Speech Server Notification Delivery via Acoustic Output
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Solution Overview
Problem
In electronic message boards, users may miss notifications due to being busy or having their mobile terminals charged, leading to redundant notifications or missed information, as existing systems do not effectively ensure that users receive timely and specific notifications regardless of their device usage status.
Innovation Solution
A speech server system that allows an external server to instruct a speech terminal to output notifications as speech, enabling notifications to be delivered to users regardless of their device usage, through a speech terminal-specifying information management unit, reception unit, and speech instruction unit, which receive and manage information to specify and instruct the speech terminal to output speech content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If electronic message board is used for notification, then information can be shared among members, but users may miss notifications when busy or when mobile terminal battery is being charged
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a speech server as an intermediary between the electronic message board system and the user's mobile terminal. The speech server receives notification information from the message board, converts it to speech output, and plays it through the mobile terminal's speaker, ensuring users hear notifications even when they cannot check the message board or when the terminal is charging.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the traditional visual/text-based notification mechanism with an acoustic/speech-based mechanism. Instead of requiring users to visually check the message board or read text notifications on the screen, the system converts notifications to speech output that can be heard through the mobile terminal's speaker, making notifications accessible regardless of screen usage or charging status.
2Reliability
If multiple members notify the same information to one member, then information can be ensured to reach the member, but redundant notifications occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple notification requests for the same information into a single speech output. The speech server receives notification information from multiple members, identifies that they contain the same or similar content, and generates a single consolidated speech notification, eliminating redundant notifications while ensuring the information reaches the user.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a feedback mechanism where the speech server tracks which users have received which notifications. When multiple members attempt to notify the same user about the same information, the server checks the feedback status and suppresses redundant notifications, ensuring each user receives each unique notification only once.
3Adaptability or versatility
If speech terminal-specifying information is managed centrally, then external servers can generate speech instructions, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The speech server is designed with universal functionality to work with multiple external servers providing different services. It manages speech terminal-specifying information in a standardized format that can be received from any external server, enabling multi-service integration without requiring separate systems for each service provider.
Solution Approach 2:
The speech server acts as a standardized intermediary layer between diverse external servers and the mobile terminal. It provides a uniform interface for receiving speech instructions from any external server, managing terminal identification information centrally, and converting various service formats into standardized speech output, thereby simplifying integration complexity.
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AI summary
A speech server (SS) managing one or a plurality of pieces of speech terminal-specifying information (STSI) and user-specifying information (USI), each of pieces of STSI allowing a corresponding one of one or a plurality of speech terminals to be specified, USI being of a user who is capable of causing the corresponding one of the one or a plurality of speech terminals to output speech. The SS receives USI and transmit the one or a plurality of pieces of STSI associated with USI. The SS receives (i) STSI selected from the one or a plurality of pieces of STSI transmitted and (ii) speech information indicative of speech content to be outputted as speech. The SS instructs a speech terminal to output the speech content as speech, the speech terminal being identified among the one or a plurality of speech terminals by STSI received.