To-Do List Generation via Behavior Analysis and Server Mediation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face challenges in effectively managing their to-do lists due to complex behavior patterns across various devices and service providing servers, making it difficult to determine and notify unperformed tasks.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that utilize a device and server to collect behavior information, generate a to-do list, and determine unperformed tasks by analyzing operations and relations between detailed operations, with notification features providing reasons for unperformed tasks.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If the system collects and analyzes detailed behavior information across multiple devices and servers, then the accuracy of determining unperformed tasks is improved, but the device complexity and data processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaccuracy of determining unperformed tasksVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a server as an intermediary component that centralizes the collection, storage, and analysis of behavior information from multiple devices. This mediator handles the complex data processing tasks, allowing the mobile terminal to focus on user interaction while the server manages the analytical workload, thus resolving the contradiction between measurement precision and device complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system divides the to-do list management functionality into distinct modules: behavior information collection, task generation, task status determination, and notification. Each module operates independently but contributes to the overall system, allowing complex functions to be broken down into manageable segments that can be processed efficiently

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Reliability

If the system monitors detailed operations and relations between operations to determine task completion, then the reliability of task status determination is improved, but the loss of time for data collection and analysis increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvereliability of task status determinationVSAvoidtime for data collection and analysis
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by continuously collecting and storing behavior information in advance, so that when task status determination is needed, the data is already available for immediate analysis. This eliminates the need for real-time data collection during the determination process, thus maintaining high reliability without significant time loss

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where the server continuously monitors device operations and provides updated information about task completion status. This feedback loop allows the system to maintain accurate task status determination by comparing actual device operations against the defined task operations, resolving the contradiction between reliability and time consumption

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Ease of operation

If the system provides comprehensive notification information including reasons for unperformed tasks, then the ease of operation for users is improved, but the quantity of information processed and transmitted increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser understanding of task statusVSAvoidquantity of notification information
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The notification system applies local quality by providing different levels of information detail based on user needs and context. The server analyzes which specific reasons are most relevant to each unperformed task and provides targeted explanations rather than generic notifications, thus improving user understanding without unnecessarily increasing information quantity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS20250094934A1System and method of providing to-do list of user
Publication Date: 2025.03.20 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

A device and a method of providing a to-do list of a user are provided. The device includes a controller configured to collect behavior information about behavior between the user and another user, the behavior being performed by using the device, generate a to-do list of the user based on the collected behavior information, and determine an unperformed task not performed by the user from among at least one task in the to-do list by using log information about an operation of the device, and an output unit configured to output notification information in a dialogue style, along with a notification reason for notifying the determined unperformed task.