Context-Aware Activity Notifications Using a Management Server

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing communication technologies fail to provide smart notifications that are context-aware and adaptable to diverse user lifestyles, making it difficult to efficiently notify individuals and others of activities.

Innovation Solution

A method and device for providing activity notifications that register and transmit context-based information, allowing users to set notification preferences and trigger notifications based on device position, environment, time, and user information, using a management device to manage the notification process.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If existing communication technologies are used for notifications, then basic notification functionality is provided, but smart context-aware notifications adaptable to diverse user lifestyles cannot be delivered

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontext-aware notification capabilityVSAvoidnotification system complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The notification system is segmented into multiple independent modules: context information acquisition module, notification generation module, and notification delivery module. Each module handles specific tasks (acquiring context data, generating notifications based on rules, and delivering to appropriate devices), allowing the complex system to function through coordinated simple components rather than a monolithic complex structure

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

A notification management server acts as an intermediary between user devices and notification delivery. The server stores notification rules, receives context information from devices, processes notification generation according to predefined rules, and manages delivery to appropriate devices. This intermediary handles the complexity centrally while keeping individual user devices simple

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If notifications are provided without context awareness, then simple notification delivery is achieved, but personalized and timely notifications according to user lifestyle cannot be provided

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser experience qualityVSAvoidcontext information utilization

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

Notification rules are predefined and stored in advance in the notification management server, including conditions for when notifications should be sent, what content to send, and to which devices. Context information templates are also prepared beforehand. When an event occurs, the system simply matches the event against predefined rules rather than requiring complex real-time decision-making, improving ease of operation while utilizing context information

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system acquires context information from user devices (such as location, activity status, device availability) and uses this feedback to dynamically determine whether to send notifications and which devices to target. This feedback loop ensures notifications are personalized and timely based on actual user situation without requiring complex real-time processing at each device

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS12536891B2Method of providing activity notification and device thereof

Publication Date: 2026.01.27 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

AI summary

An example method of providing an activity notification is provided. The method includes registering, by the device, information about the activity notification according to a request for registering the activity notification, and transmitting, by the device, the registered information about the activity notification to a management device, wherein the management device performs a process of providing the activity notification.