Contact Information Language Script Unification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic devices face challenges in determining homogeneity between contact information stored in different languages, leading to difficulties in integration and synchronization across various devices and servers.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device equipped with a memory, communication circuit, and processor that unifies language scripts between stored and received contact information, allowing for comparison and integration based on a unified language script, such as converting Korean script to Roman script using a phoneme-based Romanization system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If contact information is stored in different language scripts, then the device can support diverse languages, but the comparison and integration of contact information becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a language script unification mechanism as an intermediary process. Before comparing contact information, the system converts different language scripts (Korean, Chinese, Japanese) into a unified Roman script representation using phoneme-based Romanization. This intermediary conversion layer enables accurate comparison and integration of contact information across different languages without requiring direct multilingual processing.
2Productivity
If the device compares contact information directly in different language scripts, then no conversion is needed, but accurate matching fails due to script differences
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the representation parameter of contact information names from native language scripts (Korean hangul, Chinese characters, Japanese kanji) to a unified Roman script parameter system. This parameter transformation enables both accurate matching and efficient comparison by converting all names into a common representation format that can be directly compared using standard string matching algorithms.
3Device complexity
If the device integrates contact information without language unification, then the process is simple, but data consistency and user interface quality deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs language script unification as a preliminary action before the contact information integration process. By converting all contact names to unified Roman script representations in advance, the system ensures that subsequent comparison and integration operations can proceed with simplified logic while maintaining high data consistency and reliability in the unified contact database.
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AI summary
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a memory in which contact information is stored, a communication circuit configured to receive at least one piece of contact information from the outside, and a processor configured to unify language scripts between a name of the stored contact information and a name of the received contact information and determine whether to integrate the stored contact information and the received contact information by comparing the name of the stored contact information with the name of the received contact information in a unified language script.