Cloud-Routed User Connection Without Sharing Phone Numbers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing communication methods require users to know the mobile phone numbers or network IDs of the other party, causing inconvenience and privacy leakage when attempting to contact individuals not in their address book.
Innovation Solution
A communication establishment method and apparatus that allows users to connect with a target user through a second user, hiding the target user's personal information and establishing a connection without revealing their phone number or network ID, using a cloud service to facilitate the transfer of communication requests.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users need to know mobile phone numbers or network IDs to communicate with others, then communication can be established, but user convenience deteriorates and privacy leakage occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cloud server as an intermediary that enables communication between users without requiring them to directly access or store each other's personal information. The server acts as a mediator that handles communication establishment and data transfer, allowing users to communicate through shared contacts while the server masks personal details like phone numbers and network IDs from the communicating parties.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users share contact information to enable communication, then communication can be established, but the complexity of information management increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the personal information management function from the users' devices and relocates it to the cloud server. The server maintains the contact databases and handles the matching logic between users, eliminating the need for users to manually manage, store, or process each other's contact information on their devices. This extraction simplifies local device complexity while maintaining communication capability.
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AI summary
The present application discloses a communication establishment method and apparatus and a storage medium, and belongs to the technical field of communication. The method includes: establishing a target communication connection with a target user through a second user in a process of communicating with the second user, and communicating with the target user based on the target communication connection. The personal information of the target user is hidden in the target communication connection.