Cross-Device Animation Sync for Personal Assistant Displays
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing operator control systems for personal assistants in vehicles and mobile devices lack the ability to seamlessly synchronize and update graphical elements across different appliances, requiring users to retrain the personal assistant on each device and leading to inefficiencies and fragmented user experiences.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that utilizes a control device to establish intended use of multiple appliances, synchronize status data of a graphical element, and transmit animation data sets between display devices via a server apparatus, ensuring consistent and updated graphical elements across different devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a personal assistant is implemented on each appliance separately, then each appliance can operate independently, but the graphical elements and personal assistant data become fragmented across devices requiring retraining on each device
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the personal assistant data and graphical element definitions into a centralized cloud-based repository that all appliances access. This merging approach maintains independent appliance operation while ensuring consistent access to the same personal assistant data and graphical elements across all devices, eliminating the need for retraining on each device.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal personal assistant system that functions across multiple different appliance types (vehicle, mobile device, smart home device). By using a common data structure and graphical element definition that can be accessed by any appliance, the system achieves multi-functionality while maintaining data consistency and avoiding fragmentation.
2Reliability
If graphical elements are updated on one appliance, then the personal assistant remains current on that device, but other appliances continue using outdated versions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-defining graphical elements and their animations in a centralized repository with standardized data structures. When updates are needed, the system can quickly distribute these pre-prepared updates to all appliances simultaneously, eliminating the need for time-consuming sequential synchronization across devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a cloud-based server as an intermediary between appliances and the personal assistant data. This intermediary receives updates, processes them into the standardized format, and distributes them to all connected appliances, enabling efficient simultaneous updates across multiple devices without direct appliance-to-appliance communication.
3Speed
If each appliance stores its own copy of the personal assistant database, then access is fast and offline, but data redundancy increases and consistency across devices deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by implementing a hybrid storage approach where the complete personal assistant database is stored centrally in the cloud, but essential frequently-accessed data is cached locally on each appliance. This allows fast offline access to critical functions while maintaining data consistency through selective local storage, reducing overall redundancy while preserving speed.
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AI summary
In an example, a digital animation of a graphical element may be provided by a control device that establishes a first display device having a display element, which display device may be used by a user at a first time, establishes the user's intention to use a structurally separate second display device and establishes the second display device. When establishing the intended use, the control device may ascertain status data and store the status data on a storage medium of a server apparatus. The status data describes the graphical element and/or its digital animation at the first time, which is before the first display device is changed by the user. The control device may provide an animation data set including the status data stored on the server apparatus, and transmit the animation data set at a second time to the second display device.