Unified Notification API Decoupling Data Sources from Delivery Modalities
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current speech processing systems lack the ability to decouple data sources' capability to send data from their ability to perform actions, leading to potential over-notification of users, and require data sources to integrate with multiple APIs for different notification modalities, which is inefficient.
Innovation Solution
A system that decouples data sources' ability to send data from their ability to perform actions, allowing the system to determine how to send content to users based on user preferences and presence detection, using a unified API that supports various notification modalities without requiring data sources to integrate with multiple APIs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If data sources integrate with multiple APIs for different notification modalities, then they can send notifications through various channels, but the integration complexity and time increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple notification modality APIs into a single unified API interface. Data sources interact with one standardized API that handles multiple notification types (push notifications, emails, SMS, etc.) internally, eliminating the need to integrate with multiple separate APIs while maintaining full versatility across notification channels
Solution Approach 2:
The unified API is designed with universal functionality to handle diverse notification modalities through a single interface. The API accepts standardized requests and automatically routes them to appropriate notification channels, providing multi-functionality without requiring data sources to specialize in each modality
2Ease of operation
If data sources directly send notifications to users, then they can control the notification process, but users experience over-notification and loss of control
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary notification service between data sources and users. This mediator receives notification requests, applies user preferences and presence detection logic, and determines whether and how to deliver notifications. This intermediary layer protects users from over-notification while maintaining ease of operation for data sources
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where user preferences, presence status, and notification history are continuously monitored and fed back into the notification routing logic. This feedback loop enables dynamic adjustment of notification delivery based on current user state, preventing over-notification while preserving user control
3Productivity
If the system uses a unified API to determine notification methods, then scalability improves, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system architecture is segmented into distinct modular components: a standardized API interface layer, a notification routing service layer with preference detection logic, and multiple notification delivery channels. This segmentation allows each component to be developed, maintained, and scaled independently, improving overall system scalability while managing complexity through clear separation of concerns
Data Source
AI summary
Techniques for decoupling data, sent by a data source, from how the data is sent to a user by a system are described. A system may include an application program interface (API) that enables a data source to simply provide data. The system may determine whether and how to send the data to a user(s) as a notification. The system may determine a modality by which to send the notification to the user. The system may use presence data to determine which device should be used to output the notification to the user. The system may cause the device to output the notification to the user using the modality.