Context-Aware Decision System for Predictive User Behavior Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current technologies lack effective solutions for providing context-aware decision-making systems that can predict and influence user behaviors based on real-time environmental and biometric data, failing to seamlessly integrate with diverse devices and environments.

Innovation Solution

A context-aware decision-making system that collects and analyzes user behavior, biometric, and environmental data to predict user actions, providing feedback and adjusting device operations to align with expected behaviors, using a network of connected devices including smartphones, sensors, and home appliances to offer personalized suggestions and actions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If a network of connected devices collects and analyzes multiple types of data (behavior, biometric, environmental) to predict user actions, then the accuracy of behavior prediction improves, but the system complexity and data processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvebehavior prediction accuracyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the complex decision-making process into distinct modules: data collection from multiple sources, data analysis and pattern recognition, prediction generation, and feedback delivery. Each module handles specific tasks independently, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining prediction accuracy through coordinated operation of specialized components.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces intermediary components including processors that mediate between raw data collection and prediction generation, and feedback mechanisms that mediate between predictions and user behavior influence. These intermediaries simplify the complex interactions by providing structured interfaces and processing layers that manage data flow and coordination between diverse devices.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Productivity

If the system provides real-time feedback and adjusts device operations to align with expected behaviors, then user adherence to dietary and health policies improves, but the extent of automation and real-time processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser adherence to policiesVSAvoidreal-time automation level
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSExtent of automation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by predicting user behaviors before they occur and preparing appropriate feedback responses in advance. This allows the system to proactively influence user decisions at critical moments without requiring continuous real-time processing of every user action, thereby improving adherence while managing automation levels effectively.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements feedback loops where the system continuously monitors user behavior, compares actual behavior against predicted behavior, and delivers corrective feedback to influence future actions. This automated feedback mechanism improves policy adherence by providing timely guidance while the system learns and adapts to individual user patterns, optimizing the balance between automation and user autonomy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS10110677B2Context-aware decision making
Publication Date: 2018.10.23 AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE LTD
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AI summary

A context-aware decision making system may include at least one processor circuit that is configured to obtain an environmental profile of an environment associated with a user. The at least one processor circuit is configured to determine a predicted behavior of the user based at least on the obtained environmental profile. The at least one processor circuit may be configured to determine the predicted behavior of the user using at least one predictive model associated with the user. The at least one processor circuit may be configured to perform an action related to the predicted behavior of the user, such as an action that facilitates the predicted behavior of the user, an action that impedes the predicted behavior of the user, and/or an action that provides information related to the predicted behavior of the user.