Mobile Social Networking Client Application with Server Data Filtering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face challenges in managing their electronic presence across multiple online services and accessing social networks seamlessly, particularly due to the lack of a unified system and limited accessibility via mobile devices, which are not always readily available.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that utilizes a mobile telephone device and a social network server to facilitate social networking by installing a client application, transmitting user data, analyzing contacts, and presenting update data, focusing on the closest social links stored in the phonebook, with features like data filtering, preference settings, and efficient data transfer using HTTP and SMS protocols.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users access multiple online services independently, then each service can be optimized for its specific function, but the complexity of managing electronic presence across multiple services increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple online service access points into a single unified interface on the mobile telephone device. The system integrates social networking, messaging, and contact management functions that were previously distributed across multiple services into one consolidated application, allowing users to manage their electronic presence across all services from a single location.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile telephone device is transformed into a universal access point for multiple online services. The system enables the device to perform diverse functions including social networking, contact management, messaging, and data synchronization across different services, making the single device adaptable to various communication needs without requiring separate access points for each service.
2Ease of operation
If users rely on laptop and desktop computers for social networking, then accessibility to social networks is improved, but availability is reduced since these devices are not close to hand at all times
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables the mobile telephone device to autonomously manage social networking functions without requiring connection to external computers. The device independently synchronizes contact data, receives and processes update data from the social network server, and presents information to the user directly, making the system self-sufficient and always available regardless of computer proximity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions social networking access from fixed-location devices (laptops and desktops) to a mobile dimension. By implementing full social networking functionality on the mobile telephone device, the system adds the dimension of mobility, allowing users to access and manage their social network presence at any location and at any time, not just when at a computer.
3Reliability
If all user data is transmitted to the social network server, then data synchronization is improved, but network traffic increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and transmits only the essential user data needed for social networking functionality to the server. Rather than transmitting all possible data, the system selectively transfers contact data and update information that is relevant to maintaining the social network presence, reducing unnecessary network traffic while ensuring critical data synchronization.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements partial data transmission by sending only the necessary portions of user data for social networking operations. The mobile device transmits contact information and receives update data selectively, avoiding excessive data transfer while maintaining adequate synchronization for the core social networking functions.
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AI summary
A social networking system comprises a mobile telephone device relating to a first user. that facilitates telephone calls between the first user and other users. User data including identity data and contact data of the other users is initially resident upon the mobile telephone device. The mobile telephone device comprises a resident client application, a social network server and a network providing communication between the mobile telephone device and the social network server. User data is obtained from the device and transmitted to the social network server. The social network server analyzes the user data to identify which other users are also users of the social network server and to form a social network group accordingly and to receive update data relating to any user of the group. The social network server further selects the update data and transmits it to the client application for presentation to the first user.