Portable Device Content Delay Mechanism
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of portable electronic devices often struggle to revisit content, such as articles or messages, due to time constraints and multitasking, leading to forgotten or unaccessed information.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus in a portable electronic device that allows users to mark content for later use, monitoring device parameters to determine the user's availability and presenting the content at a suitable time, using processors and non-processor circuits to manage content storage and presentation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If users mark content for later use and the device monitors parameters to determine availability, then content can be presented at opportune moments, but device complexity increases due to monitoring and determination mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The user marks content for later use in advance, and the system prepares to present it when conditions are favorable. This preliminary marking action allows the system to automatically handle the content delivery at the appropriate time without requiring complex real-time decision-making mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The system monitors device parameters and automatically determines when the user is available based on pre-defined conditions. Once determined, the content is automatically presented without requiring continuous user intervention or complex external coordination, allowing the system to serve itself in managing the delayed content delivery.
2Productivity
If the device presents marked content automatically when availability is determined, then productivity is improved by ensuring content is revisited, but the user may be interrupted by notifications
Solution Approach 1:
The system evaluates specific device parameters (such as current activity, time of day, location) to determine local conditions of user availability. By assessing the quality of these local conditions rather than using a blanket notification approach, the system can present content at moments when the user is most likely to be receptive, minimizing interruptions during critical activities.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts content presentation timing based on real-time monitoring of device parameters. Rather than using fixed schedules or immediate notifications, the presentation timing adapts to the user's current state, allowing the system to find optimal moments that balance productivity goals with user availability and minimize disruptive interruptions.
3Ease of operation
If multiple marked content items are prioritized and presented, then ease of operation is improved by organizing content, but device complexity increases due to prioritization logic
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses changes in device parameters (such as time of day, current application being used, location changes, or user activity state) as the basis for prioritizing content items. By leveraging naturally occurring parameter changes in the user's environment and behavior, the system can automatically organize and present content in a logical sequence without requiring complex user-defined prioritization rules or manual intervention.
Data Source
AI summary
A method (300) and portable electronic device (100) can be configured to delay the presentation of content (103) until a user (102) is available. The portable electronic device (100) can received, from a user interface (204), a user indication identifying content (103) to be used at a later time. One or more modules (208) or processors (201) within the device can then monitor one or more device parameters to determine an evaluative user availability state. When the evaluative user availability state is determined, the modules (208) and processors (201) can be configured to present the content (103) on the user interface (204). The content (103) can be presented audibly, visibly, or both.