Session Message Merging for Chat Efficiency

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Solution Overview

Problem

In instant messaging sessions, messages are sorted by transmitting time, leading to low communication and operation efficiency due to interruptions and the need for manual summarization of dispersed messages.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus for processing session messages that allows for message merging, where two or more session messages can be merged into a single message based on a user instruction, improving display and processing efficiency.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If messages are sorted by transmitting time in the session interface, then messages are displayed in chronological order, but communication efficiency and operation efficiency deteriorate due to message interruptions and the need for manual summarization of dispersed messages

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication efficiencyVSAvoidoperation efficiency for messages
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple dispersed session messages into a single consolidated message display. When messages are interrupted by other participants' messages, the system combines these fragmented messages into one unified message object, allowing users to interact with multiple messages through a single interface element rather than manually processing each individual message.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Loss of information

If consecutive messages transmitted by a user are displayed separately, then each message is individually visible, but communication efficiency deteriorates due to message interruptions and operation efficiency deteriorates due to the need to perform operations on messages one by one

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemessage completenessVSAvoidcommunication efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple consecutive messages from the same user into a single consolidated message display unit. This consolidation preserves all message content while presenting it as one unified object, preventing information loss while significantly improving communication efficiency by eliminating the need to process each message separately.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Ease of operation

If multiple session messages are displayed independently, then each message can be individually accessed, but hardware processing resources and display resources are underutilized due to redundant processing of dispersed messages

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemessage accessibilityVSAvoidhardware processing resource utilization
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple session messages into a single consolidated message object that maintains full accessibility to all original message content. This consolidation reduces hardware processing resource utilization by eliminating redundant processing of dispersed messages while preserving user ability to access and interact with all message content through the unified interface.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS20240205298A1Method for processing a session message and apparatus, device, storage medium, and program product
Publication Date: 2024.06.20 TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO LTD
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AI summary

A method for processing a session message and apparatus, a device, a storage medium, and a program product. The method includes displaying at least two session messages, the at least two session messages comprising a first session message and a second session message, receiving a message merging instruction, the message merging instruction being configured to instruct merging the first session message and the second session message and displaying, based on the message merging instruction, a third session message obtained by merging the first session message and the second session message.