Appliance-Aware Notification Management for Relevant Push Alerts

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional push notification systems often annoy users by transmitting uninteresting content, leading to user annoyance.

Innovation Solution

A notification management device that estimates user interest based on appliance state information, voice notification settings, and history, and transmits relevant push notifications to a terminal device.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If push notifications are transmitted frequently to notify users of various content, then the notification coverage is improved, but user annoyance increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenotification quantityVSAvoiduser annoyance

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system changes the parameter of notification selection by estimating user interest levels based on appliance state information, voice notification settings, and history data. This filters the notification queue to transmit only high-interest notifications, reducing overall quantity while maintaining user engagement and minimizing annoyance.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback loops by continuously monitoring voice notification history and appliance states to update user interest estimates. This feedback mechanism allows the system to learn from user interactions and adjust notification transmission accordingly, sending fewer but more relevant notifications that reduce annoyance while maintaining effectiveness.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Device complexity

If generic notification content is transmitted to all users, then the system complexity is reduced, but notification relevance deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesystem complexityVSAvoidnotification relevance

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-estimating user interest levels based on accumulated voice notification history and appliance state information before transmitting notifications. This advance preparation enables personalized notification selection without adding complex real-time processing, maintaining system simplicity while improving relevance.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service by automatically estimating user interest and selecting appropriate notifications without requiring manual user configuration or complex external intervention. The estimator component autonomously processes available data to determine notification relevance, reducing system complexity while maintaining high personalization levels.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS12436737B2Notification management device, notification system, control method of notification management device, and recording medium

Publication Date: 2025.10.07 PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO LTD

AI summary

A notification management device includes: an operation log obtainer that obtains an operation log indicating a state of an information source appliance operated by a user, from the information source appliance; an operation log storage that stores the operation log obtained by the operation log obtainer; a setting content information storage that stores setting content information indicating setting content of a voice notification of an utterance appliance set by the user; a voice notification log storage that stores a voice notification log indicating a history of the voice notification output by the utterance appliance based on the setting content; an estimator that estimates the user's interest based on at least one of the operation log, the setting content information, or the voice notification log; and a push notification transmitter that transmits, to a terminal device, a push notification for notifying the user of notification content related to the estimated interest.