Call Forwarding Initiation via Optical Number Recognition
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users, especially international travelers, face difficulties in setting up call forwarding arrangements due to unfamiliarity with various codes and digits required for successful telephony connections, particularly when trying to redirect calls across national borders.
Innovation Solution
A method that uses a mobile phone's camera to recognize and process digital pictures of telephone numbers, automatically determining and supplementing the recognized number with necessary country and area codes to form an effective destination number for initiating call forwarding, thereby simplifying the process without requiring users to manually input all necessary codes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If users manually input telephone numbers with all necessary codes (country codes, area codes, access codes), then call forwarding can be successfully initiated, but the operation becomes complex and frustrating for users unfamiliar with local number formats
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically determines the location of the destination telephone and supplements the core number with appropriate country and area codes without requiring user input. The system serves itself by autonomously completing the number formatting task that would otherwise require user knowledge of local telephony conventions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system acts as an intermediary between the user's simple input (core number only) and the telephony network's requirement for complete formatted numbers. It automatically adds the necessary country codes, area codes, and access codes based on location determination, mediating the gap between user capability and system requirements.
2Ease of operation
If the system automatically determines location and supplements telephone numbers with necessary codes, then ease of operation improves, but the processing complexity and time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs location determination and code supplementation in advance, automatically preparing the complete destination number before the call forwarding initiation is actually requested. This preliminary automation eliminates the need for users to spend time researching or manually inputting codes during the critical setup moment.
Data Source
AI summary
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