Web Address Processing for Automatic Friendship Establishment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for sharing web address information between users do not effectively facilitate the establishment of friendships based on shared interests, as they lack mechanisms to connect users who discover common content through shared links.
Innovation Solution
A system that processes web address information by incorporating user identification, generating a new web address, and prompting for friendship establishment when the shared link is selected, allowing users to become friends on a website by adding each other to their friend lists.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If web address information is shared between users through traditional methods, then information sharing is enabled, but users cannot automatically establish friendships based on shared interests
Solution Approach 1:
The system embeds the sharer's user identifier directly into the shared web address information before sharing occurs. This preliminary encoding enables automatic friendship establishment later when the link is accessed, eliminating the need for manual friend requests while maintaining system simplicity
Solution Approach 2:
The processed web address information acts as an intermediary that carries the sharer's user identifier. When the second user accesses this processed link, the system uses the embedded identifier to automatically establish the friendship relationship, serving as a mediator between the sharing and friendship establishment functions
2Adaptability or versatility
If processed web address information with user identification is generated, then automatic friendship establishment is enabled, but the web address information becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges the original web address information with the sharer's user identifier into a single processed link. This combination allows the link to serve dual purposes: maintaining its original function of accessing web content while simultaneously carrying friendship establishment information, thereby reducing overall system complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The processed web address information is designed to be multi-functional: it can be shared across different platforms (instant messages, blogs, social media) and simultaneously enables both content access and friendship establishment. This universality reduces the need for separate mechanisms for each function
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AI summary
Generating processed web address information is disclosed, including: receiving a request to share a webpage, wherein the request includes at least a first web address information associated with the webpage and user identification information associated with a first user; generating a second web address information based at least in part on the first web address information and the user identification information associated with the first user; and presenting the second web address information.