Mobile Device Profile Configuration via Environmental Sensing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of communications devices often face disturbances during meetings or at home due to unwanted calls, as they forget to configure their devices to receive only text messages or voicemail, and existing technologies lack effective methods to automatically adapt settings based on the user's environment.
Innovation Solution
A data processing apparatus with a sensor module to sense environmental attributes and a classification module to assign prediction factors, allowing the device to automatically configure settings according to sensed environments, storing profiles and adapting them over time based on changes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the device continuously monitors and stores multiple environment profiles with prediction factors, then the adaptability to different environments improves, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by continuously sensing and storing environment profiles in advance, so that when a new environment is encountered, the device can quickly match it with stored profiles and apply appropriate settings without manual configuration
Solution Approach 2:
The device serves itself by automatically comparing current sensor data with stored profiles, selecting the best match, and adjusting settings without user intervention. The classification module autonomously manages profile storage and retrieval based on prediction factors
2Ease of operation
If the device automatically configures settings based on environment profiles, then the ease of operation improves, but the loss of information about user intent may increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where user corrections or manual profile creations provide feedback to the classification module, refining future automatic configurations and improving accuracy of predicting user intent
Solution Approach 2:
The device performs preliminary configuration actions based on stored profiles before user needs arise, but allows users to review and adjust settings, ensuring preliminary actions align with actual user intent
Data Source
AI summary
Data processing apparatus is disclosed comprising: a sensor module configured to sense a first profile comprised of one or more attributes of an environment of said data processing apparatus; and a classification module configured to assign a prediction factor to each of said one or more attributes of said first profile and to store each said attribute and assigned prediction factor as a stored profile.