Robot Service Marketplace for Predictive Task Personalization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current technologies lack an efficient mechanism for predicting and providing age-appropriate services to robots in smart communities, leading to suboptimal task performance and user experience due to inadequate service personalization.

Innovation Solution

A system that analyzes historical and demographic data of robots and users to predict future tasks and select appropriate downloadable services, providing notifications for instantiation and execution, ensuring services are age-appropriate for users based on their demographics.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If robots are provided with generic services without personalization, then service delivery is simple and fast, but task performance and user experience are suboptimal

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetask performanceVSAvoidservice delivery mechanism
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by analyzing historical task data and demographic information in advance to predict future tasks before they are requested. This allows the service recommendation system to be prepared with personalized service suggestions ready for immediate delivery when needed, resolving the contradiction by preparing personalization data beforehand rather than generating it on-demand.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables robots to self-service by automatically analyzing their own historical task data and demographic information to generate predictions about their future tasks. The robots receive personalized service recommendations without requiring manual intervention, which maintains simplicity while achieving personalized task performance optimization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Ease of operation

If personalized service recommendations are provided based on historical data analysis, then user experience is improved, but data processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser experienceVSAvoiddata processing system
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies a universal data processing framework that handles multiple types of data (historical task data, demographic information, service performance metrics) through a single unified analysis mechanism. This multi-functional approach improves user experience with personalized recommendations while avoiding the need for separate complex processing systems for each data type.

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

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary service recommendation engine that sits between the raw data storage and the robot users. This intermediary layer processes and synthesizes historical data and demographic information into personalized service recommendations, simplifying the overall architecture while delivering enhanced user experience through personalization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Adaptability or versatility

If age-appropriate services are selected based on demographic data, then service appropriateness is improved, but service selection complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice personalizationVSAvoidservice selection mechanism
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies local quality by tailoring service recommendations to the specific demographic characteristics of each robot-user combination. Instead of applying a uniform service selection criterion, the system adjusts service suggestions based on local demographic factors such as age, ensuring service appropriateness while maintaining a relatively simple selection mechanism through targeted personalization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes parameters by using demographic data (such as age) as input parameters to dynamically adjust service recommendations. By varying the service selection based on demographic parameter changes, the system achieves adaptable personalized service delivery without requiring a fundamentally complex selection mechanism, as it builds upon existing demographic information.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS20240139965A1Smart on-demand marketplace and service delivery for robots
Publication Date: 2024.05.02 AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I L P
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AI summary

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining first, second, and third data associated with respective first, second, and third physical robots operating in a smart community (wherein the first data comprises a first historical listing of first tasks that had been performed by the first physical robot, wherein the second data comprises a second historical listing of second tasks that had been performed by the second physical robot, wherein the first tasks and the second tasks include a common task, wherein the third data comprises an indication of a current task being performed by the third physical robot, and wherein the current task is the common task); predicting, based upon the first, second, and third data, a future task that will be performed by the third physical robot (wherein the future task that is predicted is a task selected from the first tasks and the second tasks); selecting, based upon the future task that is predicted, a downloadable service that can be used by the third physical robot to carry out the future task that is predicted (wherein the selecting results in a selected downloadable service); and providing, to the third physical robot, a notification of an availability of the selected downloadable service for instantiation and execution on the third physical robot. Other embodiments are disclosed.