Content Arbitration Control for Influence Area Re-Assignment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing rule-based arbitration systems in content output control may not achieve the intended results when the state of an area or zone changes due to re-arbitration, as the restrictions imposed by the previous state are cancelled, leading to unintended arbitration outcomes.

Innovation Solution

A content output control device with an arbitration unit that re-arbitrates areas or zones specified as influence areas or zones, ensuring that the restrictions imposed by the previous state are taken into account, thereby achieving the intended results by re-evaluating constraint expressions and adjusting content assignments accordingly.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If re-arbitration is performed when constraint expressions are not satisfied, then the intended arbitration results can be obtained, but the system may enter infinite loops or unintended states due to cancelled restrictions from previous states

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvearbitration result accuracyVSAvoidsystem state stability

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by determining influence areas and zones before performing re-arbitration. The system identifies which areas or zones may be affected by the re-arbitration result in advance, and prepares to re-arbitrate only those specific areas/zones. This prevents the system from entering infinite loops or unintended states by limiting the scope of re-arbitration to only necessary regions, while still ensuring that intended arbitration results are obtained.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Manufacturing precision

If influence areas or zones are re-arbitrated after state changes, then developer specifications are aligned, but the arbitration process complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvespecification complianceVSAvoidarbitration process complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by performing re-arbitration only on specific influence areas or zones that are affected by state changes, rather than re-arbitrating all areas uniformly. The system identifies and targets only the necessary local regions for re-arbitration based on the constraint expression evaluation results. This approach ensures specification compliance while avoiding unnecessary complexity by limiting re-arbitration to specific local areas rather than the entire system.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS12197806B2Content output control device, content output control method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium

Publication Date: 2025.01.14 DENSO CORP

AI summary

A content output control device includes: a memory that stores a rule definition including: an arbitration policy when contents are assigned to areas or zones; and a constraint expression; an arbitration unit that arbitrates the contents according to the rule definition to satisfy a rule-based arbitration upon receiving an output request from an application; and an output control unit that controls an output of the contents assigned to the areas or the zones. When one area or zone is re-arbitrated, the arbitration unit re-arbitrates a different one area specified as an influence area that influences the one area due to an re-arbitration thereof, or a different one zone specified as an influence zone that influences the one zone due to an re-arbitration thereof.