Adaptive notification system based on contextual information

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2022028248-A1
Application number	US-201917309566-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Nov 25, 2019
Priority date	Dec 7, 2018
Publication date	Jan 27, 2022
Grant date	—

Abstract

Adaptive systems and methods for managing and delivering notifications to workers in a work environment are provided. The adaptive notification system receives and assesses contextual information to adjust notification configurations or to propose options or alternatives of adjustments to guide a user to adjust the notification configurations.

First claim

1 . A method of managing and delivering notifications to a worker in a work environment, the method comprising:
providing a current notification configuration to a notification system; receiving, via the notification system, contextual information including real-time information collected from one or more environmental sensors and user sensors; and assessing, via the notification system, the contextual information to determine adjustments to the current notification configuration.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising adjusting, via the notification system, the current notification configuration based on the assessment.

3 . The method of claim 2 , wherein the current notification configuration is adjusted to defer, redirect, broadcast, advance, amplify, reduce, or cancel one or more notifications.

4 . The method of claim 2 , further comprising adjusting the current notification configuration to be within the bounds of one or more pre-set policies.

5 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising generating, via the notification system, adjustment recommendations based on the assessment.

6 . The method of claim 5 , further comprising providing, via a user interface, the adjustment recommendations to a user.

7 . The method of claim 5 , further comprising receiving input from the user to adjust the current notification configuration.

8 . The method of claim 7 , further comprising generating safety notifications based on the further adjustment and delivering the safety notifications to the worker.

9 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising assessing user history data including history data of safety notifications sent to the worker, and history data of the worker responding to the safety notifications.

10 . The method of claim 1 , wherein assessing the contextual information includes implementing one or more machine learning algorithms.

11 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising providing a user interface (UI) to present a result of the assessment to a user.

12 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the user interface (UI) includes default settings reflecting the current notification configuration.

13 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the user interface (UI) further includes a dashboard to present the contextual information.

14 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the user interface (UI) further includes automatically generated adjustment recommendations.

15 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising providing a notification and response device to the worker, the device including one or more buttons allowing the worker to send a feedback to the notification system.

16 . (canceled)

17 . The method of claim 15 , wherein the notification and response device includes an alarm button.

18 . The method of claim 15 , wherein the notification and response device includes a first button to accept a notification and a second button to request adjustment of the notification.

19 . (canceled)

20 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising directing, via a message initiation component (MIC), a user's notification to the worker, overriding the adjustments to the current notification configuration.

21 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving an alarm notification initiated by the worker, and broadcasting, via the notification system, the alarm notification to a selected group of receivers based on their respective states.

22 . A safety notification system embodied on a computer-readable storage medium, comprising:
a data interface component to receive first contextual information from one or more environmental sensors and user sensors and second contextual information from one or more wearable notification and response devices; an assessing component to assess the first and second contextual information to determine whether to adjust current safety notification configurations; an adjusting component to adjust at least some of the current safety notification configurations based on the contextual information to generate adjustment recommendations; a user interface to present the adjustment recommendations to a user and receive and send the user's instructions to the assessing component and the adjusting component to generate a notification; and a delivery component to deliver the notification to the wearable notification and response devices.

Assignees

• 3M Innovative Properties Co

Inventors

• Kruse John M
• Sjolund Lori A
• Shuman Vera

Classifications

• G08B27/001

  Signalling to an emergency team, e.g. firemen · CPC title

• G08B21/0453

  worn on the body to detect health condition by physiological monitoring, e.g. electrocardiogram, temperature, breathing (detecting, measuring or recording for diagnostic purposes A61B5/00) · CPC title

• G08B21/04

  responsive to non-activity, e.g. of elderly persons (G08B21/06 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06Q10/06 Primary

  Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling · CPC title

• Y02P90/30

  Computing systems specially adapted for manufacturing · CPC title