Shared Message Rights for Feedback Visibility and Privacy Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing messaging platforms face issues with excessive network traffic and data privacy concerns when celebratory or congratulatory messages are sent to groups, leading to unnecessary message flooding and potential exposure of sensitive data to unintended recipients.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a system where a creator can share message rights with a referenced user, allowing them to set rules for receiving notifications, controlling message and feedback visibility, and managing user interactions, thereby reducing network traffic and protecting sensitive data.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If celebratory messages are sent to groups with automatic reply functionality, then user engagement and communication efficiency are improved, but network traffic increases excessively and data privacy is compromised

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecommunication efficiencyVSAvoidnetwork traffic

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the group communication into individual user-specific communications. Instead of sending messages to all group members and receiving replies from all, the system identifies mentioned users and sends targeted communications only to them, segmenting the broad group broadcast into specific one-to-one interactions based on message content analysis

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent extracts the essential function of group communication (notifying mentioned users) from the broader group message context. By analyzing message content to identify mentioned users and extracting only those specific users for targeted notification, the system removes the unnecessary component of broadcasting to entire groups while preserving the core communication intent

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Productivity

If celebratory messages are sent to groups with automatic reply functionality, then user engagement is improved, but data privacy is compromised due to exposure of sensitive data to unintended recipients

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser engagementVSAvoiddata privacy exposure

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the audience for message visibility and interaction, separating mentioned users from the broader group. By analyzing message content to identify specifically mentioned users and limiting message visibility and reply functionality to only those users, the system prevents unintended recipients from accessing sensitive data while maintaining engagement with the intended audience

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

3Loss of energy

If message rights are shared with referenced users, then data privacy and network traffic are improved, but message control and management become more complex

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenetwork trafficVSAvoidmessage control complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of energyVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements self-service by automatically analyzing message content to identify mentioned users and automatically sharing message rights with those users. The system performs content analysis, user identification, and rights sharing without requiring manual configuration, reducing the perceived complexity for users while maintaining precise control over message visibility and interactions

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

4Object-affected harmful factors

If message rights are shared with referenced users, then data privacy is improved by limiting visibility to intended recipients, but system complexity increases due to rights management

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata privacyVSAvoidrights management complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Object-affected harmful factorsVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses feedback mechanisms where the system analyzes message content, identifies mentioned users, and automatically adjusts message rights based on this analysis. The system provides feedback to users about which rights have been shared and with whom, enabling transparent and manageable rights control while maintaining data privacy

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS12499275B2Sharing rights to control aspects of an electronic message

Publication Date: 2025.12.16 GOOGLE LLC

AI summary

A server can receive a request from a creator of a message to share one or more rights of the creator of the message with a user referenced in the message. The server can send a notification about the one or more rights to the user referenced in the message, where the one or more rights may specify at least one of: whether the user is to receive feedback notifications of feedback related to the message, whether the user is to control visibility of feedback on the message by users, or whether the user is to control allowing feedback on the messages. The sever can then perform one or more operations related to the message based on the one or more rights accepted by the user.