Context-Aware Wireless Connection Establishment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional wireless connection protocols require manual and time-consuming processes for pairing and connecting devices, as users often need to navigate menus or hold buttons, which is inefficient and not contextually relevant to their intended device usage.
Innovation Solution
An information handling device receives context data from sensors to determine the user's intention to operate another device, establishing a wireless connection dynamically based on this data, allowing quick and contextual pairing or connecting.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual pairing and connecting processes are used, then connection reliability is ensured through user confirmation, but connection time increases and user convenience deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by continuously monitoring context data (sensor information, application state, device proximity) before a connection is explicitly requested. This allows the system to pre-process and evaluate potential connection targets, so when the user intends to connect devices, the pairing process can be initiated or completed automatically without manual intervention, thus reducing connection time while maintaining reliability through contextual validation
2Loss of time
If automatic connection establishment is implemented, then connection time is reduced and user convenience is improved, but connection reliability may deteriorate due to unintended connections
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs feedback mechanisms by continuously analyzing context data from multiple sources (sensors, application information, device state) to verify whether automatic connection should proceed. The connection process is triggered only when contextual conditions meet predefined criteria, providing a feedback loop that ensures connection accuracy. This allows automatic connection establishment to occur reliably based on contextual validation rather than blind automation
Solution Approach 2:
Before establishing a connection automatically, the system performs preliminary evaluation of context data to determine if the connection is intended and appropriate. This pre-connection analysis includes checking sensor data, application state, and device proximity to validate the connection request, ensuring that automatic connections are both time-efficient and reliable by preventing unintended connections
3Ease of operation
If context data processing is added to enable automatic connections, then connection convenience is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system achieves connection automation by leveraging existing multi-functional components already present in modern devices (sensors, processors, context-aware operating systems). Rather than adding dedicated hardware for automatic connection, the system repurposes existing universal components for contextual analysis, thereby improving connection convenience without proportionally increasing device complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables devices to perform self-service connection establishment by autonomously processing context data and initiating connections without user intervention. This self-service capability leverages existing device intelligence and processing power to handle the connection logic internally, reducing the need for additional complex external systems while improving ease of operation
Data Source
AI summary
One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, context data associated with a user's interactions with another device; determining, using a processor, whether the context data is associated with device use data, wherein the device use data corresponds to an intention of the user to operate the another device; and establishing, responsive to determining that the context data is associated with the device use data, a wireless connection between the information handling device and the another device. Other aspects are described and claimed.