Control Circuit for Automatic Message Recipient Identification

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Solution Overview

Problem

Modern electronic devices face challenges in identifying specific recipients for messages when multitasking, especially when no recipients are initially specified, leading to difficulties in message transmission between processing entities.

Innovation Solution

A control circuit detects opportunities to send messages without user input by identifying recipients based on metadata and using predetermined selection criteria, or by determining domain context to query an invocation framework, presenting possible recipients for user selection.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If automatic recipient identification is implemented, then message transmission efficiency is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemessage transmission efficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically identifies recipients using metadata and selection criteria without requiring user intervention. The control circuit autonomously queries the invocation framework, evaluates candidates, and sends messages, making the system self-serving and eliminating manual recipient specification overhead.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

An invocation framework acts as an intermediary between the control circuit and potential recipients. This framework manages the complexity of recipient identification by providing standardized query and evaluation mechanisms, allowing the control circuit to interact with a simplified interface while the intermediary handles the complex matching logic.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If metadata-based recipient identification is used, then message delivery accuracy is improved, but information processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverecipient identification accuracyVSAvoidinformation processing load
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

Metadata about potential recipients is collected and organized in advance within the invocation framework. This preliminary organization of recipient information allows the control circuit to quickly query and identify appropriate recipients without processing large amounts of raw data during the actual message sending operation, thereby improving accuracy while managing information processing load.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentEP2725826B1Method and apparatus pertaining to the sending of messages lacking identified recipients
Publication Date: 2018.09.05 BLACKBERRY LTD
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AI summary

A control circuit detects an opportunity to send a message notwithstanding that no recipient is yet identified and identifies, without user input, a specific recipient from amongst a plurality of possible recipients of the message based, for example, on metadata regarding at least some of the possible recipients using one or more predetermined selection criteria. The control circuit can also determine a domain context for a message as corresponds to such an opportunity and use that domain context along with information corresponding to the message to query an invocation framework that cannot itself natively intuit domain context from the information. Received possible recipients can then be presented via a display to facilitate a user-based selection of one of the recipients.