Auto-Generated Call Response Messages Using App Context

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing response messages do not provide detailed information about a user's current situation when they are unable to respond to incoming calls or messages, requiring manual composition by the user.

Innovation Solution

Devices and methods that automatically generate and transmit response messages based on application information, including current and future user situations, using communication units and control units to provide messages via various communication media.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If general response messages are used without detailed information, then the response can be sent quickly, but the caller does not receive information about the user's current situation

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation about user's current situationVSAvoidtime to compose response message

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically gathering application information and composing response messages before the user needs to respond. When an incoming call is received, the control unit automatically obtains information about currently executed applications and pre-composes a response message based on that information, eliminating the need for manual composition at the moment of response.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system serves itself by automatically generating response messages without requiring user intervention. The control unit autonomously retrieves application information, processes it to determine the user's current situation, and formulates an appropriate response message that is then transmitted to the calling user.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Loss of information

If manual composition of response messages is required, then detailed information about current situation can be provided, but the user must spend time composing the message

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedetailed information about current situationVSAvoidease of sending response message

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs the operation of composing and sending response messages automatically without user intervention. The control unit retrieves application information, determines the user's current situation, composes the response message, and transmits it automatically, making the process as easy as selecting a single option.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The control unit acts as an intermediary between the application information and the response message transmission. It automatically processes the raw application data, interprets it to understand the user's current situation, and formulates an appropriate response, thereby mediating between the need for detailed information and the desire for ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Ease of operation

If automatic generation of response messages based on application information is implemented, then informative responses can be sent without user intervention, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of sending response messageVSAvoidcomplexity of automatic message generation system

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The control unit performs multiple functions: it manages call requests, retrieves application information from various applications, processes this information to determine current situation, composes response messages, and transmits them. This multi-functionality consolidates what could be separate complex components into a single versatile unit, managing device complexity while enabling automatic informative response generation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

4Loss of information

If response messages include detailed application information, then the caller receives context-specific information, but the communication process becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontext-specific information in responseVSAvoidcomplexity of information processing

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The control unit extracts only the relevant information needed to describe the user's current situation from the application information. Instead of transmitting all raw application data, it selectively extracts and processes only the essential details that convey the user's current context, thereby reducing communication complexity while maintaining information quality.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS12489721B2Devices and methods of providing response message in the devices

Publication Date: 2025.12.02 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

AI summary

A device includes a communication unit configured to receive a call request from a calling user; and a control unit configured to control the communication unit to provide a response message including information about a current situation based on information about an application currently being executed to the calling user in response to a rejection regarding the call request.