Short Message Graphics-Text Card Rendering for Key Content Identification

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face difficulty in quickly identifying key content from short messages received on mobile devices, as they are typically rendered in text only, requiring users to read through lengthy information.

Innovation Solution

An information processing method and electronic device that extracts target content from short messages based on preset fields and generates graphics-text cards, displaying key content in both picture and text format, allowing users to quickly grasp the message.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of time

If short messages are rendered in text only, then the message content is complete and accurate, but users cannot quickly identify key content and must read through lengthy information

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetime to identify key contentVSAvoidease of identifying key content
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the short message content into multiple fields (e.g., sender, receiver, time, content, attachment) and extracts target content from each field. This segmentation allows the system to identify and highlight key information elements separately, enabling users to quickly locate important content without reading the entire message sequentially.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transforms the one-dimensional text-only display into a two-dimensional graphics-text card format that combines visual elements (icons, graphics) with text. This dimensional change allows key content to be presented in a structured layout with visual cues, enabling rapid scanning and identification of important information without increasing the amount of content.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Ease of operation

If graphics-text cards are generated for all short messages, then key content is easily identifiable, but the device complexity and processing resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of identifying key contentVSAvoidcomplexity of message processing system
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies graphics-text card generation selectively based on the content characteristics of each short message. The system analyzes message fields and determines whether a message contains key information suitable for graphical representation. This local quality approach ensures that only messages benefiting from graphical enhancement are transformed, reducing unnecessary processing complexity while maintaining ease of content identification for relevant messages.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the presentation parameters of short message content by transforming text into graphics-text cards with specific visual parameters (icons, colors, layouts). This parameter change enables the system to adapt the display format based on content type, improving key content identifiability without requiring a complete system redesign, thus managing complexity through flexible parameter adjustment rather than structural complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS9578477B2Information processing method and electronic device
Publication Date: 2017.02.21 LENOVO (BEIJING) LTD
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AI summary

An information processing method and an electronic device are provided to rend key content of a short message in picture and text so that the user may observe the key content of the short message clearly and quickly. The method includes extracting target content from the content of a short message upon receiving the short message, with the target content corresponding to a preset field of the short message and generating and displaying a graphics-text card according to the target content, such that content rendered in the graphics-text card is matched with the content of the short message.