Digital Assistant Distributed Audio Inquiry Response
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Solution Overview
Problem
In public safety communication systems, electronic digital assistants face challenges in gathering and synthesizing real-time information from multiple end-user communication devices to provide accurate and useful responses, especially in scenarios where information must be aggregated across distributed devices and processed mathematically.
Innovation Solution
An electronic computing device monitors audio communications, detects inquiries that require distributed information gathering, identifies capable target devices, requests and receives partial answers, performs mathematical operations on these answers, and generates a final response to be provided back to the initial inquiry source.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If electronic digital assistants gather information from multiple distributed communication devices, then information completeness and response accuracy improve, but system complexity and processing time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the information gathering process by identifying multiple target communication devices that each hold partial answers to an inquiry. Each device independently processes and returns its portion of data, allowing parallel information collection without centralizing all processing in one device, thus managing system complexity while improving response accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The electronic digital assistant acts as an intermediary that receives inquiries, distributes them to multiple target devices, aggregates the partial answers, and synthesizes a final response. This intermediary role manages the complexity of coordinating multiple devices while ensuring accurate information gathering from distributed sources.
2Loss of information
If electronic digital assistants aggregate real-time data from multiple distributed devices, then information completeness improves, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-identifying target communication devices that are likely to have relevant partial answers before the inquiry is fully processed. This allows the system to proactively reach out to multiple devices simultaneously rather than sequentially searching for information, reducing overall processing time while maintaining information completeness.
Solution Approach 2:
The electronic digital assistant maintains continuous useful action by simultaneously managing multiple parallel communication streams with different target devices. While one device is transmitting a partial answer, the system continues to receive and process responses from other devices, ensuring that information gathering occurs continuously without idle waiting periods, thus improving both completeness and time efficiency.
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AI summary
A process for recognizing and responding to a detected audio inquiry by gathering information distributed amongst users and providing a calculated result includes monitoring audio communications and detecting an audio inquiry from a first electronic communication device. It is determined then the audio inquiry is of a distributed information gathering and mathematical operation type and, in response, a plurality of target electronic communication devices that are capable of providing partial answers to the audio inquiry are identified and a request for a partial answer transmitted to each. Corresponding partial answers are received and a mathematical operation performed on the partial answers to generate a final answer to the audio inquiry different from the corresponding partial answers. The final answer is then provided to the first electronic communication device.