Mobile Terminal Selective Push Notification Output

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional push notification systems on mobile terminal devices often annoy users by outputting low-relevance or urgent notifications, leading to relevant notifications being overlooked.

Innovation Solution

A mobile terminal device system that determines whether a push notification should be output based on specific conditions, such as targeting a user of a specific device by checking device information, ensuring only relevant or urgent notifications are displayed.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If all push notifications are outputted on the mobile terminal device, then the user receives all notifications, but the user experiences annoyance and may overlook important notifications

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenotification delivery reliabilityVSAvoiduser annoyance

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by differentiating notification handling based on device-specific conditions. Each device is evaluated individually against stored device information (location, usage patterns, user preferences) to determine whether to output the notification locally or suppress it, creating non-uniform notification behavior tailored to each device's context

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the parameter of notification output by dynamically adjusting whether a notification should be output based on multiple parameters including device location, device usage state, user behavior patterns, and notification priority. This transforms the binary output decision into a conditional parameter-based selection process

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Device complexity

If push notifications are selected based solely on location information, then the notification system is simple, but notifications with low relevance to the user are still outputted

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenotification selection complexityVSAvoidnotification relevance

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the notification evaluation process into multiple independent dimension checks: location matching, device state verification, user preference alignment, and priority assessment. Each dimension is evaluated separately and combined to form the final output decision, breaking down the complex relevance determination into manageable segments

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements multi-functionality by using a unified device information storage structure that serves multiple evaluation purposes simultaneously. The same stored device information is used for location verification, usage pattern analysis, and preference matching, allowing one data structure to support multiple notification evaluation functions

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS11290552B2Mobile terminal device selectively outputting push notification

Publication Date: 2022.03.29 BROTHER KOGYO KK

AI summary

A mobile terminal device includes a communication interface; a processor; and memory. The communication interface is configured to receive a push notification transmitted from a server. The memory stores device information and a set of computer-readable instructions therein. The device information specifies a specific device. The computer-readable instructions, when executed by the processor, causes the mobile terminal device to perform: determining whether a prescribed condition is met, the prescribed condition requiring that the push notification target a user of the specific device; and outputting the push notification in response to determining that the prescribed condition is met.