Community Terminal State Detection for Automatic Call Replacement

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing electronic devices lack the ability to efficiently manage communication functions with community terminals based on their operational states, leading to unnecessary calls to terminals that are unable to respond, and fail to provide clear reasons for non-responsiveness.

Innovation Solution

An electronic device that obtains state information about community terminals, displays notification messages indicating their responsiveness, and automatically selects alternative terminals for communication based on state information, providing automatic response messages and notification to shared devices.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If electronic devices perform communication functions with community terminals without checking state information, then communication operations can be executed quickly, but unnecessary calls are made to unresponsive terminals resulting in wasted time and resources

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication operation speedVSAvoidtime wasted on unnecessary calls
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by obtaining and checking state information about community terminals before initiating communication operations. This advance verification identifies which terminals are currently responsive, preventing wasted communication attempts on unresponsive terminals while maintaining efficient operation for available terminals

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Ease of operation

If electronic devices call community terminals without state verification, then communication attempts can be made immediately, but the system cannot identify reasons for non-responsiveness

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication initiation simplicityVSAvoidreasons for non-responsiveness
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback by obtaining state information from community terminals and providing this information back to the user through notification messages. This feedback loop explains why certain terminals cannot be reached (e.g., busy, unavailable, or other state conditions), maintaining operational simplicity while informing users of the reasons for communication failures

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Productivity

If electronic devices manually select alternative community terminals for communication, then communication can continue with available terminals, but the replacement process is complex and time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication continuityVSAvoidterminal replacement process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs self-service by automatically selecting alternative community terminals when the originally selected terminal is found to be unresponsive. The system autonomously identifies available terminals from the community group, performs the replacement without user intervention, and continues communication operations, thereby maintaining productivity while eliminating complex manual replacement procedures

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS20250220757A1Electronic device providing communication function and method for operating the same
Publication Date: 2025.07.03 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

The disclosure relates to an electronic device providing a communication function based on a network environment and a method for operating the same. The electronic device may obtain state information about a plurality of community terminals included in a predetermined community group and, in response to a first community terminal included in the plurality of community terminals being selected as a call target object, output a first state notification message indicating a state of the first community terminal based on the state information. The electronic device may determine a second community terminal among the plurality of community terminals based on the state information in response to a replacement request event for requesting to replace the call target object with another community terminal being triggered, and output a second state notification message indicating a state of the second community terminal based on the state information.