Actionable Item Extraction from Desktop Content for Mobile Transfer
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems fail to organize and facilitate further actions on mobile devices for content accessed from desktop computers, lacking a method to identify and transfer actionable items based on user-selected content.
Innovation Solution
A system that categorizes selected data into multiple categories, determines actions based on this categorization, and transfers both the data and actions to a wireless device, allowing for automated processing without user intervention, with the option to modify actions and categories as needed.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If synchronization applications are used to transfer content between devices, then content availability on multiple devices is improved, but content organization and actionable item transfer are lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments content into distinct types (informational content, actionable items, metadata) and transfers them through separate channels. Actionable items are extracted from general content synchronization and handled as a distinct category, allowing them to be organized and executed separately from regular content transfers.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary component that acts as a bridge between content synchronization and execution. This intermediary identifies actionable items within transferred content, extracts them, and routes them to appropriate applications on the mobile device, solving the organization problem while maintaining content availability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If manual content transfer methods are used, then content can be accessed on mobile devices, but user time and effort for organization are increased
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service by automatically analyzing transferred content, identifying actionable items, categorizing them, and routing them to appropriate applications without user intervention. The system serves itself by autonomously organizing content and executing actions, eliminating the need for manual user organization while maintaining versatile content access.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary action by pre-processing content during the transfer phase. Actionable items are identified, extracted, and prepared for execution before the user even receives the content on their mobile device. This advance organization eliminates subsequent user time requirements while preserving content adaptability.
3Device complexity
If content is transferred without actionable item identification, then data transfer simplicity is improved, but subsequent user interaction efficiency is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts actionable items from general content transfers by implementing an identification and extraction mechanism. This separation pulls out specific executable elements from the bulk content transfer process, maintaining simplicity in the overall transfer while enabling efficient subsequent user interaction through automated action execution.
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AI summary
A system, method, device and interface for selecting data for a wireless device. The system, method, device and interface provide for categorizing selected data based on two or more categories, determining an action based on the categorization, and transferring the selected data and the determined action to the wireless device. In one embodiment, the categorization of the selected data may also be transferred to the wireless device. The categorizing of the selected data may include receiving input related to the categorizing, and altering a categorizing algorithm utilized in performing the categorization in response to the received input. The input may include a new category and/or a change in an existing category.