Mobile Contact Display via OS Module Integration

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current telecommunications systems lack an efficient method for enhancing personal contact information display on mobile devices, particularly during incoming and outgoing calls, which limits user interaction and information accessibility.

Innovation Solution

A software code is integrated with a mobile device's operating system to interact with voice, phone, internet, and personal contact information modules, allowing users to configure and transmit their personal contact information to a server, which is then visually displayed on another user's device when a voice message is retrieved, enabling a history of voice messages to be accessed and listened to.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If personal contact information is displayed during calls, then user interaction and information accessibility are improved, but device complexity and software integration requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation accessibilityVSAvoidsoftware integration requirements
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple existing modules (voice message module, phone module, internet module, personal contact information module) into a unified system through integrated software code. This allows personal contact information to be displayed during calls by combining functionalities that already exist separately in the mobile device, thereby improving information accessibility without proportionally increasing overall system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The software code is designed to interact with multiple modules simultaneously, creating a multi-functional enhancement that works across different communication contexts (calls, voice messages, contact information display). This universal approach allows a single software integration to serve multiple purposes, reducing the need for separate specialized components.

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

2Productivity

If detailed personal contact information is transmitted and displayed, then communication efficiency is improved, but data transmission and storage requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication efficiencyVSAvoiddata transmission requirements
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the necessary personal contact information parameters (name, phone number, email, contact details) from the complete contact database and transmits only this subset data during communication events. This extraction approach provides detailed information when needed for communication efficiency while minimizing the quantity of data that must be continuously transmitted and stored.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary configuration of personal contact information parameters in advance, storing them in a ready-to-use format. When a call or voice message event occurs, the pre-configured information is quickly transmitted and displayed without requiring real-time data processing, thereby improving communication efficiency while reducing instantaneous data transmission requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11483423B2Method of enhancing personal contact information display on a mobile device
Publication Date: 2022.10.25 WILSON SEAN
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AI summary

A method of enhancing personal contact information display on a mobile device is disclosed herein. The method of enhancing personal contact information display on a mobile device includes integrating a software code with an operating system for the mobile device. The code is configured to interact with a voice message module, the phone module, the internet module, and the personal contact information module of the mobile device operating system. The method of enhancing personal contact information display on a mobile device is useful for viewing contact information and accessing at least one voicemail left by a first-user.