Wearable Status Feedback for Communication Terminals
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users often have to manually switch between different modes on their terminal devices, leading to incomplete feedback for callers or senders, especially in emergency situations where 'Do-Not-Disturb' or 'Airplane' modes are activated, resulting in difficulties in reaching the user.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that utilize a wearable device to determine a user's current status and transmit this information as a broadcast packet to a terminal device, allowing for accurate feedback operations, such as withholding or indicating calls/messages based on the user's status, thereby improving user experience and preventing disturbances.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a terminal device manually switches between working modes (e.g., Do-Not-Disturb, Airplane mode), then the user can control disturbance levels and connectivity, but the caller or sender receives incomplete information and cannot determine whether the user is intentionally unavailable or merely busy
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the terminal device automatically sends status information to the caller or sender. When the user switches to Do-Not-Disturb or Airplane mode, the system detects this state change and automatically transmits a notification message to the other party, providing real-time feedback about the user's availability status without requiring manual intervention.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service by automatically detecting the user's working mode status and generating appropriate feedback messages without requiring the user to manually notify callers. The terminal device monitors its own state changes and autonomously communicates these changes to the other party, eliminating the need for manual mode switching notifications.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If the terminal device provides no feedback to callers during special modes, then the user maintains privacy and avoids disturbances, but the caller cannot determine if the user is intentionally unavailable or merely busy, leading to repeated calling attempts
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by differentiating the feedback provided based on the specific working mode. When in Do-Not-Disturb mode, the system sends a specific notification indicating the user is busy but reachable. When in Airplane mode, it sends a different notification indicating complete unavailability. This localized feedback approach provides appropriate information to callers while maintaining the user's desired level of privacy and disturbance avoidance for each mode.
3Productivity
If the terminal device repeatedly calls the user without status information, then the caller persists in attempting to reach the user, but this may be unnecessary if the user is intentionally unavailable due to emergency or privacy settings
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by sending status information to the caller before the caller attempts repeated calls. When the terminal device detects that the user has switched to a special working mode, it proactively notifies the caller of the user's availability status, allowing the caller to make an informed decision about whether to continue calling attempts, thereby avoiding unnecessary time loss from repeated calls.
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AI summary
Methods and apparatuses for providing feedback information to a second terminal, to avoid disturbance of data directed to a user associated with a first terminal. The method includes receiving data directed to the user associated with the first terminal, transmitting a request for a current status of the user to the wearable device, receiving broadcast packets, wherein the broadcast packets comprises an identifier of the wearable device and the current status of the user, based on the identifier of the wearable device, determining whether the wearable device has been paired with the first terminal, and if so, executing, at the first terminal, at least one feedback operation directed to the second terminal using the current status of the user to indicate the current status of the user.