Adaptive Voice Call Notification Extension
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing voice call notification systems on information handling devices often fail to provide adequate notification time, leading to missed calls, especially in scenarios where the device is in motion or the user is unable to physically reach it promptly.
Innovation Solution
The system detects external notification extension conditions, such as physical location and user-defined settings, to intelligently extend the notification period by tracking user-device interactions and updating these conditions based on learned patterns of behavior, allowing for tailored notification extensions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the notification time is extended to provide adequate time for users to answer calls, then the likelihood of missed calls is reduced, but the device consumes more energy and occupies the user's attention for longer periods
Solution Approach 1:
The notification system dynamically adjusts the notification duration and intensity based on real-time analysis of user behavior patterns, device motion states, and environmental context. The system transitions from static fixed-duration notifications to adaptive dynamic notifications that extend or shorten based on detected conditions, optimizing energy consumption while maintaining call answer rates.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback loops that monitor user responses to notifications, device motion patterns, and environmental conditions. This feedback is used to continuously refine and update the notification extension criteria, allowing the system to learn from past interactions and optimize the balance between notification effectiveness and energy consumption over time.
2Reliability
If the notification time is extended to allow users more time to reach the device, then missed calls are reduced, but the device occupies the user's attention for longer periods and may cause disturbance
Solution Approach 1:
The notification system applies different notification strategies to different spatial and temporal contexts. Instead of uniform notification behavior, the system tailors notification characteristics (duration, intensity, type) to specific local conditions such as user location, device motion state, time of day, and detected user activity patterns, thereby reducing disturbance while maintaining effectiveness.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes multiple notification parameters simultaneously based on detected conditions, including notification duration, vibration patterns, audible volume, and display brightness. These parameter changes are coordinated to extend notification time when needed while minimizing disturbance through adaptive adjustment of intensity and type of notification signals.
3Measurement precision
If the system tracks user-device interactions to build behavior patterns, then notification extension accuracy is improved, but the device complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary data collection and pattern recognition in the background, building user behavior profiles over time through continuous but low-overhead tracking of device usage patterns, motion data, and notification responses. This preliminary action prepares the system to make rapid, accurate decisions about notification extension without requiring complex real-time processing during actual notification events.
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AI summary
An aspect provides a method, including: detecting an incoming voice call at an information handling device; detecting one or more external notification extension conditions at the information handling device, tracking user-device interactions to build a pattern of user behavior with respect to external conditions; updating the one or more external notification extension conditions based on the pattern of user behavior; and in response to detecting one or more updated external notification extension conditions at the information handling device, extending a notification of the incoming voice call at the information handling device. Other aspects are described and claimed.