Voice Message Terminal Merging Recording and Messaging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for creating and accessing personal messages, such as paper notes and electronic devices, are limited by clutter, location dependency, and difficulty in accessing information during travel or while engaged in activities like driving.
Innovation Solution
A communication terminal with a processor, microphone, and input devices allows users to create and save voiced messages directly to a messaging system, enabling immediate recording and retrieval without requiring separate devices or waiting for network connections.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users use paper notes to create personal reminders, then they can leave notes in appropriate locations, but the notes create clutter and are only available at one location
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the messaging function with the existing communication terminal (phone/PDA) rather than requiring a separate dedicated device. The terminal's processor, memory, and communication capabilities are used to store and retrieve messages, eliminating the need for separate recording devices and integrating messaging into the device the user already carries.
Solution Approach 2:
The communication terminal is designed to perform multiple functions including voice messaging, regular messaging, and communication operations. The processor handles both voice message recording/transmission and standard message routing, making the device universal for various messaging needs without requiring additional specialized equipment.
2Productivity
If users use computers or mobile phones for electronic notes, then they can access messages digitally, but it is difficult to generate and read messages during travel or while driving
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces mechanical input methods (typing on keyboards or touch screens) with acoustic field-based voice recognition. The microphone captures voice commands and the processor converts them into message data, allowing hands-free message creation while driving or traveling without requiring visual or manual interaction with the device interface.
3Ease of operation
If users use dedicated recording devices to record voiced messages, then they can record messages easily, but these devices constitute a further item that a user must remember to carry
Solution Approach 1:
The recording and messaging functions are merged into the existing communication terminal. The processor uses the terminal's microprocessor, memory, and communication interfaces to handle voice message recording, transmission, and storage, eliminating the need for separate dedicated recording devices and reducing the number of items the user must carry.
4Reliability
If the processor waits for network connection readiness before recording messages, then communication reliability is improved, but the user must wait until the messaging system is ready to record
Solution Approach 1:
The processor performs preliminary actions by establishing network communication and verifying messaging system readiness before the user begins voice recording. This ensures the messaging system is prepared to receive and store the message, allowing the user to start recording immediately without waiting during or after the actual message capture.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables users to create and access messages efficiently and conveniently, minimizing clutter and location constraints, and allowing message recording and retrieval without needing to carry additional devices or wait for network readiness.
Implementation Method 1
a first input device for receiving a voiced input
Data Source
AI summary
A communication terminal includes a first input device for receiving a voiced input, a second input device for receiving a user input command, and a processor for conducting communications through a communication network. The processor is connectable to a messaging system having a message memory. When a user inputs a create message signal at the second input device, the processor monitors the first input device for receipt of a user voiced message, and transmits the user voiced message to the messaging system for storage in the message memory. The message is accessible by the user from the messaging system using the communication terminal.