Host Switching System for Wireless Input Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional multi-host wireless input devices require cumbersome Bluetooth pairing procedures for switching between host devices, limiting convenience in sharing a single USB peripheral device across multiple hosts.
Innovation Solution
An intellectual host switching system that provides a host switching interface with color regions on the display screen, allowing wireless input devices to switch between host devices by moving a pointer into designated color regions without needing Bluetooth pairing, using displacement calculations and executing host switching operations based on user input commands.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If Bluetooth pairing procedure is used for wireless input device to switch between host devices, then connection reliability is improved, but operation complexity and time consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-establishes Bluetooth pairing relationships between the wireless input device and multiple host devices in advance. During switching operations, the device selects from pre-paired hosts based on display region selection, eliminating the need for real-time pairing procedures and reducing switching complexity while maintaining connection reliability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple host devices are supported for wireless input device, then device versatility is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the switching interface into multiple display regions, with each region corresponding to a specific host device. This segmentation allows the wireless input device to manage multiple host connections through a simplified visual interface, reducing perceived complexity while maintaining multi-host versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
The wireless input device is designed with universal compatibility to connect and operate with multiple types of host devices (smartphones, tablets, computers). The device performs the same input functions across different hosts, managing complexity through a unified control mechanism while supporting diverse device ecosystems.
3Productivity
If USB peripheral device sharing is enabled across multiple hosts, then resource utilization efficiency is improved, but connection management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The wireless input device acts as an intermediary that manages connections to multiple host devices through a unified interface. It handles the complexity of multi-host connection management internally while presenting a simple switching mechanism to the user, enabling efficient resource utilization without proportionally increasing user-facing complexity.
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AI summary
An intellectual host switching system is disclosed, which is installed in multi host devices, and comprises a host switching setting unit and a host switching executing unit. The host switching setting unit provides a plurality of color regions on a display screen of the host device, and the color regions are corresponding to multi host devices by a setting operation of host switching. In case of a pointer being moved to be in a color region as well as a motion distance of the pointer being smaller than a reference motion distance, the host switching executing unit executes a host switching operation after receiving a host switching command that is transmitted from a wireless inputting device, thereby making the wireless inputting device wirelessly connected with one host device be switched to be wirelessly connected with another one host device, without completing any Bluetooth pairing procedure.