Group-Based Log Information Management for Home Appliances
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems for managing log information from home electrical appliances lack efficient mechanisms for users to selectively permit or refuse the provision of log data to service providers, leading to increased processing loads and user inconvenience.
Innovation Solution
An information management method that collects log information from home electrical appliances and provides a user interface for selecting whether to permit or refuse log data provision to service providers, managing service providers, home electrical appliances, and log information types as groups to reduce processing frequency and load.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If individual selection interfaces are provided for each service provider, home electrical apparatus, and log information type, then users can make precise control decisions, but the processing load and user inconvenience increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple service providers, home electrical apparatuses, and log information types into groups. The management server performs batch processing on grouped data, reducing the number of individual processing operations. This merging approach maintains precise control capabilities while significantly reducing processing load and improving user convenience.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the management system into two levels: group-level management for reducing processing load, and individual-level management for maintaining control precision. This segmentation allows the system to handle data efficiently at the group level while still enabling users to make precise decisions when needed.
2Reliability
If frequent processing is performed to manage individual service provider selections, then accurate log information provision control is achieved, but system performance deteriorates due to increased processing load
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple processing targets into groups and performs batch processing. This reduces the frequency of processing operations while maintaining control accuracy through group-level management. The system achieves reliable control with improved productivity by processing grouped data less frequently than individual data.
3Adaptability or versatility
If detailed individual management interfaces are provided, then precise control over log information provision is enabled, but user inconvenience increases due to complex operations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple management targets into groups, allowing users to control log information provision for multiple service providers, apparatuses, and log types through a single interface. This merging approach maintains precise control capabilities while significantly simplifying user operations and improving convenience.
Data Source
AI summary
An information management method collects log information of one or more home electrical apparatuses corresponding to service providers. Display screen data is generated which indicates a status of the log information. The display screen data includes groups of information which each contain information on an apparatus, a service provider corresponding to the apparatus, and log information output from the apparatus. Provision of the log information of each group is individually selectable. The display screen data is provided via a network to a display terminal that performs access to a server device. Information is received from the display terminal, which indicates that selection on whether or not provision of the log information is performed. Provision of the log information is not performed on the selected group when a determination is made that refusal of provision of the log information on the selected group is performed.