Mobile Email Smart Response Mode for Bandwidth Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mobile devices often receive truncated electronic mail messages due to limited bandwidth, requiring users to download and re-transmit the entire message to reply or forward, which is inefficient and wasteful in terms of bandwidth usage.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a smart response mode that allows users to send replies or forwards with the entire original message body without needing to download and re-transmit it from the mobile device, by using a synchronization protocol that fetches and includes the complete message from a server.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of energy
If truncated electronic mail messages are transmitted to mobile devices to accommodate limited bandwidth, then bandwidth usage is reduced, but the user cannot send complete responses without downloading the entire message locally
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the email message into two parts: a truncated version stored locally on the mobile device for display and initial processing, and the complete version stored on the mail server. When the user sends a reply or forward, the system automatically retrieves the complete original message from the server and combines it with the user's response, eliminating the need to download the entire message locally while still enabling complete responses to be sent.
2Ease of operation
If the user downloads the entire message body locally to reply or forward, then complete responses can be sent, but bandwidth is wasted due to downloading and re-transmitting the entire message
Solution Approach 1:
The mail server acts as an intermediary that stores the complete original message. When the mobile device needs to send a complete response, instead of downloading the entire message from the remote mail server and then re-transmitting it, the system uses the local mail server as a mediator to retrieve only the necessary portions of the original message and combines them with the user's response, eliminating redundant data transmission.
3Loss of energy
If truncated messages are sent to mobile devices, then bandwidth consumption is reduced, but information completeness is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by storing the complete original message on the local mail server before the user needs to send a response. When the user composes a reply or forward, the system proactively retrieves the complete message from the server and attaches it to the response, ensuring information completeness is restored at the moment of sending without requiring the user to manually download the entire message.
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention allows mobile users to send replies to, or to forward, truncated electronic mail messages, and yet still send the entire body of the original electronic mail message, without having to download the entire body of the mail message locally to the mobile device and then re-transmit the entire message from the mobile device.