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US 2019/0163153 A1Published application
Enforcing dynamic volume thresholds of an entertainment device
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsDana L. Price, Shelbee Smith-Eigenbrode, Aaron J. Quirk, Lisa Seacat DeLuca
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Abstract
Machine logic (for example, software) for managing the nuisance level characteristic (for example, nuisance-level sound) of another user's electronic, media-connected device. The machine logic considers contextual information (such as where the user is presently located and whether it is appropriate for the user's device to be emanating a loud, nuisance level volume).
Claims20
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- receiving a set of request(s), respectively from a set of requesting device(s) respectively controlled by a set of requesting user(s), with each request of the set of request(s) including information indicative of a desire that a nuisance-causing characteristic of a target device, controlled by a target user, be decreased by respective requested amounts of decrease;
- receiving a contextual data set including information of a set of attribute(s) relating to a context in which the target device is exhibiting the nuisance-causing characteristic;
- responsive to the receipt of the set of request(s), applying a set of machine logic based rules to determine a negotiated compromise amount of decrease based upon the contextual data set, where the amount of decrease is:
- (i) greater than zero, and (ii) less than at least some of the request amount(s) of decrease;
- and
- decreasing, by machine logic, the nuisance-causing characteristic of the target device by negotiated compromise amount of decrease.
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A computer program product comprising:
- a machine readable storage device;
- and
- computer code stored on the machine readable storage device, with the computer code including instructions for causing a processor(s) set to perform operations including the following:
- receiving a set of request(s), respectively from a set of requesting device(s) respectively controlled by a set of requesting user(s), with each request of the set of request(s) including information indicative of a desire that a nuisance-causing characteristic of a target device, controlled by a target user, be decreased by respective requested amounts of decrease,
- receiving a contextual data set including information of a set of attribute(s) relating to a context in which the target device is exhibiting the nuisance-causing characteristic,
- responsive to the receipt of the set of request(s), applying a set of machine logic based rules to determine a negotiated compromise amount of decrease based upon the contextual data set, where the amount of decrease is:
- (i) greater than zero, and (ii) less than at least some of the request amount(s) of decrease, and
- decreasing, by machine logic, the nuisance-causing characteristic of the target device by negotiated compromise amount of decrease.
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A computer system comprising:
- a processor(s) set;
- a machine readable storage device;
- and
- computer code stored on the machine readable storage device, with the computer code including instructions for causing a processor(s) set to perform operations including the following:
- receiving a set of request(s), respectively from a set of requesting device(s) respectively controlled by a set of requesting user(s), with each request of the set of request(s) including information indicative of a desire that a nuisance-causing characteristic of a target device, controlled by a target user, be decreased by respective requested amounts of decrease,
- receiving a contextual data set including information of a set of attribute(s) relating to a context in which the target device is exhibiting the nuisance-causing characteristic,
- responsive to the receipt of the set of request(s), applying a set of machine logic based rules to determine a negotiated compromise amount of decrease based upon the contextual data set, where the amount of decrease is:
- (i) greater than zero, and (ii) less than at least some of the request amount(s) of decrease, and
- decreasing, by machine logic, the nuisance-causing characteristic of the target device by negotiated compromise amount of decrease.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.