Unified Timeline Interface for Event Data Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of personal electronic devices face inefficiencies when trying to access and manage information for scheduling events, as they often need to navigate multiple applications and screens, leading to resource wastage and increased user interaction.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for generating and presenting user-specific timeline-based data, which collects location, application use, and activity data to detect observed events, store planned events, predict future events, and display them on a timeline user interface, reducing the need for extensive user interaction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users navigate multiple applications and screens to access information for scheduling events, then users can access required information, but user interaction time increases and device resources are wasted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple data sources (calendar events, location data, sensor data, application usage data) into a single unified timeline interface. This merging eliminates the need for users to navigate between multiple applications and screens, as all relevant information is presented in one consolidated view, directly reducing user interaction time while maintaining ease of access.
Solution Approach 2:
The timeline interface serves multiple functions simultaneously: it displays scheduled events, shows detected observed events, presents predicted events, and provides navigation assistance. This multi-functionality allows users to access diverse information types through a single interface, reducing the time required to switch between applications while preserving comprehensive access to needed information.
2Ease of operation
If users navigate multiple applications and screens to access information for scheduling events, then users can access required information, but device resource consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
By merging multiple data streams and functions into a single timeline interface, the system reduces the need to launch and switch between multiple applications. This consolidation decreases device resource consumption by minimizing background processes, reducing memory usage, and lowering CPU activity associated with managing multiple open applications while maintaining full information access capability.
3Loss of information
If the system collects and processes multiple types of data to generate timeline information, then the system can provide comprehensive event information, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the complex data processing system into distinct functional modules: a data collection module that gathers raw data from multiple sources, an event detection module that identifies observed events, a prediction module that forecasts future events, and a display module that presents information in the timeline interface. This segmentation manages system complexity by organizing functions into separate, manageable components while maintaining comprehensive information processing capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The timeline interface acts as an intermediary layer between the complex backend data processing systems and the user. It consolidates and standardizes information from multiple data sources into a unified presentation format, shielding users from the underlying system complexity while delivering comprehensive event information. The intermediary structure allows complex processing to occur in the background without increasing perceived user-facing complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, devices and computer readable media for interacting with a generated timeline user interface on an electronic device (ED) are provided. The method includes receiving, for a user associated with the electronic device, a user input in respect of an event corresponding to an event record stored in a timeline user database associated with the timeline user interface, generating a set of predefined actions for the event, based on the corresponding event record; and performing one or more actions of the set of predefined actions, on the electronic device.