Console Content Provision via Wireless User Device Querying
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems struggle to efficiently provide content to multiple user devices when users are positioned too far from a console device to interact with its user interface, limiting control and content delivery.
Innovation Solution
A system that uses wireless communication to query user devices for content provision based on activation inputs, including physical contact and gesture or voice inputs, allowing content delivery to user devices regardless of their proximity to the console device.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If content is provided to user devices positioned far from the console device, then user interaction flexibility is improved, but control reliability deteriorates because users cannot physically interact with the console's user interface
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a wireless communication intermediary that transmits activation inputs from the console device to user devices, and transmits control inputs from user devices back to the console device. This intermediary enables reliable control for distant users by mediating the communication between the user interface and the console, resolving the contradiction between interaction flexibility and control reliability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If wireless communication is used to query user devices for content provision, then content delivery capability is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal query mechanism that can identify and communicate with multiple types of user devices (headphones, speakers, mobile devices, etc.) through a single wireless communication interface. This multi-functional approach enables content delivery to various devices without requiring separate specialized systems for each device type, thus improving content delivery capability while managing system complexity.
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AI summary
Examples of the disclosure relate to providing content from a console device to one or more user devices. In examples of the disclosure a console device can be configured to detect an activation input wherein the activation input includes physical contact with a user interface controlled by the apparatus, for example, the user interface of the console device. The console device can be configured to use wireless communication to query one or more user devices regarding providing content to the one or more user devices, based on the activation input and can be configured to collect one or more responses to the query. Content can then be provided via a wireless communication link to the one or more user devices based on the collected one or more responses.