Integrated Message Management for Voice and Text

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional smartphones lack an integrated system for managing voice call and text message information simultaneously, limiting users' ability to execute additional functions related to these communications.

Innovation Solution

A mobile device with a voice call management part, text message management part, and an integrated message management unit that monitors and generates integrated message information, providing a user interface for managing voice call and text message information, along with additional functions like schedule management and memo creation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If voice call application and text message application are executed independently, then each application can manage its own information separately, but voice call information and text message information cannot be managed at once

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveintegrated management capabilityVSAvoidapplication structure

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges voice call management and text message management into a single integrated message management application. This unified application can simultaneously manage both voice call information and text message information through a common user interface, eliminating the need for users to switch between separate applications while maintaining distinct management capabilities for each communication type.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The integrated message management application implements multi-functionality by providing universal management capabilities for both voice calls and text messages within a single application framework. The application can handle diverse communication types through standardized management interfaces, allowing users to access and manage different communication information types without requiring multiple specialized applications.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If conventional voice call application and text message application are used, then basic receiving/transmitting and management functions are provided, but additional functions in association with voice calls and text messages cannot be executed

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveadditional function capabilityVSAvoidapplication architecture

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The integrated message management application provides a universal platform that supports both basic communication management functions and additional associated functions. By consolidating management capabilities, the system enables execution of supplementary functions such as unified notification management, cross-communication search, and integrated settings, which would be difficult to implement across separate applications.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Loss of information

If separate voice call and text message applications are used, then each application can be optimized for its specific function, but users cannot access both types of information simultaneously

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation accessibilityVSAvoidinformation retrieval

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines voice call information and text message information management into a single application interface, allowing users to access both types of information simultaneously without switching between applications. The unified interface presents both information types in an integrated manner, improving information accessibility while maintaining the ability to retrieve and manage each type of communication data effectively.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS11509759B2System, a computer readable medium, and a method for providing an integrated management of message information

Publication Date: 2022.11.22 NHN CORP

AI summary

A method of providing a user interface for managing voice call information and text message information in a mobile terminal including a voice call management part to process manage a voice call, and a text message management part to process and manage a text message, the method including the steps of accessing the voice call management part and the text message management part to retrieve the voice call information and the text message information, editing the voice call information and the text message information according to a predetermined message block format to generate integrated message information, generating message blocks including the integrated message information, and arranging the message blocks according to a receiving time and a transmitting time of the voice call information and the text message information to display the message blocks on a message management user interface of the mobile terminal.