Profile Picture Management via Contact Group Segmentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in managing and updating profile pictures, as they need to separately register, change, and manage photos for contacts on their local terminals, while shared profile images from online accounts are hard to manage directly, leading to potential misregistration or outdated images.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device and method that transmit personal profile information, including profile pictures, based on contact groups during calls, allowing receivers to select preferred photos from a folder of images, expanding to share additional content like background images, emoticons, and state messages.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a user separately registers and manages profile pictures for each contact in the local phonebook, then the user can have customized profile pictures for each contact, but the management complexity and time consumption increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the management of profile pictures by introducing contact groups (e.g., family, friends, colleagues) as intermediate categories. Instead of managing each contact individually, users manage profile pictures at the group level, which reduces the complexity while still allowing customization for different contacts within each group.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an online account profile picture as an intermediary that automatically synchronizes with the local phonebook. This intermediary handles the bulk of profile picture management centrally, eliminating the need for users to manually manage each contact's profile picture while still providing customization options through group-based overrides.
2Ease of operation
If a user synchronizes profile pictures with an online account, then the management becomes centralized and easier, but the user cannot directly manage or update specific profile pictures for local contacts
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by allowing users to override the centralized online account profile picture with local profile pictures for specific contact groups. This means that while the default behavior is centralized management from the online account, local customization is available at the group level, providing both ease of operation and adaptability.
3Reliability
If profile pictures are automatically synchronized between online account and local phonebook, then the profiles stay up-to-date, but the synchronization complexity and potential conflicts increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by establishing a default synchronization rule from the online account to the local phonebook before any conflicts occur. This preliminary setup ensures that profile pictures are automatically kept up-to-date without requiring complex real-time conflict resolution mechanisms, as the online account serves as the authoritative source by default.
4Adaptability or versatility
If a user manually updates each contact's profile picture in the local phonebook, then the profile pictures can be customized, but the time consumption and effort increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by making the online account profile picture serve multiple functions: it acts as the default profile picture for all contacts, provides automatic synchronization, and serves as the source for group-based customization. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for manual updates of each contact while still providing customization capabilities.
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AI summary
An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device may comprise: a communication circuit for supporting a call function; a memory for storing a database including contacts of a plurality of users, wherein the database contains a plurality of contact groups and a first user of the plurality of users belongs to a first contact group; and a processor configured to cause the communication circuit to transmit, to a user terminal of the first user, a request for a profile call, which comprises a contact of the first user and information on images corresponding to the first contact group, when a user input to send a call to the first user is received.