Email Distribution Control via Folder Movement Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for stopping unwanted email distribution, such as newsletters and spam, are burdensome for recipients, as they often require manual intervention and are not effectively inferred from user behavior.
Innovation Solution
An information processing device with a report information acquiring unit, a move history managing unit, and a distribution stopping unit that infers user intent by tracking email movement operations and applies predetermined conditions to automatically stop unwanted email distribution based on user behavior patterns.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual procedures are used for recipients to stop email distribution, then distribution control is achieved, but operational burden on recipients increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically detects user intent to stop distribution by monitoring email folder movements and applies distribution stop control without requiring explicit manual procedures from recipients. The system serves itself by inferring user preferences from behavioral patterns and autonomously executing distribution control decisions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors user behavior (email folder movements) and uses this feedback to dynamically adjust distribution control. When users move emails to specific folders, the system detects this pattern and automatically implements distribution stop, creating a closed-loop control system that responds to user actions without direct intervention.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If recipients manually stop distribution, then unwanted emails are blocked, but user convenience deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system replaces manual mechanical operations (users manually moving emails to stop distribution) with automated detection mechanisms. By monitoring folder movements and inferring user intent, the system substitutes direct user actions with automated behavioral analysis, eliminating the need for recipients to manually intervene while maintaining effective distribution control.
3Ease of operation
If automatic distribution stop is implemented, then operational burden is reduced, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and focuses on a single key behavioral indicator (email folder movement) to infer user intent for distribution stop. By concentrating on this specific action rather than analyzing multiple complex user behaviors, the system achieves automated distribution control with relatively simple detection logic, avoiding excessive system complexity while maintaining effectiveness.
Data Source
AI summary
To reduce an operational burden on a recipient to stop distribution. An information processing device provides an environment that stops distribution of an e-mail to this recipient based on report information transmitted according to move of a received e-mail to a specific folder by the recipient. That is, when the recipient of a distribution content, such as an e-mail newsletter, moves this e-mail to the specific folder, distribution stop is executed. This allows achieving a reduction in the operational burden on the recipient to stop the distribution.