Multi-Participant Live Communication UI With Automatic Notifications

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing techniques for live communication involving multiple participants are cumbersome and inefficient, requiring complex user interfaces and redundant user inputs, which waste time and battery power in battery-operated devices.

Innovation Solution

Faster and more efficient methods and interfaces for live communication are provided, reducing cognitive burden and conserving power by optimizing user interactions and device energy usage.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If existing techniques for live communication are used, then communication functionality is provided, but user interface complexity and time consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser interface simplicityVSAvoidtime for user inputs
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically detects when a user is in a live communication session and proactively displays a notification with a join link before the user needs to share it. This preliminary action eliminates the need for users to manually navigate through complex menus or perform multiple keystrokes to obtain sharing information, thereby reducing time consumption while maintaining communication functionality

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Use of energy by moving object

If existing techniques for live communication are used, then communication functionality is provided, but device energy consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebattery power consumptionVSAvoidcommunication efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Use of energy by moving objectVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically monitors live communication sessions and generates notification links without requiring user intervention. This self-service approach eliminates redundant user inputs and complex interface interactions, reducing processor activity and battery power consumption while maintaining efficient communication functionality

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Ease of operation

If complex user interfaces with multiple key presses are used, then communication control is provided, but cognitive burden and operation time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecognitive burdenVSAvoidinterface complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts the essential functionality of sharing communication session information from the complex user interface. By automatically generating and displaying notification links with join information, it removes the need for users to navigate through multiple interface layers or remember complex input sequences, thereby reducing cognitive burden while maintaining communication control

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentEP3691181B1Multi-participant live communication user interface
Publication Date: 2025.09.24 APPLE INC
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AI summary

A method includes displaying a messaging user interface of a messaging application, the messaging user interface including a message region that includes a plurality of messages in a message conversation between three or more participants. First data is received indicating that a live communication session that is available to the three or more participants is active. In response to receiving the first data, a notification is displayed indicating that the live communication session is active. While displaying the notification, second data is received indicating that the live communication session between the three or more participants is no longer active. In response to receiving the second data, the notification indicating that the live communication session is active is ceased to be displayed or updated to indicate that the live communication session is no longer active.