Context Transfer Pages for Mobile Data Entry Automation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mobile computing devices face impracticality due to limited data entry capabilities, as they lack full-size keyboards and voice input is inaccurate for complex tasks, leading to user frustration and delayed activities until larger devices are available.
Innovation Solution
Context transfer pages are created to obtain and pass relevant information to target services, minimizing user input through links and return links for convenience actions, such as pre-populating forms and performing tasks like calendar entries or notifications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If mobile computing devices use miniaturized or virtual keyboards, then the device can fit comfortably in a user's hand and be carried in a pocket, but the keyboard is too small to enable efficient information entry
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary device (such as a portable external keyboard or a connected computing device) that mediates between the mobile device's limited input capabilities and the user's need for efficient information entry. This intermediary provides full-size keyboard functionality while maintaining the portability of the mobile device itself.
2Productivity
If mobile computing devices use voice input, then physical space limitations are overcome, but accuracy suffers for complex tasks
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service mechanisms where the system automatically processes, validates, and corrects voice input data. This includes automated speech-to-text conversion, grammatical correction, format validation, and error detection, allowing the system to compensate for voice input inaccuracies without requiring manual intervention.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent incorporates feedback loops where the system provides real-time validation and correction suggestions for voice input. The system analyzes the accuracy of voice-recognized text and offers automated corrections or requests clarification when accuracy thresholds are not met, thereby improving overall input precision.
3Reliability
If mobile computing devices require manual information entry through limited interfaces, then data can be entered, but user frustration increases and activities are delayed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-populating forms with available context information before the user needs to enter data. The system automatically retrieves and fills in known information such as contact details, appointment times, or previously entered data, so that users only need to provide new or modified information, significantly reducing manual entry requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts and removes the most tedious aspects of manual data entry by automatically handling routine information input. The system identifies which information can be automatically retrieved from context, previous interactions, or external sources, and extracts this data from the manual entry process entirely, leaving users to only input essential new information.
Data Source
AI summary
Providing context to a target minimizes the amount of information that a user must input. Context transfer pages receive context and reformat for the target. Selection of links to such pages provide context which is then reformatted and provided to the target to pre-populate information for the user. A return link can be specified to enable the target to return further context upon user interaction completion. The return link can specify further context transfer pages which can use the returned context to direct the performance of convenience actions, including invoking other applications on the user's computing device and entering information into them. The context transfer pages can themselves collect information from the user to provide appropriate interfaces without requiring resource investment from the target.