Mobile Domain Platform Keyword SMS Processing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Small businesses lack the resources to maintain an online presence, making it difficult for them to effectively communicate with customers and advertise their services, while existing technologies do not provide efficient solutions for managing user interactions through text messages.

Innovation Solution

A mobile domain platform that allows subscribers to register keywords, process text messages containing these keywords, and perform predefined actions such as delivering user information via various channels, enabling dynamic bidding and keyword management.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If small businesses use traditional online presence methods (websites, portals), then they can provide comprehensive service information, but the cost and complexity become unaffordable

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice information provisionVSAvoidonline presence maintenance
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the essential function of online presence (keyword-based information delivery) from the complex website/portal infrastructure. By using SMS keywords as a standalone communication channel, small businesses can provide service information without maintaining full online websites, thus reducing complexity while preserving adaptability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent employs SMS messages as a low-cost, simple communication vehicle compared to maintaining expensive websites. Each SMS serves as a lightweight, disposable information delivery mechanism that requires minimal infrastructure investment, making online-like functionality accessible to small businesses.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #27Cheap short-living objects (Disposable)

2Loss of information

If businesses maintain comprehensive online websites and portals, then customers can access detailed information, but the cost of maintenance becomes prohibitive for small businesses

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecustomer information accessVSAvoidbusiness resource requirement
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts the core information delivery function from complex websites and implements it through simple SMS keywords. Customers can access specific service information by sending targeted keywords, providing adequate information access without requiring expensive website maintenance infrastructure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces SMS keyword processing as an intermediary between customers and business information. This mediator system translates simple keyword messages into appropriate information responses, enabling efficient information access without the need for costly website development and maintenance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Ease of operation

If existing text message systems are used for customer communication, then basic interaction is possible, but efficient keyword-based application management is not provided

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecustomer interactionVSAvoidkeyword application processing
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic keyword processing where the system adapts its response based on the specific keyword received. The SMS gateway dynamically routes different keywords to appropriate applications or information sources, providing versatile application management while maintaining simple customer interaction through uniform text message interface.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates a universal SMS-based platform that can handle multiple different applications and information types through a single interface. By using keyword differentiation, one SMS system serves multiple functions (information inquiry, service requests, communications) without requiring separate systems for each application.

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

Data Source

PatentEP2033123B1Platform for managing mobile domains and keyword-activated applications
Publication Date: 2012.12.19 YAHOO INC
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AI summary

A mobile domain platform for subscribers (e.g. businesses, institutions, advertising agencies, partners, providers, individuals, and enterprises) to offer a text message based campaign to new or potential customers (users). A subscriber can create a mobile domain by selecting and registering at least one available keyword with a mobile domain platform for the subsequent processing of text messages sent to the platform which include one or more of the registered keywords. Also, the subscriber can register one or more keywords as a root for a mobile domain such that subsequent text messages sent to the mobile domain platform that include additional alphanumeric strings of text (root keyword plus one or more combinations of other predetermined keywords) can be automatically processed to enable one or more different actions. A mobile domain keyword is generally composed of one or more alphanumeric characters, and can be any one of a word, phrase, abbreviation, or character.