Event Notification Manager for Sensor Data Filtering

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Solution Overview

Problem

Determining whether to provide notifications based on information received from various sources, such as sensors and news reports, poses challenges in effectively informing individuals of relevant events in their environment.

Innovation Solution

Systems and methods for managing event notifications by processing data from sensors and other sources to determine if events have occurred, and if so, to decide on the appropriateness and type of notification to be sent to user devices, taking into account user preferences and configuration settings.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If notifications are provided for all detected events, then users receive comprehensive information about events, but users receive false or irrelevant alerts that reduce notification reliability

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenotification reliabilityVSAvoidevent information coverage

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system changes parameters by comparing event characteristics against stored criteria parameters (event type, location, severity) to dynamically determine notification appropriateness, resolving the contradiction between comprehensive coverage and reliability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses feedback from user preferences and configuration data to adjust notification behavior, learning from user responses to refine future notification decisions and improve reliability while maintaining coverage

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Ease of operation

If notifications are customized based on user preferences, then notification relevance improves, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenotification relevanceVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

User preferences and configuration data are collected and stored in advance, allowing the system to automatically make relevant notification decisions without real-time complexity, resolving the contradiction between customization and system simplicity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Measurement precision

If data from multiple sources is processed, then event detection accuracy improves, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveevent detection accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments data processing by evaluating different data sources and event criteria in modular steps, allowing parallel processing of multiple sources while maintaining accuracy, resolving the contradiction between detection precision and processing time

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS12267761B2Managing event notifications

Publication Date: 2025.04.01 COMCAST CABLE COMM LLC

AI summary

Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for identifying and managing event notifications. An event notification manager may determine whether the received data corresponds to an occurring or a false event. The event notification manager may cause one or more user devices to output an event notification by at least partially interrupting output of other content.