Session Awareness Engine for Medical Content Coordination

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Solution Overview

Problem

Complex robotic systems used in medical procedures require effective user support, which is challenging due to the complexity of operations and the need for relevant information to be available at the right time.

Innovation Solution

A coordination system that includes a session awareness engine and a content selection engine to obtain data from the computer-assisted medical system, determine the session context, select appropriate content for presentation, and facilitate its presentation to users.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If comprehensive information is provided to users during complex robotic medical procedures, then user support and understanding are improved, but information overload and cognitive load increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveavailability of relevant informationVSAvoidcognitive load

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies local quality by providing different types of information to different users based on their specific roles and needs. The content selection engine analyzes user characteristics and session context to deliver customized information subsets, ensuring each user receives appropriately scoped content rather than a uniform information dump.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary action by proactively selecting and preparing relevant content before users need it. The session awareness engine continuously monitors system state and anticipates information needs, pre-configuring content delivery based on predicted contextual requirements rather than waiting for explicit user requests.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple types of content are made available to support users, then comprehensiveness of support is improved, but complexity of content management increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent varietyVSAvoidcontent management complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements universality through the coordination system that serves multiple functions: the session awareness engine monitors system state, the content selection engine filters and selects appropriate content, and the delivery mechanism distributes information. This multi-functional architecture manages diverse content types through a unified framework, reducing overall system complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The content selection engine acts as an intermediary between the diverse content repository and the users. It mediates by applying selection logic to filter relevant content from the plurality of available contents, thereby simplifying the interface between complex content resources and user needs without requiring users to directly manage the complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Ease of operation

If content is manually selected and presented to users, then control over information delivery is maintained, but response time and efficiency decrease

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemanual controlVSAvoidresponse delay

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies self-service by enabling automatic content selection and delivery without requiring manual intervention. The session awareness engine autonomously monitors system state, and the content selection engine automatically selects and presents relevant content based on real-time context, eliminating manual selection delays while maintaining appropriate control through programmable logic.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring the operational state of the computer-assisted medical system and using this information to dynamically adjust content selection. The session awareness engine provides real-time feedback about system context to the content selection engine, enabling responsive automatic content delivery that adapts to changing procedural conditions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20250057607A1Methods and systems for coordinating content presentation for computer-assisted systems

Publication Date: 2025.02.20 INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS INC

AI summary

A coordination system for coordinating content presentation associated with a session involves using a computer-assisted medical system, the coordination system including a session awareness engine and a content selection engine. The session awareness engine being configured to obtain data from the computer-assisted medical system, the data indicative of an operational state of the computer-assisted medical system and determine a context of the session based on the data. The content selection engine being configured to select a content for presentation to a user of the computer-assisted medical system from a variety of contents by applying a content selection logic to the context of the session and facilitate presentation of the content to the user.