Geographical Email Presentation Using Map-Based Inbox Mapping
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Solution Overview
Problem
The growing volume of email messages makes it challenging for recipients to quickly identify the originating location of senders, leading to confusion and misidentification, as existing methods are either tedious, error-prone, or limited in providing geographical or organizational context.
Innovation Solution
An email content management method and system that maps received emails to graphical representations of an email Inbox, using associated sender and originating information to display the email's originating location on a geographical or organizational hierarchy chart, allowing recipients to visually distinguish and manage emails based on their sender's location.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If email volume increases to accommodate growing communication needs, then communication capacity improves, but sender identification accuracy deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the traditional linear email list view into a two-dimensional geographical map display. Email senders are plotted as markers on a map based on their physical locations, allowing recipients to visually distinguish senders by geography rather than relying solely on text-based names and addresses. This dimensional transformation enables rapid identification of sender locations even among large volumes of emails with similar sender names.
2Ease of operation
If traditional email display methods are used to maintain simplicity, then interface simplicity is preserved, but sender location identification efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs color-coded markers and visual indicators on the geographical map to represent different senders and their locations. Each sender can be represented by distinct visual characteristics such as colored markers, icons, or highlighted regions, enabling rapid visual scanning and identification. This visual encoding allows recipients to quickly distinguish between multiple senders without requiring detailed text reading, thereby improving identification efficiency while maintaining interface simplicity.
3Measurement precision
If detailed sender information is displayed to improve identification accuracy, then sender identification accuracy improves, but information processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent pre-processes and geocodes sender email addresses to physical locations before display, converting email addresses into geographical coordinates that can be plotted on a map. This preliminary action of geocoding and spatial indexing allows the system to rapidly retrieve and display sender locations without requiring real-time processing of detailed sender information during email reception. The map interface then presents this pre-processed location data in an immediately visible and intuitive format.
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AI summary
An email content management method, system and program are provided for mapping a plurality of received electronic mail (email) messages to a plurality of predetermined graphical representations of an email Inbox. Predetermined sender and originating information is associated with an email. When the email is received by the recipient, the associated sender and originating information is used to map the email to a graphical Inbox depicting the email's originating location. Once mapped, the corresponding email graphical Inbox is represented in a graphical display, such as the user interface of an email client. Graphical Inboxes can be represented as subsets of a geographical map or depict an organizational hierarchy chart. Status information related to the received email messages is generated and display attributes are applied to their corresponding email graphical Inboxes.