Context-Aware Audio Peripheral Selection via Location Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Computing devices often fail to maintain user preferences for audio peripheral devices across sessions, leading to inefficient selection and communication of audio signals, as they rely on 'set and forget' methodologies and require docking stations for preference implementation.
Innovation Solution
A computing device determines its location based on network connections and uses historical data, including calendar and schedule information, to predict and set a default audio peripheral device, employing neural networks for accurate selection and communication of audio signals without the need for constant user input or docking.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If computing devices use 'set and forget' methodology for audio peripheral devices, then device configuration is simple, but user preferences are not maintained across sessions
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by detecting audio peripheral devices and storing user preferences before sessions end. The computing device proactively identifies available devices, learns user selections, and prepares preference data for future sessions, ensuring preferences are maintained without requiring reconfiguration.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where user selections of audio peripheral devices are captured and stored. The computed device learns from user feedback across multiple sessions, adapting to preferred device choices and maintaining these preferences automatically in subsequent sessions.
2Reliability
If docking stations are used to implement user preferences, then preference storage is achieved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The computing device performs self-service by autonomously detecting audio peripheral devices, storing user preferences locally, and automatically applying preferred devices in subsequent sessions. This eliminates the need for external docking stations to manage preferences, as the computing device independently handles preference detection, storage, and implementation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the preference management functionality from external docking stations and integrates it directly into the computing device. By taking out the preference storage and management capabilities from separate hardware and embedding them in the computing device's memory and processing units, the system reduces dependency on additional hardware while maintaining preference reliability.
3Measurement precision
If constant user input is required for audio peripheral selection, then selection accuracy is high, but user convenience decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary device detection and preference learning during initial sessions, storing the user's selected audio peripheral devices in memory. In subsequent sessions, the computing device automatically retrieves and applies these stored preferences without requiring constant user input, achieving both accuracy and convenience.
Solution Approach 2:
The computing device provides self-service by automatically selecting audio peripheral devices based on previously learned user preferences. The system autonomously detects available devices, retrieves stored preference data, and configures audio output without requiring continuous user interaction, maintaining high selection accuracy while improving convenience.
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AI summary
An example computing device includes a plurality of interfaces to connect to a plurality of audio peripheral devices, a communications interface to establish a network connection, and a processor interconnected with the plurality of interfaces and the communications interface. The processor is to determine a location of the computing device based on the network connection. The processor sets an audio peripheral device from the plurality of the audio peripheral devices as a default audio peripheral device based on the location. The processor communicates an audio signal through the default audio peripheral device.