Enterprise Messaging Client Centralized Archiving

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Solution Overview

Problem

Enterprise users face challenges in managing and archiving messages sent from personal and enterprise-issued mobile devices, leading to compliance issues and increased costs due to the need for separate devices and complex message handling.

Innovation Solution

A system comprising a user device, a messaging device, and an archive device that uses native and enterprise messaging applications, with the messaging device converting packet messages to SMS/MMS for delivery and archiving enterprise messages centrally, ensuring compliance and reducing costs by managing both personal and enterprise messages within a unified framework.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If enterprise users send messages using personal mobile devices with native messaging applications, then message sending convenience is improved, but message management and archiving compliance deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemessage sending convenienceVSAvoidmessage archiving compliance
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an enterprise messaging application as an intermediary layer between the personal mobile device and the message archive. This enterprise messaging application runs on the personal device but provides enterprise-level message routing, tracking, and archiving capabilities through integration with the enterprise message server, thereby maintaining convenience while ensuring compliance

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The enterprise messaging application performs multiple functions: it enables message sending/receiving like a native app, provides enterprise message routing, ensures compliance through centralized archiving, and integrates personal and enterprise communication needs into a single application, eliminating the need for separate enterprise-issued devices

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

2Reliability

If enterprise users are issued separate mobile devices for enterprise messages, then message management control is improved, but device cost and complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemessage management controlVSAvoiddevice management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges enterprise messaging functionality with personal mobile devices. The enterprise messaging application consolidates enterprise communication needs into a single app that runs on personal devices, eliminating the need for separate enterprise-issued devices while maintaining centralized control through the enterprise message server

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The enterprise messaging application provides multiple functions in one solution: message sending, enterprise routing, compliance archiving, and device-agnostic access. This multi-functional approach replaces the need for separate dedicated enterprise devices, reducing complexity while maintaining control

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

3Reliability

If enterprises implement centralized message archiving systems, then compliance monitoring is improved, but system complexity and implementation cost increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompliance monitoringVSAvoidsystem implementation complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The enterprise message server acts as an intermediary that provides centralized archiving and compliance monitoring capabilities. It intercepts and routes messages through a standardized interface, allowing enterprises to implement compliance monitoring without deeply integrating with or complicating individual user devices or existing native messaging infrastructure

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS9398428B2Enterprise messaging client and messaging archive
Publication Date: 2016.07.19 VERIZON PATENT & LICENSING INC
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AI summary

A messaging device receives configuration information from a configuration device. The messaging device identifies application configuration information, associated with a first user device, based on the configuration information and sends the application configuration information to the first user device for configuring a messaging application on the first user device. The messaging device receives an incoming message, including message information, from the messaging application on the first user device. The messaging device identifies, based on the message information and the configuration information, a second user device and a message format associated with the second user device. The messaging device sends, in the message format associated with the second user device, an outgoing message, based on the message information and the configuration information, to the second user device.