Election Message Sender Number Masking via Acquaintance Linking

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current election campaign message transmission systems are ineffective as recipients often block or ignore messages from unknown numbers, leading to resistance and reduced campaign impact.

Innovation Solution

A system that stores received phone numbers of acquaintances as voters in a database, allowing election campaign messages to be sent from the linked election campaigner's number, with consent requests and personalized greetings based on relationship information, enhancing message delivery and engagement.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If messages are sent from unknown numbers in current message transmission systems, then message transmission can be performed, but recipients may block or ignore messages leading to reduced campaign effectiveness

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecampaign effectivenessVSAvoidrecipient resistance

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism where the sender's identity is masked behind a trusted acquaintance's phone number. The message transmission system acts as a mediator that routes messages through the acquaintance's number, making the communication appear to come from a trusted source rather than an unknown number, thereby reducing recipient resistance while maintaining campaign effectiveness

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

If phone numbers of acquaintances are used as sender numbers, then recipient resistance is reduced and messages are more likely to be read, but the system complexity increases due to database linking and consent management

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemessage delivery effectivenessVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-establishing consent relationships between senders, acquaintances, and message recipients in a database before actual message transmission. The consent management and number linking are set up in advance, allowing the message transmission system to simply query and use pre-validated relationships, thereby reducing the operational complexity during actual campaign execution

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements self-service mechanisms where acquaintances automatically consent to having their numbers used for message transmission, and the database automatically manages the linking between sender numbers, acquaintance numbers, and recipient numbers. This automated self-management reduces the need for complex manual coordination and system intervention

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS11991140B2Apparatus, method, and recording medium for transmitting election campaign messages in manner of displaying phone number of acquaintance of recipient

Publication Date: 2024.05.21 HWANG DONGHA

AI summary

The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for transmitting election campaign messages to display the number of an acquaintance of a recipient. When a request to transmit an election campaign message is received from an election candidate, an election campaign message is transmitted to the terminal of the voter linked to the election candidate. When the election campaign message is sent, the sender number of the message sent to each voter is set as the mobile phone number of the election campaigner linked to the corresponding voter as an acquaintance. Therefore, the recipient does not feel resistance in receiving the election campaign message.