Centralized Lighting Module for Cross-Brand Peripheral Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
The proprietary nature of OEM lighting applications, APIs, and SDKs for lighting-enabled peripheral devices leads to a fragmented and siloed ecosystem, requiring users and developers to manage multiple applications and interfaces to synchronize lighting features across devices from different manufacturers, making it difficult to create a cohesive and immersive lighting experience.
Innovation Solution
A centralized lighting module within the operating system controls and synchronizes lighting-enabled peripheral devices from various OEMs, allowing users to manage settings through a unified interface and developers to write standardized code, eliminating the need for multiple applications and interfaces.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple proprietary lighting applications from different OEMs are used to control lighting-enabled peripheral devices, then each device can be controlled with its native application, but the system complexity increases and users must manage multiple applications and interfaces
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal lighting control application that can control lighting-enabled peripheral devices from multiple different OEMs through a single unified interface. The application uses standardized communication protocols and abstracted device models to achieve cross-brand compatibility, eliminating the need for users to install and manage separate proprietary applications for each device manufacturer.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer between the user interface and the various lighting device manufacturers' proprietary systems. This intermediary component translates user commands into manufacturer-specific protocols and manages the communication details, allowing users to interact with devices from different OEMs through a single standardized interface without needing to understand the underlying complexity of each manufacturer's system.
2Adaptability or versatility
If developers integrate with multiple proprietary APIs and SDKs to support different lighting devices, then each device type can be supported, but the development complexity and time required increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent provides a unified developer API that serves as a universal interface for integrating with lighting-enabled peripheral devices from various manufacturers. This single API abstracts the underlying complexity of different device types and communication protocols, allowing developers to write code once and control lighting devices from multiple OEMs without needing to learn and implement separate SDKs for each manufacturer.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary abstraction layer that mediates between developers and the complex proprietary systems of different lighting device manufacturers. This intermediary provides standardized, manufacturer-agnostic API calls that handle the translation and communication details, significantly reducing the development burden and time required to support multiple device types.
3Adaptability or versatility
If users download and learn multiple lighting applications to create a diverse lighting ecosystem, then lighting features from different devices can be controlled, but the time and effort required to learn and synchronize controls increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a single universal lighting control application that can manage lighting-enabled peripheral devices from multiple different manufacturers. The application provides a unified user interface and control mechanism that works across all supported devices, eliminating the need for users to download, install, and learn multiple separate applications to control diverse lighting ecosystems.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary control layer that mediates between the user and the complex synchronization requirements of multiple lighting devices. This intermediary application handles the coordination and communication between devices from different OEMs automatically, significantly reducing the time and effort users must invest in learning and synchronizing controls across diverse lighting ecosystems.
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AI summary
The techniques disclosed herein implement a centralized lighting module configured to control a diverse set of lighting-enabled peripheral devices. The set of lighting-enabled peripheral devices is diverse with respect to a type and a manufacturer. The lighting module is referred to as a centralized lighting module because the lighting module is part of an operating system of a computing device. Consequently, a user of the computing device no longer has to download and learn to use multiple different lighting applications if the user wants to create a diverse lighting ecosystem in which lighting-enabled peripheral devices from different manufacturers are connected to the computing device. Similarly, a developer of a computing application no longer has to engage and interact with multiple application programming interfaces (APIs) and software development kits (SDKs) if the developer wants users of their computing application to be able to create a diverse lighting ecosystem.