Notification System for Social Network Membership Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
As the number of users on computer networks and smartphones increases, managing invitations and keeping up with various operations associated with social network memberships becomes challenging, leading to difficulties in maintaining a dense social graph and preventing undesirable users from joining services.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for generating notifications based on membership formation, which includes identifying user selections to invite others to join a social network, generating prompt data for invitations, determining membership indications, and transmitting notification data to inform users of new members, allowing for detailed notifications that enable in-network communication, sharing multimedia, and managing user interactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If a user invites multiple friends to join a social network service, then the social graph becomes dense and the service gains more users, but it becomes difficult for the user to keep up with various operations associated with the invitations and manage the increasing number of members
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically generates and sends notifications to users when they are invited to join a social network service, eliminating the need for the inviting user to manually track and manage each invitation. The notification system self-services the invitation tracking function, allowing users to simply invite friends without burden of follow-up management.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides feedback to the inviting user through notifications when invitees join the service. This feedback mechanism keeps users informed about the status of their invitations without requiring them to actively monitor or manage each invitation, resolving the contradiction between growing the user base and maintaining ease of operation.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the system generates detailed notifications with multiple interaction options for every new member joining, then user interaction management is enhanced, but the complexity of the notification system and the cognitive load on users increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides a set of pre-configured interaction options in notifications (such as welcoming, blocking, or ignoring users) but does not require users to utilize all of them. This partial action approach gives users versatile management capabilities while avoiding the complexity of requiring them to configure and manage all possible interaction scenarios.
Solution Approach 2:
The notification system allows users to change parameters of their interaction preferences over time. Users can adjust how they respond to notifications from new members based on their current needs, providing adaptability without requiring complex system configuration. The system adapts to user behavior patterns rather than imposing fixed complex procedures.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for generating notifications are described. A method includes receiving user input of a user of a first plurality of users of a first service to transmit an invitation to a second plurality of users to become members of the first service, wherein the first plurality of users are associated with respective online accounts of the first plurality of online accounts, the second plurality of users are specified in the user input and are associated with respective online accounts of a second plurality of online accounts of a second service. The method also includes in response to the user input of the user of the first plurality of users of the first service to transmit the invitation to the second plurality of users to become a member of the first service, determining that a set of usage parameters of a subset of the second plurality of online accounts of the second service do not satisfy one or more activity criteria for becoming a member of the first service, preventing transmission of the invitation to become a member of the first service to a subset of users of the second plurality of users of the second service, wherein the subset of users of the second plurality of users of the second service corresponds to the subset of the second plurality of online accounts of the second service that do not satisfy the one or more activity criteria, and sending the invitation to become a member of the first service to remaining users in the second plurality of users. The method further includes in response to one or more users of the remaining users accepting the invitation to become members of the first service, providing a notification data to inform the user that the one or more users of the remaining users have become members of the first service, and in response to a selection of the notification data by the user, providing a user interface presenting customized operations to be performed by the user with respect to each of the one or more users of the remaining users that have become members of the first service.