Mobile Terminal Message Grouping for Conversation Flow
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mobile terminals face challenges in managing and searching messages during conversations due to limited screen size, where users must scroll through numerous messages, hindering the flow of conversation and making it difficult to find specific messages.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus for classifying messages into groups based on preset conditions, allowing easy storage and retrieval, with display items representing these groups in a dialog window for efficient management and search.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If all exchanged messages are displayed in a single dialog window, then the user can see the latest message, but the user cannot view previous messages without scrolling, which disrupts conversation flow
Solution Approach 1:
The dialog window is segmented into multiple message groups, where each group contains a subset of exchanged messages. This segmentation allows the interface to display multiple groups simultaneously without requiring users to scroll through the entire message history, thus maintaining conversation flow while ensuring all messages remain visible.
2Loss of information
If the screen size is increased to display all messages, then all messages can be visible, but the mobility requirement of mobile terminals cannot be met
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of expanding the screen size in a single dimension, the patent utilizes the vertical dimension by stacking multiple message groups within the existing screen boundaries. This allows comprehensive message display while maintaining the compact form factor required for mobile terminals.
3Ease of operation
If users scroll slowly to understand message contents, then message comprehension is improved, but the time to find desired messages increases
Solution Approach 1:
By dividing messages into discrete groups that are displayed simultaneously, users can quickly scan through multiple groups to locate desired messages without slow scrolling. Each group acts as a readable unit that maintains comprehension while enabling faster navigation across the entire message history.
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AI summary
A mobile terminal and message-based conversation operation method for the same are provided. The message-based conversation operation method includes generating message groups by classifying one or more messages exchanged during a message-based conversation according to preset conditions, storing the generated message groups, and outputting display items corresponding to the stored message groups in a dialog window for the message-based conversation.