Intelligent Message Manager for Mobile Messaging

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing mobile computing devices face challenges in providing enhanced messaging services due to varying costs and availability of messaging services and transfer media, which can affect message delivery efficiency and user experience.

Innovation Solution

A mobile computing device equipped with an intelligent message manager that automatically determines the best transfer medium and message type based on historic knowledge and criteria such as location, cost, and recipient preferences, formats the message accordingly, and sends it to ensure optimal delivery.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If manual selection of transfer medium and message type is used, then user control is maintained, but message delivery efficiency and cost-effectiveness deteriorate due to user inability to optimize based on real-time conditions

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemessage delivery efficiencyVSAvoiduser control
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables self-service by implementing an intelligent message manager that automatically selects transfer media and message types without requiring user intervention. The manager evaluates available transfer media, message types, and historic knowledge to autonomously determine the optimal delivery method, thereby improving message delivery efficiency while maintaining ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms by utilizing historic knowledge of successful message deliveries and transfer media performance. The intelligent message manager continuously learns from past message delivery outcomes and uses this feedback to improve future selections, optimizing both efficiency and cost-effectiveness over time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Productivity

If automatic selection based on historic knowledge is implemented, then cost-effectiveness and efficiency improve, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemessage delivery efficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The intelligent message manager serves multiple functions within a single integrated component: it identifies available transfer media, determines suitable message types, selects optimal delivery methods, and formats messages appropriately. This multi-functionality approach consolidates what would otherwise require separate complex subsystems, thereby improving efficiency while limiting the increase in overall system complexity.

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

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-evaluating available transfer media and message types before actual message delivery. The intelligent message manager prepares selection criteria and historic knowledge in advance, enabling rapid automated decision-making during message transmission without requiring complex real-time processing during the actual delivery moment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple transfer media and message types are supported, then versatility improves, but difficulty in determining optimal selection increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemessaging service versatilityVSAvoidoptimal selection difficulty
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The system manages versatility by dynamically changing parameters such as transfer medium availability, message type suitability, and delivery conditions. The intelligent message manager evaluates these varying parameters against historic knowledge and current system state to simplify the selection process, transforming the complexity of multiple options into a streamlined automated decision-making process that maintains high adaptability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentEP2366255B1Apparatus and methods for providing enhanced mobile messaging services
Publication Date: 2014.02.26 QUALCOMM INC
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AI summary

Various embodiments for providing enhanced mobile messaging services are described. In one or more embodiments, a mobile computing device may send messages of different types. The mobile computing device may allow a sender to compose a message independently of message type. The mobile computing device may automatically determine both a message type for the message and the transfer medium by which to send the message. The mobile computing device may consider factors including message contents, network availability and reliability, historical data, cost, sender preferences, recipient preferences, etc. Other embodiments are described and claimed.