Context-Aware Personalization System for Dynamic Resource Allocation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing device personalization methods are static and fail to adapt dynamically to changing user needs and contexts, requiring frequent adjustments by users.

Innovation Solution

A context-aware personalization system that extracts user interaction patterns from telemetry data using machine learning algorithms to optimize device settings, suspend lower-priority applications, and provide contextual experiences on smartphones, tablets, and other devices.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If static device customization is used, then device configuration is simple to manage, but the system cannot adapt dynamically to changing user needs and contexts

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedynamic adaptation to user needsVSAvoidconfiguration management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically extracts user interaction patterns from telemetry data and applies machine learning algorithms to generate personalized configurations without requiring manual user input. The personalization engine autonomously analyzes usage behavior, identifies patterns, and adjusts device settings dynamically, eliminating the need for users to manually configure complex parameters while adapting to changing needs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically changes configuration parameters based on extracted user interaction patterns. By continuously monitoring telemetry data and updating the personalization model, the system automatically adjusts display preferences, notification priorities, and application arrangements to match evolving user needs, transforming static configurations into dynamic, adaptive settings.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Productivity

If all applications run continuously to ensure availability, then user access is always possible, but device resources such as processor cycles, memory, and battery power are wasted

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice resource utilization efficiencyVSAvoidapplication availability
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts application states based on real-time user interaction patterns and predicted needs. Instead of static continuous execution, the personalization engine monitors usage behavior and automatically transitions applications between active and suspended states, optimizing resource allocation while maintaining availability for high-priority applications that users actually need.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses feedback from telemetry data and user interaction patterns to intelligently manage application states. By continuously analyzing usage behavior and adjusting resource allocation based on actual user needs, the system ensures critical applications remain available while suspending lower-priority applications, creating a self-regulating mechanism that balances productivity and reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Adaptability or versatility

If users manually adjust device configuration frequently to keep pace with changing needs, then device settings match current requirements, but user time and effort are consumed

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalization responsivenessVSAvoiduser adjustment time
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The personalization engine automatically performs configuration adjustments based on extracted user interaction patterns, eliminating the need for manual user input. The system self-adjusts display preferences, notification priorities, and application arrangements by analyzing telemetry data and applying machine learning models, providing responsive personalization without consuming user time or effort.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary analysis of user interaction patterns and pre-adjusts configurations before users explicitly request changes. By continuously monitoring telemetry data and predicting user needs, the system proactively optimizes device settings in advance, reducing the need for reactive manual adjustments and saving user time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentEP3245579B1User interaction pattern extraction for device personalization
Publication Date: 2019.07.03 MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
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AI summary

A context-aware personalization system operable with a device such as a smartphone, tablet, personal computer (PC), game console, etc. extracts user interaction patterns from a graph, which is generated using telemetry data points, of a device user's behaviors and interactions. The telemetry data is mined from instrumented applications, operating system, and other components executing on the device. A machine learning pattern recognition algorithm is applied to the behavior and interaction graph to generate a dataset that can include a prioritized list of activities. The list is used to automatically implement personalization of the local device that are tailored to the user while also enabling background agents and processes associated with lower priority applications to be suspended to preserve device resources such as processor cycles, memory, battery power, etc. and increase device performance.