Cloud Orchestration for Personalized Peripheral Device Workspaces

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face the challenge of manually reconfiguring peripheral devices in different workspaces, leading to mismatched configurations and loss of personalized settings when switching between multiple peripheral device workspaces, such as hoteling offices or collaborative spaces.

Innovation Solution

A cloud-based system, including a peripheral device workspace cloud orchestrator, automatically configures peripheral devices by leveraging user experience fingerprints and environmental context telemetry to match the capabilities and configurations of shared or collaborative workspaces with the user's personalized preferences, using a compliance-adjusted automatic node configuration module.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If peripheral devices are manually reconfigured in different workspaces, then users can maintain personalized settings, but users face the challenge of manual reconfiguration effort and time loss when switching between multiple peripheral device workspaces

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of configurationVSAvoidtime for manual reconfiguration

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically detecting the user's arrival at a workspace, identifying the peripheral devices present, and pre-configuring them according to the user's profile and preferences before the user actually needs to use them. This eliminates the need for manual reconfiguration when switching between workspaces.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The peripheral devices are configured automatically through self-service mechanisms where the system autonomously detects device capabilities, retrieves appropriate configuration profiles, and applies settings without requiring user intervention. The user simply needs to connect their computing device, and the system handles the rest.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Adaptability or versatility

If peripheral devices use default configurations in shared workspaces, then device compatibility is ensured, but personalized user settings are lost and configurations do not match user preferences

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveadaptability to user preferencesVSAvoidconfiguration consistency

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The configuration system is segmented into multiple layers: universal default configurations that ensure basic compatibility, and personalized user-specific configurations that provide customization. The system selectively applies appropriate configuration segments based on user identity and device capabilities, allowing both compatibility and personalization to coexist.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different configuration qualities are applied to different aspects of peripheral device operation. Basic functional parameters use standardized configurations for reliability, while user-preferred parameters such as display settings, audio preferences, and input device configurations use personalized settings for adaptability to user preferences.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

3Productivity

If automated configuration systems are implemented, then manual reconfiguration is eliminated, but system complexity increases with cloud orchestrators and compliance adjustment modules

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveconfiguration speedVSAvoidsystem architecture complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

A cloud-based orchestrator serves as an intermediary between users and peripheral devices, managing the complexity of automated configuration. The orchestrator handles device detection, profile matching, and configuration application, while presenting a simple interface to users. This mediates the complexity by centralizing it in a manageable cloud service rather than distributing it across multiple local systems.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS20250247294A1System and method for determining configurations for a plurality of peripheral devices based on prior experiential compliance or least common device functionality compliance

Publication Date: 2025.07.31 DELL PROD LP

AI summary

A peripheral device workspace cloud orchestrator executing at a cloud information handling system may comprise a network interface device to receive a user experience fingerprint associated with a user of an information handling system that has been previously operatively coupled to a previous peripheral device at a first location of a previous peripheral device workspace having operational configurations of previous peripheral device functional capabilities controlling operation of the previous peripheral device, and a hardware processor to determine for a new peripheral device node functional capabilities in a new peripheral device workspace operatively coupled to the user information handling system at a second identified location based on a user experiential compliance value to determine whether to apply operational configurations of previous peripheral device functional capabilities to the new peripheral device node and the hardware processor to execute code instructions to configure the new peripheral device node according to those operational configurations.