Notification Abstraction Layer for Multi-Device Media Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of electronic devices often face challenges in managing media across multiple devices, leading to disruptions such as audio switching during video conferences without user notification, requiring manual intervention to manage operating parameters.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a notification abstraction layer that creates and decodes notification packets to automatically control operating parameters of paired devices, such as muting audio or turning off cameras, based on user-defined settings and application-specific rules, ensuring seamless media management across devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If manual intervention is used to manage media across devices, then user control precision is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically detects application states and manages media across devices without requiring manual user intervention. The notification abstraction layer autonomously monitors application usage and triggers appropriate media management actions, allowing the system to serve itself rather than requiring continuous user control.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements continuous monitoring of application states and uses this feedback to automatically adjust media management across paired devices. The notification abstraction layer receives real-time information about application usage and responds by automatically controlling operating parameters, creating a closed-loop feedback system that maintains precision without manual intervention.
2Productivity
If automatic control is implemented without notification, then productivity is improved, but loss of information deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The notification abstraction layer provides continuous feedback to users about automatic media management actions. When the system automatically controls operating parameters based on application states, users receive notifications that inform them of these changes, ensuring they remain aware of system actions while still benefiting from automated productivity improvements.
3Adaptability or versatility
If device complexity increases to manage multiple operating parameters, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity worsens
Solution Approach 1:
The notification abstraction layer serves as an intermediary component that simplifies the complexity of managing multiple devices and operating parameters. It sits between the application layer and the device control layer, abstracting away the complex logic required to coordinate media management across multiple devices while maintaining high adaptability to different application states and device configurations.
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AI summary
Systems, apparatus, articles of manufacture, and methods are disclosed for multi device media management. An example electronic device disclosed herein includes interface circuitry to obtain a notification packet from a client device; machine readable instructions; and at least one processor circuit to be programmed by the machine readable instructions to: to identify a subsystem of the electronic device to be controlled based on the notification packet; and change an operating parameter of the subsystem based on the notification packet.