Sound-Sticker Keyboard Integration for Faster Expressive Chat Messaging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing messaging apps lack the ability to efficiently integrate and send instant pre-prepared sound messages, voice messages combined with stickers, and image messages, limiting emotional expression and communication options.
Innovation Solution
A computer system that integrates a sound-sticker keyboard with messaging apps, allowing users to select and send instant pre-prepared sound-sticker messages, create combined voice-sticker messages, and combine voice with images, using a processing device to display and upload these messages directly into chats.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If messaging apps use traditional text and image communication methods, then the app structure remains simple, but emotional expression and communication options are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines sound messages, stickers, and images into a unified sound-sticker message format. The processing device integrates multiple communication elements (text input field, sticker selection, sound recording/playback) into a single messaging interface, allowing users to send composite messages that include audio playback, visual stickers, and text captions simultaneously, thereby expanding communication options without significantly increasing app complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The messaging app is enhanced to perform multiple functions within a unified system: it can send traditional text messages, images, stickers, sound messages, and the new sound-sticker messages that combine multiple elements. The processing device manages diverse message types through a common interface and protocol, enabling the app to adapt to various communication needs while maintaining a consistent user experience
2Adaptability or versatility
If messaging apps integrate sound message functionality, then emotional expression is enhanced, but message preparation time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides pre-recorded sound messages and pre-selected stickers that users can choose from a library without needing to create them in the moment. The processing device stores commonly used sound-sticker combinations in advance, allowing users to quickly insert prepared messages into the chat by simply selecting from available options, thus reducing message preparation time while maintaining emotional expression capabilities
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a library of pre-recorded sound messages and pre-selected stickers that can be copied and reused across multiple messages. Once a sound-sticker combination is created or selected, it can be instantly replicated and sent multiple times without requiring re-recording or re-selection, significantly reducing the time needed for repeated emotional expressions
3Adaptability or versatility
If messaging apps support multiple message types (sound, image, sticker), then communication versatility improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges sound messages, stickers, and images into a single integrated sound-sticker message type. The processing device handles this composite message format as a unified entity, managing the integration of audio playback, visual sticker display, and text caption in a single message transmission protocol, thereby supporting message type variety without proportionally increasing system complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The messaging system is designed with a universal message handling framework that can process traditional messages (text, image) and enhanced messages (sound-sticker, voice-sticker) through the same interface and transmission protocol. The processing device manages diverse message types using a common architecture, allowing the system to support multiple message formats without requiring separate complex subsystems for each type
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AI summary
A system for storing and sending instant sound-sticker messages over a chat in a messaging app that is configured to display on the touch screen of the user's smartphone a panel bar, display a sound-sticker keyboard that includes the instant sound-sticker messages that are integrated with a virtual keyboard or with a messaging app and saved on the user's smartphone, display a plurality of stickers in the sound-sticker messages keyboard that are linked to the instant sound-sticker messages, select an instant sound-sticker message upon selecting a sticker from the sound-sticker messages keyboard, upload the selected instant sound-sticker message with the selected sticker into the chat.