Mobile Terminal Messenger Command Conflict Resolution

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing solutions for controlling multiple external devices connected via a network, such as IoT, face challenges in efficiently managing conflicting commands and automatically determining user-preferred control actions based on conversation content in mobile messengers.

Innovation Solution

A method and system for a mobile terminal that executes a mobile messenger, allowing users to select registered counterparts, receive and manage commands, and automatically control device functions based on conversation analysis, resolving conflicts and determining preferred actions through keyword mapping and user interaction.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If multiple commands are received from different mobile terminals via mobile messenger, then device control functionality is enhanced, but command conflict management complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice control functionalityVSAvoidcommand conflict management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-establishes user hierarchy relationships and authority levels before conflicts occur. When commands are received, the controller automatically compares the authority levels of different users and determines execution priority in advance, avoiding complex real-time conflict resolution

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The mobile terminal acts as an intermediary between multiple users and the controlled device. It receives commands from multiple mobile terminals, processes them through the controller which applies conflict resolution rules, and then executes the determined command, shielding users from the complexity of conflict management

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If conversation content analysis is performed to extract control items, then automatic control accuracy is improved, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontrol item extraction accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-defines a mapping relationship between keywords in conversation content and device control items. When a command is received, the controller directly matches keywords against this pre-established mapping table to quickly identify control items, avoiding time-consuming real-time analysis while maintaining high accuracy

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates a simplified representation of conversation content by extracting only relevant keywords that map to predefined control items. This keyword-based copying approach reduces processing complexity and time while preserving the essential meaning needed for accurate control item extraction

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS10992816B2Mobile terminal and control method therefor
Publication Date: 2021.04.27 LG ELECTRONICS INC
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AI summary

Disclosed are a mobile terminal and a control method therefore. The control method of the mobile terminal, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of executing a mobile messenger, selecting a specific other user pre-registered in the mobile messenger, receiving a first command which is for the selected specific other user as a recipient; controlling the state of the at least one device according to the received first command; and controlling the controlled state of the at least one device to be maintained or to be changed according to whether the first command and a second command are in conflict with each other when the second command which is for the specific other user as a recipient is received through another mobile terminal in which the mobile messenger is executed.