Biometric Setting Prioritization for Unauthenticated Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
In small or medium-sized organizations, lack of manpower often leads to inadequate user authentication for information processing apparatuses, resulting in unclassified setting information being displayed, making it difficult for users to find specific settings created by different users.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus that uses biological information from wearable terminals to prioritize and display setting information associated with the same biological data, allowing users to easily find desired settings without the need for user authentication.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If user authentication is not performed to allow anyone in the organization to use the information processing apparatus, then ease of operation is improved, but setting information from different users is displayed in a mixed manner making it difficult to locate specific settings
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces biological information (such as fingerprints, facial recognition data, or iris patterns) as an intermediary to identify and distinguish users without requiring traditional authentication procedures. This intermediary enables the system to automatically associate setting information with the correct user, maintaining information organization and ease of location while allowing unrestricted access to the apparatus.
2Device complexity
If setting information from different users is displayed in a mixed manner without classification, then device complexity is reduced, but time to locate desired setting information increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary classification of setting information by associating each piece of setting information with biological information obtained when the user created or last modified it. This preliminary organization occurs in the background without user intervention, so when a user accesses the apparatus, their relevant settings are already prioritized and easily locatable, eliminating the need for manual classification while reducing search time.
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AI summary
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: obtain, after communication with a wearable terminal is established, biological information regarding a user who wears the wearable terminal from the wearable terminal; extract, as first setting information from plural pieces of setting information, where operation attributes of functions are set prior to execution of the functions, associated with biological information obtained when the plural pieces of setting information were created, a piece of setting information associated with same biological information as newly obtained biological information; and display the extracted first setting information on a display while giving priority to the first setting information over other pieces of setting information.