Calendar Event Peer Identification via Relationship Evaluation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current social networking systems fail to utilize personal data from calendar applications to determine user connections, limiting their ability to identify peers and provide relevant feedback.

Innovation Solution

A system that identifies events in a user's calendar, evaluates participants, and determines relationships to identify peers, allowing users to provide and receive feedback through a network-based feedback system.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If social networking systems use only messaging application contacts to determine user connections, then the system complexity remains low, but the ability to identify peers and provide relevant feedback is limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveability to identify peersVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges data from multiple sources (messaging application contacts and calendar application events) into a unified peer identification system. By combining these data sources, the system enhances its ability to identify peers and provide relevant feedback without proportionally increasing complexity, as the calendar data integration follows a systematic approach using predefined parameters and machine learning models.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system is designed to work with multiple types of personal data (contacts from messaging apps and events from calendar apps) using a universal evaluation framework. The peer evaluation system uses a standardized set of parameters and machine learning models that can process different data types uniformly, allowing the system to handle diverse input sources without requiring separate processing mechanisms for each data type.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Measurement precision

If the system evaluates persons using information from calendar events, then peer identification accuracy improves, but the data processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepeer identification accuracyVSAvoiddata processing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-defining evaluation parameters and criteria for assessing peer relationships from calendar events. The machine learning models are trained in advance on historical data, and the evaluation framework is established beforehand. This allows the system to quickly evaluate new calendar events without performing complex computations in real-time, thus reducing data processing time while maintaining high identification accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system employs parameter changes by using a standardized set of evaluation parameters (such as interaction frequency, event types, and relationship strength metrics) that can be adjusted based on the specific context. The machine learning models process calendar event data by transforming raw event information into standardized parameters, enabling efficient computation while preserving the nuanced information needed for accurate peer identification.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Reliability

If the system integrates multiple data sources including calendar events, then the quality of peer relationships identified improves, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequality of peer relationshipsVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces an intermediary evaluation layer that processes data from multiple sources (messaging contacts and calendar events) before determining peer relationships. This intermediary layer uses predefined evaluation parameters and machine learning models to transform raw data from different sources into a unified assessment of relationship quality. By inserting this intermediary processing layer, the system can integrate multiple data sources systematically without proportionally increasing overall system complexity, as the intermediary follows a standardized evaluation framework.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS11361042B1System, method, and computer program product for determining peers of a user by evaluating persons identified from a calendar of the user
Publication Date: 2022.06.14 HONEST WORK CORP
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AI summary

A system, method, and computer program product are provided for determining peers of a user by evaluating persons identified from a calendar of the user. In use, a system identifies a calendar of a user. The system further identifies events saves in the calendar of the user. One or more persons are then identified by the system from the events. Moreover, for each of the identified persons, the system evaluates the person in terms of information gathered from the events and determines whether the evaluating indicates that the person has a particular type of relationship with the user. When the system determines that the evaluating indicates that the person has the particular type of relationship with the user, then the system identifies the person as a peer of the user.