Electronic Concierge for Automating Event Planning and App Curation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face challenges in efficiently planning and managing significant life events due to the time-consuming process of researching necessary resources, and adults struggle to identify suitable applications for family members, particularly children, for event planning and management.

Innovation Solution

An electronic concierge application and service that integrates with user accounts to identify significant life events, recommend relevant resources, generate itinerary templates, and suggest appropriate applications based on user characteristics and social resource graphs, allowing for efficient event planning and application curation across devices.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If users manually research and identify resources for event planning, then they can find relevant information, but it consumes a great deal of time and effort

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of resource identificationVSAvoidtime spent on research
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The electronic concierge application automatically analyzes productivity application data to identify significant life events and autonomously generates itinerary templates by retrieving relevant resources, eliminating the need for users to manually research and plan events

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The manual mechanical process of researching and identifying resources is replaced by an automated electronic system that uses machine learning models and natural language processing to automatically generate event itineraries

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Reliability

If parents manually identify and manage applications for children, then they can ensure appropriate app selection, but it requires significant time and expertise

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveappropriateness of application selectionVSAvoideffort required for app management
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The electronic concierge service automatically analyzes child user characteristics and autonomously identifies and recommends appropriate applications, freeing parents from manual app selection and management tasks

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The electronic concierge acts as an intermediary between child users and applications, using machine learning models to match appropriate applications to children based on their characteristics without requiring direct parental intervention

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Manufacturing precision

If comprehensive resource analysis is performed to generate detailed itineraries, then planning accuracy improves, but processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequality of itinerary generationVSAvoidsystem processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the complex itinerary generation process into distinct functional modules: event identification from productivity data, resource retrieval based on event type, and template generation, making the overall complex task manageable and efficient

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The electronic concierge application serves multiple functions including analyzing productivity application data, identifying significant life events, retrieving relevant resources, generating itinerary templates, and recommending applications, consolidating diverse functions into a single unified system

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS10791212B1Electronic concierge for automating event planning and application curation
Publication Date: 2020.09.29 MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
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AI summary

In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for assisting with event execution are provided. Data from a productivity application associated with a user may be analyzed. A significant life event associated with the user may be identified based on the analysis. A plurality of sources that each have at least one recommendation for executing a type of event corresponding to the significant event may be identified. An itinerary template for the significant life event may be generated from a plurality of the recommendations. The itinerary template may be surfaced. Additional examples of the present disclosure relate to identifying relevant applications for download to a user's device managed by an administrator device.