Notification Server Mediates Personalized Alerts via Calendar Events
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current mobile wireless communication systems lack effective methods to provide personalized and timely notifications based on user interests and calendar events, limiting the relevance and frequency of advertisements and gift recommendations.
Innovation Solution
A communications system that includes a mobile wireless device and a notification server, which accesses personal interest information and calendar data to send targeted notifications, such as advertisements, based on proximity to events and user preferences, using a wireless communications network, and allows for bidding from multiple notification sources.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If personalized notifications are sent based on user profiles and calendar events, then the relevance of advertisements is improved, but the system complexity increases due to need for profile management and event tracking
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a notification server as an intermediary component that mediates between the mobile device and multiple notification sources. This server handles the complex tasks of accessing user profiles, calendar events, and managing notifications, thereby reducing the complexity burden on the mobile device itself while maintaining high notification relevance through centralized intelligence.
Solution Approach 2:
The notification server is designed as a universal platform that handles multiple functions: storing user profiles, accessing calendar events, receiving notifications from multiple sources, determining relevance, and managing delivery timing. This multi-functional approach consolidates complexity into a single system component rather than distributing it across multiple separate systems.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple notification sources are supported with bidding capability, then the variety of notifications is improved, but the device complexity increases due to need for managing multiple sources and bids
Solution Approach 1:
The notification server acts as an intermediary that manages multiple notification sources and their bidding processes. Instead of the mobile device directly managing multiple sources and bids, the server handles these complex interactions, allowing the device to simply receive and display notifications while the server manages the versatility and complexity of multiple sources.
Solution Approach 2:
The notification server autonomously manages the bidding process from multiple notification sources, determining which notifications to send based on user profiles and calendar events without requiring direct device intervention. This self-service approach allows the system to support multiple sources and bids while minimizing the complexity burden on the mobile device.
3Loss of time
If notifications are sent based on proximity to calendar events, then the timeliness of notifications is improved, but the measurement precision requirement increases for determining event proximity
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors calendar events and calculates proximity in real-time, providing feedback-based notification delivery. As events approach, the system automatically adjusts notification timing and frequency based on the calculated proximity, ensuring timely delivery without requiring manual user input or complex external measurements.
Solution Approach 2:
The notification server proactively accesses calendar events and determines proximity in advance, preparing and scheduling notifications before they are needed. This preliminary action allows the system to send timely notifications automatically based on pre-calculated event proximity, reducing the need for real-time measurement precision during critical moments.
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AI summary
A communications system may include at least one mobile wireless communications device for storing personal interest information for respective contacts and for storing calendar event data. The system may further include a notification server communicating with the at least one mobile wireless communications device via a wireless communications network and configured to access the personal interest information and calendar event data from the at least one mobile wireless communications device, and send notifications to the at least one mobile wireless communications device based upon the personal interest information and the calendar event data.