Shared Site Suggestion Using User Schedule Detection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing information processing systems, such as electronic whiteboards, require significant time and effort to select a shared site for collaborative work, and do not leverage user's service information for site selection.

Innovation Solution

An information processing apparatus that detects a user, manages user schedules, and suggests shared sites based on detected user information, facilitating site selection.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If users manually select a shared site for collaborative work, then they can store and share data, but it requires significant time and effort

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveshared site selection processVSAvoidtime required for site selection
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically performs shared site selection by detecting user information from schedule services and autonomously determining appropriate shared sites, eliminating the need for manual user intervention in the selection process

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system pre-establishes associations between schedule information and shared sites in advance, so when a user needs a shared site for a scheduled event, the appropriate site is already identified and ready for immediate use

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If the system does not use service information for site selection, then the system remains simple, but it cannot facilitate efficient site selection

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecollaborative work efficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces a schedule service as an intermediary that bridges user information and shared site selection, allowing the system to leverage existing service data without directly integrating complex service management functionality

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses the user's existing schedule service for multiple purposes: detecting user identity, determining meeting contexts, and selecting appropriate shared sites, thereby leveraging one service across multiple functions without adding separate systems

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

Data Source

PatentEP3757918B1Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and carrier means
Publication Date: 2026.01.14 RICOH CO LTD
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AI summary

An information processing apparatus (14), an information processing system (1), an information processing method and a carrier means. The information processing apparatus (14) detects a user, manages the detected user, acquires schedule information of the user based on the detected user, and suggests one or more shared sites to be used according to the schedule information.