Feed Stitching for Consolidated Event Notifications
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modern monitoring systems generate numerous independent notifications that require users to manually combine data to understand environmental events, leading to notification fatigue and reduced contextual clarity.
Innovation Solution
A system that processes data from multiple sources to generate consolidated event notifications, stitching together information from various sensors to provide a single, context-rich update to the user.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If multiple independent notifications are generated from multiple sensor sources, then the quantity of information provided to the user increases, but the complexity of user analysis and contextual understanding increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple independent notifications from different sensor sources into a single consolidated notification. The system processes datums from multiple sources, identifies related events, and combines them into one unified notification that preserves all contextual information while eliminating the need for users to analyze multiple separate alerts. This directly addresses the contradiction by maintaining information completeness while reducing processing complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The notification system acts as an intermediary between multiple sensor sources and the user. It receives datums from various sensors, processes and correlates the information, then presents a simplified consolidated view to the user. This intermediary layer handles the complexity of integrating multiple information streams while presenting a unified, easy-to-understand notification to the end user.
2Speed
If each notification is processed independently by the user, then the responsiveness to individual events is maintained, but the time required to understand the overall environment increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary processing of multiple sensor datums before presenting them to the user. It pre-identifies related events, correlates information from different sources, and prepares a consolidated notification in advance. This preliminary action eliminates the need for users to spend time analyzing individual notifications sequentially, as the system has already performed the correlational work.
Solution Approach 2:
By combining multiple independent notifications into a single consolidated event notification, the system maintains rapid event detection while eliminating the time users would otherwise spend analyzing separate notifications. The merged notification presents all relevant information in one unified view, allowing users to understand the overall environment immediately without sequential analysis.
3Loss of information
If additional data sources are integrated into the monitoring system, then the comprehensiveness of environmental monitoring is improved, but the number of notifications pushed to the user device increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges notifications from multiple data sources into consolidated notifications. Even as more sensors and data sources are added to improve environmental monitoring comprehensiveness, the system processes all incoming datums and consolidates related events into fewer unified notifications. This prevents notification quantity from increasing linearly with data source addition.
Solution Approach 2:
The notification consolidation system serves multiple functions simultaneously: it processes datums from any number of different sensor types, identifies relationships between events across diverse sources, and generates consolidated notifications that reflect the overall environmental state. This multi-functional approach allows comprehensive monitoring without proportional increases in notification volume.
Data Source
AI summary
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause performance of a method of notifying a user of a consolidated event, the method including: receiving a first datum from a first source and a second datum from a second source, wherein the first and second sources are both connected to a network; processing information associated with the first datum to identify an event information associated with the first datum; processing information associated with the second datum to identify an event information associated with the second datum; comparing at least a portion of the event information associated with the first datum with at least a portion of the event information associated with the second datum; determining occurrence of a consolidated event based on the comparing; determining a notification based on the determined consolidated event; and causing transmission of the determined notification to a user device.