Emergent SMS Priority Handling in Mobile Stations
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing Short Message Service (SMS) systems do not provide priority information for urgent or emergent messages, causing users to manually sift through multiple messages to identify critical communications amidst spam.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of an emergent SMS system that allows users to configure messages as priority at the sender's end, utilizing a wireless module and controller module to transmit and receive these messages, alerting the recipient with audible, vibrating, or visual notifications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If SMS service allows transmission of short messages at any time with store-and-forward mechanism, then message delivery reliability is improved, but message priority differentiation capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by adding a priority indicator field specifically to the SMS header structure. This local modification enables priority differentiation for individual messages without changing the overall SMS transmission mechanism, allowing urgent messages to be identified and handled differently while maintaining the standard store-and-forward reliability mechanism for all messages.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter structure of SMS by introducing a priority indicator parameter in the message header. This parameter change enables the system to differentiate between normal and urgent messages, allowing receivers to prioritize display and notification based on this new parameter while preserving the existing reliable delivery mechanism.
2Device complexity
If all short messages are treated equally when presented to the user, then system simplicity is improved, but user identification of urgent messages deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses visual differentiation (analogous to color changes) by implementing special display treatments for urgent messages. The receiver device can display urgent messages with distinct visual indicators such as different colors, icons, or notification patterns, enabling users to quickly identify and prioritize urgent communications without increasing system complexity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If priority information is added to short messages, then message prioritization capability is improved, but SMS protocol complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies segmentation by dividing the SMS structure into distinct components, adding the priority indicator as a separate field in the message header. This segmented approach allows priority information to be added independently without disrupting the existing SMS protocol structure, maintaining simplicity while enabling prioritization capability.
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AI summary
A sender Mobile Station (MS) for providing emergent Short Message Services (SMS) is provided. The sender MS includes a wireless module and a controller module. The wireless module performs wireless transmission and reception to and from a service network. The controller module configures a short message as emergent by a user command, and transmits the short message to the service network via the wireless module to be forwarded to a receiver MS, so that, when the receiver MS receives the short message, a user of the receiver MS is alerted about that the short message is configured as emergent.