Schedule Information Updating via User Response Feedback

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing schedule management systems fail to update schedule information based on response information from users regarding the executability of planned events, leading to inefficiencies in managing shared schedules within groups.

Innovation Solution

A method that involves acquiring event information, creating schedule information indicating planned events, obtaining response information from users on executability, and updating the schedule information accordingly to reflect which events can be executed, enabling facilitated modification based on user circumstances.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If schedule information is created based on event information without considering user response, then schedule creation is simple and fast, but the schedule information does not reflect actual executability and requires manual updates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveschedule creation efficiencyVSAvoidschedule executability accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically acquires response information from target users regarding whether they can execute the scheduled event, and uses this feedback to update the schedule information. This closed-loop feedback mechanism ensures that schedule information accurately reflects actual executability while maintaining efficient automatic updates without manual intervention.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If schedule information is updated manually based on user responses, then accuracy of executability is improved, but the complexity of schedule management increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveschedule executability accuracyVSAvoidschedule management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs automatic updates of schedule information by acquiring response information from users and processing this information through the server without requiring manual intervention. The schedule management system serves itself by automatically synchronizing schedule information across terminals based on user responses, thereby maintaining accuracy while minimizing operational complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Reliability

If schedule information is automatically updated based on user responses, then executability accuracy is improved and manual updates are eliminated, but the system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveschedule executability accuracyVSAvoidautomatic update system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The server performs multiple functions including acquiring event information, creating schedule information, acquiring user response information, updating schedule information, and distributing updated schedules to multiple terminals. By consolidating these diverse functions into a single multi-functional server system, the patent achieves automatic updates with improved executability accuracy while managing system complexity through functional integration rather than proliferation of separate components.

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

Data Source

PatentUS20240211894A1Schedule information providing method, information processing device, computer-readable recording medium recording a program, and communication terminal
Publication Date: 2024.06.27 PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORP OF AMERICA
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AI summary

An information processing device performs: acquiring event information including a condition of a target user who executes an event; creating, on the basis of the acquired event information, schedule information indicating an event planned to be executed; acquiring response information from the target user as to whether the event included in the event information can be executed or not; updating, on the basis of the acquired response information, the schedule information to indicate the event which can be executed; and outputting the updated schedule information.