Voice Message Completeness Verification and Supplementary Content Handling

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing voice communication technologies often result in incomplete voice messages due to network issues or user errors, leading to misguidance and confusion for recipients, with no effective mechanism to ensure message completeness or allow users to modify sent messages.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented method and device for voice communication that determines the completeness of a voice message by comparing the duration of valid content with a preset proportion, displays a prompt for incomplete messages, and allows users to add supplementary content, which is then sent with a supplementary identification to ensure message completeness and user satisfaction.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If voice messages are sent without completeness verification, then sending speed is fast and operation is simple, but message completeness cannot be ensured leading to misguidance and confusion for recipients

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemessage completenessVSAvoidverification mechanism complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by verifying voice message completeness before sending. The system calculates the duration of valid voice content and compares it with the total recording duration to determine if the message is complete, preventing incomplete messages from being transmitted and thus ensuring reliability without requiring complex post-sending verification mechanisms

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements feedback by providing visual indicators to users about message completeness. The system displays different icons or indicators showing whether a voice message is complete or incomplete, giving users immediate feedback about the quality of their recorded messages and allowing them to re-record if necessary

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Ease of operation

If users can modify sent voice messages, then user experience is improved and errors can be corrected, but system complexity increases due to additional processing requirements

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemessage modification capabilityVSAvoidsystem processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies segmentation by separating the voice message into original content and supplementary content. When users need to modify a message, they record supplementary voice content that is distinctly marked and appended to the original message, allowing the system to process and manage different segments independently while maintaining the ability to modify sent messages

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent uses an intermediary approach by introducing a supplementary voice message mechanism. Instead of directly modifying the original sent message, users record additional supplementary content that serves as a mediator, which is then combined with the original message to achieve modification while keeping the system architecture relatively simple

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Reliability

If supplementary voice content is added to incomplete messages, then message completeness is ensured, but transmission time and processing time increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemessage completenessVSAvoidtransmission and processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies partial action by only adding supplementary voice content when necessary - specifically when the voice message is determined to be incomplete. The system calculates whether supplementary content is needed based on duration comparison, and only then initiates the supplementary recording and transmission process, avoiding unnecessary time loss for complete messages

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentEP3367379B1Method, device and system for voice communication
Publication Date: 2023.04.19 BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO LTD
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AI summary

The present invention relates to a method, device and system for voice communication. The method includes acquiring a first operation instruction for instructing to acquire a supplementary voice content of a first voice message; acquiring the supplementary voice content of the first voice message according to the acquired first operation instruction; generating a second voice message according to the supplementary voice content, the second voice message including a supplementary identification for indicating that the voice content included in the second voice message is a supplementary voice content; and sending the second voice message to a server. In the present invention, a terminal may add a supplementary voice content on the basis of the sent voice message according to an instruction of the user. By sending the supplementary voice content carried with the supplementary identification to the server, and instructing the server to send the supplementary voice content to the opposite terminal, it may effectively avoid the situation that the opposite terminal receives an incomplete voice message due to reasons from the network environment or the user.