Communication Device Intoxication Detection via Message Analysis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Individuals under the influence of intoxicating substances face challenges in operating phones and making rational decisions, leading to potential harm, as they may attempt to drive or send regrettable messages due to impaired motor skills and judgment, and lack awareness of their intoxicated state.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating a breath analyzer into communication devices to assess the user's physical state through breath analysis, analyzing message errors and speech patterns, and using network nodes to redirect or delay messages, enabling features like prompts, delays, and reconfiguration of device settings to prevent harmful interactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a breath analyzer is incorporated into the communication device to detect intoxication, then the ability to detect impaired state is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses message analysis algorithms as an intermediary to detect intoxication without requiring a physical breath analyzer in the device. The system analyzes typing patterns, message content, and communication behavior as indirect indicators of impaired state, thereby achieving detection capability while avoiding the complexity of integrating hardware breath analyzers into communication devices.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If messages are automatically delayed or blocked when impaired state is detected, then harmful factors are reduced, but loss of time occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary analysis of messages before sending them, evaluating typing speed, message content patterns, and communication timing to detect impaired state in advance. This allows the system to prevent harmful messages from being sent while minimizing delay for legitimate communications by making real-time assessments rather than imposing fixed delays.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides feedback to the user about detected impaired state and offers options to review or confirm messages. This feedback mechanism allows users to override automatic delays when appropriate, reducing unnecessary time loss while maintaining protection against harmful communications sent during actual impairment.
3Ease of operation
If device settings are reconfigured to improve usability for impaired users, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts device settings based on detected impaired state, modifying parameters such as font size, contrast, and interaction timing in real-time. This dynamic reconfiguration provides enhanced usability for impaired users without requiring multiple physical device variants, as the same device adapts its interface characteristics based on the user's current state.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Prevents individuals from sending regrettable messages and provides an inexpensive means to detect intoxication, ensuring safer interactions by disabling certain numbers, improving device usability, and automatically managing messages based on the user's impaired state.
Implementation Method 1
the determination is effected by performing a breath analysis of the user
Data Source
AI summary
A determination regarding the appropriateness of sending a message can be based on one or more factors. For example, the determination can be an analysis of a message to determine the likelihood that the sender has the target physical condition and/or a likely degree or severity of the target physical condition. The analysis determines, with reference to a baseline of the user, one or more of a number of errors (spelling and/or grammar) in the message, a response time, a non-fluency level associated with the message, a spell check of the message and recipient information associated with the message. Based on this analysis, the message can be managed in accordance with one or more of sending the message after a delay, returning the message to a sender for approval, managing the message based on a profile and holding the message for management at a later time.