Context-Aware Color Ring Back Tone Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Manual setting of color ring back tone music in terminal devices is tedious and inconvenient, especially when users have multiple activities or frequently changing locations, leading to a low user experience.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus for automatically setting color ring back tone music based on the current context of the terminal device, using context parameters such as location, activity, and environmental parameters to determine the appropriate music, and storing a correspondence between contexts and music for efficient selection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual setting of color ring back tone music is used, then users can select music, but the process becomes tedious and inconvenient when users have multiple activities or frequently changing locations
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically detects user context (location, activity, time) and selects appropriate color ring back tone music without requiring manual user input. The terminal device itself performs the selection task that would otherwise require user intervention, making the system serve itself in the context of music selection.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-establishes correspondence relationships between different context parameters (location, activity, time) and color ring back tone music options. When a user needs a color ring back tone, the pre-configured mappings allow for immediate automatic selection based on current context, eliminating the need for real-time manual selection.
2Ease of operation
If fixed color ring back tone music is used, then setting is simple, but the user experience deteriorates when users need to express different current statuses
Solution Approach 1:
The system transitions from a static fixed music approach to a dynamic context-aware approach. The color ring back tone music automatically changes based on real-time detection of user context parameters such as location, activity status, and time, allowing the system to adapt to different situations without requiring manual reconfiguration.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses changes in context parameters (location coordinates, activity detection data, time of day) to trigger changes in the selected color ring back tone music. By monitoring and responding to parameter changes in the user's environment and behavior, the system automatically selects appropriate music that matches the current context.
3Adaptability or versatility
If automatic setting based on context parameters is implemented, then user experience improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system leverages existing multi-functional sensors and processors already present in modern terminal devices for other purposes (GPS for location, accelerometer for activity detection, clock for time) and repurposes them for context-aware color ring back tone selection. This approach adds context awareness capability without requiring dedicated specialized hardware for each function.
Solution Approach 2:
The system combines multiple context parameters (location from GPS, activity from sensors, time from clock) into a unified context awareness framework that drives music selection. By merging these existing device capabilities into a single integrated context detection and response system, the patent achieves adaptability while minimizing the addition of separate complex subsystems.
Data Source
AI summary
A method comprising acquiring a current value of a context parameter c of a terminal device, where the context parameter c indicates a characteristic of a context in which the terminal device is applied, and the context parameter c includes any one or any combination of the following: a location parameter, an activity parameter, and an environmental parameter; determining a current context of the terminal device according to the current value of the context parameter c; and setting a color ring back tone of the terminal device to color ring back tone music corresponding to the current context. The present disclosure is used to set a color ring back tone.