Real-Time Media Selection for Collaboration Sessions

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional messaging applications limit users' ability to express emotions in real-time communications during collaborations, relying on static representations like emoticons, stickers, and manually created videos, which are time-consuming and inefficient.

Innovation Solution

A processing device analyzes user communications and automatically selects media items from popular culture to enrich or represent user communications in real-time collaboration sessions, adding them to the session without user intervention.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If users manually create and select videos to add to messages, then emotional expression capability is improved, but time consumption and user effort increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveemotional expression capabilityVSAvoidtime consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically analyzes user communications and selects appropriate media items without requiring manual user intervention. The processing device performs content analysis, selects matching media from a library, and adds them to collaboration sessions autonomously, eliminating the time-consuming manual creation and selection process while maintaining rich emotional expression capability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system pre-prepares a library of well-known media items categorized by emotional context and communication type before they are needed. This preliminary organization allows for rapid automatic selection during real-time collaboration sessions, resolving the contradiction between having versatile emotional expression options available and minimizing time consumption during actual use

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Ease of operation

If static representations like emoticons and stickers are used, then ease of operation is improved, but emotional expression richness deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of operationVSAvoidemotional expression richness

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically selects and inserts appropriate media items based on real-time analysis of user communications during collaboration sessions. Instead of static pre-selected emoticons, the system adapts its choices based on the specific context, emotional tone, and content being communicated, providing rich emotional expression while requiring minimal user effort beyond the initial communication input

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The processing device acts as an intermediary between the user's simple text or video input and the rich media library. It automatically translates user communications into appropriate emotional representations by selecting and inserting relevant media items from the library, bridging the gap between ease of operation and emotional expression richness

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS10257140B1Content sharing to represent user communications in real-time collaboration sessions

Publication Date: 2019.04.09 GOOGLE LLC

AI summary

A processing device analyzes a user communication as the user communication is being provided by a user of a source device to a user of a target device as part of a collaboration session between the user of the source device and the user of the target device. The processing device selects a media item based on content of the user communication. The selected media item has well-known content. The processing device adds at least a portion of the selected media item to the collaboration session for presentation to at least one of the source device or the target device.