Automated Response Scoring for Email and Text Message Communication

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Solution Overview

Problem

Long response times to electronic messages and emails negatively impact business performance and personal relationships due to the lack of user-driven, user-customized message monitoring systems.

Innovation Solution

A computerized time-based method that automatically categorizes and sends user-customized responses to respondents based on their reply times using a user-defined scoring system, selecting messages from a library and sending them to both the respondent and the user, allowing for user-specific programming and evaluation of communication performance.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If manual monitoring of message responses is used, then users can track communication performance, but it requires significant time and effort

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication performance assessmentVSAvoidtime for monitoring responses
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically monitors and evaluates message response times without requiring user intervention. The computerized method self-manages the entire process of tracking respondent reply times, calculating scores, and generating reports, thereby eliminating the time-consuming manual monitoring while maintaining precise measurement of communication performance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the mechanical manual monitoring process with an automated computerized system. The mechanical action of manually checking and recording response times is substituted by electronic automation that continuously tracks, evaluates, and reports on communication performance metrics without human intervention.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Productivity

If automated response systems are implemented, then response time monitoring is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresponse time evaluation efficiencyVSAvoidmonitoring system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system is designed to handle multiple communication platforms (text messages and emails) through a single unified automated monitoring framework. This multi-functional approach improves productivity by evaluating response times across different communication channels while avoiding the complexity of implementing separate monitoring systems for each platform.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system manages complexity by focusing on a single key parameter - response time - and evaluating all communication interactions based on this measurable metric. By standardizing the evaluation around response time parameters and using automated scoring systems, the patent simplifies the monitoring process while maintaining high productivity in assessing communication performance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Loss of information

If no feedback mechanism is provided, then users lack awareness of response time issues, but implementing feedback requires additional system components

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication performance feedbackVSAvoidfeedback system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically generates and delivers feedback reports to users based on evaluated response time data. These feedback mechanisms provide continuous information about communication performance, highlighting respondents with unusually long or short response times, thereby preventing information loss about communication effectiveness while using straightforward automated reporting rather than complex intervention systems.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS12021801B2Computerized time-based response method for users of electronic text messages and emails to automatically categorize and send user-customized electronic text and email responses based on respondent's reply times and user-defined time-based scales
Publication Date: 2024.06.25 PASTRANA JOSEPH CARLO
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AI summary

A computerized time-based electronic text and email response method for electronic text and email users to automatically categorize and send user-customized text and email responses based on respondents' reply times and user-defined time-based scales. Through the use of user-defined time-based scales and reply time values, the method continuously evaluates, scores, and categorizes the texting and email replies of respondents, and automatically provides the said respondents with user-customized response messages that are correlated to their reply times. The method selects a message from a library of user-categorized messages and sends the said selected message with a score value to the respondent and a copy of the message to the user. The score values are provided to users and respondents to identify reply time issues, provide a measured level of message responsiveness, and assess the communication performance of people and organizations.