Event Reminder System with Optical List Scanning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Handwritten procurement lists are vague and easily misinterpreted, while electronic lists can be difficult to manage and retrieve, especially when multiple items and events are tracked in a single list, leading to inefficiencies in creating and maintaining specific and organized shopping or to-do lists.
Innovation Solution
A system that associates event data, reminder data, and article data to create and send reminder messages electronically, allowing users to easily create and retrieve specific procurement lists linked to defined events, eliminating the need for manual entry and enabling easy linking with web pages for relevant information, using network-connected devices for scanning and communication.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If handwritten procurement lists are used, then ease of creation is improved, but clarity and precision of information deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses optical scanning to create digital copies of handwritten procurement lists. The system captures images of handwritten lists and converts them into machine-readable data, preserving the ease of handwritten creation while eliminating the ambiguity of handwriting interpretation. This allows the information to be stored and processed electronically with full clarity.
2Quantity of substance
If multiple procurement lists are stored electronically, then retrieval efficiency deteriorates, but information capacity improves
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts key identifying features from procurement lists such as event names, dates, and item categories to create searchable metadata. This extraction process enables efficient retrieval by allowing users to search for specific lists without manually browsing through all stored lists, thus maintaining fast retrieval even as the number of stored lists grows.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides feedback mechanisms including search result rankings and filtering options that help users quickly locate desired procurement lists. The feedback loop allows users to refine their searches and receive relevant results, reducing retrieval time as the database of procurement lists expands.
3Measurement precision
If electronic scanning is implemented, then data accuracy improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a multi-functional system that combines optical scanning, image processing, text recognition, and database management in a single integrated platform. By making the system universal and capable of performing multiple functions, the complexity is distributed and managed efficiently, while achieving high data accuracy through the coordinated operation of various components.
Data Source
AI summary
In one embodiment, event data descriptive of an event to occur at an event time is received at a first computer system via a network. Reminder data, descriptive of a reminder time to occur on or before the event time, is received via the network. At a time after receipt of the event data, article data descriptive of an article to be associated with the event is receive via the network. The article data is data created during an electronic scanning operation. At the reminder time a reminder message describing the event and the article is sent via the network to a second computer system, for presentation at the second computer system.