Service Providing System for Duplicated Application Settings

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing service providing systems and information processing methods lack efficiency in user operability, as users must repeatedly set application settings for tasks like printing and document uploading, which can be time-consuming and prone to errors.

Innovation Solution

A service providing system that analyzes application usage frequency and duplicates frequently used application settings, allowing users to select and execute applications with pre-configured settings directly from a control panel, eliminating the need for repetitive setting adjustments.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If users manually set application settings for each task, then customization and adaptability are improved, but user operability and time efficiency deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveapplication settings customizationVSAvoiduser operability
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by automatically analyzing application execution logs and pre-configuring duplicate applications with optimal settings before users need them. The server proactively identifies frequently used applications and prepares customized versions with appropriate settings, eliminating the need for users to manually configure settings each time they execute tasks.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements self-service by automatically analyzing user behavior patterns and generating optimized application settings without requiring user intervention. The server autonomously monitors application execution logs, identifies usage patterns, and creates duplicate applications with pre-configured settings, allowing the system to serve itself rather than requiring manual user configuration.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Manufacturing precision

If users repeatedly configure application settings, then setting precision is improved, but productivity and time efficiency worsen

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesetting precisionVSAvoidworkflow efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses copying by creating duplicate applications that replicate the functionality of original applications but with pre-configured optimal settings. Instead of requiring users to repeatedly configure settings for the same application, the server generates copies with settings already optimized based on historical execution data, maintaining precision while improving productivity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary analysis of application execution logs to identify optimal settings before users need to execute tasks. By pre-configuring duplicate applications with the most frequently used or most effective settings, the system ensures setting precision is achieved in advance, eliminating the time-consuming repetitive configuration process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Adaptability or versatility

If manual setting configuration is required, then adaptability to specific tasks is improved, but ease of operation and user convenience deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetask-specific settingsVSAvoiduser convenience
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements self-service by automatically analyzing application execution logs and identifying task-specific patterns. The server autonomously determines the most frequently used applications and their optimal settings, then creates duplicate applications with pre-configured task-specific parameters, eliminating the need for users to manually adapt settings for different tasks.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses feedback by continuously monitoring application execution logs and using this information to automatically adjust and optimize duplicate application settings. The server analyzes usage patterns and feeds this information back into the duplicate generation process, ensuring that task-specific settings are automatically adapted based on actual user behavior and task requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11729331B2Service providing system to generate duplicated application and transmit it to the electronic device for display on a display, information processing method, and non-transitory recording medium
Publication Date: 2023.08.15 RICOH CO LTD
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AI summary

A service providing system and an information processing method. The service providing system stores in one or more memories, a plurality of settings of an application that receives an execution request from the electronic device, duplicates the application that uses one of the plurality of settings stored in the one or more memories to generate duplicated application, and transmits information on the duplicated application to the electronic device, and the electronic device displays on a display, a screen for selecting an application to be executed by a user, the screen including the duplicated application for selection by the user.