Attachment Conformance Adjustment for Delivery Reliability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Electronic communication attachments are often not received by recipients if they do not conform to the settings of the recipient's system, leading to delivery failures.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus and method that determine the characteristics of attached resources and adjust nonconforming characteristics, such as size, encryption, and metadata, to match the recipient system's settings through querying data stores or APIs, ensuring compatibility before sending.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If attachments are sent with original characteristics, then user control and data integrity are maintained, but delivery reliability is reduced due to non-conformance with recipient system settings
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by detecting recipient system settings and automatically adjusting attachment characteristics before sending. The apparatus queries recipient system configuration (via API or data store), determines required adjustments to attachment characteristics (size, format, encryption), and applies these adjustments in advance to ensure conformant delivery without requiring user intervention or post-delivery fixes.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes parameters of the attachment by modifying characteristics such as file size, data format, encryption level, and compression state based on recipient system requirements. The apparatus adjusts these parameters dynamically before transmission to match the recipient's configured settings, thereby resolving the contradiction between maintaining original data integrity and adapting to different recipient systems.
2Reliability
If attachment characteristics are adjusted to conform to recipient settings, then delivery reliability is improved, but device complexity increases due to detection and adjustment processes
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary layer (the apparatus) that mediates between the sender and recipient systems. This intermediary handles the complexity of detecting recipient settings, determining required adjustments, and applying modifications to attachments. By centralizing this mediation function, the patent reduces the complexity burden on individual users while maintaining high delivery reliability through automated conformant adjustments.
3Adaptability or versatility
If automatic adjustment of attachment characteristics is implemented, then adaptability to recipient systems is improved, but loss of information occurs due to modifications
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the apparatus queries recipient system settings (via API or data store) to obtain accurate configuration information, then uses this feedback to determine the precise adjustments needed for attachments. This feedback loop ensures that modifications are made based on actual recipient requirements rather than assumptions, thereby maintaining data integrity while achieving adaptability through informed, targeted changes.
Data Source
AI summary
Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for conforming electronic communication attachments to a recipient system's settings. One or more characteristics of a resource attached to an electronic communication being sent to a recipient system are determined. It is determined whether one or more characteristics of a resource conform to one or more settings of a recipient system. One or more nonconforming characteristics of a resource are adjusted prior to sending the electronic communication such that the one or more nonconforming characteristics of the resource conform to the one or more settings of the recipient system.