Wireless Audio Device Connection List Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
In environments with multiple audio source devices, electronic devices often fail to establish a wireless communication connection to the desired device, requiring separate user manipulations for each connection.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device with a processor, communication circuit, and memory that identifies wireless communication events, selects between two lists of potential connections, establishes a connection to the desired external device, and outputs signals through a speaker, allowing automatic connection to the user's preferred audio source.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the electronic device automatically establishes a wireless communication connection to a previously connected audio source device, then the ease of operation is improved, but the device may connect to the wrong device in multi-device environments
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic selection between two wireless communication connection lists (first list from the electronic device and second list from the counterpart device) based on the current environment. The system automatically switches between using the first wireless communication connection list and the second wireless communication connection list depending on which list contains the desired audio source device, thereby adapting to multi-device environments while maintaining automatic connection functionality.
2Device complexity
If the electronic device uses a single wireless communication connection list for automatic connection, then the device complexity is reduced, but the adaptability to different connection scenarios deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the wireless communication connection system universal by incorporating two different wireless communication connection lists (first list from the electronic device and second list from the counterpart electronic device). This allows the system to function effectively in both single-device and multi-device environments, as well as in scenarios where either device maintains the connection information, thereby achieving multi-functionality without significantly increasing complexity.
3Reliability
If the electronic device requires separate user manipulation for each wireless communication connection, then the reliability of connection to desired device is improved, but the ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary actions by pre-storing wireless communication connection lists in both the electronic device and the counterpart electronic device. These lists contain previously connected audio source devices, allowing the system to automatically identify and connect to the desired device without requiring real-time user input. The connection lists are prepared in advance, enabling seamless automatic connection while ensuring reliability through pre-validated connection information.
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a speaker, a communication circuit, a processor operably connected to the speaker and the communication circuit, and a memory operably connected to the processor, wherein the memory stores instructions for causing the processor, when executed, to identify a first wireless communication connection event, when the first wireless communication connection event is identified, select one wireless communication connection list from among a first wireless communication connection list of the electronic device and a second wireless communication connection list of a counterpart electronic device, identify, from the selected wireless communication connection list, an external electronic device for which a wireless communication connection is to be established, establish a wireless communication connection to the external electronic device identified from the selected wireless communication connection list, and output, through the speaker, a signal received from the identified external electronic device. Various embodiments are possible.