Wireless Device User Profiling via Remote Server Mediation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing wireless communication devices lack the ability to adequately profile users and adjust functionality based on individual preferences, relying on rudimentary algorithms that conserve limited resources but fail to provide significant customization.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that gathers user data from physical interaction and other sources to generate user profiles, such as psychological or medical diagnoses, allowing wireless communication devices to alter their functionality and UI configurations accordingly, enabling personalized user experiences across a wireless network.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Use of energy by moving object
If rudimentary algorithms are used to predict user desire, then device resources are conserved, but user preference profiling capability is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary server that handles complex user profiling and algorithm execution remotely. The wireless device collects user interaction data and transmits it to the server, which performs the computationally intensive profile generation and returns simplified results. This mediator approach allows the device to achieve advanced profiling capability without consuming excessive local resources.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the user profiling functionality into two parts: data collection at the device level and complex processing at the server level. This division allows the device to maintain resource efficiency while the server provides the computational power needed for sophisticated user preference analysis and profile generation.
2Measurement precision
If complex algorithms are implemented to profile users, then user preference accuracy is improved, but device resources are depleted
Solution Approach 1:
The server acts as an intermediary that handles all complex algorithmic processing for user profiling. The wireless device simply collects interaction data and receives processed profiles, avoiding the need to implement complex algorithms locally while still benefiting from high-accuracy user preference prediction.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical approach of running complex algorithms directly on the device with a network-based solution where the server performs computational tasks. This substitution transfers the algorithmic complexity from the device to the server infrastructure, enabling accurate profiling without depleting device resources.
3Measurement precision
If user data is collected from multiple sources, then profile accuracy is improved, but data privacy concerns increase
Solution Approach 1:
The server serves as a secure intermediary that receives, processes, and stores user data from multiple sources. By centralizing data handling on a secure server rather than scattering it across devices, the system can collect comprehensive data for accurate profiling while implementing centralized security measures and user consent management to protect privacy.
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AI summary
A system, method, and wireless communication device that profiles a user thereof, or a user at a second wireless communication device in communication therewith. The wireless communication device gathers user data for a user thereof, or from a user at a second wireless communication device, and either directly generates, or has generated elsewhere, a user profile, such as a personality or psychological profile, or medical diagnosis of the user, and can display the user profile to the user and/or alter the wireless communication device functionality based upon the user profile. The gathered user data can be from physical user interaction with the wireless communication device, or from other equipment resident at the wireless communication device, such as a camera and medical diagnostic devices.