Cloud-Orchestrated Peripheral Configuration Across Workspaces

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face the tedious task of manually reconfiguring peripheral devices when switching between different workspaces, leading to loss or misapplication of personalized settings due to mismatched device setups.

Innovation Solution

A system and method for automatically configuring peripheral devices using a cloud-based orchestrator that compares functional capabilities of new devices with existing setups, applying matching configurations and updating settings across multiple workspaces.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If manual reconfiguration of peripheral devices is performed when switching between workspaces, then user control over device settings is maintained, but time consumption and operational complexity increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of peripheral device configurationVSAvoidtime for reconfiguring peripheral devices

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically detecting peripheral devices and applying appropriate configurations before the user needs to use them in a new workspace. The cloud orchestrator proactively retrieves device capabilities, matches them with suitable configurations from the configuration database, and applies settings automatically, eliminating the need for manual reconfiguration after workspace switching.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service by allowing peripheral devices to be automatically configured through self-detection and self-matching processes. The cloud orchestrator autonomously detects new devices, queries their capabilities, matches them with appropriate configurations from the database, and applies settings without requiring user intervention, making the system configure itself based on detected device characteristics.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Reliability

If personalized peripheral device configurations are maintained across workspaces, then user preference consistency improves, but system complexity increases due to configuration management

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveconsistency of user preferencesVSAvoidcomplexity of configuration management system

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The cloud orchestrator serves as an intermediary between peripheral devices and configuration management. It mediates the complex process by centralizing configuration storage in a cloud database, handling device detection and capability querying, matching devices with appropriate configurations, and applying settings across workspaces. This intermediary approach simplifies the user experience while managing the inherent system complexity centrally rather than distributed across multiple workspaces.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The cloud orchestrator performs multiple functions within a single system: device detection, capability querying, configuration matching, configuration storage, and setting application. This multi-functional approach consolidates what would otherwise be separate complex subsystems into a unified platform, maintaining user preference consistency across diverse workspaces while managing complexity through a single universal interface.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Productivity

If automatic configuration matching is implemented for peripheral devices, then setup time is reduced, but measurement precision requirements increase for device capability comparison

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvespeed of peripheral device setupVSAvoidprecision of device capability matching

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-storing detailed capability information for each peripheral device in a cloud database before actual configuration is needed. When a device is detected in a new workspace, the orchestrator queries the pre-stored capability data and performs matching against saved configurations, enabling rapid setup without real-time measurement complexity while maintaining high precision through comprehensive pre-captured device specifications.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS12455838B2System and method for determining peripheral device configurations across a plurality of workspaces for seamless user peripheral device workspace ecosystem experience

Publication Date: 2025.10.28 DELL PROD LP

AI summary

A peripheral device workspace cloud orchestrator information handling system comprises a network interface device to receive functional capabilities for an existing peripheral device previously operatively coupled by a user to a user information handling system anchor node for a peripheral device workspace defined by a manifest of included peripheral device nodes, location, and peripheral device workspace identification value, and a user composite peripheral device workspace identifier associated with an adjustable operational configuration instructing the existing peripheral device operation, a hardware processor to execute code instructions to identify new peripheral device capabilities within a received new device orchestrated device descriptor for a new peripheral device operatively coupled to the anchor node, determine a minimum percentage of the new peripheral device capabilities matches the existing functional capabilities, and instruct the anchor node to configure the new peripheral device according to the adjustable operational configuration associated with the existing peripheral device.