Playback Device Do Not Disturb for Room-Specific Audio Alerts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing media playback systems do not effectively manage audio notifications from smart devices, leading to potential disturbances, especially in situations where users want to disable notifications in specific rooms or during certain times.
Innovation Solution
A Do Not Disturb (DND) feature is implemented in playback devices that allows users to specify through a graphical user interface when and where to disable audio notifications from smart devices, enabling selective notification management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If audio notifications from smart devices are played through media playback systems, then users can receive alert notifications, but users experience unwanted audio disturbances in specific rooms or during certain times
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the notification management into room-specific zones, allowing independent control of audio notifications in different physical locations. Each room can have its own do-not-disturb settings, enabling users to receive notifications in some rooms while blocking them in others, thus resolving the contradiction between reliable notification delivery and avoiding audio disturbances.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements time-based dynamic control where do-not-disturb settings can be activated during specific time periods. Users can schedule notification blocking for nighttime hours or specific time windows, allowing notifications to be delivered reliably during acceptable times while automatically blocking them during periods when audio disturbances are unwanted.
2Adaptability or versatility
If do-not-disturb feature is implemented with room and time specifications, then users can customize notification settings, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The media playback system is enhanced to serve multiple functions: it continues to play audio content while also managing smart device notifications. By integrating notification routing and do-not-disturb control into the existing playback infrastructure, the system achieves high adaptability for customized notification management without proportionally increasing complexity, as the same hardware and software platform handles both audio playback and notification control.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for actuating a Do Not Disturb (DND) feature of a playback device that is configured to play back alert notifications from a plurality of network-enabled devices include (i) a mobile device receiving input data representing a selection of the playback device; (ii) the mobile device receiving input data representing a selection of a DND time period; and (iii) responsive to receiving the input data representing the selections of the playback device and the DND time period, sending an instruction to the selected playback device that causes the selected playback device to enter a DND mode for the duration of the selected DND time period, during which the selected playback device is instructed to not play back alert notifications when the alert notifications are received from at least one network-enabled device of the plurality of network-enabled devices.