Wristwatch Communication Reminder Filtering by Contact Priority

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing smartwatch systems often interrupt users with frequent reminders for incoming calls and messages, lacking effective filtering capabilities to distinguish between important and unimportant communications.

Innovation Solution

A communication reminding system that allows users to select specific contact persons for reminders, using a mobile terminal to filter incoming calls and messages and transmit prompt signals to a wearable device, which then provides tailored alerts based on user preferences.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If the smartwatch provides frequent reminders for all incoming calls and messages, then the user is informed of all communications, but the user is interrupted frequently and the user experience deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication reminder completenessVSAvoiduser experience
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the communication reminder function by contact person categories. Users can select specific categories (e.g., family, friends, colleagues) to receive reminders, rather than receiving uniform reminders for all contacts. This segmentation allows the system to provide complete information for important contacts while filtering out less important ones, resolving the contradiction between completeness and user experience.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies local quality by allowing different reminder settings for different contact persons or categories. Each contact category can have customized reminder preferences, enabling the system to provide high-quality (detailed) reminders for important contacts while using low-quality (filtered or simplified) reminders for less important contacts, thus improving overall user experience while maintaining necessary completeness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Loss of information

If the smartwatch provides reminders for all incoming communications, then no important communication is missed, but the frequency of interruptions increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication information completenessVSAvoiduser time lost to interruptions
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements preliminary action by having users pre-select contact person categories before receiving communications. This advance configuration allows the system to automatically filter and prioritize reminders based on pre-established criteria, ensuring that important communications are captured while minimizing unnecessary interruptions, thus reducing time loss without sacrificing information completeness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides feedback mechanisms that allow users to adjust reminder settings based on their actual usage patterns and interruption tolerance. By monitoring which reminders are useful and which are not, the system can refine its filtering criteria over time, optimizing the balance between information completeness and interruption frequency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS10257335B2Wristwatch, mobile terminal, and communication reminding system and method
Publication Date: 2019.04.09 PRINCO CORP
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AI summary

A contact person selecting interface is provided on a mobile terminal for a user. Using such an interface, the user can select one or more contact persons that are desired to transmit reminders. When receiving an incoming call or a new message, the mobile terminal determines whether a person sending the incoming call or the new message is selected by the user. If yes, the mobile terminal makes a wearable device give out a prompt message for remaindering the user. In such a way, it is convenient for the user to trace important calls or messages.