Automated Lighting Product Identifier Transfer Between Catalog and Design Tool
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current lighting design processes are inefficient due to the difficulty in identifying and transferring lighting product identifiers from a catalog application to a design tool, requiring manual data entry and increasing the risk of errors and time consumption.
Innovation Solution
An automated process that captures a lighting product identifier within a catalog application and transfers it to a lighting design tool, utilizing a mobile device's processing power to provide a graphical user interface for seamless selection and retrieval of detailed product information without manual input.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual data entry is used to transfer lighting product identifiers from catalog application to design tool, then data can be transferred between applications, but time consumption and potential for error increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements an automated data transfer mechanism that acts as an intermediary between the lighting product catalog application and the lighting design tool. This intermediary automatically captures product identifiers from the catalog application and transfers them to the design tool, eliminating manual data entry and reducing both time consumption and error potential.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical process of manual data entry with an automated electronic system. The automated capture and transfer of product identifiers substitutes the manual typing and copying process, significantly reducing time consumption and eliminating human error associated with manual data entry.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple applications are used for catalog browsing and design tool access, then comprehensive lighting product information and design capabilities are available, but user operation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the functionality of the lighting product catalog application and the lighting design tool through automated integration. The system combines these separate applications into a streamlined workflow where product selection in the catalog automatically initiates and populates the design tool, reducing the operational burden of switching between applications.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary actions by automatically capturing and transferring product identifiers before the user needs to manually input them in the design tool. This preliminary data preparation and transfer occurs seamlessly in the background, so when the user accesses the design tool, the necessary information is already prepared and waiting, simplifying the user experience.
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AI summary
An application running on a mobile device presents information about a lighting product, for example, selected from a catalog on a graphical user interface via one or more elements (e.g. a touchscreen) of the mobile device and captures an identification of the selected product. The user interface includes a user selectable indication of a lighting design tool, e.g. a button, icon or other link to the tool. User selection of the tool indicator initiates access to the lighting design tool; and the application passes the identification of the selected product to the lighting design tool. The lighting design tool processes the identification of the selected product and an output of the lighting design tool is presented based in part on photometric information about the selected product automatically retrieved by and populated to the lighting design tool without further manual input to obtain the photometric information about the selected product.