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[Zisu Andrei <matzipan@xxxxxxxxx>]

I guess this spec has enough features to move from a "Setting" to an App.

Zisu Andrei


On 26 June 2013 17:00, Randall Ross <randall@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 13-06-26 04:00 AM, Zisu Andrei wrote:
> >
> >     There's no idea in Randall's email.  If a user doesn't want to be
> >     disturbed by incoming calls, he should mute his phone.  The essay
> >     in the link complained that his phone showed 20 missed calls.  In
> >     that case, the user should activate airplane mode.
> >
> >
> >     Randall's stated goal is that he doesn't want others to call him
> >     on the phone unless they've scheduled in advance, and the way you
> >     enforce that is to turn on your phone 5 minutes before the
> >     scheduled time.
> >
> >
> > I'm honestly not sure you understand the use case.
> >
> > What Randall and the essay guy are proposing is to have a list of
> >  accepted contacts for a certain phone profile. Say I'm at work, I
> > only want to recieve calls from my girlfriend and mum and maybe some
> > call that that I have scheduled in my calendar. All the the others can
> > be either rejected, or rejected and smsd or something.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure I saw that on my dad's old Nokia (6303, Symbian).
> >
> >
> >
> > Zisu Andrei
>
> Yes, this clarifies the use case I was attempting to describe. Thank you
> Zisu!
>
> To add more detail:
>
> 1) The phone remains on, always. Though convenient from an
> implementation/programming standpoint, I'm not interested in the no
> phone, or phone off "solutions". I have that now.
>
> 2) The phone "knows" who can interrupt me with an inbound call, and who
> cannot. Scheduled people can obviously interrupt me, and so can a list
> of people that are appropriate for my current location/context. Some
> examples:
>
>     a) I'm at work. My customer (boss) and some immediate project/team
> members can interrupt me. Friends and other contacts cannot.
>
>     b) I'm taking public transit. No interruptions are allowed as I
> cannot have a meaningful (or private) discussion on a crowded train.
>
>     c) I'm on a forced "no contact with work" vacation (banks do this to
> help prevent fraud). Anyone with a work context may not interrupt me,
> but others may.
>
>     d) I'm at UDS (or vUDS) and hosting an important session. A relative
> is having surgery at the same time. I want no interruptions except if
> its an emergency.
>
>     e) I never want to take a call from a person who is stalking me.
>
> Without getting into a detailed design, I can envision the phone taking
> cues about context from:
>
>   i) GPS (Where am i? How fast is my position changing? Am I at an
> unusually high altitude?)
>
>   ii) My calendar (am i scheduled to have a call with someone now, or
> soon?)
>
>   iii) Parameters in my contacts list (Is this person on a list that
> permits them to interrupt me? e.g. sabdfl always has that privilege.)
>
>   iv) Voice recognition (e.g. Similar to the way call-screening works on
> voice mail, the person needs to say the nature of the call, and voice is
> pattern-matched to determine who it is before sounding the ring tone)
>
> I hope this clarifies further.
>
> Cheers,
> Randall.
>
>
>
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