Mobile Social Interaction Question Processing Manager

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users of mobile devices face challenges in quickly obtaining trusted opinions from friends for real-time decision-making, as they often lack the time to select relevant individuals for queries, and existing methods may provide opinions from unknown sources or require extensive time for responses.

Innovation Solution

A question processing manager system that includes a question input engine, connection determination engine, question dissemination engine, response receiving engine, and graph update engine to facilitate the transmission of questions to connected users, receive responses, and update a content graph with question and response nodes, enabling efficient and timely opinion gathering from trusted friends.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If users manually select and contact friends for opinions, then the reliability of opinion sources is improved, but the time required for decision-making increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetrustworthiness of opinion sourcesVSAvoidtime for decision-making
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-establishes a content graph containing user profiles, friend connections, and interest associations before queries are made. When a user needs an opinion, the connection determination engine can immediately query the pre-built graph to identify relevant friends, eliminating the need for manual selection and reducing decision-making time while maintaining reliability through graph-based relationship verification

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The content graph serves as an intermediary data structure that stores and organizes social relationships and user interests. The graph update engine continuously updates this intermediary structure with new connections and interests, enabling the system to rapidly determine relevant opinion sources without direct user intervention, thus resolving the time-reliability contradiction

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Quantity of substance

If users query a broad audience for opinions, then the quantity of responses increases, but the relevance and trustworthiness of opinions decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvenumber of responsesVSAvoidrelevance and trustworthiness of opinions
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The connection determination engine queries the content graph with specific criteria (user interests, connection strength, relevance metrics) to identify a targeted subset of relevant friends rather than querying all connections. This local quality approach ensures that each user receives a customized set of highly relevant opinions from the most appropriate sources, balancing quantity with relevance and trustworthiness

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts query parameters in the content graph based on the specific question context, user profile, and relationship data. By changing parameters such as connection depth, interest matching thresholds, and relevance weights, the system optimizes the balance between obtaining sufficient responses and ensuring their relevance and trustworthiness

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Measurement precision

If the system maintains a detailed content graph with all user connections and interests, then the precision of opinion matching is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprecision of opinion matchingVSAvoidcomplexity of content graph structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The content graph is segmented into distinct modules: user profile nodes, friend connection edges, interest attribute nodes, and query result nodes. The graph update engine processes updates in discrete segments rather than as a monolithic structure. This segmentation allows the system to maintain high precision matching capabilities while managing complexity through modular organization and selective updating of graph portions

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS9985923B2Mobile social interaction
Publication Date: 2018.05.29 MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
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AI summary

A question associated with a first user may be obtained. A search link may be determined based on content of the first question. A response may be obtained. Updates to a content graph may be initiated, including an addition of a question node and a first link indicating asking of the question by the first user, and an addition of a response node and a second link indicating an answer relationship between the question and the response, and a third link indicating answering of the question from a second user, the second user associated with the first user via a friend link indicating a friend connection relationship between nodes associated with the first user and the second user.