Modifying Temporally Dependent Content in Delayed Communications
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modern electronic devices face issues with processing and communicating user inputs containing temporally dependent content elements, leading to delays and loss of meaning due to network outages, congestion, or other impediments, which can result in incorrect or misleading information for recipients.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating processors in wireless communication devices that detect communication delays and modify temporally dependent content elements based on the duration of the delay to maintain the accuracy and relevance of messages, ensuring timely delivery of information even when initial transmission is delayed.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the device waits for network availability to transmit the electronic communication, then the communication can be delivered successfully, but the temporally dependent content elements lose their meaning and accuracy
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary identification and monitoring of temporally dependent content elements before transmission delay occurs. The processor detects the presence of such elements and begins monitoring the transmission status in advance, preparing to modify them if a delay is detected.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the temporal parameters of the content elements by modifying time-sensitive information based on the actual transmission delay duration. This ensures the communicated time information remains accurate and meaningful despite the delay.
2Loss of information
If the device transmits the electronic communication immediately, then the temporally dependent content elements remain accurate, but network issues may cause delivery failures
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback by monitoring transmission status and detecting when the communication cannot be delivered. Based on this feedback, the processor automatically modifies the temporally dependent content elements to reflect the actual delivery time, maintaining accuracy despite delays.
3Loss of information
If the device monitors and modifies temporally dependent content elements during transmission delays, then the accuracy of messages is maintained, but the processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs self-service by automatically detecting transmission delays and modifying its own output content without external intervention. The processor autonomously identifies delayed communications and adjusts the temporal content elements based on monitored delay duration.
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AI summary
An electronic device includes a wireless communication circuit and one or more processors. The one or more processors are operable to the one or more processors to detect an inability of the wireless communication circuit to transmit an electronic communication that includes one or more temporally dependent content elements. When this occurs, the one or more processors monitor a duration during which the wireless communication circuit is unable to transmit the electronic communication. Later the one or more processors alter the one or more temporally dependent content elements as a function of the duration to obtain a modified electronic communication, which is transmitted from the wireless communication circuit.