Contact Avatar Management Platform Using Text Attribute Matching
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Solution Overview
Problem
The existing methods for displaying contact avatars on mobile phones are infrequently used and provide poor user experience due to the need for pre-stored or onsite photo-taking of avatar pictures, limiting their universality and functionality.
Innovation Solution
A method and platform for managing contact avatars that extracts a contact avatar picture tag from text attribute information, calculates gender probability based on the first name, and sends the corresponding avatar picture to the user terminal, enabling personalized and universal avatar display.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If contact avatar is displayed using locally stored picture or onsite photo-taking, then user can identify caller, but the function becomes decoration with low usage frequency and bad user experience
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically obtains contact avatars through network requests using contact information, eliminating the need for manual photo-taking or local storage by the user. The server autonomously retrieves and provides avatar images based on contact details, making the service self-serve and continuously available.
Solution Approach 2:
A server acts as an intermediary between the user terminal and contact avatar resources. The server receives contact information, requests avatar images from external sources or databases, and delivers them to the user terminal, enabling automatic avatar provision without requiring local storage or onsite photo-taking.
2Adaptability or versatility
If contact avatar picture is stored in advance or taken onsite, then avatar display is possible, but the scenario is non-universal
Solution Approach 1:
Avatar pictures are obtained and prepared in advance by the server through automatic network requests using contact information. The server proactively retrieves avatar images before they are needed for display, so that when the user needs to view a contact avatar, it is already available without requiring local storage or onsite photo-taking.
3Adaptability or versatility
If gender information is not obtained and sent to user terminal, then system is simple, but personalized avatar display is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The server acts as an intermediary that automatically obtains gender information from contact details and uses it to select appropriate avatar images. The server retrieves gender data, processes it to determine suitable avatars, and delivers both the avatar image and gender information to the user terminal, enabling personalized display without increasing terminal complexity.
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AI summary
The present invention provides a method for providing a contact avatar, including: receiving, by a platform for managing a contact avatar, a request message for obtaining a contact avatar, where the request message is sent by a user terminal and includes text attribute information of a contact; obtaining, by the platform for managing a contact avatar, a contact avatar picture tag through matching according to the text attribute information in the request message; and determining, by the platform for managing a contact avatar, a contact avatar picture according to the tag obtained through matching and sending the contact avatar picture to the user terminal. In addition, a platform for managing a contact avatar and a user terminal are further provided. According to embodiments of the present invention, a user may obtain an avatar picture related to a contact according to the text attribute information of the contact, so that a contact avatar is displayed in a contact directory. In this way, the application is more personalized with good user experience, which facilitates promotion of a network address book service.