SMS Shortcut Strings for Longer Messages Under Character Limits
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Solution Overview
Problem
Short message service (SMS) messages have a limited character length, restricting the amount of information that can be transmitted, which hinders efficient communication.
Innovation Solution
Replacing commonly occurring series of characters with shortcut character strings, allowing for increased message content without exceeding character limits, while ensuring both sender and recipient can view the full text without loss of information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If the character length limit of SMS is used, then message transmission is simple and compatible, but the amount of information that can be transmitted is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The message is segmented into two forms: a compressed form with shortcut character strings for transmission, and an expanded form with full character sequences for display. The system divides the message processing into compression at send time and expansion at receive time, allowing information to be transmitted in a compact format while maintaining full readability.
Solution Approach 2:
Shortcut character strings are pre-defined and stored in a dictionary before message transmission. Common character sequences are identified in advance and replaced with their corresponding shortcut codes, enabling compression without increasing processing complexity during transmission.
2Loss of energy
If shortcut character strings are used to reduce transmitted characters, then data transmission is reduced, but the system requires replacement and conversion mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of transmitting the full character sequences, the system transmits compressed copies using shortcut character strings. The recipient's device maintains a local copy of the shortcut dictionary to convert these compressed representations back into readable text, reducing transmission volume while maintaining readability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter representation of characters by replacing multi-character sequences with single-character shortcuts. This parameter transformation reduces the average characters per message while maintaining the ability to reconstruct the original message through reverse substitution using the shortcut dictionary.
Data Source
AI summary
A method, system, and medium are provided for increasing the amount of content that can be displayed to a message recipient relative to the amount of information transmitted. This can be accomplished by identifying series of characters that can be replaced by a shortcut character string. Although both the sender and the recipient can see the full text of a message, the amount of data transmitted can be reduced based on the difference in the number of characters in the full message relative to the number of characters after replacement of identified series of characters with shortcut character strings.