Cloud Peripheral Workspace Orchestration for Consistent Device Configuration

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face challenges in consistently configuring and managing peripheral devices across multiple workspaces due to varying settings, firmware updates, and compliance with hardware device operational policies, especially when switching between different environments or sharing devices with others.

Innovation Solution

A cloud-based peripheral device workspace orchestrator system that automatically manages and configures peripheral devices by creating, registering, and updating workspaces based on device enrollment data, hardware device operational policies, and user preferences, using a cloud manageability orchestrator module and ecosystem manageability service module to ensure compliance and consistency.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If manual configuration of peripheral devices is performed, then device settings can be customized, but configuration consistency across multiple workspaces deteriorates and manual effort increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveconfiguration consistencyVSAvoidmanual effort

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables automatic self-configuration of peripheral devices through the cloud-based orchestrator that automatically enrolls devices, applies configurations, and manages firmware updates without requiring manual user intervention in each workspace environment

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary configuration actions by pre-defining device profiles and policies in the cloud orchestrator before devices are deployed to workspaces, so that when devices are enrolled, their configurations are automatically applied without manual setup

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If peripheral devices are shared across multiple workspaces, then device utilization increases, but configuration management complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedevice sharing capabilityVSAvoidconfiguration management complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The cloud-based orchestrator provides a universal management platform that handles multiple device types and workspaces through a single centralized system, allowing devices to be shared across different environments while maintaining consistent configuration management through standardized policies and profiles

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system segments configuration management into separate policy definitions and device-specific settings, allowing workspace-specific configurations to be independently managed while maintaining overall system control through the cloud orchestrator

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

3Productivity

If automated workspace creation is implemented, then setup time is reduced, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesetup speedVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The cloud-based orchestrator acts as an intermediary between users and the complex system components, automatically creating workspaces and enrolling devices by mediating between user actions and system configuration, thereby simplifying the user experience while managing system complexity in the background

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

4Productivity

If firmware updates are performed manually, then update control is precise, but update efficiency and compliance monitoring deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveupdate efficiencyVSAvoidcompliance monitoring effort

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where the cloud orchestrator continuously monitors device compliance status, firmware versions, and update progress, automatically adjusting update deployments based on real-time device states and providing visibility into compliance across all workspaces

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20250245173A1System and method for managing and orchestrating a seamless user peripheral device workspace ecosystem experience

Publication Date: 2025.07.31 DELL PROD LP

AI summary

A peripheral device workspace cloud orchestrator server includes a network interface device to receive detected peripheral device enrollment data describing peripheral device nodes to be registered with the peripheral device workspace cloud orchestrator server and hardware device operational policies describing how the registered peripheral device nodes are to operate. The hardware processor executes computer code of a cloud manageability orchestrator module to create and store, on a peripheral device workspace database, peripheral device workspaces with each of the peripheral device workspaces having a peripheral device workspace identification value, wherein the peripheral device workspaces are defined by a manifest of detected peripheral device nodes operatively coupled to an anchor node information handling system and a physical location of the anchor node information handling system.