Action-Sequence Presentation with Permission-Level Trigger Detection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Recording actions alone does not lead to improvement of lifestyle habits, and existing systems fail to appropriately identify triggering actions for users to change their behavior.

Innovation Solution

An information presentation device that generates an action sequence and calculates a permission level based on an action log and a permission log, identifying a trigger action for users to change their behavior by presenting a trigger action with a permission level equal to or above a threshold.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If actions are simply recorded as explained in Non-Patent Literature 1, then users can track their behavior, but the recording actions does not always lead to improvement of lifestyle habits

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvebehavioral insightVSAvoidlifestyle improvement effectiveness

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system provides feedback by calculating permission levels that indicate how much flexibility users have in adjusting their action timing. This feedback loop transforms simple recording into actionable insights, showing users which actions can be postponed or accelerated without violating their constraints, thereby enabling actual lifestyle improvement.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The patent segments the action improvement process into distinct components: action sequence generation, permission level calculation, and trigger action identification. This segmentation allows the system to address specific bottlenecks in behavior change by providing targeted information about which actions can be modified and by how much.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Device complexity

If existing systems simply record actions without analysis, then the system complexity remains low, but the system fails to appropriately identify triggering actions for users to change their behavior

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesystem processing capabilityVSAvoidtrigger action identification accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary analysis by generating action sequences and calculating permission levels before presenting trigger actions to users. This preliminary processing enables the system to pre-identify which actions are suitable for modification based on user constraints, improving trigger action identification accuracy without requiring complex real-time analysis.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces permission level calculation as an intermediary mechanism between simple action recording and trigger action identification. This intermediary layer transforms raw action data into meaningful flexibility metrics, enabling accurate identification of trigger actions while maintaining manageable system complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Quantity of substance

If the system presents all actions in the action sequence, then users receive comprehensive information, but users cannot efficiently identify which actions should be changed

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation volumeVSAvoiduser decision-making ease

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts and highlights only the trigger actions from the complete action sequence, separating the actions that should be modified from those that should remain unchanged. This extraction process presents comprehensive information in a filtered, actionable format that makes user decision-making easy while maintaining information completeness.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS12451233B2Information presentation device, information acquisition device, information presentation method, information acquisition method and information presentation program

Publication Date: 2025.10.21 NT T INC

AI summary

An action-sequence generation unit of an information presentation device generates, based on an action log representing a target action of a user and an action history of the user, an action sequence representing a sequence of actions including the target action. A permission-level calculation unit calculates, based on the action log and a permission log, about the actions, a permission level representing a difference between a time period when the actions included in the action log were performed and a time period when the actions included in the permission log are permitted. An action specifying unit specifies, based on the action sequence and the permission level, out of the actions in the action sequence, an action, the permission level of which is equal to or larger than a threshold concerning the permission level, as a trigger action among the actions included in the action sequence.