Shared Object Summary Generation for Context-Aware Sharing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing object sharing systems lack the ability to provide recipients with sufficient context about shared objects, often leading to ignored notifications due to a lack of understanding of what has been shared.

Innovation Solution

The system automatically generates summaries for shared objects using a user interface that interacts with a summary generation service, providing carefully engineered prompts to ensure efficient and accurate context delivery.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If a sharing notification is sent without a summary of the shared object, then the notification process is simple and quick, but the recipient lacks context about what has been shared leading to ignored notifications

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontext informationVSAvoidsharing system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically generates a summary of the shared object before sending the notification to the recipient. This preliminary action ensures that context information is prepared in advance, allowing the recipient to understand what has been shared without requiring additional interactions or service calls, thus resolving the contradiction between providing information and increasing complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The sharing system autonomously generates summaries using embedded AI capabilities without requiring manual input from users or multiple service interactions. The system serves itself by automatically creating context-rich notifications, eliminating the need for complex multi-step processes while maintaining simplicity for the end user

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Measurement precision

If multiple service interactions are used to generate accurate summaries, then summary accuracy improves, but computing resource consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesummary accuracyVSAvoidcomputing resource consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs all necessary summarization operations in a single preliminary action before notification delivery. By generating the summary upfront with appropriate prompts and parameters, the system achieves accurate results without requiring follow-up service calls or iterative interactions, thus reducing computing resource consumption while maintaining summary accuracy

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system extracts only the essential context information needed for the notification from the shared object, rather than processing or transmitting the entire object. This selective extraction achieves sufficient accuracy for notification purposes while minimizing computing resource usage by avoiding unnecessary processing

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS12488036B2Automatically generating a summary of objects being shared
Publication Date: 2025.12.02 DROPBOX INC
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AI summary

The present technology addresses a need in the art for providing additional context to a recipient receiving a shared object(s). Sharing messages are generally limited to a brief statement indicating that a user account has shared the object(s). The present technology can automatically create a summary for an object(s) to be shared. Moreover, the present technology provides a user interface that is part of a sharing process for the creation of the summary so that the creation of the summary is very convenient for the user, and can even be completely automatic. Additionally, the present technology includes carefully engineered prompts that result in summaries that are appropriate for the sharing context in which they are intended.