Ambient Cue Detection for Automatic Web Content Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems lack an efficient method to seamlessly integrate ambient cues from various environments, such as audio signals and RFID tags, to automatically access and present relevant online content to users, limiting user engagement and information retrieval.
Innovation Solution
A system that utilizes receivers to detect ambient cues, such as audio tones and RFID tags, to control a web browser, allowing users to access web pages with additional information related to the detected cues, while enabling users to store and select content for viewing later, and integrating with gaming systems to unlock features.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual navigation to online content is used, then user control is maintained, but user engagement and information retrieval efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically detects ambient cues and retrieves related online content without requiring manual user input. The cue detection system autonomously monitors the environment, identifies relevant cues, and triggers web browser navigation to display associated content, enabling the system to serve itself in the information retrieval process.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical navigation (typing URLs, clicking links) with an automated electronic system that detects ambient cues and automatically navigates to relevant web content. This substitution eliminates the need for manual operation while maintaining or improving information retrieval efficiency.
2Productivity
If automated cue-based content access is implemented, then information retrieval efficiency is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs a universal cue detection mechanism that can identify multiple types of cues (audio tones, RFID tags, visual markers) through a single integrated framework. This multi-functional approach allows the system to handle diverse cue types without requiring separate specialized systems for each cue type, thereby managing complexity while maintaining high content access efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a cue database as an intermediary layer between cue detection and web content retrieval. This database stores associations between cues and corresponding web addresses, simplifying the system architecture by decoupling the detection mechanism from the content delivery mechanism and enabling efficient content access through structured data lookup.
3Adaptability or versatility
If continuous cue monitoring is performed, then user engagement is enhanced, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements periodic or event-triggered cue monitoring rather than continuous monitoring. The cue detection operates at intervals or is activated by specific events (such as user presence detection or application launch), reducing energy consumption while maintaining enhanced user engagement when the system is active.
Solution Approach 2:
The system monitors for specific predefined cue types rather than all possible ambient signals. By focusing detection resources on relevant cue categories (specific audio frequencies, particular RFID protocols, designated visual markers), the system achieves enhanced user engagement through targeted cue recognition while minimizing energy expenditure by ignoring irrelevant environmental signals.
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AI summary
An example method of accessing a web page includes receiving audio output from speakers of electronic equipment; detecting a cue in the received audio output; determining a web address based on the detected cue; and connecting to a web page using the web address.