Context-Aware Actionable Term Selection for Communication Efficiency

Solution Overview

Problem

Existing electronic devices face challenges in enhancing user experience and reducing user interaction time during communications, particularly for battery-operated devices, as they lack efficient methods to automatically select and populate relevant content based on context-dependent data.

Innovation Solution

The implementation of devices that select terms in communications as actionable based on context-dependent word lists and automatically populate user interfaces with related content, using methods such as touch-sensitive displays and processors to identify and retrieve relevant information.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If users manually input or search for content during communications, then communication accuracy and relevance are improved, but user interaction time increases and battery power is consumed faster

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecommunication accuracyVSAvoiduser interaction time

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically detects context-dependent data and populates communication content without requiring user input or interaction. The device serves itself by autonomously analyzing communication context, retrieving relevant data from databases, and inserting appropriate content into the communication stream, thereby eliminating the need for manual user actions while maintaining high accuracy

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system pre-loads and organizes context-dependent data into databases before communication occurs. When communication context is detected, the pre-organized data can be quickly retrieved and inserted, eliminating the need for real-time user searching or input while ensuring accurate and relevant content is provided

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If users manually input or search for content during communications, then communication accuracy and relevance are improved, but battery power consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecommunication accuracyVSAvoidbattery power consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically detects context-dependent data and populates communication content without requiring user input or interaction. The device serves itself by autonomously analyzing communication context, retrieving relevant data from databases, and inserting appropriate content into the communication stream, thereby eliminating the need for manual user actions while maintaining high accuracy

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system pre-loads and organizes context-dependent data into databases before communication occurs. When communication context is detected, the pre-organized data can be quickly retrieved and inserted, eliminating the need for real-time user searching or input while ensuring accurate and relevant content is provided

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Loss of time

If the device automatically detects and populates communication content, then user interaction time decreases and battery life increases, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser interaction timeVSAvoiddevice complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of timeVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces context-dependent databases as intermediaries between the communication input and output. These databases store pre-organized data that can be quickly retrieved based on detected communication context, simplifying the processing requirements while enabling automatic content population without requiring complex real-time analysis or user interaction

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS11556230B2Data detection

Publication Date: 2023.01.17 APPLE INC

AI summary

In some embodiments, a device determines a current context of a plurality of terms, in accordance with a determination that the current context is a first context, selects one or more terms in the plurality of terms based on a first word list as actionable terms, and in accordance with a determination that the current context is a second context, different from the first context, selects one or more terms in the plurality of terms as actionable terms based on a second word list, different from the first word list. In some embodiments, the device displays the plurality of terms, wherein one or more of the actionable terms are visually distinguished from other terms. In some embodiments, a device obtains related content associated with the actionable terms, and after obtaining the related content, concurrently displays a representation of the related content along with the plurality of terms.