Smart Device Message Routing via Status Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing number of smart devices carried by individuals, each capable of receiving messages and alerts, leads to redundancy and burden when multiple devices receive the same information simultaneously, necessitating a system to coordinate and manage message delivery effectively across different devices.
Innovation Solution
A message delivery system that includes a plurality of smart devices with a message handling module to determine the optimal device for message receipt based on criteria such as device status, accessibility, user notification profiles, and calendar information, using wireless transceivers and motion detectors to redirect messages to the most appropriate device.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple smart devices receive the same message simultaneously, then message delivery coverage is improved, but user burden and redundancy increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a message routing system that acts as an intermediary between the message source and multiple smart devices. This routing system evaluates device status, user context, and message priority to intelligently select the most appropriate device for message delivery, thereby maintaining comprehensive coverage while eliminating redundant notifications across multiple devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts message delivery targets based on real-time device status and user context. Instead of statically delivering messages to all devices, the system adapts its delivery behavior by selecting the most suitable device at the moment of message arrival, resolving the contradiction between coverage and redundancy.
2Reliability
If messages are delivered to all available smart devices, then message receipt reliability is improved, but information coordination complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The message routing system serves as a central intermediary that manages information coordination between multiple devices. It consolidates the complexity of coordinating message delivery across devices by centralizing the decision-making logic, thereby maintaining high receipt reliability while reducing overall system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The routing system implements a universal message management approach that handles multiple devices and message types through a single coordinated mechanism. This multi-functional system manages device selection, message routing, and status monitoring in one integrated process, reducing coordination complexity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If message delivery is sent to multiple devices, then user accessibility is improved, but notification redundancy increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically selects which device receives the message based on real-time accessibility factors such as device proximity, user activity state, and current context. This dynamic selection ensures messages reach the user through the most accessible device while preventing redundant notifications on other devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The message routing system applies local quality by tailoring message delivery to the specific characteristics and current state of each device. Instead of uniform delivery to all devices, the system evaluates local conditions (device status, user context, accessibility) and directs messages to the most appropriate single device, eliminating redundancy while maintaining accessibility.
Data Source
AI summary
A message delivery system includes a plurality of smart devices associated with a person. Each smart device includes the person's contact information and a wireless transceiver for communicating with each of the other smart devices and communicating messages directed to the person. A message handling module having stored codes executable by a processor is embedded within one of the smart devices to receive current device status of each of the smart devices and to determine a chosen smart device to receive a current message directed to the person based on criteria including the current device status.