Mobile Device Digital Assistant Task Assignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Public safety officers face challenges in sharing data and requesting resources during incidents in areas with poor network coverage, as existing technologies lack the capability to automatically process and identify required resources due to limited device capabilities and network connectivity.
Innovation Solution
A process is introduced where mobile computing devices within direct transmission range can assign and execute digital-assistant tasks to process incident data and request resources without a dispatcher, by determining and mapping tasks based on received capability information from other devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If mobile computing devices are used to process incident data and request resources, then resource allocation efficiency is improved, but device capability limitations prevent automatic processing in poor network coverage areas
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the digital assistant functionality across multiple mobile computing devices rather than requiring a single device to have all capabilities. Each device can perform specific tasks (data processing, resource identification, communication) and the system coordinates these segmented functions to achieve complete incident response automation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent makes mobile computing devices universal by enabling them to perform multiple functions: incident data collection, digital assistant task execution, resource identification, and inter-device communication. This multi-functionality allows devices to adapt to different incident scenarios and network conditions.
2Reliability
If digital-assistant tasks are assigned to multiple devices, then task execution reliability is improved, but network connectivity requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-establishing direct transmission ranges and capability profiles between devices before incidents occur. When an incident happens in poor network coverage areas, devices can immediately execute tasks using pre-configured direct connections without requiring complex real-time network setup.
3Loss of time
If automatic resource identification is implemented, then response time is improved, but processing capability requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces digital assistant tasks as intermediaries between incident data and resource identification. Instead of requiring devices to directly complexly process all incident data, the digital assistant tasks mediate by breaking down the processing into manageable sub-tasks that can be executed by devices with limited processing capabilities.
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AI summary
A process and device for assigning a digital-assistant task to a mobile computing device in response to an incident. A mobile computing device determines digital-assistant tasks to be executed in response to the incident. Further the mobile computing device transmits a request for digital-assistant capability information to other mobile computing devices implementing respective digital assistants. Based on the digital-assistant capability received from one or more of the other mobile computing devices, the mobile computing device maps at least one of the digital-assistant tasks to the one or more of the other mobile computing devices. The mobile computing device assigns the at least one of the digital-assistant tasks to the mapped one or more of the other mobile computing devices and further transmits an instruction to execute the assigned digital-assistant tasks to the mapped one or more of the other mobile computing devices.