Electronic Communication POV Segmentation for Recipient Relevance

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional electronic communication technologies fail to accurately determine which portions of a message are directed to a user, relevant to a user, or irrelevant, leading to overwhelming burdens, confusion, and missed important content, especially in multiparty messages.

Innovation Solution

The system processes electronic communications by identifying mentions and determining points of view (POV) for recipients, parsing messages into sections, and generating enhanced communication data with labels indicating intended recipients and their corresponding POVs, allowing for visual indicators, prioritization, and improved task management.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If electronic messages are sent to multiple recipients with different relevant content, then communication coverage is improved, but information relevance for individual recipients deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication coverageVSAvoidinformation relevance
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the message body into multiple sections, with each section tagged to specific recipient(s) based on relevance. This allows a single message to be divided into targeted portions, where each recipient sees only the sections intended for them, thereby maintaining communication coverage while improving information relevance for each individual recipient.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Reliability

If entire messages are included for all distribution list recipients, then message completeness is improved, but recipient burden increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemessage completenessVSAvoidrecipient burden
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary tagging of message sections to specific recipients before the recipient receives the message. This pre-processing action enables the messaging system to automatically filter and present only relevant sections to each recipient, reducing their burden of sifting through irrelevant content while ensuring they receive complete information relevant to them.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Measurement precision

If message sections are tagged and filtered by recipient, then information precision is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation precisionVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary messaging system component that handles the tagging and filtering of message sections. This intermediary layer manages the complexity of segmenting and routing message portions to appropriate recipients, thereby achieving high information precision without requiring complex processing at the recipient's device level.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

4Manufacturing precision

If recipients must read entire messages to determine relevance, then content accuracy is improved, but time consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent accuracyVSAvoidtime consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and isolates only the message sections that are relevant to each specific recipient, removing irrelevant portions before delivery. This extraction process ensures that recipients receive accurate, complete information pertaining to them without having to read through unrelated content, thereby reducing time consumption while maintaining content accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS20240267353A1Processing electronic communications according to recipient points of view
Publication Date: 2024.08.08 MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
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AI summary

Technology is disclosed for controlling the processing of electronic communications on computing devices. An electronic communication is processed to determine mentions in the message body indicating recipients of the communication. A point-of-view (POV) is determined for each mention, with respect to recipient(s), as second-person or third-person POV. The communication is parsed into sections, and the mentions that are associated with each section are determined. Based on the POV for a mention associated with a section, it is determined that the section is directed to the recipient(s) indicated by the mention, if the POV of the mention is second-person POV, or the section is relevant to the recipient(s) indicated by the mention, if the POV of the mention is third-person POV. Additionally, an enhanced communication data is generated indicating the sections and corresponding POVs of mentions associated with the sections, and used to provide a personalized computing experience to users.