Context Profile Content Filtering for Personal Productivity Apps
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of personal devices struggle to effectively manage and filter content from multiple personal productivity applications, leading to inefficiencies in accessing relevant information due to the lack of fine-grained control over application content and functions based on user context.
Innovation Solution
A method that defines context profiles and associated content rules to selectively control the accessibility of content across personal productivity applications, allowing users to activate specific profiles to filter and display only relevant content based on user context, such as work or personal settings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If users access multiple personal productivity applications on a single device, then information accessibility and productivity are improved, but content management complexity and difficulty of detecting relevant information increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments content from multiple personal productivity applications into context-specific groups using context profiles. Each profile (e.g., work, personal, travel) contains tailored content rules that automatically filter and organize information, transforming the complex mixture of app contents into manageable, context-relevant segments without requiring manual user organization.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces context profiles as an intermediary layer between users and application content. These profiles act as mediators that automatically apply filtering rules to determine which content from which applications should be displayed in each context, eliminating the need for users to directly manage complex content across multiple applications.
2Loss of information
If users manually manage content filtering across multiple applications, then content relevance is improved, but time consumption and operational complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-defining context profiles with specific content rules before users need them. Each profile contains predetermined filtering criteria for different applications and content types, so when a user activates a context (e.g., switching to work mode), the relevant content is immediately filtered and displayed without requiring real-time manual management.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service by automatically applying the appropriate content rules when a context profile is activated. The filtering mechanism operates autonomously based on the selected context, eliminating the need for users to manually filter content each time they switch between work and personal modes.
3Loss of information
If all application content is displayed to the user, then information completeness is improved, but privacy security and information overload increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by making content visibility context-dependent rather than uniform across all applications. Different content rules are applied to different applications based on the active context profile - for example, work-related applications may display comprehensive content in work context, while personal applications display different content in personal context, ensuring each area receives appropriate access control.
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AI summary
A set of context profiles containing profile content rules for filtering which content within a set of personal productivity applications (such as e-mail, chat, calendar, and contacts applications) is accessible by a user. Content rules support filtering content by, for example, content originator, and/or subject matter. The context profiles are centrally maintained for control of integrated, non-integrated, and/or independently administered personal productivity applications.