enabling flexible and adaptive content distribution while managing complexity through modular matching logic
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AI summary
A method of enhancing data sharing between mobile or other computing device users includes receiving a submission request generated by user interaction with a first user interface on a first computing device, the submission request including an image and associated submission data indicative of a recipient of the image, and updating a second user interface on a second computing device associated with the recipient to make the image available for display. The method may include sending a push notification to the second computing device indicating that the image is available for display for a period of time. The image may be displayed together with a call button operable to initiate a phone call from the second computing device to the first computing device. The image may be available for display on the second communication device upon receipt of a communication from the first computing device by the second computing device.