Embedded Resource Layout for User-Specific Interface Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems lack flexibility in user-specific control over electro-mechanical systems, requiring manual adjustments for adding, removing, or relocating control parameters, which is inefficient and resource-intensive.

Innovation Solution

An embedded resource layout system that separates user-specific information from system-wide information, using a resource layout document embedded into an interface document, allowing automated user customization of graphical interfaces through a controller that retrieves and arranges resource values based on positioning specifications.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If control parameters and layouts are customized for different users, then user control flexibility is improved, but development efforts and system complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser control flexibilityVSAvoiddevelopment efforts

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system separates control parameters and layout information into distinct resource layout documents that can be independently managed for different users. This segmentation allows each user to have customized control interfaces without requiring separate development efforts for the entire system, resolving the contradiction between user flexibility and development complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates a universal resource layout document structure that can serve multiple users with different customization needs. The interface document embeds resource layout documents that define control parameters and layouts, allowing the same system framework to handle diverse user requirements through a single multi-functional mechanism.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If resource layouts are customized for different users, then user experience is improved, but storage and bandwidth requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser-specific customizationVSAvoidstorage and bandwidth

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system merges common control parameter definitions into a shared resource layout document structure that can be referenced by multiple users. By embedding these standardized layouts into interface documents, the system reduces redundant storage requirements while maintaining user-specific customization capabilities through selective embedding and reference.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS12621217B2Embedded resource layout

Publication Date: 2026.05.05 RAKUTEN MOBILE INC

AI summary

Embedded resource layouts are presented by rendering an interface document to cause a graphical interface to be displayed in accordance with appearance specifications for the graphical interface in the interface document, embedding, into the interface document in response to rendering the interface document, a resource layout document corresponding to a reference in the interface document and a user identity, retrieving, through a network in response to embedding the resource layout document, a plurality of resource values, each resource value among the plurality of resource values corresponding to a resource reference in the resource layout document, and arranging the plurality of resource values in the graphical interface in accordance with positioning specifications in the resource layout document.