Participant List Filtering Social Network Feed Entries

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Solution Overview

Problem

In social networking platforms, entries often lack persistence in user feeds due to the large volume of information, making it difficult for users to maintain attention on important business-related communications amidst numerous posts and messages.

Innovation Solution

The implementation of participant lists, which categorize users and entries, allows for filtering and sorting of social feeds to prioritize entries where the user is a participant, ensuring that relevant business communications are highlighted and not overlooked.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If social networking platforms allow rapid communication among large numbers of people, then information exchange efficiency is improved, but important entries lose persistence and visibility in user feeds

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation exchange efficiencyVSAvoidpersistence of important entries

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the social feed into different sections: a main feed showing general posts and a separate 'Participant List' section that specifically highlights entries where the user is a participant. This segmentation allows important business communications to be visually separated and prioritized, preventing them from being lost among numerous other posts while maintaining overall feed functionality.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Quantity of substance

If the social feed includes all posts and messages, then information completeness is improved, but important business communications become difficult to locate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation completenessVSAvoidlocatability of important communications

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses visual indicators such as color-coded icons, highlighted text, or distinct graphical elements to mark entries where the user is a participant. These visual changes make important business communications stand out from regular posts, allowing users to quickly detect and locate relevant information without sacrificing the completeness of the overall feed.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #32Color changes

3Loss of information

If participant lists are implemented to prioritize relevant entries, then persistence of important entries is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepersistence of important entriesVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically generates participant lists by analyzing entry metadata and user relationships without requiring manual intervention. The platform autonomously identifies which users should be highlighted for each entry and dynamically updates the participant list section, reducing the need for complex manual configuration while maintaining persistence of important entries.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS9544383B1Participant list

Publication Date: 2017.01.10 APPIAN CORP

AI summary

In one implementation, entries may be received in a social network platform. The entries may include an entry associated with a participant list. The participant list may identify one or more users as a participant for the entry. A filter request for a user may be received. The filter request may be a request to filter the received entries based on the presence of the user in the participant list. The received entries may be filtered based on the presence of the user in the participant list. The filtered entries may be provided to the user.