Collaboration Management System for Peripheral Configuration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing collaboration systems in video-conference and gaming settings often lose user-specific control configurations when multiple users with different peripherals interact with a single dataset, leading to inconvenience and reduced efficiency due to unfamiliar settings.
Innovation Solution
A collaboration management system comprising a session module and a discovery module that initiates and manages interactions between computing systems, allowing each user to assign and manage their preferred configuration data for device-specific interactions with an application, ensuring consistent and familiar control settings across different devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a generic UI control configuration is assigned to peripheral devices in a collaboration setting, then the system can support multiple users with different devices, but each user loses their preferred control settings and must adapt to unfamiliar configurations
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the configuration management by creating separate configuration profiles for each user and each device type. The discovery module identifies the specific device being used, and the system assigns the appropriate user-specific configuration for that device type, allowing multiple users to maintain their preferred settings simultaneously across different peripherals
Solution Approach 2:
The collaboration management system acts as an intermediary between the user, the peripheral device, and the application. The discovery module detects the device and automatically retrieves and applies the appropriate configuration from storage, mediating the interaction so users don't need to manually reconfigure settings when switching devices or joining collaboration sessions
2Ease of operation
If users manually re-configure control settings to match their preferences, then they can maintain familiarity and accuracy in their interactions, but this process consumes valuable time and resources
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary configuration by pre-storing multiple user-specific configuration profiles for different device types before the user needs them. When a user joins a collaboration session or connects a device, the discovery module automatically detects the device and applies the appropriate pre-configured settings instantly, eliminating the need for users to spend time on manual reconfiguration
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides self-service configuration through the discovery module, which automatically detects the connected peripheral device, identifies the appropriate user profile and device type, and applies the correct configuration without requiring user intervention. This automated self-configuration process eliminates time loss while maintaining ease of operation
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AI summary
Known computer peripheral devices are typically interchangeable and can be used with different computers systems and platforms. Most computer operating systems are able to automatically configure the coupled computer peripheral device for use with the computer operating system without the need for installation of a specific driver. However, when these peripheral devices are detected by the computer system, a generic UI control configuration is often assigned to them and whatever customised settings previously configured by the user will be lost and replaced with a new set of unfamiliar settings. The present technology is a collaboration management system initiating a collaboration session for a plurality of computing systems having user-interfaces (UIs) coupled thereto. The collaboration management system discovers the device profiles corresponding to the UIs for extracting corresponding configuration specific to each of the UIs for configuring interactions between the UIs and an application operating during the collaboration session.