Keyword-Based Phone Dialing via Alias Number Mapping
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mobile devices lack a convenient method to directly dial or connect to product or service providers without manually searching for their telephone numbers, leading to inefficiencies in user interaction and increased network data traffic for contact information searches.
Innovation Solution
Implementing keyword-based phone dialing through a communication application that retrieves and displays alias numbers associated with keywords, allowing users to initiate calls or communications with product or service providers by entering keywords, which can be stored locally or on a wireless carrier network, reducing the need for manual number input and optimizing network resource usage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If users manually search for telephone numbers of product or service providers, then they can find contact information, but it increases network data traffic and consumes user time
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-storing alias numbers and their associated telephone numbers in a local data structure on the user's mobile device. When a user inputs an alias number, the system immediately retrieves the corresponding telephone number from local storage without needing to perform web searches or consume network resources, thus resolving the contradiction between fast information retrieval and reduced network traffic.
2Ease of operation
If users manually input telephone numbers, then they can contact providers, but it reduces convenience and increases operation complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies copying by creating simplified alias number representations of telephone numbers. Instead of requiring users to input or search for complete telephone numbers, the system uses short alias numbers that users can easily remember and input. The system then copies the full telephone number information from the locally stored data structure, reducing operational complexity while maintaining ease of use.
3Speed
If the system stores contact information locally, then access speed improves, but device memory requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by implementing a selective data storage strategy where only essential alias number to telephone number mappings are stored locally in a compact data structure. This allows the system to achieve fast retrieval speeds for frequently used contacts while minimizing the quantity of stored data, thus balancing local access speed with device storage constraints.
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AI summary
Keyword based phone dialing may provide additional convenience to users that are subscribers of the wireless carrier network. A user input of a string of one or more values is received by a communication application. The string is checked as an alias number query against alias numbers in an alias number data store in response to a determination that a numerical format of the string fails to match a telephone number numerical format. One or more alias numbers from the alias number data store that match or partially match the alias number query are then presented by the communication application. Each of the alias numbers is associated with a different telephone number of a corresponding product or service provider. In response to the communication application receiving a selection of a corresponding alias number, a telephone call is routed to a product or service provider using a corresponding telephone number.