Temporal Contact Archiving for Mobile Memory Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mobile devices experience cluttered contact lists due to vast amounts of stored contact information, leading to inefficiencies in accessing desired contacts, as they often store information that is not relevant to the user's current context or location.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a system that archives and retrieves contact information based on temporal conditions, such as geographic location, access frequency, or inactivity periods, allowing for automatic removal and re-introduction of contacts when these conditions are met, thereby maintaining only pertinent information on the device.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If contact information is stored indefinitely in mobile device memory, then contact availability is improved, but memory efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic contact management where contacts are automatically archived or removed based on temporal conditions such as inactivity periods, geographic location, or time-based rules. This dynamic approach allows the system to adapt contact storage to current user needs while optimizing memory usage, resolving the contradiction between maintaining contact availability and efficient memory utilization.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the state of contact information by transitioning contacts between active and archived states based on temporal parameters. Contacts that meet specified temporal conditions (e.g., not accessed within a certain period, location-based criteria) are automatically moved to archived status, allowing the system to maintain relevant contacts in active memory while freeing space for new contacts.
2Adaptability or versatility
If vast amounts of contact information are stored, then contact coverage is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments contact information into active and archived categories based on temporal conditions. This segmentation allows the system to maintain comprehensive contact coverage across both segments while improving operational ease by presenting only relevant active contacts to the user, reducing clutter and facilitating faster access to currently needed contacts.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts the contact list composition by automatically archiving or retrieving contacts based on temporal conditions such as usage patterns, location, or time-based rules. This dynamic reorganization ensures that the active contact list remains optimized for current user needs while archived contacts preserve comprehensive coverage for future retrieval.
3Quantity of substance
If contacts are archived based on temporal conditions, then memory efficiency is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service contact management where the system automatically monitors temporal conditions and performs archiving or retrieval operations without requiring user intervention. The contact management system autonomously evaluates temporal parameters (inactivity periods, location data, time-based rules) and executes appropriate actions, thereby improving memory efficiency while minimizing the complexity burden on the user.
4Reliability
If temporal conditions are monitored continuously, then contact relevance is improved, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs periodic monitoring of temporal conditions rather than continuous monitoring. Contacts are evaluated at specified intervals or triggered by specific events (such as device usage patterns or location changes), allowing the system to maintain contact relevance while significantly reducing energy consumption compared to continuous real-time monitoring.
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AI summary
Archiving mobile device contact information as a function of occurrence of one or more temporal conditions is provided herein. By way of example, contact information stored in an active contact list of a mobile device can be associated with a temporal condition, such as frequency of use, or location of the mobile device, or the like. If the temporal condition is met, the contact information is archived at remote data store and/or passive portion of mobile device memory. Once the temporal condition is no longer met, the contact information can be re-downloaded into active memory and incorporated into the active contact list. As a result, aspects of the claimed subject matter provide for organizing a mobile device contact list according to temporal condition(s) to provide added efficiency and to manage such information according to a determinable situational context.