Message Combination Device Using Sub-Message Identifiers

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing communication technologies face challenges in accurately combining multiple sub-messages divided from short messages, which can lead to errors in subsequent analysis processes due to limited word count restrictions in short message services.

Innovation Solution

A method and device for message combination that involves receiving a first message, determining its sub-message identifier, allocating storage space based on the number of sub-messages, storing subsequent messages according to their identifiers, and combining them, ensuring accurate reassembly of the original short message.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If sub-messages are divided and transmitted separately, then the short message can be sent despite word count restrictions, but the combination accuracy deteriorates leading to errors in analysis processes

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemessage transmission capacityVSAvoidmessage combination accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent divides a long short message into multiple sub-messages for transmission, each containing a sub-message identifier. This segmentation allows the message to bypass word count restrictions while maintaining the ability to reconstruct the original message through the identifiers that track each segment's position and sequence.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces sub-message identifiers as intermediary elements that mediate between the divided sub-messages and the combination process. These identifiers contain position information that enables accurate reassembly of the original message by indicating where each sub-message should be placed in the sequence.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If sub-messages are combined without accurate positioning, then the combination process is simpler, but the analysis results become incorrect

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecombination operation simplicityVSAvoidanalysis result correctness
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary action by embedding position information in sub-message identifiers before the combination process. This pre-positioning information allows the combination device to automatically place each sub-message in its correct position without complex sorting operations, ensuring both simplicity and correctness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses sub-message identifiers as feedback mechanisms that provide position information to the combination device. This feedback enables the system to automatically verify and correct the positioning of each sub-message during combination, ensuring accurate reassembly without manual intervention.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Quantity of substance

If the number of sub-messages is increased to handle longer messages, then more content can be transmitted, but the storage and management complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemessage content capacityVSAvoidstorage space management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a universal storage space structure that can accommodate any number of sub-messages through dynamic allocation. The storage space is designed to adapt to different message lengths by allocating the required number of storage units based on the sub-message identifier, eliminating the need for complex pre-planning or fixed-size allocations.

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

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements dynamic storage space allocation where the number of storage units is determined by the sub-message identifier at runtime. This dynamic approach allows the system to efficiently handle varying message lengths without maintaining fixed or overly complex storage structures, reducing management overhead while supporting unlimited message capacity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS9402172B2Message combination method and device
Publication Date: 2016.07.26 TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO LTD
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AI summary

The method comprises: receiving a first message, and determining that the first message carries a sub-message identifier, the sub-message identifier being used for indicating that the first message is one of several sub-messages comprising a short message; according to the first message, allocating a storage space to the short message, the number of the storage units contained in the storage space being equal to the number of the sub-message contained in the short message, the storage units contained in the storage space having a location order; according to the first message and the sub-message identifier of at least one second message subsequently received, storing the first message and the at least one second message subsequently received into corresponding storage units in the storage space; and combining the sub-message stored in the storage units in the storage space.