Message Expiration Control via Enhanced Services Application
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing communication systems lack the ability for message originators to control the automatic expiration or deletion of messages on recipient devices, leading to irrelevant messages being displayed after their promotional or time-sensitive content has expired, causing waste and irritation.
Innovation Solution
Implementing an enhanced services application program that allows message originators to include a command in data messages specifying the duration or date for automatic deletion on the recipient's device, ensuring messages are removed after their relevance has expired.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If messages are delivered to end user devices without automatic expiration control, then message delivery reliability is improved, but message relevance deteriorates over time causing user irritation
Solution Approach 1:
The message originator pre-configures an expiration time or date when creating the message. This preliminary action ensures that the message will be automatically deleted at the appropriate time without requiring recipient intervention, thus maintaining message relevance while ensuring reliable delivery.
Solution Approach 2:
The message lifecycle is made dynamic by introducing automatic expiration. Messages transition from a static permanent state to a dynamic temporary state, automatically deleting themselves after the predetermined time or date. This dynamic behavior ensures messages remain relevant only during their intended lifespan.
2Ease of operation
If messages remain on devices indefinitely, then message accessibility is improved, but device storage efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The originator pre-specifies the message retention period when creating the message. This preliminary action allows the system to automatically manage message storage duration, ensuring messages remain accessible for their intended period while being automatically removed thereafter, thus optimizing device storage efficiency.
3Productivity
If promotional messages are sent without expiration control, then marketing reach is improved, but promotional effectiveness deteriorates after the promotion ends
Solution Approach 1:
The marketer pre-configures the expiration time or date corresponding to the promotional period when creating the message. This ensures the promotional message is delivered to maximize reach during the valid period and automatically deleted afterward, maintaining promotional effectiveness by preventing distribution of expired offers.
Solution Approach 2:
The message includes a time parameter (expiration time or date) that changes the message state from active to expired. This parameter change automatically triggers deletion, ensuring promotional messages remain effective only during the intended promotional period.
Data Source
AI summary
An exemplary method is implemented by an electronic device for transmitting a data message to at least a first end-user communication device. Data that forms a user message for conveyance to a first end-user communication device and a first value are received under the control of an enhanced services application program. A digital packet is formed with a header segment and a user data segment. The user data segment is formed under the control of the enhanced services application program and contains a first command and the user message, the first command representing that the user message is to be automatically deleted by the recipient first end-user communication device. The first command includes the first value that represents how long until the user message will be automatically deleted by the first end-user communication device. The digital packet is transmitted to the first end-user communication device.