Adaptive Message Formatting Across SMS, MMS, and RCS
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing message communication technologies using telephone numbers or telephone number-equivalent addresses as destinations often fail to deliver messages due to differences in communication protocols, especially in A2P message distribution, and do not fully utilize the capabilities of communication terminals that support rich text or multimedia content.
Innovation Solution
A message communication method that analyzes text-format information for specific features and converts it into a format compatible with the communication protocol and capabilities of the transmission destination, ensuring message delivery and utilizing rich text capabilities when supported by the terminal.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a dedicated application or communication scheme is used for message communication, then message delivery reliability is improved, but device complexity and ease of operation worsen due to protocol differences and terminal capability variations
Solution Approach 1:
The message communication system achieves universality by supporting multiple communication schemes (SMS, MMS, RCS, etc.) and automatically selecting the appropriate protocol based on terminal capability. This allows a single system to serve diverse communication needs without requiring separate dedicated applications for each protocol, thereby improving reliability while managing complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The message communication apparatus acts as an intermediary that mediates between the message source and various communication terminals. It analyzes terminal capability information and automatically selects the appropriate communication protocol, serving as a bridge that handles protocol complexity centrally rather than requiring each terminal to support all protocols natively.
2Loss of information
If text-format information is converted to rich text or multimedia format, then information expressiveness is improved, but compatibility with basic terminals worsens
Solution Approach 1:
The message format is made dynamic and adaptable based on terminal capability. The system converts text-format information to rich text or multimedia format when the terminal supports it, and maintains simple text format for basic terminals. This dynamic adaptation ensures optimal information expressiveness while maintaining broad terminal compatibility.
Solution Approach 2:
Different message formats are applied locally based on the specific terminal's capability. Rather than using a uniform format for all terminals, the system tailors the message format to each terminal's capabilities - using rich text/multimedia for advanced terminals and plain text for basic terminals, thereby optimizing both expressiveness and compatibility.
3Ease of operation
If automatic protocol selection is implemented, then ease of operation is improved, but processing time increases due to capability analysis
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by acquiring and analyzing terminal capability information in advance before message transmission. By pre-analyzing the terminal's supported communication schemes, the system prepares the appropriate message format and protocol selection beforehand, reducing the time required during actual message sending while maintaining ease of operation.
Data Source
AI summary
Provided is a message communication method performed by a computer, comprising: receiving information at least a part of which is text-format information from a transmission source; determining whether a section having a specific feature is present in the text-format information; converting, when it is determined that a section having the feature is present, a part or an entirety of the text-format information into a message with a format in accordance with the feature and a communication protocol to be used for communication with a transmission destination; and transmitting the message to the transmission destination.