Wearable Audio Router for Non-Primary Alert Delivery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current devices and methods for notification and alert systems, such as headphones and public address systems, fail to effectively communicate alerts and messages through non-primary channels, lacking the ability to encode and decode data for synchronized transmission and user-generated responses, which is crucial for emergency situations and group communications.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that utilize wearable devices with integrated logical audio routers to manage non-primary communication channels, enabling alerts, notifications, and messages to be sent and responded to through secondary channels, allowing for simultaneous communication on multiple media types, including voice, text, and vibrations, even in noisy environments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If headphones are used to optimize hearing performance for game interaction with noise cancellation, then hearing performance for game interaction is improved, but external communication and alert detection become impossible or muffled
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the audio communication channel into multiple independent channels: a primary channel for game audio and a secondary channel for alerts and communications. The system divides the notification function into separate components including vibration motors, visual displays, and audio outputs that can operate independently from the primary audio channel, allowing users to receive alerts without compromising game audio immersion.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary notification system that mediates between external alerts and the user. This intermediary system includes vibration motors, visual displays, and secondary audio channels that translate external notifications into forms compatible with the user's current activity, allowing alert delivery without direct interference with the primary audio channel or requiring the user to remove headphones.
2Reliability
If a notification system interrupts the primary audio channel to deliver alerts, then alert delivery is ensured, but game play is interrupted and other players are disturbed
Solution Approach 1:
The notification system is segmented into independent delivery methods including vibration, visual display, and secondary audio channel. This segmentation allows the system to deliver alerts through multiple independent pathways without interrupting the primary audio channel, maintaining game play continuity while ensuring alert reliability through multi-modal delivery.
Solution Approach 2:
The system employs periodic vibration patterns and pulsing visual displays to convey alert information without continuous interruption. The periodic nature of these notifications allows users to perceive alerts at intervals that do not significantly disrupt game flow, while still ensuring reliable delivery of critical information through repeated or escalating patterns.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple groups communicate simultaneously through shared channels, then group communication is enabled, but communication between groups interferes with each other
Solution Approach 1:
The communication system is segmented into multiple independent logical channels, each dedicated to a specific group or communication type. This channel segmentation allows multiple groups to communicate simultaneously without interference, as each group's communications are confined to its designated channel. The system manages these segmented channels through centralized routing that prevents cross-contamination of communication streams.
Solution Approach 2:
The notification and communication system is designed with universal multi-functionality to handle diverse communication requirements. It can simultaneously manage game audio, alert notifications, inter-group communications, and individual messages through a unified platform that dynamically allocates resources across multiple functions and groups, enabling versatile communication without requiring separate dedicated systems for each function.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for delivering alerts, notifications and messages, to and, if configured, responses from one to many users wearing technology designed for single and/or multiple media types, utilizing one to many non-primary communication pathways enabled are contemplated in which (a) a primary communication channel pathway, (b) a primary or non-primary control channel(s) is established, by wireless receiver and/or wired connection to a group of users, that (b) then allows an activation method type to provide an alert/notification/message method to one-to-many persons (i.e., users) and/or, one-to-many devices in an addressable manner that establishes a non-primary communication channel path that is parallel and unknown to the primary communication channel path. The overall method relates to a router function and media delivery routing technology that are actively listening on a primary communication/control pathway or a non-primary control channel.