Session Filtering via Label Segmentation in Enterprise Apps

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Solution Overview

Problem

In mobile enterprise office platforms, users face inefficiencies in finding specific communication sessions due to the increasing number of sessions, leading to reduced communication efficiency as they need to flip through numerous session entries.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a session filtering method and device that displays filterable labels associated with communication sessions, allowing users to quickly filter and find desired sessions by triggering relevant labels, thereby reducing the search range and improving efficiency.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If users create an increasing number of communication sessions, then communication functionality is enhanced, but it becomes difficult to quickly find a desired communication session

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication functionalityVSAvoidsession search efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments communication sessions into different categories by assigning labels (e.g., work-related, personal, urgent) to each session. This segmentation allows users to quickly identify and access specific session types without reviewing all sessions, resolving the contradiction between having many sessions and easily finding desired ones.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces labels as intermediary elements between communication sessions and users. These labels act as mediators that provide semantic information about sessions, enabling users to quickly search and filter sessions by category without directly examining each session's full content, thus maintaining search efficiency despite increasing session volume.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

If users flip through numerous session entries to find desired sessions, then all sessions can be accessed, but communication efficiency is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesession access capabilityVSAvoidtime spent searching for sessions
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-categorizing sessions with labels before users need to access them. This advance organization of session information allows users to immediately identify relevant sessions when searching, eliminating the need to flip through numerous entries and significantly reducing search time while maintaining access to all sessions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses visual differentiation (analogous to color changes) by assigning distinct visual identifiers to different session labels. This visual coding system enables users to quickly scan and identify desired sessions at a glance without reading full session details, reducing search time while preserving the ability to access any session.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #32Color changes

3Ease of operation

If filterable labels are displayed in presentation areas of session page entries, then users can quickly filter sessions, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesession filtering capabilityVSAvoidinterface structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent makes the presentation area multi-functional by enabling it to serve both as a display space for session information and as an interactive filtering mechanism through labels. This universal design allows the same interface element to provide both information display and session filtering functions, enhancing ease of operation without proportionally increasing device complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS11018882B2Session filtering method and device
Publication Date: 2021.05.25 ALIBABA GROUP HOLDING LTD
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AI summary

A session filtering method including displaying session page entries corresponding to at least a part of communication sessions in which a user at a local end participates via a preset communication application, presentation areas of the session page entries containing filterable labels associated with corresponding communication sessions; when a filterable label is triggered, filtering one or more communication sessions associated with the filterable label from communication sessions corresponding to the displayed session page entries; and presenting one or more session page entries corresponding to the filtered communication sessions to the user at the local end. Through the technical solution of the present disclosure, a communication session is quickly filtered and found, which is conducive to improve communication efficiency.