Terminal Task Reminder Conflict Resolution via Time Adjustment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Electronic terminals face challenges in managing conflicts between multiple tasks scheduled at the same time and different locations, leading to missed appointments or tasks due to overlapping reminders.

Innovation Solution

The terminal extracts structured information from multiple screens to generate prompt messages, automatically adjusting task times to avoid conflicts by changing the first task's time when it intersects with the second task's time and location, ensuring no overlap.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the terminal recommends a reminder service for each piece of information without considering task execution time conflicts, then the user receives comprehensive task reminders, but the user may experience time conflicts when performing multiple tasks at different locations

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetask reminder reliabilityVSAvoiduser task execution ease

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The terminal performs preliminary analysis of task execution times and locations before generating reminders. It proactively detects potential time conflicts between multiple tasks and adjusts reminder times in advance to avoid overlaps, ensuring users receive non-conflicting task reminders without manual intervention.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system analyzes the user's task information, detects time conflicts, and adjusts reminder times based on this feedback. The terminal continuously monitors task schedules and modifies reminder generation strategies to eliminate time overlaps while maintaining comprehensive task coverage.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Productivity

If the terminal generates separate reminder services for each task, then all tasks are reminded, but time conflicts occur when tasks are scheduled at overlapping times with different locations

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetask reminder coverageVSAvoidtime conflict duration

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If the terminal automatically changes task reminder times to avoid conflicts, then time conflicts are eliminated, but user consent is required which adds operational steps

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveconflict-free task schedulingVSAvoidreminder modification convenience

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The terminal automatically analyzes task conflicts and adjusts reminder times without requiring user intervention. The system serves itself by autonomously detecting time overlaps, calculating adjusted reminder times, and generating modified reminders, thereby maintaining high reliability while preserving ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

4Loss of information

If the terminal extracts and analyzes multiple pieces of structured information from different screens, then comprehensive task information is obtained, but the complexity of information processing increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetask information completenessVSAvoidinformation processing complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The terminal employs a universal information extraction mechanism that handles multiple screen types and task formats through a single integrated process. The system uses unified extraction rules and conflict detection algorithms that work across different information sources, reducing processing complexity while maintaining comprehensive task information coverage.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS11237706B2Information processing method and terminal

Publication Date: 2022.02.01 HUAWEI TECH CO LTD

AI summary

A method includes: extracting first structured information from a first screen in response to a first operation performed by a user on the first screen, and generating a first prompt message based on the first structured information; extracting second structured information from a second screen in response to the first operation performed by the user on the second screen; and when the first time and the second time have an intersection, and the first address is different from the second address, automatically changing the first time in the first prompt message, so that a changed first time and the second time have no intersection.