Multi-Device Screen Access Control Through Behavioral Monitoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Excessive use of screens leads to psychological disorders such as addiction, sedentary lifestyle, social isolation, and depression, with existing technologies failing to provide comprehensive control over multiple devices and effective therapeutic interventions.
Innovation Solution
A system comprising software modules embedded in user devices and a server that restrict initial functions, monitor user behavior, and grant additional functions based on behavioral information, using electrical plugs and sensors to enforce control and encourage healthy usage habits.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If comprehensive control over multiple screen devices is implemented, then therapeutic effectiveness is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by creating a single centralized system that can control and monitor multiple different types of screen devices (smartphones, tablets, computers, televisions) through a common platform. The system uses universal identifiers and standardized communication protocols to manage diverse devices, allowing one system to perform comprehensive therapeutic control across all screen apparatuses without requiring separate control mechanisms for each device type.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs an intermediary approach by introducing a centralized server or cloud platform that mediates between the user's therapeutic goals and the multiple screen devices. This intermediary system collects data from various devices, processes information, and coordinates control actions across all devices, thereby reducing the complexity that would otherwise exist in directly managing multiple devices simultaneously.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If screen access is restricted and monitored, then harmful effects of excessive screen use are reduced, but user freedom and ease of operation deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms that continuously monitor screen usage patterns and provide real-time information to both the system and the user. The system analyzes usage data, identifies problematic patterns, and automatically adjusts restrictions or provides warnings. This feedback loop allows the system to intervene only when necessary to prevent harmful effects, while maintaining user freedom during healthy usage periods.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies dynamics by making screen access restrictions adjustable and adaptive rather than fixed. The system can dynamically modify access levels based on real-time usage patterns, user progress in therapy, and identified needs. This dynamic approach allows the system to enforce restrictions only when harmful usage is detected, while allowing full freedom when usage is healthy, thereby balancing harm reduction with user autonomy.
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AI summary
A system for controlling the use of screens by a user, comprising a set of software modules each embedded in an apparatus of a set of apparatuses of said user, comprising screens, and a server connected to said apparatuses by a telecommunication network, wherein:said apparatuses are initially restricted to a first set of functions, and include means of determining behavioral information of said user and transmitting same to said server,said server is adapted for granting an additional function according to said behavioral information, and for transmitting, to the software module of a selected apparatus, a message to enable said user to access said additional function.