Context Awareness Platform for Environment Sharing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current smart space technologies are limited in providing environment context to users outside of fixed, irremovable smart spaces, and lack universal interaction control programs or hardware, restricting the acquisition of necessary environment context for applications accessed in non-smart spaces.
Innovation Solution
A context awareness platform that receives requests for environment context, queries user records, and acquires missing context from adjacent users through notification and sharing mechanisms, allowing the platform to return the acquired context to application devices, enabling environment context sharing between users.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If smart space provides environment context to users, then users in smart space can obtain environment context, but users in non-smart space cannot access environment context
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a context awareness platform as an intermediary between users and environment context data. This platform collects, manages, and distributes environment context information from multiple sources (sensors, user equipment, third-party services) and provides it to applications through a unified interface, enabling both smart space and non-smart space users to access context data without requiring physical smart space infrastructure at every location.
Solution Approach 2:
The context awareness platform is designed to serve multiple functions and user types universally. It can provide environment context to users in smart spaces, non-smart spaces, mobile devices, and fixed equipment through the same interface and data sharing mechanisms, eliminating the need for separate infrastructure for different user scenarios.
2Adaptability or versatility
If different terminal devices have different sensors, then each device can collect specific environment data, but a single device cannot satisfy all application requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges environment context data from multiple sources including various terminal devices with different sensors, smart space sensing apparatus, and third-party services into a unified context awareness platform. This aggregation allows the system to provide comprehensive environment context coverage that no single device could achieve alone, while managing the complexity centrally rather than requiring each device to have all sensors.
3Reliability
If smart space uses fixed physical space with embedded devices, then users in that space can access services, but the solution is irremovable and limited to specific locations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the static, location-bound smart space concept into a dynamic system where the context awareness platform can serve users regardless of their physical location. Users can access environment context and smart space services whether they are in a fixed smart space, mobile, or in non-smart spaces, making the system adaptable to different spatial contexts rather than being confined to predetermined locations.
Data Source
AI summary
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for sharing an environment context. When an environment context of a first user is lacking, a context awareness platform can acquire an environment context of a second user adjacent to a first user, and provide, to the first user for accessing an application device such that when a user accesses an application in non-smart space or different smart space, the user can also obtain an environment context lacked by the user, and therefore the embodiments of the present disclosure have strong commonality.