Unified Call and Content Display Interface

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face inconvenience in viewing shared content during calls in instant messaging applications, as existing technologies do not facilitate seamless co-viewing of content within chat rooms during conversations.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that allows users to initiate a call and transmit a co-view request for shared content within a chat room, synchronizing the display of content on multiple user terminals, with features like content recommendation based on call topic similarity and control options for playback, enlargement, and scrolling.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If users make a call through the chat room, then communication efficiency is improved, but the ability to view shared content during the call deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecommunication efficiencyVSAvoidcontent viewing ability

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the call interface and content sharing interface into a single unified display. During a call, users can view shared content (images, videos, web pages) directly on the call screen without switching applications or windows. This combining of functions allows simultaneous communication and content viewing, resolving the contradiction between communication efficiency and content viewing ability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Ease of operation

If users switch to view shared content, then content viewing is enabled, but the call is interrupted

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent viewing capabilityVSAvoidcall continuity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDuration of action of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system combines multiple interfaces (call interface and content sharing interface) into one integrated display. Users can view shared content during the call without switching screens or interrupting the conversation. The call and content viewing occur simultaneously on the same device, eliminating the need to choose between them and thus maintaining call continuity while enabling content viewing.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Adaptability or versatility

If the system displays multiple contents, then content selection flexibility is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent selection flexibilityVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent uses thumbnail copies or preview images of shared content displayed on the call screen. Instead of displaying full-size content or requiring users to navigate through complex menus, the system shows compact thumbnail representations that users can select. This copying approach provides content selection flexibility while maintaining a simple, clean interface without increasing device complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS12107806B2Method and system for sharing content on instant messaging application during calls

Publication Date: 2024.10.01 LINE PLUS

AI summary

A method for sharing content performed by at least one processor of a first user terminal includes initiating, through a first external device, a call between a first user account associated with the first user terminal and a second user account associated with a second user terminal included in a chat room of an instant messaging application, transmitting a co-view request associated with a content to share to the first external device, where the content to share is one of a plurality of contents shared within the chat room, and displaying the content to share with a call screen on a display of the first user terminal.