Address Entry Auto-Complete List Filtering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional address entry methods in electronic communication systems often require users to navigate through additional steps to select the desired recipient address due to the inclusion of previously entered addresses in auto-complete lists, leading to inefficiency and increased power consumption in mobile devices.
Innovation Solution
The improved address entry system generates auto-complete lists that exclude candidate addresses already entered in the message address bar, ensuring the desired recipient address is highlighted by default, allowing direct selection without navigating past previously entered addresses.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional auto-complete lists include all candidate addresses from persistent address information lists, then the list provides comprehensive address options, but the user must navigate through additional steps to select the desired recipient address
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and removes previously entered addresses from the auto-complete list, keeping only unique candidate addresses. This reduces the number of navigation steps required while maintaining comprehensive options for valid recipient addresses.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of including all candidate addresses and requiring users to navigate through them, the patent inverts the approach by excluding previously entered addresses from the list, making the desired address more accessible and reducing navigation effort.
2Quantity of substance
If conventional address entry methods require navigation through auto-complete lists, then all candidate addresses are presented, but user effort and time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts previously entered addresses from the auto-complete list, presenting only the necessary candidate addresses. This reduces the quantity of addresses users must navigate through while maintaining the completeness of valid options.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies partial action by selectively including only relevant candidate addresses in the auto-complete list rather than presenting all possible addresses, thereby reducing user effort and time required for selection.
3Adaptability or versatility
If conventional address entry methods include all candidate addresses in auto-complete lists, then comprehensive options are provided, but power consumption in mobile devices increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and removes previously entered addresses from the auto-complete list, reducing the computational and display resources required. This decreases power consumption while maintaining comprehensive options for valid recipient addresses.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses partial action by selectively filtering candidate addresses to include only those not previously entered, reducing the energy required for list generation, display, and user interaction while preserving address entry functionality.
Data Source
AI summary
An improved system and method for address entry are provided for a user to enter a plurality of addresses into a recipient field associated with an electronic communication. According to embodiments described herein, a first user input is received. The first user input is indicative of a first recipient for an electronic communication, where the first recipient includes a first name and a last name. A second user input is received in addition to the first recipient while the electronic communication is currently addressed to the first recipient. The second user input is indicative of a portion of a second recipient for the electronic communication. An auto-complete list of one or more suggested recipients that correspond to the second user input is displayed while the electronic communication is currently addressed to the first recipient. The one or more suggested recipients do not include the first recipient.