Message Analysis System for Recipient-Specific Content Suitability

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing communication tools fail to assess the content and context of messages or documents based on the intended recipients' job role or cultural background, leading to potential misunderstandings or offense.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that identify intended recipients, obtain profiles with corrections and correlations, analyze message content, and provide suggestions to modify potentially misunderstood or offensive language, ensuring the content is suitable for the recipients.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If traditional communication tools (spell checker, grammar checker, thesaurus) are used to assist message composition, then spelling and grammar correctness is improved, but the ability to assess content suitability based on recipient characteristics remains lacking

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvespelling and grammar correctnessVSAvoidcontent assessment based on recipient characteristics
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system integrates multiple functions into a single communication tool: traditional spell checking, grammar checking, thesaurus functionality, and the new recipient-based content assessment feature all work together through a unified interface, allowing the tool to serve multiple purposes simultaneously

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

2Productivity

If messages are sent without analyzing recipient profiles and cultural background, then communication speed is maintained, but the risk of misunderstanding or offense increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication speedVSAvoidmessage interpretation accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis of the message content against recipient profiles, cultural backgrounds, and contextual factors before the message is sent. This advance assessment identifies potential misunderstandings or offensive content, allowing the author to modify the message proactively rather than dealing with negative reactions after sending

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If comprehensive recipient profile analysis is performed to prevent misunderstandings, then message suitability is improved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemessage suitabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces an intermediary analysis layer that automatically processes recipient profiles, cultural backgrounds, and message content. This intermediary component handles the complex matching and assessment logic, shielding the user from the underlying complexity while providing simple suggestions for message modification

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS9367538B2Analyzing messages and/or documents to provide suggestions to modify messages and/or documents to be more suitable for intended recipients
Publication Date: 2016.06.14 MONDAY COM LTD
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AI summary

A method, system and computer program product for assisting authors in composing suitable messages or documents for intended recipients. A profile to be used in analyzing the message/document is obtained, where the profile contains a set of corrections and correlations to be applied to the message/document for the intended recipients of the message/document. The content of the message/document is analyzed using the obtained profile to assess for any language that may be misunderstood or offensive to the intended recipients. Upon identifying words, phrases, sentences or images in the message/document as being potentially misunderstood or offensive to the recipients, suggestions are provided to modify such language. In this manner, the author of the message/document is able to assess the content and context of the message/document based on the intended recipients prior to sending the message/document thereby reducing the likelihood that the recipients will interpret the message/document in an untoward manner.