Host-Client UI Look and Feel Parameter Transfer
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional multi-source systems with interconnected standalone devices (SADs) face challenges in maintaining a unified user interface 'look & feel' when configuring host and client devices, leading to inconsistent user experiences across different configuration screens.
Innovation Solution
The system transfers look & feel parameters from a host device to a client device, allowing the client to adapt its configuration screens to match the host's interface, ensuring a uniform user interface experience by generating graphic images or web pages that conform to the host's parameters, thereby maintaining a consistent visual layout and functionality across both host and client configurations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the driver method is used for configuration, then the host SAD can control the client SAD, but the user experiences different interfaces when switching between host and client configuration screens
Solution Approach 1:
The client SAD configuration screen is copied and integrated into the host SAD's user interface framework. The client's configuration parameters and controls are replicated within the host's UI structure, allowing the same visual interface to control both host and client devices without requiring separate interface paradigms.
Solution Approach 2:
The host and client configuration interfaces are merged into a single unified user interface. The host SAD's configuration screen is enhanced to include client SAD controls and parameters within the same visual framework, eliminating the need for users to switch between separate interface contexts.
2Ease of manufacture
If the screen method is used for configuration, then OEM customization is reduced, but the user still experiences inconsistent look and feel across different configuration screens
Solution Approach 1:
The host SAD's user interface is designed with universal adaptability to accommodate both host and client configuration functions. The same UI framework, styling, and interaction patterns are applied regardless of whether the user is configuring the host or the client, creating a multi-functional interface that maintains consistency across different configuration contexts.
3Adaptability or versatility
If each SAD is self-configured, then configuration independence is achieved, but system integration complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The host SAD acts as an intermediary that mediates between the user and the client SAD configuration. The host's unified interface serves as the primary control point, while the client SAD maintains its own configuration capabilities in the background. This intermediary approach allows self-configuration independence while presenting a simplified integrated interface to the user.
Data Source
AI summary
A method for controlling configuration display screens within a client-host multi-source system, including transferring look & feel parameters from a host device to a client device, setting parameters of a configuration program for the client device, according to the look & feel parameters transferred by the transferring, generating, by the configuration program, a graphic image of a screen, the graphic image conforming to the look & feel parameters, and displaying the graphic image on a display screen of the host device. A system and a computer-readable storage medium are also described and claimed.