Task Prioritization via User Profile Associations
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mobile devices lack control over task prioritization and have limited screen space, resulting in an inefficient display of tasks compared to larger computing platforms.
Innovation Solution
A system that associates user profiles with content sources, ranks tasks based on user interactions, and displays a prioritized list on mobile devices, ensuring only relevant tasks are shown, enhancing user efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If all tasks are displayed on mobile device screen, then complete task list is presented, but screen space is exceeded and user interface becomes cluttered
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and displays only the most relevant tasks on the mobile device screen based on user profile associations with content sources. Tasks are filtered and prioritized so that only high-priority items appear in the limited screen space, while less important tasks are excluded from the primary view.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies different display priorities to different tasks based on their association strength with user profiles. High-priority tasks associated with frequently accessed content sources are displayed prominently, while low-priority tasks are minimized or hidden, creating a differentiated display quality across the task list.
2Ease of operation
If task prioritization is implemented, then relevant tasks are highlighted, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically prioritizes tasks by comparing content source associations with user profiles without requiring manual user intervention. The prioritization is performed autonomously based on pre-established association data, eliminating the need for users to manually sort or categorize tasks.
Solution Approach 2:
User profile associations with content sources are established in advance before task prioritization is needed. This preliminary setup of association data enables rapid automatic prioritization when tasks are received, avoiding complex real-time analysis.
3Area of stationary object
If limited screen space is utilized, then mobile device portability is maintained, but task visibility and completeness are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The most critical task information is extracted and displayed on the mobile screen, while less important details are omitted from the primary view. This selective extraction ensures that essential task visibility is maintained within screen constraints.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from displaying all tasks in a single dimension (screen space) to a hierarchical structure where high-priority tasks are displayed in the first dimension (screen) and lower-priority tasks are organized in a second dimension (prioritized list beyond current view).
Data Source
AI summary
Techniques for providing a prioritized task list to a mobile device including identifying a user profile in a portal that includes one or more associations between the user profile, associated with a user, and one or more content sources; comparing, for each task of one or more tasks, the content source associated with the task and the associations stored by the user profile, the content sources providing the tasks; ranking, based on the comparison, the tasks to define a ranked list of tasks; and preparing a subset of the ranked list of tasks for display on the mobile device.