Exercise-Aware Call Handling for Workout Continuity

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users often ignore or manually handle calls during exercise, disrupting their workout and causing inconvenience to both the user and the caller due to the need for manual call processing, which affects the continuity of exercise and can be perceived as impolite.

Innovation Solution

An exercise-based call processing method that utilizes sensors to detect user exercise data, determining the user's status and automatically processing calls based on their exercise status, including answering, rejecting, or sending preset messages, thereby improving interaction efficiency and user experience.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If manual call processing is used during exercise, then the user can answer or reject calls, but the continuity of exercise is disrupted and user convenience deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecall processing convenienceVSAvoidexercise continuity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDuration of action of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically detects exercise status through sensors and autonomously decides whether to answer, reject, or silence calls based on detected exercise intensity and type, eliminating the need for manual user intervention during exercise

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The user pre-configures call handling preferences for different exercise scenarios before exercising. The system then automatically applies these pre-set rules when calls occur during exercise, avoiding the need for real-time manual decisions

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Difficulty of detecting and measuring

If the user waits for the caller to give up, then politeness is maintained, but time is lost and exercise continuity is affected

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser intent detectionVSAvoidcall handling time

Core Design Contradiction:

Difficulty of detecting and measuringVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system continuously monitors exercise parameters (heart rate, acceleration, position) and uses this real-time feedback to dynamically adjust call handling decisions, accurately inferring user intent from physiological and movement data

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces manual mechanical interaction (physically answering or rejecting calls) with automated electronic decision-making based on sensor data analysis, significantly reducing the time required to handle calls while maintaining exercise continuity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Productivity

If intelligent call processing based on exercise status is implemented, then interaction efficiency is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinteraction efficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent integrates multiple functions into a single automated call processing system that can answer, reject, silence, or send notifications based on exercise status, eliminating the need for separate manual controls and interfaces for different call handling scenarios

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system combines exercise monitoring, call detection, status analysis, and call handling decisions into a unified automated process, merging multiple subsystems work together seamlessly to improve interaction efficiency while managing complexity through integration

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The method intelligently handles calls based on exercise status, enhancing user experience by maintaining workout continuity and reducing the burden on the user, while providing timely responses to callers, thus improving interaction efficiency.

Implementation Method 1

obtaining exercise data of a user detected by at least one sensor

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectSensor detection:

Data Source

PatentUS12531943B2Exercise-based call processing method, apparatus, and electronic device

Publication Date: 2026.01.20 HUAWEI TECH CO LTD

AI summary

This application provides an exercise-based call processing method, an apparatus, and an electronic device, to intelligently process a call based on an exercise status of a user, which improves efficiency of interaction between the device and the user. The exercise-based call processing method may be applied to an electronic apparatus. The method includes: obtaining exercise data, detected by at least one sensor, of the user; determining the exercise status of the user of the electronic apparatus, where the exercise data is used to represent a current exercise status of the user; and when a system in which the electronic apparatus is located receives the call, determining, based on a determined current exercise status of the user, a processing action corresponding to a current call, and performing the processing action.