Message Augmentation via Sender Location Context
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Solution Overview
Problem
Text messages sent to prompt recipients for choices often lack necessary information, such as price or availability, making it difficult for users to make informed decisions.
Innovation Solution
A system that determines the sender's location and retrieves contextual information about the options, such as price or availability, from a venue inventory database, and appends this information to the graphical user interface, allowing the recipient to view both options and contextual details.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If options are presented in the text message without additional information, then the message remains simple and easy to send, but the recipient lacks necessary information to make an informed decision
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically retrieving contextual information (price, availability, description) from venue databases before the recipient receives the message. This pre-fetching of data ensures information completeness is achieved without requiring the recipient to manually search for details, thus resolving the contradiction between information completeness and message simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary system (messaging application with integrated venue database access) that bridges the gap between simple message transmission and comprehensive information delivery. This intermediary automatically enriches messages with contextual data from external databases, allowing the message structure to remain simple while the information content becomes complete.
2Loss of information
If contextual information is appended to each option, then the recipient can make informed decisions, but the graphical user interface becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The graphical user interface is segmented into distinct functional zones: the message display area, the augmented options list with contextual information, and the selection interface. This segmentation allows contextual information to be systematically organized alongside each option without overwhelming the overall interface structure, maintaining usability while providing comprehensive decision-making information.
Solution Approach 2:
The system adds an informational dimension to the message interface by appending contextual data (price, availability, description) to each option. This dimensional enrichment transforms plain text options into information-rich selections without fundamentally restructuring the core message flow, thus providing complete information while controlling interface complexity through layered information presentation.
3Productivity
If the system retrieves and appends contextual information from venue databases, then decision-making efficiency is improved, but the system requires access to external databases and processing resources
Solution Approach 1:
The messaging application is designed with multi-functionality, serving both as a communication tool and an information retrieval system. By integrating venue database access and contextual information retrieval capabilities into the existing messaging platform, the system achieves improved decision-making efficiency without requiring completely separate systems, thus managing complexity through functional integration.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements self-service by automatically retrieving contextual information from venue databases without requiring manual user input or external intervention. The messaging application autonomously queries databases, processes responses, and appends relevant information to messages, improving decision-making efficiency while minimizing the complexity of user interaction with the underlying system.
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AI summary
A system and method for augmenting a graphical user interface by filtering options within a text message displayed within the graphical user interface includes determining that a content of the text message includes a plurality of options, receiving a location information of the sending device, the location information of the sending device being used to determine a venue corresponding to a physical location of the sending device, determining that the venue corresponding to the physical location of the sending device is relevant to the plurality of options, retrieving a contextual information from the venue about the plurality of choices, and augmenting the graphical user interface of the sending device by appending the contextual information to the plurality of options of the text message, such that the graphical user interface of the sending device simultaneously displays both the contextual information and the plurality of options.