Connection Setup Flow With Mirroring Disable and Password Confirmation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing information processing apparatuses face challenges in improving the usability of application programs that facilitate connecting to communication apparatuses, particularly in ensuring accurate password input and providing alternative connection methods when the primary method fails.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a method where the application program displays a screen for disabling mirroring functions, establishes a connection with an external access point, and provides a screen for confirming passwords, while offering a button to guide users to alternative connection methods, ensuring seamless and user-friendly connectivity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the application program automatically transmits connection information to the communication apparatus, then the connection process is simplified, but password input errors occur and connection reliability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the application program monitors connection status and provides real-time information to the user. When connection information is transmitted, the system feedbacks connection status, password input requirements, and alternative connection methods, allowing users to verify and correct information before final connection establishment.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary confirmation screen between automatic transmission and final connection. This intermediary interface displays connection information, allows password input/confirmation, and provides alternative connection options, serving as a mediator that ensures accuracy while maintaining automated flow.
2Reliability
If the application program provides multiple connection methods, then connection reliability improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the connection process into distinct phases: automatic transmission phase, confirmation phase, and alternative method phase. Each phase handles specific connection scenarios, allowing the system to provide multiple connection methods without overwhelming complexity. The segmentation enables conditional logic to guide users through appropriate paths based on their needs.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the mirroring function is enabled during connection setup, then information display capability improves, but connection stability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by displaying a screen that prompts users to disable the mirroring function before connection establishment. This preliminary warning and user action ensure that the connection is established in a stable state, preventing potential connection issues that could arise from having mirroring enabled during the connection process.
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AI summary
A method for controlling a first information processing apparatus including a predetermined application program and an operating system includes transmitting an instruction to the operating system to establish a connection between a communication apparatus and the first information processing apparatus, displaying a screen for disabling a mirroring function, the mirroring function being a function for displaying a screen based on screen information transmitted by the first information processing apparatus and for controlling the first information processing apparatus on a display unit of a second information processing apparatus different from the first information processing apparatus, and transmitting in a case where the connection between the communication apparatus and the first information processing apparatus is established based on the instruction, connection information for connecting to an access point, the access point being external to both the first information processing apparatus and the communication apparatus, to the communication apparatus via the established connection.