Context Aware Notification Delivery System for Cognitive State Assessment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current notification systems are inefficient, leading to redundant notifications that clog networks and devices, consume excessive power and bandwidth, and fail to consider the user's cognitive and physical state, resulting in missed or inappropriate notifications.
Innovation Solution
A Context Aware Notification Delivery (CAND) system that assesses the user's physiological and environmental context to deliver notifications when the user is receptive and able to act upon them, using a network of sensors and processors to determine the optimal time, device, and channel for notification delivery.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If notifications are sent multiple times with fallback options, then the likelihood of user reception is improved, but network efficiency deteriorates and device resources are consumed excessively
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary assessment of user state (cognitive receptivity and ability to act) before sending notifications. This advance evaluation prevents unnecessary notification transmissions, reducing energy consumption while maintaining delivery reliability by only notifying when conditions are favorable.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors user state and environmental context, using this feedback to dynamically adjust notification delivery decisions. This feedback mechanism ensures notifications are sent only when the user is likely to respond, avoiding redundant transmissions that waste energy.
2Reliability
If notifications are transmitted frequently to ensure user awareness, then notification effectiveness is improved, but network bandwidth is consumed excessively
Solution Approach 1:
The system evaluates user context and cognitive state before transmitting notifications, performing preliminary filtering to determine optimal delivery moments. This approach maintains notification effectiveness by ensuring messages are sent when users are actually able to receive them, while avoiding bandwidth waste from sending during inappropriate times.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter of notification timing based on assessed user state. By adjusting when notifications are sent according to real-time user context (cognitive receptivity, current activities, environmental factors), the system maintains effectiveness while minimizing unnecessary transmissions that consume bandwidth.
3Reliability
If the system assesses user physiological state and environmental context, then notification appropriateness is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the assessment process into distinct functional modules: user state assessment, environmental context analysis, cognitive receptivity evaluation, and delivery decision-making. This segmentation manages complexity by organizing the sophisticated assessment into manageable, independent components that can be processed systematically.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary assessment layer between the notification trigger and the actual delivery. This intermediary component evaluates user state and context before allowing notification transmission, thereby improving appropriateness while containing complexity within a dedicated mediation layer rather than distributing it throughout the entire system.
4Reliability
If redundant notifications are sent to ensure delivery, then user awareness is improved, but device performance deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary assessment of user ability to act and cognitive receptivity before sending notifications. This advance evaluation ensures that notifications are only transmitted when the user is actually capable of responding, maintaining delivery assurance while eliminating redundant notifications that would waste device resources and reduce overall efficiency.
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AI summary
The systems and methods of the invention provide a notification system that analyzes the state of the user to deliver notifications when the user is anticipated to be both cognitively receptive AND able to act upon external stimuli. In accord with at least one aspect, the system assesses the context (of a user) by interpreting the user and surroundings in order to reach a general state of the user. In a technically efficient manner—utilizing different levels of processing in conjunction with leveraging previously performed processing through queuing results of such processing—the system provides the ability to reduce scenarios in which missed or inappropriate notifications occur. The systems and methods of the invention perform processing, in a technically efficient manner, to assess data input from sensors (in the real-world environment in which a user exists) and responsively generate appropriate notifications or other communications that are output to a user or a person associated with the user.