Live Communication Delay for Pre-Call Personalized Data Access

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current techniques for sending personalized data between devices are often time-consuming and ineffective, failing to allow for personalized data to be received in time for live communications.

Innovation Solution

A method is implemented at a sending device to detect an input for a live communication and, if certain delay criteria are met, delay the initiation of the communication to allow for the sending of a request to access personalized data from a server, ensuring the data is available when the communication is initiated.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of time

If personalized data is sent between devices using current techniques, then data transfer is performed, but the data arrives after it is needed for live communication

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata arrival timeVSAvoiddata availability for communication
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by detecting the intent to communicate and proactively transferring personalized data before the actual live communication is initiated. This ensures the receiving device has the necessary data ready in advance, eliminating delays and ensuring data availability when the communication starts.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Speed

If live communication is initiated immediately, then communication responsiveness is improved, but personalized data is not yet available at the receiving device

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication initiation speedVSAvoidpersonalized data
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system detects communication intent and executes preliminary data transfer operations before the communication channel is fully established. This allows the communication to start immediately while the personalized data is already being prepared and transferred in the background, ensuring both speed and information completeness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system maintains continuous useful action by overlapping the data transfer process with the communication initiation process. Instead of sequential execution, the data transfer continues in parallel with communication setup, ensuring uninterrupted flow of both data and communication establishment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentUS12556596B2Delaying live communications
Publication Date: 2026.02.17 APPLE INC
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AI summary

Some techniques are described herein to enable a sending device to provide personalized data to a receiving device before a live communication is initialized. For example, a sending device can selectively delay a live communication and, when doing so, send a request for a receiving device to access personalized data from a server. Such techniques allow the receiving device to access the personalized data before the live communication is initialized so that the personalized data can be used when the live communication is initialized.