Cross-Device Notification Routing for Timely Task Continuation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Intelligent terminal devices often operate independently, leading to missed notifications when a user is not in proximity, especially with devices like smartwatches or smart speakers lacking sufficient screens for detailed content display or operation processing.
Innovation Solution
A notification processing system that enables cooperation between devices, using a prompt device to alert users and a continuation device to execute tasks, enhancing interaction and information processing capabilities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If devices work independently without cooperation mechanisms, then device complexity is reduced, but notification delivery reliability deteriorates when user is not in proximity
Solution Approach 1:
The notification system is segmented into three distinct functional roles: source device (generates notification), prompt device (delivers notification to user), and continuation device (executes task). This segmentation allows each device to specialize in one function, improving overall reliability without requiring every device to handle all functions, thus managing complexity through division of labor.
Solution Approach 2:
The prompt device acts as an intermediary between the source device and the user. When the user is not in proximity to the source device, the prompt device receives the notification from the source device and delivers it to the user through local alerts, ensuring reliable notification delivery without requiring direct user proximity to the source device.
2Ease of operation
If small-screen devices like smartwatches display notification details, then user convenience is improved, but information display completeness deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system transitions from a single-device notification model to a multi-device collaboration model, adding the dimension of device coordination. The prompt device displays simplified notification information suitable for its small screen, while the continuation device provides the full task execution capability, effectively distributing information across multiple dimensions (display vs. execution).
3Productivity
If multiple devices cooperate to process notification tasks, then notification processing efficiency is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Each device in the system is designed with multi-functionality potential. A device can serve as source device, prompt device, or continuation device depending on the context. This universality allows the system to scale flexibly and adapt to different scenarios without requiring dedicated hardware for each role, managing complexity through software-defined functionality.
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AI summary
This specification provides a notification processing system, a method, and an electronic device. In an embodiment, when a mobile phone is used as a first device to generate a notification, the mobile phone determines whether there is another device in an ambient environment that can be configured to prompt the mobile phone to generate the notification, and determines whether there is another device in the ambient environment that is more suitable for executing a task corresponding to the notification. If yes, the mobile phone sends a prompt message to a second device, and after the prompt device receives the prompt message, the second mobile phone generates the notification. In addition, the mobile phone selects a third device that is more suitable for executing the task corresponding to the notification, and reminds a user by using the prompt device, so that the user executes the task corresponding to the notification in the third device. In this way, a capability of cooperation between devices can be enhanced, and a plurality of devices can cooperate with each other to process a task corresponding to a notification.