Address Book Data Separation via PIM Service Provisioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing address book management systems on portable electronic devices often indiscriminately merge data records from different Personal Information Manager (PIM) service accounts, leading to confusion and loss of data separation, especially when synchronizing business and personal records.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a method to provision a new PIM service account on the device, which updates and associates address book data records not linked to any existing account with the new service, using unique identifiers to manage and separate data records, ensuring they are stored and synchronized correctly with the appropriate service account.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If address book data records are transferred from multiple PIM service accounts to a portable electronic device, then data backup and storage capacity are improved, but data records are indiscriminately merged and become indistinguishable, leading to loss of information organization
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments address book data records by associating each record with a specific PIM service account through unique identifiers. When multiple PIM service accounts are synchronized to the portable electronic device, their respective data records are kept separate and organized by account, allowing users to distinguish and manage data from different sources independently.
2Ease of operation
If all address book data records are merged on the portable electronic device, then data accessibility and viewing convenience are improved, but data transmission time and bandwidth requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and retains only the necessary unique identifier information from each address book data record during synchronization. Instead of transferring and merging complete data sets from multiple PIM service accounts, the system extracts minimal identifying information to maintain data organization while reducing transmission time and bandwidth requirements.
3Reliability
If address book data records from different PIM service accounts are synchronized, then data redundancy and backup are improved, but device complexity and data management complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent establishes continuous automatic synchronization between the portable electronic device and multiple PIM service accounts. The system maintains ongoing data updates and associations without requiring manual intervention, ensuring data redundancy and backup while managing complexity through automated processes that continuously maintain data integrity and organization.
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AI summary
A method of managing storage of address book data records at an electronic device includes provisioning, at the electronic device, a new Personal Information Manager (PIM) service account including address book functionality on the electronic device, automatically updating, by the electronic device, address book data records stored on the electronic device and not associated with another PIM service account to associate the address book data records with the new PIM service account provisioned on the electronic device in response to provisioning the new PIM service account, and sending, from the electronic device, the updated address book data records for storage at the PIM service account thereby merging the address book data records stored only at the electronic device with address book data records at the new PIM service account.