Terminal Device Speed-Based Communication Reminder Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

When a mobile phone or similar device is in a vehicle mode, reminders for incoming calls, messages, and other communications can distract the user while driving, posing a safety risk due to the need to attend to them immediately.

Innovation Solution

A data processing method and terminal device that disable reminders for communications services if the device exceeds a certain speed, enabling them only when the speed decreases below a preset value, thereby preventing user distraction during high-speed activities like driving.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If reminders are enabled for communications services, then users can be informed of incoming calls and messages, but user distraction occurs during vehicle driving

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication service notificationVSAvoiduser distraction
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The reminder function dynamically changes its state based on the detected speed of the terminal device. When speed exceeds the first threshold, reminders are disabled; when speed drops to or below the second threshold, reminders are enabled. This dynamic adaptation resolves the contradiction by making the notification system responsive to the user's motion state.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the operational parameter of the reminder function based on speed parameter thresholds. By monitoring speed and comparing it against predefined thresholds, the system transitions the reminder state between enabled and disabled, effectively managing the trade-off between notification reliability and user safety.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Object-affected harmful factors

If reminders are disabled during high-speed movement, then user safety is improved, but communication service notifications are delayed

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser safetyVSAvoidnotification delay
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-affected harmful factorsVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by recording communication services that arrive when reminders are disabled. These recorded services are stored in advance and will be notified once the speed condition allows, preventing permanent loss of notification while maintaining safety during high-speed movement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The recording function acts as an intermediary between the disabled reminder state and the user. Instead of directly losing notifications during disabled periods, the system mediates by storing them and delivering them when appropriate, thus bridging the gap between safety requirements and notification needs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Ease of operation

If the terminal device constantly monitors speed to control reminders, then notification timing is optimized, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveautomatic reminder controlVSAvoidspeed monitoring and control logic
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The terminal device performs self-service by automatically monitoring its own speed and autonomously controlling the reminder function based on predefined thresholds. This eliminates the need for manual user intervention while maintaining relatively simple control logic through straightforward threshold comparison.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUSRE49590E1Data processing method and terminal device
Publication Date: 2023.07.25 HONOR DEVICE CO LTD
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AI summary

A data processing method and a terminal device, where the method includes obtaining a speed of the terminal device, receiving a first communications service, disabling a preset reminder of the first communications service when the speed of the terminal device exceeds a first preset value, and enabling the preset reminder of the first communications service when the speed of the terminal device decreases to a second preset value, where the second preset value is less than or equal to the first preset value. The data processing method and the terminal device are used for a user reminder of a terminal device in a vehicle mode.