Context-Sensitive User Device Control Profile Automation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face the inconvenience of manually configuring their mobile devices for specific events or settings, requiring repeated adjustments before and after the event, which can be time-consuming and prone to errors.

Innovation Solution

A control client that generates and applies a control profile based on user input, location information, or network messages, automatically controlling device settings such as mode, volume, and communication during an event, and reverting to a previous or new state once the event ends, thereby eliminating the need for manual configuration.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If users manually configure device settings before and after events, then device settings can be customized for specific events, but users experience time-consuming repeated adjustments and potential configuration errors

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedevice settings customizationVSAvoidtime for repeated adjustments

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically applying event-specific device settings before the event begins and restoring previous settings after the event ends, eliminating the need for users to manually configure settings repeatedly

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system serves itself by automatically detecting event status changes and adjusting device settings accordingly without requiring user intervention, making the configuration process autonomous and eliminating manual adjustment time

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Adaptability or versatility

If users manually configure device settings for each event, then specific event requirements can be met, but users are prone to configuration errors

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveevent-specific settingsVSAvoidconfiguration accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring event status and automatically adjusting device settings based on real-time event information, ensuring accurate configuration without manual intervention

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system autonomously manages device settings by detecting event changes and applying appropriate configurations, eliminating human error in the configuration process while maintaining event-specific adaptability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

3Productivity

If automatic control profiles are implemented, then manual configuration time is reduced, but device complexity increases due to profile management

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveconfiguration efficiencyVSAvoidprofile management system

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system achieves universality by using a single automated control profile mechanism that handles multiple device settings (ringer, display, vibration, etc.) across different events, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining high configuration efficiency

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS9026770B2Context-sensitive user device control profile

Publication Date: 2015.05.05 VERIZON PATENT & LICENSING INC

AI summary

A method including receiving control profile information that controls one or more operations of a user device during an event associated with a user; generating a control profile based on the control profile information; controlling the one or more operations of the user device based on the control profile for a duration of the event; and automatically setting the user device to a previous state or a new state after the event transpires.