Multimedia Mail Service Selective Content Type Filtering

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Solution Overview

Problem

User devices face inefficiencies in managing and transmitting various content types, leading to unnecessary battery and processor power consumption, as well as network bandwidth usage, due to the inability to selectively control the types of content received in multimedia messages.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a multimedia mail service that allows recipient user devices to specify preferred content types and provider user devices to obtain and transmit content based on these preferences, thereby optimizing the transmission of multimedia content messages by excluding unwanted content types.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If a user device receives all possible content types in multimedia messages, then the completeness of received information is improved, but the battery power consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecompleteness of received informationVSAvoidbattery power consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the multimedia message into different content types (e.g., audio, video, text, images) and allows the recipient device to selectively receive only the desired segments based on their content type preferences, rather than receiving all content types uniformly.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts the content delivery based on the recipient's real-time preferences and device capabilities. The provider device queries the recipient's content type preferences and adapts the multimedia message composition accordingly, making the information reception process dynamic rather than static.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Loss of information

If a user device processes all content types in multimedia messages, then the comprehensiveness of processed information is improved, but the processor power consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecomprehensiveness of processed informationVSAvoidprocessor power consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSPower

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts and removes unwanted content types from the multimedia message before transmission to the recipient device. By querying the recipient's content type preferences and excluding undesired content types, the system reduces the processing burden on the recipient's device while maintaining comprehensiveness of the desired information.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Loss of information

If all content types are transmitted in multimedia messages, then the completeness of transmitted information is improved, but the network bandwidth usage increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecompleteness of transmitted informationVSAvoidnetwork bandwidth usage

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies partial action by transmitting only the necessary portion of the multimedia content based on recipient preferences. Instead of transmitting all content types excessively, the provider device selectively transmits only the content types that the recipient has indicated they want to receive, optimizing network bandwidth utilization.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

4Productivity

If a user device receives multiple content types in a single message, then the efficiency of information delivery is improved, but the complexity of managing different content types increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveefficiency of information deliveryVSAvoidcomplexity of managing different content types

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a universal content type preference management system that handles multiple content types through a single, unified interface. The recipient device maintains a general content type preference configuration that applies across all multimedia messages, allowing efficient information delivery without increasing management complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS10171394B2Multimedia mail service

Publication Date: 2019.01.01 VERIZON PATENT & LICENSING INC

AI summary

A system may determine to provide content in a multimedia content message to a user. The user may be associated with a recipient account that is associated with content type preferences that identify a plurality of permitted content types. Each content type, of the plurality of permitted content types, may identify a type of content that is permitted to be included in the multimedia content message. The system may obtain the content type preferences to determine the plurality of permitted content types. The system may determine one or more selected content types of the plurality of permitted content types. The one or more selected content types may be content types of content to be obtained by the system and included in the multimedia content message. The system may obtain content of the one or more selected content types. The system may provide the multimedia content message including the content.