Location-Based Settings Profile Adjustment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face burdensome and time-consuming processes in manually adjusting system settings on devices as they move between locations, with current methods requiring navigation through multiple menus and lacking automatic adjustments for optimal settings based on location.
Innovation Solution
A method that identifies a device's location using context data, accesses a settings profile associated with that location, and automatically adjusts current settings to match the profile, ensuring optimal user-preferred settings without additional user input.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users manually adjust system settings when moving between locations, then settings can be customized for each location, but the process becomes time-consuming and burdensome
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-configures multiple settings profiles corresponding to different locations (e.g., home, work, public places) before the user needs to adjust settings. When location detection identifies the user's current position, the system automatically selects and applies the pre-configured profile, eliminating the need for manual adjustment at the moment of need.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically detects the user's location using context data (GPS, Wi-Fi, cellular tower information) and autonomously adjusts settings without requiring user intervention. The device serves itself by monitoring location changes and applying appropriate settings profiles automatically, freeing the user from manual configuration tasks.
2Ease of operation
If users manually navigate through multiple menus to adjust settings, then specific settings can be modified, but the process becomes complex and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts the essential settings configuration into separate, pre-defined profiles organized by location. Instead of requiring users to navigate through complex menus to adjust individual settings, the location-specific profiles package all necessary settings adjustments into a single automatic operation, simplifying the user interaction to merely selecting or triggering the appropriate profile.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces location detection and automatic profile selection as an intermediary layer between the user and the complex settings menu structure. This intermediary automatically translates location information into appropriate settings configurations, shielding the user from the underlying complexity of multiple menus while still achieving the desired settings adjustment.
3Productivity
If settings are not automatically adjusted based on location, then device complexity remains low, but performance issues arise from suboptimal settings
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a universal location-based settings framework that can handle multiple different settings types (display, audio, network, power management) through a single unified mechanism. The same location detection and profile selection infrastructure serves all settings categories, making the added complexity worthwhile by providing comprehensive optimization across multiple functional areas without requiring separate complex systems for each setting type.
Data Source
AI summary
One embodiment provides a method, including: identifying, based on context data, a location of an information handling device; accessing a settings profile for the information handling device that is based on the identified location; determining, using a processor, whether at least one current setting on the information handling device is inconsistent with the settings profile; and adjusting, responsive to determining that the at least one current setting is inconsistent with the settings profile, the at least one current setting to match the settings profile for the location. Other aspects are described and claimed.