Beacon Message Prioritization for Mobile Devices

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Solution Overview

Problem

Mobile devices receive redundant and low-priority beacon messages from multiple sources, leading to user annoyance and battery drain due to frequent wake-ups, as existing systems lack effective prioritization and filtering mechanisms.

Innovation Solution

Implement a system on mobile devices to prioritize beacon messages based on proximity, context, message frequency, and inter-beacon border rules, using signal strength and rule sets to selectively display messages, and manage wake-ups to conserve battery life.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If the mobile device displays all received beacon messages, then the user receives complete information from all beacon sources, but the user experiences annoyance and battery drain due to redundant and low-priority messages

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation completenessVSAvoiduser annoyance and battery drain

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by assigning different priority levels to different beacon messages based on their characteristics (proximity, relevance, frequency). Instead of treating all messages uniformly, the system evaluates each message's local properties and assigns appropriate display priority, ensuring high-priority messages are displayed while filtering out low-priority redundant messages

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the parameter of message priority by evaluating multiple factors including signal strength, message frequency, and relevance. This dynamic parameter adjustment allows the system to distinguish between important and redundant messages, resolving the contradiction between information completeness and user experience

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Productivity

If the mobile device wakes up frequently to process beacon messages, then all beacon messages are processed and displayed, but battery power is drained due to frequent wake-ups

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemessage processing throughputVSAvoidbattery power consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs partial action by selectively processing only high-priority beacon messages that meet specific criteria. Instead of processing all received messages, the system filters messages based on priority thresholds, processing only those that warrant user attention, thereby reducing wake-up frequency and power consumption

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the parameter of processing priority by evaluating message characteristics and assigning priority levels. This allows the device to adjust its processing behavior dynamically, waking up only when high-priority messages are detected, thus balancing productivity with energy conservation

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

3Quantity of substance

If the mobile device displays beacon messages from multiple beacon devices simultaneously, then all available messages are presented to the user, but the user cannot distinguish which messages are most relevant

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenumber of messages presentedVSAvoiduser ability to identify relevant messages

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies segmentation by dividing beacon messages into distinct priority categories (high, medium, low). This segmentation allows the system to present multiple messages while maintaining clear visual or functional distinctions between priority levels, helping users quickly identify and focus on the most relevant messages

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies local quality by giving different visual or interactive characteristics to messages based on their priority level. High-priority messages receive prominent display treatment while low-priority messages are subdued or filtered, enabling users to easily distinguish relevant messages among multiple concurrent notifications

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS10278197B2Prioritizing beacon messages for mobile devices

Publication Date: 2019.04.30 APPLE INC

AI summary

Techniques and systems for prioritizing beacon messages are disclosed. Such a technique can include receiving, at a mobile device, beacon messages from multiple beacon devices over short-range communication links, the beacon devices being within a vicinity of an establishment, the beacon messages being configured to provide content associated with the establishment; determining, at the mobile device, priorities of the beacon messages based on one or more criteria; selecting, at the mobile device, a beacon message of the beacon messages based on the priorities to produce a selected beacon message; and presenting the selected beacon message through the mobile device.