Peripheral Device Management via Compliance Server
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current peripheral device management systems are inadequate for complex environments, lacking comprehensive control and access management capabilities, especially in enterprise settings where sophisticated devices are increasingly common.
Innovation Solution
A system that includes a compliance server to manage access to peripheral devices by user devices, using compliance rules to determine access based on device information, location, security credentials, and temporal conditions, and facilitates the installation of necessary software and lifecycle management functions such as maintenance and optimization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If comprehensive access control and management capabilities are implemented for peripheral devices, then security and control are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a gateway device as an intermediary component that mediates between user devices and peripheral devices. The gateway receives access requests, evaluates compliance rules, and manages authentication/authorization without requiring complex management logic to be distributed across all user devices and peripheral devices. This centralizes complexity in a single intermediary component, improving security while keeping individual device implementations simpler.
2Adaptability or versatility
If sophisticated processing capabilities are added to peripheral devices, then device functionality is improved, but management difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic compliance rules that can be modified and updated without requiring changes to the underlying management system architecture. The gateway device evaluates rules against current device states and contexts, allowing peripheral devices to have sophisticated processing capabilities while maintaining flexible, adaptable management through dynamically adjustable policies rather than static configurations.
Solution Approach 2:
The system manages sophisticated peripheral devices by changing management parameters (compliance rules, authentication requirements, authorization levels) rather than requiring changes to device hardware or fundamental architecture. The gateway device can adjust access parameters based on device capabilities, user roles, and contextual factors, enabling versatile device functionality while simplifying management through parameter-based control.
3Measurement precision
If access requests are evaluated based on multiple compliance rules and device information, then access control precision is improved, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary authentication and authorization mechanisms where the gateway device pre-evaluates compliance rules and establishes access permissions before actual access requests are processed. User devices can be pre-registered and pre-authenticated, with compliance rules evaluated in advance. This preliminary action reduces the processing time for individual access requests while maintaining high precision through comprehensive rule evaluation.
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AI summary
A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product are provided for providing peripheral device management. For example, a method is provided that includes receiving, from a user device, a request to access at least one peripheral device, the request comprising information regarding the user device. The method may further include determining, based at least in part on at least one compliance rule and the information regarding the user device, whether to grant the request, and, in an instance in which it is determined to grant the request, causing access to the at least one peripheral device by the user device to be facilitated.