Unified Messaging Interface for Dynamic Web Content

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current text messaging and web content access require separate interfaces, limiting user interaction and authentication efficiency, as users often prefer typing over selecting menu items or clicking buttons, and existing authentication methods can be cumbersome.

Innovation Solution

An enhanced messaging application that integrates dynamic web content presentation with text messaging, allowing users to interact with web content via text messages and enabling authentication without requiring usernames or passwords, by using a messaging interface, web interface, and MDN-URL lookup module to associate short codes with URLs and provide rich content experiences.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If text messaging and web content access use separate interfaces, then each interface can be optimized for its specific function, but user interaction becomes limited and authentication becomes cumbersome

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser interactionVSAvoidinterface integration

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines text messaging interface and web content interface into a single unified interface. The messaging application can display both text messages and web content (HTML, XML, JSON) within the same conversation thread, allowing users to interact with web content by typing text commands rather than navigating separate interfaces. This merging eliminates the need to switch between applications and simplifies authentication flows.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The messaging application is designed to handle multiple functions within a single interface: receiving text messages, displaying web content, enabling user interaction with web content through text commands, and performing authentication. The system can dynamically determine whether to display text or web content based on the message type, making the interface universal for both traditional messaging and modern web interaction.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If users interact with web content via traditional methods (clicking buttons, selecting menu items), then navigation is visual, but users who prefer typing cannot efficiently interact with web content

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinteraction methodVSAvoidcontent interaction

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adapts the interaction method based on user preference and content type. Instead of forcing a single interaction paradigm, the messaging interface allows users to interact with web content through text commands while maintaining the ability to display visual web content. The system can switch between displaying text-only messages and rich web content based on the message format and user capabilities.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

3Reliability

If authentication requires usernames and passwords, then security can be robust, but the authentication process becomes cumbersome and time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveauthentication securityVSAvoidauthentication time

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements self-service authentication where users can authenticate by sending text commands through the messaging interface. The authentication credentials (usernames, passwords, or other identifiers) are transmitted as text messages, allowing users to authenticate without manually entering complex credentials. The system automatically processes the authentication request and manages the authentication state, reducing both time and effort required while maintaining security.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

4Reliability

If text messages provide simple notifications, then delivery is reliable, but rich content delivery and user interaction are limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemessage deliveryVSAvoidcontent richness

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The messaging system uses composite message formats that combine traditional text messaging with web content formats (HTML, XML, JSON). The message can contain both simple text notification elements and rich web content elements in a single unified structure. This allows the message to function as both a reliable notification (text portion) and a rich interactive content delivery (web content portion), leveraging the strengths of both formats.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #40Composite materials

Data Source

PatentUS9544746B2Dynamic web content via contextually aware text messaging

Publication Date: 2017.01.10 VERIZON PATENT & LICENSING INC

AI summary

A system may provide dynamic web-based content in conjunction with text message content. A user may use text messages to interact with web content (e.g., to select hyperlinks, request information, provide information, etc.). A content server may process the text messages, sent by the user, in order to determine web content to provide to the user. The text messages may be authenticated by a message relay server, thereby eliminating the need for the content server to request authentication or identification information from the user.