Mobile Messaging Tagging for Efficient Content Retrieval
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional mobile communication devices require time-consuming scrolling operations to locate specific message content, making it inefficient to refer back to or re-review instant message content.
Innovation Solution
A marking application that enables both manual and automatic tagging of message content, allowing users to navigate efficiently to desired content using tags, which can be applied to real-time chat applications, including instant messaging, SMS, and MMS, using keyboard, navigation, or voice commands.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of time
If users manually scroll through instant message content to locate specific portions, then they can review message content, but the operation becomes time-consuming and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically analyzing message content and generating tags before the user needs to search. The tagging application pre-processes the message stream, identifying key topics, entities, and concepts, and creates navigable tags in advance. This eliminates the need for users to manually scroll through entire message histories to find specific content.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces tags as an intermediary layer between the raw message content and the user. Instead of directly interacting with the full message stream, users interact with condensed tag representations that mediate access to the underlying content. These tags serve as shortcuts, allowing users to navigate to relevant message portions without examining the entire message history.
2Productivity
If users manually scroll through message content, then they can access all message portions, but the navigation process becomes complex and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the continuous message stream into discrete, taggable units of information. By breaking down the message content into identifiable topics, entities, and concepts that can be independently tagged, the system creates a segmented index structure. This segmentation allows users to navigate to specific segments of interest without processing the entire message stream, thereby improving productivity while maintaining simple navigation operations.
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AI summary
Methods and devices are provided for marking content in substantially real-time messaging applications using a mobile communication device. A marking application in cooperation with a messaging application displays a message communication on a graphical user interface of the mobile communication device, enables navigation to a selected position within the message communication and receives a signal to mark the selected position with a tag. A manually actuated signal is provided to mark the selected position within the message communication and receive an automatically actuated signal to mark a portion of the message communication based on a pre-defined rule. Receiving the manually actuated signal includes receiving one of: a first actuation signal from a user-selected key on a keyboard or a second actuation signal from a user-selected icon on the graphical user interface. The mobile communication device allows users to more efficiently tag and retrieve content transmitted in substantially real-time.