Location-Based IoT Status Notifications to Reduce Alert Overload
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of electronic devices often receive unnecessary notifications about IoT device status changes, leading to information overload and missed important updates.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device selectively provides IoT device status notifications based on the location of the device and other connected electronic devices, using a communication interface, processor, and memory to determine when and how to output status information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the electronic device receives notifications of status changes from IoT devices continuously, then the user can receive complete information about IoT device status changes, but the user may be overwhelmed by high frequency of notifications and miss important information
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by differentiating notification delivery based on the spatial relationship between devices. The electronic device determines whether to output a notification based on its location information relative to the IoT device's location. This creates localized notification behavior where proximity to the IoT device influences whether the user receives status change information, thereby reducing unnecessary notifications while maintaining important information delivery.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If the electronic device outputs notifications based on location information, then unnecessary notifications can be reduced, but the device complexity increases due to location-based determination logic
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses location information as an intermediary factor to simplify the notification determination process. Instead of implementing complex rules for deciding which notifications to output, the system uses location data as a mediating criterion that automatically determines notification delivery. The processor compares location information to decide whether to output notifications, which simplifies the overall determination logic compared to multiple conditional rules.
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AI summary
Disclosed is an electronic device including: a communication interface comprising communication circuitry; a processor electrically connected to the communication interface; and a memory electrically connected to the processor, wherein the memory stores instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the electronic device to: receive information on a status of at least one external device, information related to a location of the electronic device, and information related to a location of at least one external electronic device from a server through the communication interface; identify whether to output the status of the at least one external device based at least in part on the information related to the location of the electronic device and the information related to the location of the at least one external electronic device; and output the status of the at least one external device in response to identification of the output of the status of the at least one external device.