Mobile Pop-up Alert Management Reducing Device Resource Load
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional methods for displaying time-sensitive alerts on mobile devices require significant allocation of memory and processing resources, as well as bandwidth, which is inefficient and resource-intensive.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that utilizes pop-up messages on mobile devices, allowing users to select and display real-time alerts from a network server, reducing the need for resource-intensive applications and optimizing bandwidth usage by using a pop-up management module and user interface to process and display alerts as pop-up messages.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If conventional methods (RSS feeds, email, SMS) are used to display alerts on mobile devices, then alert delivery is achieved, but memory and processing resources are significantly consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the alert processing functionality from the mobile device and relocates it to the network server. The server generates, formats, and pushes alert messages directly to the device, eliminating the need for the device to run complex RSS feed readers or email clients. This extraction resolves the contradiction by maintaining reliable alert delivery while significantly reducing memory and processing resource requirements on the device.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a network server as an intermediary between alert sources and mobile devices. The server acts as a mediator that receives alert data, processes it into standardized formats, and pushes it to devices through the network. This intermediary approach eliminates the need for devices to directly process complex alert formats, thereby reducing device resource consumption while maintaining reliable alert delivery.
2Reliability
If applications are run on mobile devices to display alerts, then alert functionality is provided, but bandwidth usage increases due to overhead traffic
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by pre-processing and formatting alert messages on the network server before transmission to mobile devices. The server prepares alert data in optimized formats and pushes it directly to devices, eliminating the need for devices to download and process large amounts of data through applications. This preliminary processing reduces bandwidth usage while maintaining reliable alert functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the alert processing and formatting functions from device-based applications and relocates them to the network server. By taking out these functions, the system eliminates the overhead traffic associated with running applications and downloading data, thereby reducing bandwidth consumption while preserving alert functionality.
3Device complexity
If pop-up messages are used to display alerts, then memory and processing requirements are reduced, but user control over display options is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by making the alert display system adaptable to user preferences. The network server pushes alert messages, but the mobile device can be configured through user interfaces to control display options such as notification methods, timing, and priorities. This dynamic configuration allows users to maintain ease of operation while benefiting from reduced memory and processing requirements of pop-up message delivery.
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AI summary
In various embodiments, a system and a method for receiving alerts through a network includes providing a device which may include a user interface, a pop-up management module and a display. Further, a communications interface between the device and one or more database systems located outside the network may be provided. Using the user interface, a user is allowed to selectively choose to display, on the display, one or more message types generated by the one or more database systems. The message types may be received via the network, processed and displayed on the display by the pop-up management module as a pop-up message. The device may be a WiMAX-enabled device and the network may be a WiMAX network.