Intent-Based Message Compliance Checking System

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Solution Overview

Problem

The complexity of electronic communication systems often leads to errors, omissions, or inappropriate content in messages due to haste or oversight, resulting in unintended consequences despite the sender's intentions.

Innovation Solution

The system uses 'intention data' derived from user patterns, behavior, and external sources to compare against message characteristics, alerting or modifying the message to ensure alignment with the sender's intent, thereby preventing errors and ensuring intended communication outcomes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If senders draft and send messages quickly, then productivity is improved, but reliability deteriorates due to errors and omissions

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemessage sending speedVSAvoidmessage accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of message content against the sender's established intent patterns before the message is sent. Usage information from past communications is pre-processed to create intent profiles, which are then used to automatically detect discrepancies in real-time without requiring manual review, thus maintaining quick sending speeds while improving accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides immediate feedback to the sender when a discrepancy between the message content and the determined intent is detected. This feedback mechanism allows senders to quickly correct errors before sending, maintaining high productivity while significantly improving message reliability by preventing erroneous communications.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Adaptability or versatility

If electronic communication features and options are increased, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases leading to more mistakes

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemessage optionsVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically determines user intent by analyzing usage patterns and message characteristics without requiring the user to manually configure complex parameters. The intent determination is performed self-service style by the system based on observed behavior patterns, reducing the cognitive burden on users while maintaining high adaptability across different communication scenarios.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts the level of scrutiny and analysis applied to messages based on the determined intent and message characteristics. Rather than using a fixed complex analysis framework for all messages, the system adapts its parameter settings based on the specific context, reducing effective complexity while maintaining versatility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Reliability

If manual review of messages is performed to ensure accuracy, then reliability is improved, but productivity deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemessage accuracyVSAvoidmessage sending speed
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system replaces manual mechanical review with automated electronic analysis. Usage information and message characteristics are processed by computer algorithms that compare actual messages against determined intent patterns, providing automated accuracy checking without requiring human time investment, thus maintaining high productivity while improving reliability.

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

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary automated analysis layer between message composition and sending. This intermediary process uses usage information and intent determination to automatically detect discrepancies, serving as a mediator that ensures accuracy without requiring direct human intervention, thereby maintaining fast sending speeds while improving message reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS9141940B2Checking electronic messages for compliance with user intent
Publication Date: 2015.09.22 GOOGLE LLC
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AI summary

Intention data is used to determine an intent of a sender of a message, or other participant, in an electronic communication system such as an email system. For example, a message that is designated for sending can be compared to the sender's intention data and if a discrepancy or deficiency is detected between the sender's determined intent and the actual message then an action is taken such as providing an alert to the sender or to another person, process or device; requiring an action by the sender such as confirming the message, making an edit, checking information, etc.