Communication Alias System Segregating Mobile Profiles
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mobile devices often suffer from the drawbacks of using a single address or number, leading to unwanted communications, blurring of personal and professional life, and retention of obsolete or irrelevant contacts.
Innovation Solution
A communication alias system that generates multiple distinct communication profiles for a user, each with a unique address, allowing for targeted messaging, location and time-dependent profiles, and third-party provisioning of temporary profiles, enabling users to segregate different facets of their life and control the types of messages received.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a single address or phone number is used for a user, then the device is simple to operate and manage, but the user receives unwanted messages from advertisers and cannot segregate personal and professional communications
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides a single communication identity into multiple distinct communication profiles, each with its own unique address or phone number. Users can create separate profiles for personal, professional, and other communication needs, allowing them to receive and manage communications separately for each aspect of their life, thereby eliminating unwanted messages and blurring between personal and professional communications.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If multiple communication profiles with unique addresses are generated for a user, then personal and professional communications are segregated and unwanted messages are reduced, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The communication alias system provides a universal platform that handles multiple communication profiles through a single integrated interface. The system automatically manages profile switching, message routing, and contact associations across all profiles, reducing the manual overhead and complexity users would otherwise face in managing multiple separate communication channels.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a communication alias system as an intermediary layer between the user and multiple communication profiles. This intermediary automatically manages the complexity of profile management, message routing, and contact synchronization, shielding the user from the underlying complexity while enabling effective segregation of communications.
3Device complexity
If a user maintains a single communication address, then contact management is straightforward, but obsolete or irrelevant entities retain access to the user
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting communication contacts into different profiles, users can associate specific contacts with specific aspects of their life (personal, professional, etc.). This allows users to control which contacts have access to which profiles, effectively blocking obsolete or irrelevant entities from accessing personal communications while maintaining straightforward management within each segmented profile.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for performing actions associated with multiple communication profiles generated for a user of a mobile device are described. In some embodiments, a communication alias system generates multiple, distinct, communication profiles for the user of the mobile device, where a communication profile is a distinct profile associated with the user of the mobile device and includes a unique communication address to which communications are directed. The communication alias system may perform actions associated with providing information to the user of the mobile device via a selected communication profile for the user of the mobile device.