People Client for Unified Address Data Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional communication devices face difficulties in organizing and managing a large number of communication items due to their menu-driven interfaces, leading to cumbersome navigation through multiple menus and sub-menus, especially with the increasing variety of communication services and types of messages.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that utilizes a 'people client' capable of receiving, evaluating, and managing address data related to contacts, allowing flexible criteria-based communication channel selection and filtering, integrating different data sources, and enabling efficient data handling and transmission based on user-defined preferences and groups.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a menu-driven interface is used to manage communication items, then the device can support a variety of communication services, but the user has to navigate through multiple menus and sub-menus making operation cumbersome
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a 'people client' as an intermediary component that sits between the user and the multiple communication services. This people client provides a unified interface that mediates access to diverse communication items (emails, SMS, voice messages, etc.) without requiring users to navigate through separate menus for each service type. The people client translates user requests into service-specific operations, thereby reducing navigation complexity while maintaining support for various communication services.
Solution Approach 2:
The people client is designed as a universal interface that handles multiple types of communication services through a single entry point. Instead of requiring separate menu structures for emails, SMS, voice messages, and other communication items, the people client provides a unified access mechanism that can retrieve and manage all communication items through one interface, thereby reducing the number of menus and sub-menus users must navigate.
2Speed
If address data is stored locally on each communication device, then data access is fast, but network traffic increases and data redundancy occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the address data storage functionality across multiple communication devices by introducing a centralized server that consolidates address books from multiple users. Instead of each device maintaining separate copies of address data, the server combines and manages a unified address book that serves multiple devices. This reduces data redundancy and minimizes network traffic while maintaining fast access speeds through efficient server-side management and selective data synchronization.
3Adaptability or versatility
If all address data is made available to all contacts, then communication flexibility is maximized, but unwanted communications and privacy issues increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by implementing user-specific visibility rules that determine which address data is visible to which contacts. Instead of making all address data universally accessible or completely restricted, the system assigns different visibility permissions to different contacts based on user preferences. This allows communication flexibility for authorized contacts while preventing unwanted communications from unauthorized contacts, thereby resolving the contradiction between accessibility and privacy protection.
Solution Approach 2:
The visibility rules in the patent are dynamic rather than static. Users can modify their visibility preferences at any time, and the system adapts the address data accessibility accordingly. This dynamic approach allows the system to maintain communication flexibility when users want open access while preventing unwanted communications when users restrict access, thereby resolving the contradiction between versatility and harmful factors.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a method for managing address data, wherein the address data relates to contacts. The method is characterized in, that the address data are stored on a people client, wherein the people client contains means for receiving at least a part of the address data, wherein the people client contains a means for checking, if the address data are related to a definable group of contacts and that the people client is capable of making the address data of a first contact available to a second contact in the case that the first contact and the second contact contain to at least one common group. The invention furthermore relates to a device and a communication system for carrying out the invention.