Triggering Active Content on Recipient Devices

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing communication methods, such as missed calls, SMS, and MMS, are ambiguous, require user interaction, and incur costs, with no system for the caller to trigger specific ringtones on the recipient's device, and lack support for optical, motor, and sensory components in messaging.

Innovation Solution

A system and method for delivering, triggering, and executing multimedia content using a service delivery platform that forwards a trigger message to the recipient device, which may include executable files in a compressed format, supporting XMPP messaging, and enabling optical, motor, and sensory responses, with the ability to download necessary components if not pre-installed, and configuring the content for immediate playback without device reconfiguration.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If MMS is used to deliver multimedia content, then user experience is enhanced, but user interaction is required and costs are incurred

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser experienceVSAvoiduser interaction

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-configures executable content on the recipient device in advance, so that when a trigger message is received, the content can be executed immediately without requiring user interaction to download or install. This preliminary preparation eliminates the need for user manipulation while maintaining enhanced multimedia experience.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The recipient device automatically executes the received trigger message and associated executable content without requiring user intervention. The device serves itself by autonomously processing the message, playing the multimedia content, and managing the execution lifecycle, thereby eliminating the need for manual user operations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Ease of manufacture

If MMS is used to deliver multimedia content, then user experience is enhanced, but repeated delivery of payload is required

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser experienceVSAvoidpayload delivery

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSLoss of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The executable content is pre-configured and stored on the recipient device in advance. When a trigger message is sent, it references this pre-existing content rather than delivering the full payload again. This preliminary preparation eliminates repeated payload delivery while maintaining the enhanced multimedia user experience.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system extracts only the essential trigger message containing a reference to the executable content, rather than delivering the complete multimedia payload with each message. The actual content execution is performed by the pre-configured executable on the recipient device, thereby reducing redundant data transmission.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Loss of information

If caller ID is displayed on recipient device, then caller identification is achieved, but recipient must be in close proximity to device

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecaller identificationVSAvoiddevice proximity

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system replaces the mechanical requirement of close physical proximity to the device with an acoustic field-based solution. Audio caller ID uses sound waves to transmit caller information to the recipient's ear, eliminating the need for the recipient to be physically close to the device screen while maintaining accurate caller identification.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

4Loss of information

If ringtone is assigned by recipient to caller, then caller identification is achieved, but caller cannot cause specific ringtone activation

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecaller identificationVSAvoidringtone selection

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system inverts the traditional ringtone assignment model where the recipient assigns ringtones to callers. Instead, the caller is now able to specify and cause particular ringtones to be activated on the recipient's device. This inversion of control enables callers to have adaptability in ringtone selection while maintaining caller identification functionality.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

Data Source

PatentEP2673946B1System and method of triggering and executing active content on a recipient device

Publication Date: 2020.01.01 MAYA INNOVATIONS HOLDINGS PTE LTD

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AI summary

A system and method of triggering and executing active content on a recipient device, the system comprising a sender device configured to send a trigger message to the recipient device, wherein the trigger message specifies at least one executable file, the executable file comprising active content to be executed by the recipient device, is disclosed.