Multi-User Pattern Template Generation for Electronic Devices

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing electronic devices can only determine and provide patterns specific to individual users, limiting their applicability and effectiveness across multiple users.

Innovation Solution

An electronic device and server system that collect and analyze data from multiple users to generate and transmit templates for patterns, allowing for the recommendation of configurations that can be applied to a plurality of users based on shared usage patterns.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If an electronic device determines and provides patterns specific to individual users, then the pattern accuracy for each user is improved, but the applicability and effectiveness across multiple users deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepattern accuracyVSAvoidapplicability across multiple users
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges individual user patterns from multiple users into a unified template. The electronic device collects event information from multiple users, determines patterns for each user, and then merges these patterns into a common template that represents shared behaviors. This allows the system to maintain high accuracy for individual users while also creating a versatile template applicable across multiple users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates a universal template that can be applied across multiple users. By extracting common patterns from individual user behaviors and forming a standardized template, the system enables one template to serve multiple users effectively. The template acts as a universal configuration that can be recommended to any user exhibiting similar behavioral patterns.

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

2Adaptability or versatility

If an electronic device collects and analyzes data from multiple users to generate templates, then the applicability of patterns across multiple users is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveapplicability across multiple usersVSAvoiddata collection and analysis complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the complex task of multi-user pattern analysis into distinct modules: an event information acquisition module that collects data from multiple users, a pattern determination module that analyzes individual user behaviors, and a template generation module that merges patterns into unified templates. This segmentation reduces overall system complexity by dividing the analysis process into manageable, specialized components.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces templates as an intermediary structure between individual user patterns and multi-user applicability. Instead of directly managing complex multi-user data relationships, the system uses templates as a mediating layer that simplifies the representation of common behaviors. This intermediary structure reduces the complexity of handling multi-user data by providing a standardized format for pattern representation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS11856124B2Method for providing pattern and electronic device for supporting the same
Publication Date: 2023.12.26 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

An electronic device including a communication interface, a memory, and a processor. The processor is configured to receive information related to at least one first event generated for a predetermined first time from an external electronic device and acquire a first pattern and a first parameter related to the first pattern, based on information on at least one second event generated within at least one predetermined time interval among the information on the at least one first event. The processor is configured to receive information related to at least one third event generated for a predetermined second time from the external electronic device. The processor is configured to acquire a second parameter related to the first pattern, based on the information related to the at least one third event. The processor is configured to generate a first template and transmit information on the first template to a server.