NFC-Based Schedule Guidance for Mobile Terminal Location Tracking

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional schedule management mobile applications fail to provide users with guidance information that considers their current situation or location, leading to potential missed appointments or inefficiencies in navigating events.

Innovation Solution

A schedule management method and system that utilizes near field communication (NFC) to compare expected event information with actual event information, updating and providing guidance on travel routes and transportation based on the user's location, thereby enhancing schedule adherence and navigation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If general schedule management mobile applications simply display schedule information registered by users, then the application structure remains simple and easy to operate, but the application fails to provide schedule-related guidance information that users actually need by reflecting the current situation or location of the user

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveguidance information provisionVSAvoidapplication structure

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-extracts expected event information from user schedule information before the user needs it. By analyzing the schedule in advance and identifying expected events (such as meetings, appointments, or tasks) along with their expected occurrence locations, the system prepares guidance information proactively rather than reactively, enabling adaptive guidance while maintaining manageable complexity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system collects actual event information through near field communication (NFC) when users interact with event locations, then compares this actual information with the pre-extracted expected event information. This feedback mechanism allows the system to adaptively provide relevant guidance information based on the discrepancy between expected and actual events, enhancing versatility without requiring complete system redesign

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Loss of information

If the system collects and compares event information through near field communication to provide adaptive guidance, then the relevance and usefulness of schedule information is improved, but the system complexity and processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveschedule-related guidance informationVSAvoidsystem processing

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts only the necessary expected event information from the complete user schedule data. By identifying and extracting key elements such as expected event attributes, expected occurrence times, and expected occurrence locations, the system reduces the amount of data that needs to be processed and compared, thereby minimizing information loss while controlling processing complexity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies different processing qualities to different parts of the schedule information. Expected event information that is critical for guidance (such as occurrence location and time) is extracted and compared with higher precision through NFC, while other less critical schedule details are handled with simpler processing, optimizing the balance between information completeness and system complexity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

3Measurement precision

If the system updates expected event information based on differences between collected and expected event information, then the accuracy of schedule guidance is improved, but the computational overhead and time consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveschedule guidance accuracyVSAvoidinformation processing time

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs partial updates of expected event information rather than complete re-processing. By updating only the specific event information that shows differences between collected NFC data and expected schedule data, the system achieves high guidance accuracy while minimizing the time and computational resources required for processing

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Solution Approach 2:

The system pre-identifies expected events and their attributes before NFC data collection occurs. This preliminary extraction of expected event information (including expected occurrence locations and times) allows for rapid comparison with actual NFC-collected data, reducing the time required for real-time updates and maintaining high accuracy without excessive processing delays

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS10643134B2Schedule management method, schedule management server, and mobile terminal using the method

Publication Date: 2020.05.05 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

AI summary

A schedule management method is provided. The schedule management method includes acquiring user schedule information, extracting at least one piece of expected event information based on the user schedule information, collecting event information generated through near field communication, comparing the collected event information and the expected event information, and providing guidance information corresponding to the collected event information based on a result of the comparison.