Mobile Terminal Self-Calling via Input Pattern Recognition

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current mobile security systems require physical emergency buttons on mobile terminals, which are not in high demand and difficult to manufacture, and users struggle to select recipients during emergencies, limiting their effectiveness.

Innovation Solution

A method and system for self-calling and emergency reporting on a mobile terminal, where a user sets a specific pattern to activate the device, which outputs queries for voice recognition, changes modes, and transmits location information to pre-defined contacts, allowing for swift attention and response without manual button pressing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If emergency rescue buttons are configured in the mobile terminal, then emergency response capability is improved, but device complexity and manufacturing difficulty increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveemergency response capabilityVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The invention extracts the emergency response function from hardware buttons and implements it through software patterns. The mobile terminal detects specific input patterns (like consecutive key presses) to trigger emergency responses, eliminating the need for dedicated physical emergency buttons while maintaining the core functionality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The invention replaces the mechanical emergency button system with a software-based pattern recognition system. Instead of relying on physical button presses, the system uses software to detect and interpret specific input patterns, thereby substituting mechanical components with software logic.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Measurement precision

If users must select a recipient and press a call button during emergencies, then call accuracy is improved, but response time deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecall accuracyVSAvoidresponse time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring emergency contact information and response patterns. When an emergency pattern is detected, the system automatically initiates calls to pre-selected contacts without requiring the user to manually select recipients or press call buttons during the emergency situation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The mobile terminal autonomously executes emergency response actions by detecting input patterns and automatically initiating calls to pre-configured contacts. The system serves itself by eliminating the need for user intervention during the critical emergency response phase, automatically managing the entire call initiation process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Reliability

If functional mobile terminals with emergency features are manufactured, then emergency response capability is improved, but market demand and production积极性 deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveemergency response capabilityVSAvoidmanufacturing enthusiasm
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The invention makes the mobile terminal universally applicable by using existing input mechanisms (keypad, touchscreen) for emergency responses. The same device serves both normal communication functions and emergency response functions, eliminating the need for specialized hardware modifications that would reduce manufacturing appeal.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS9178978B2Method of self-calling by setting time of mobile terminal, system thereof, and recording medium storing the same
Publication Date: 2015.11.03 S1 CORP
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AI summary

A method of self-calling and emergency reporting by setting a time in a mobile terminal, a system thereof, and a recording medium storing the same are provided. When a particular pattern of a user is input to the mobile terminal while the self-calling program is being executed, the mobile terminal determines, whether or not the particular pattern is authentication data previously input by the user, and changes a mode to a self-reception mode previously determined by the user. Also, the mobile terminal performs voice recognition, executes a previously stored policy according to the user's voice recognition and a response pattern according to the query, and changes a mode to a standby mode when a predetermined condition is satisfied.