Audio Notification Priority Queue for Critical Announcement Playback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems fail to effectively prioritize audio announcements from multiple software applications running on user devices, leading to important notifications being overshadowed or interrupted by less critical messages.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system that assigns priorities to audio notifications based on their content and preferred priorities, allowing the audio device to determine the order and timing of message playback, ensuring important announcements are communicated promptly while minimizing interruptions from lower-priority messages.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple audio notifications are played concurrently without prioritization, then all notifications are delivered to users, but important notifications are overshadowed or interrupted by less critical messages
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments audio notifications into different priority levels (high, medium, low) and processes them separately through a priority queue system. This segmentation allows important notifications to be identified and delivered reliably without being overshadowed by less critical messages, resolving the contradiction between delivering all notifications and maintaining information priority.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary component (audio notification manager/priority queue system) that mediates between multiple applications and the audio output device. This intermediary assigns priorities to notifications, manages their queue, and ensures important messages are delivered reliably before less critical ones, preventing information priority loss while maintaining comprehensive notification delivery.
2Loss of time
If audio notifications are prioritized based on content analysis, then important messages are communicated promptly, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by having applications pre-assign priority levels to their audio notifications before submission to the audio notification manager. This preliminary prioritization reduces the need for complex real-time content analysis, enabling prompt delivery of important messages while keeping system complexity manageable through simple priority-based queue management.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements self-service by allowing each application to autonomously determine and assign priority levels to its own notifications based on its understanding of message importance. This self-service approach distributes the prioritization logic across applications rather than concentrating complex analysis in a central system, reducing overall system complexity while ensuring important messages are delivered promptly.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for prioritizing audio announcements are provided. In one embodiment, a method can include obtaining, by one or more processors associated with a computing device, an audio notification that comprises a message and a preferred priority associated with the message. The method can include determining, by the one or more processors, an assigned priority associated with the message based at least in part on a content of the message and the preferred priority associated with the message. The method can include generating, by the one or more processors, an output indicative of the message and the assigned priority associated with the message. The method can include providing, by the one or more processors, the output to an audio device to audibly produce the output based at least in part on the priority associated with the message.