Smart Glasses Communication With Automated Session Billing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing mobile devices, particularly head-mounted displays, lack hands-free operation for audio and visual communication sessions, and there is a need for automated billing systems that eliminate human intervention and potential errors.
Innovation Solution
A hands-free augmented reality system using smart glasses for communication, which includes automated billing based on session duration, recording, and archiving communication data for secure and accurate billing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual billing processes are used for communication sessions, then human intervention allows flexibility in handling billing exceptions, but human error and potential for mistakes increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically tracks communication session duration and generates billing information without human intervention. The device self-monitors connectivity time, identifies user profiles, and submits billing data to the billing service autonomously, eliminating manual billing processes and associated human errors.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual billing operations with an automated electronic system. The mechanical process of manual time tracking and billing entry is substituted with automated software that monitors communication sessions, calculates duration, and submits billing information electronically, thereby improving reliability through consistency.
2Ease of operation
If hands-free operation is implemented using head-mounted displays, then user mobility and convenience are improved, but the complexity of the device increases
Solution Approach 1:
The head-mounted display device integrates multiple functions including audio communication, visual communication, session duration tracking, user profile identification, and automated billing submission. By consolidating these diverse functions into a single universal device, the system achieves hands-free operation without proportionally increasing complexity, as all functions share common hardware and software infrastructure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines communication functionality with billing automation functionality into a single integrated system. The device that enables hands-free communication also automatically tracks session duration and submits billing information, merging what could be separate systems into one unified device, thereby managing complexity through integration rather than addition.
3Measurement precision
If automated billing tracking is implemented, then billing accuracy and time tracking precision are improved, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors communication session duration in real-time and provides feedback to the billing service. The automated tracking mechanism constantly measures connectivity time, compares it against user profile parameters, and adjusts billing information accordingly, ensuring precise measurement through continuous feedback loops rather than periodic manual checks.
Solution Approach 2:
The device pre-identifies user profiles and their associated billing parameters before the communication session begins. By having billing information, user identifiers, and tracking parameters ready in advance, the system eliminates the need for complex post-session processing, thereby improving measurement precision while managing complexity through advance preparation.
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AI summary
A method of real-time communication, including providing a first electronic communications device in signal communication with a network, wherein the first electronic communications device includes a processing unit, and providing a second electronic communications device in signal communication with the network. Initiating a communications session between the first and second electronic communications devices, tracking a duration of the communications session, and ending the communications session between the first and second communications devices. Generating billing data as a function of the duration of the communication session and automatically transmitting the billing data to a billing agency.