Recipient Group Recommendation for Mobile Messaging

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current mobile terminals lack an intelligent contact group mechanism that can automatically extract recipient correlations from emails or multimedia messages, making it inconvenient for users to quickly add contacts when sending messages or information.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus that create a recipient group from received mail information, allowing users to automatically display and prompt other recipients in the group for addition when a contact is already in the group, with the option to arrange recipients sequentially for intuitive selection.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If users manually select contacts one by one when sending messages, then the mobile terminal can send messages to contacts, but the operation process becomes time-consuming and inefficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemessage sending efficiencyVSAvoidtime for selecting contacts
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-creates contact groups by automatically extracting recipient information from received emails and multimedia messages. When a user sends a message, the system retrieves and recommends relevant contact groups based on the message content or recipient, allowing users to quickly add multiple contacts at once rather than selecting them one by one.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If the mobile terminal provides basic contact selection functionality, then users can send messages to individual contacts, but the system lacks intelligent contact group recommendation capability

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveintelligent group contact recommendation functionVSAvoidcontact management system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically performs contact group creation and management without requiring user intervention. It extracts recipient information from received emails and multimedia messages, automatically creates contact groups, and maintains them autonomously. This self-service approach provides intelligent recommendation functionality while keeping the user interface simple.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intelligent recommendation mechanism as an intermediary between the user and contact management. When a user initiates message sending, the system automatically retrieves relevant contact groups and presents them as recommendations, mediating between the basic contact selection function and the user's need for efficient group messaging.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Ease of operation

If users actively create contact groups manually, then contact groups can be formed for group messaging, but the process lacks flexibility and intelligence

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontact group creation convenienceVSAvoidautomatic contact extraction from emails
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSExtent of automation

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically creates contact groups by extracting recipient information from received emails and multimedia messages without requiring user intervention. Users simply need to enable the feature, and the system autonomously performs contact extraction, group creation, and maintenance, providing both ease of operation and high automation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS9130891B2Method and apparatus for quickly adding recipient and mobile terminal
Publication Date: 2015.09.08 HUAWEI DEVICE CO LTD
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AI summary

A method for quickly adding a recipient includes: receiving mail information, where the mail information includes information of at least two recipients; creating a recipient group according to the recipient information; and when a user needs to add a recipient to send a mail, if the added contact is in the recipient group, displaying information of other recipients in the recipient group, and prompting the user whether to add other recipients. The technical solutions of embodiments of the present invention make an operation of adding a recipient quite flexible and intelligent, and provide an intelligent group contact recommendation function, so that the user can quickly add a contact when sending a mail or information.