Metadata Synthesis for Health Event Correlation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Individuals are unaware of the impact of external factors such as weather, travel, allergies, and diet on their health-related events like running, sleeping, or working out, making it difficult to optimize performance and scheduling.

Innovation Solution

A system that collects and correlates metadata from health-related events with external factors from various sources, providing users with real-time insights and optimal scheduling recommendations based on these correlations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If a system collects and correlates metadata from health events with external factors from multiple data repositories, then users gain comprehensive insights into how external factors influence their health events, but the device complexity and data processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation about external factors impactVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs an intermediary processing system that acts as a mediator between multiple data repositories and the user. This intermediary collects, correlates, and processes data from various sources (weather services, travel data, health events) and presents synthesized insights to users, thereby managing information complexity while maintaining comprehensive data integration

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system is designed with multi-functional capabilities to handle diverse data types (health events, weather data, travel information) through a unified processing framework. This universal approach allows the same system architecture to manage multiple data sources and correlation types without requiring separate specialized systems for each function

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Productivity

If the system provides real-time insights and optimal scheduling recommendations, then user productivity and health management improve, but the computational resources and processing time required increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvehealth management efficiencyVSAvoidcomputational energy consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary computations by pre-processing and pre-correlating data from multiple repositories before users need insights. By preparing correlation models and external factor data in advance, the system reduces real-time computational burden while maintaining the ability to provide timely recommendations

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where user responses and actual health event outcomes are fed back into the correlation models. This allows the system to learn from past predictions, refine its algorithms, and improve future recommendations while potentially reducing computational requirements through optimized models based on accumulated data

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS10402417B2Synthesizing data sources
Publication Date: 2019.09.03 MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC
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AI summary

In example embodiments, a machine accesses metadata items from multiple different sources associated with a user. The machine determines that metadata items from two or more sources are related to an event of the user, the two or more sources being from among the multiple different sources. The machine stores the metadata items from the two or more of the sources in conjunction with the event.