Predictive Aspect Formatting for Communication Contexts

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional methods for formatting communications, such as text messages or emails, require manual adjustments by users to emphasize certain aspects, which can be burdensome and inefficient, especially when anticipating future composition based on contextual clues within the communication.

Innovation Solution

A method that identifies communications between users and determines the need for visual formatting changes based on context data, automatically implementing these changes, such as color, size, or typographical adjustments, without user intervention.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If manual formatting adjustments are made by users, then message emphasis and conveyance are improved, but user burden and time consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemessage conveyanceVSAvoiduser time consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically analyzes context data and applies formatting changes without user intervention. The processor identifies communications and autonomously determines visual changes based on context data, allowing the system to serve itself rather than requiring manual user formatting

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs formatting adjustments in advance based on predicted user intent. By analyzing context data before the user completes composition, the system proactively applies appropriate visual formatting, eliminating the need for later manual adjustments

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Ease of operation

If automatic formatting is implemented based on context data, then user burden is reduced, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser burdenVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Context data serves as an intermediary between the communication content and formatting decisions. The processor analyzes this intermediate data layer to determine appropriate visual changes, bridging the gap between raw communication data and formatting actions without requiring complex direct analysis

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses context data as feedback to continuously refine formatting decisions. By monitoring communication patterns and context information, the system adjusts its formatting predictions, creating a self-improving loop that manages complexity through adaptive learning

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Productivity

If visual changes are automatically applied to communications, then formatting efficiency is improved, but manual control is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveformatting efficiencyVSAvoidmanual control
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The formatting system transitions from static manual adjustment to dynamic automatic application. The processor continuously monitors context data and dynamically adjusts formatting in real-time, allowing the system to adapt to changing communication contexts automatically while maintaining high efficiency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes formatting parameters (visual properties) based on context data analysis. By automatically adjusting parameters such as text styling, spacing, and visual emphasis based on analyzed context, the system achieves efficient adaptive formatting without manual intervention

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS11556694B1Predictive aspect formatting
Publication Date: 2023.01.17 LENOVO SWITZERLAND INTERNATIONAL GMBH
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AI summary

One embodiment provides a method, including: identifying, on an information handling device, a communication between a first user and at least one other individual; determining, based upon an analysis of context data associated with the communication, that an indication exists to implement a visual change to an aspect of the communication; and; implementing, responsive to the determining, the visual change to the aspect. Other aspects are described and claimed.