Integrated Hypermedia Engine for Touchscreen Network Configuration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing information handling systems require cumbersome manual data entry, involving numerous keyboard strokes and mouse clicks, to manage and configure network devices, necessitating more efficient systems and methods for user interactions.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of an Integrated Hypermedia Engine (IHE) that communicates with document and session handlers to monitor and predict user activity, reducing interactions by automatically navigating multi-tiered configuration paths and utilizing document sources, with features like command tagging, parameter input assistance, and context-awareness to streamline interactions on touchscreen devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual data entry methods are used for managing network devices, then system functionality is maintained, but user interaction efficiency deteriorates due to numerous keyboard strokes and mouse clicks required
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically navigating multi-tiered configuration paths and executing commands based on predicted user intent, eliminating the need for users to manually perform repetitive keyboard strokes and mouse clicks during device management tasks
Solution Approach 2:
An integrated hypermedia engine acts as an intermediary between the user and the network device management system, translating high-level user intentions into specific navigation actions and command executions, thereby reducing the complexity of direct user interactions
2Productivity
If automation features are added to reduce user interactions, then interaction efficiency improves, but system complexity increases due to monitoring and prediction mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The integrated hypermedia engine performs multiple functions including monitoring user activity, predicting user intent, navigating configuration paths, and executing commands within a single unified system component, avoiding the need for separate specialized systems for each function
Solution Approach 2:
The system monitors and predicts user activity automatically without requiring explicit commands, enabling self-service operation where the system anticipates user needs and performs actions autonomously based on observed patterns and context
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed systems and methods provide an integrated hypermedia engine (IHE) that monitors and predicts user activity on spawned document windows and spliced network management CLI/GUI sessions. In embodiments, the IHE pro-actively assists a user to efficiently use device-related documentation in an intuitive manner that requires minimal user interaction and, thereby, reduces the likelihood of human error, e.g., when configuring network devices involves multi-tiered, dynamic configuration paths. The IHE may acts as bridge between document windows and spliced network management sessions, for example, to enable seamless transfer of a CLI command from a document window to an inline GUI panel launched by a CLI session when constructing a command line. In embodiments, a context-ware THE may create and take advantage of documentation tags by interpreting relationships between commands to enable auto-navigation of the document. Certain embodiments provide for monitoring and mapping a CLI/GUI output back to the appropriate documentation.