MFP Usage Environment Estimation for Adaptive Security Settings
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing information processing devices struggle to adapt security settings to diverse usage environments, such as telecommuting and public spaces, without requiring specialized user configuration, especially when estimation results and communication trend data are transmitted separately, necessitating linking processes on external servers.
Innovation Solution
An information processing device that integrates a learning model to estimate its usage environment and transmits the estimation result and communication trend data together in the same event to an external server, facilitating seamless adaptation of security settings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If estimation result and communication trend data are transmitted separately to external server, then data transmission flexibility is improved, but server-side linking process complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the estimation result and communication trend data into a single transmission event, eliminating the need for separate transmissions and server-side linking processes. This merging approach reduces server complexity while maintaining transmission flexibility.
2Ease of operation
If default security settings are applied at shipment time, then ease of operation is improved for users, but adaptability to different usage environments deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically estimates the usage environment by analyzing communication trends and packet information, then self-adjusts security settings without requiring user intervention. This enables the system to adapt to different environments while maintaining ease of operation for users.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically changes security parameter settings based on the estimated usage environment. By analyzing communication patterns and packet data, the system adjusts security parameters automatically to match the detected environment, resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and adaptability.
3Reliability
If specialized security knowledge is required for configuration, then security setting accuracy is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates for general users
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs automatic environment estimation and security configuration without requiring user expertise. By analyzing communication trends and packet information, the system self-determines appropriate security settings, maintaining accuracy while eliminating the need for specialized user knowledge.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual security configuration processes with automated machine learning-based estimation. Instead of requiring users to manually configure security settings, the system uses algorithms to analyze communication patterns and automatically determine appropriate security parameters, maintaining accuracy while improving ease of operation.
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AI summary
An MFP, which is an information processing device, includes a memory storing instructions and a processor. When executing the instructions, the processor causes the information processing device to specify a feature value from a packet of communication performed by the MFP, estimate a usage environment of the MFP using a learning model with the feature value as input data, and transmit the feature value used for estimating the usage environment and information on the usage environment, which is an estimation result of the estimation of the usage environment, to an external server in the same event.