Emergency Warning Trigger on Locking Interface

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current mobile communication technologies require users to manually search and input contact numbers or perform complex gestures to initiate emergency calls, making the warning process cumbersome and inefficient.

Innovation Solution

A method and device that allow users to trigger a predetermined warning instruction on a verification interface, such as a locking interface, to automatically send warning information to designated contacts via SMS, call, or social media clients, using a predetermined gesture, password, or voice command, thereby simplifying the warning process.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If users manually search and input contact numbers to initiate emergency calls, then the calling function can be achieved, but the warning process becomes cumbersome and time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveemergency warning effectivenessVSAvoidtime to initiate warning
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-sets multiple contact numbers and warning instructions before emergency situations occur. When an emergency happens, the user only needs to trigger the pre-configured warning function, which automatically sends alerts to all predetermined contacts, eliminating the need to manually search and input contact numbers during the crisis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The warning system automatically executes the alerting function without requiring manual intervention for contact selection and number input. The system self-manages the entire warning process including selecting contacts, formatting messages, and sending alerts, reducing the user's burden to simply triggering the warning.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Reliability

If users perform complex gestures to initiate emergency calls, then the warning function can be activated, but the operation becomes difficult and slows down the response time

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvewarning activationVSAvoidgesture complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts the complex multi-step gesture operations and replaces them with a single simplified trigger action. The warning function is activated by a simple gesture or button press, separating the activation mechanism from the complex contact management and message composition processes that occur automatically in the background.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Measurement precision

If the warning process requires manual contact search and input, then contact accuracy can be verified, but the process complexity increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontact number accuracyVSAvoidwarning process steps
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Contact numbers and warning messages are pre-configured and stored in the system before emergencies occur. This preliminary setup ensures contact accuracy is verified in advance, and during actual emergencies, the system simply retrieves and sends the pre-validated contact information, reducing process complexity while maintaining accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentEP3113466B1Method and device for warning
Publication Date: 2019.05.08 XIAOMI INC
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AI summary

The present disclosure relates to a method and a terminal (120) for warning. The method includes: receiving (201) a trigger instruction on a verification interface; entering (202) a warning state if the trigger instruction is a predetermined warning instruction corresponding to at least one contact, and sending warning information to a terminal of the contact corresponding to the predetermined warning instruction.