Peripheral Management System for Event Capability Reminders
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users often forget to bring peripherals with extended capabilities to events due to their infrequent use, leading to unmet needs for features like image or audio projection, as these peripherals are not always readily available and are frequently left behind.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that associate peripherals with users and monitor upcoming events to identify unmet needs for capabilities, providing reminders to users to bring the necessary peripherals by comparing event requirements with available peripheral capabilities and native device capabilities, using a mobile wireless communication device with a peripheral management controller and event management server.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If peripherals are made available as optional add-ons rather than built-in features, then device complexity and manufacturing cost are reduced, but the reliability of having required capabilities available at events deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by monitoring upcoming events and proactively notifying users about required peripherals before the events occur. This allows users to prepare and bring necessary peripherals in advance, ensuring capability availability without requiring all peripherals to be permanently attached to devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The system establishes feedback loops by continuously monitoring event schedules, comparing required capabilities against available peripherals, and providing notifications to users. This feedback mechanism ensures users are informed about peripheral requirements, bridging the gap between optional peripheral availability and reliable capability access.
2Reliability
If peripherals are kept permanently attached to devices, then capability availability is improved, but loss of time for setup and portability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system notifies users in advance about required peripherals, allowing them to prepare and attach peripherals before events. This preliminary notification eliminates the need for last-minute setup and ensures peripherals are ready when needed, reducing time loss while maintaining capability availability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables dynamic peripheral attachment and detachment based on event requirements. Peripherals are attached only when needed for specific events, allowing the device configuration to adapt dynamically to changing requirements, thus avoiding unnecessary time loss from permanently attached peripherals while ensuring capability availability when required.
3Adaptability or versatility
If more features are built into the main device, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity and manufacturing cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system achieves universality by creating a platform where the main device can work with multiple different peripherals to provide various capabilities. Instead of building all features into one device, the system allows one device to perform multiple functions by interfacing with different peripherals, thus improving adaptability without increasing the base device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments functionality by separating the main device from specialized peripherals. Each peripheral provides specific capabilities that can be attached as needed, allowing the overall system to be highly adaptable while keeping the main device relatively simple. This segmentation enables versatility without concentrating all complexity in one device.
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AI summary
The present invention provides a mobile wireless communication system, network, and method for managing the use of one or more peripherals with a mobile wireless communication device in connection with an upcoming event. The method includes associating one or more peripherals with one or more users, where the one or more peripherals have an extended capability for use with a mobile wireless communication device, and maintaining a list of the peripheral associations and the respective extended capabilities. Upcoming events and any need for corresponding event supporting capabilities are monitored. Any unmet need for event supporting capabilities is compared with the extended capability of peripherals associated with at least some of the one or more users that will be attending the upcoming event. An indication is provided to at least one of the users that will be attending the upcoming event having an associated peripheral that will address the unmet need for event supporting capabilities of a request to bring the associated peripheral of the at least one of the users to the upcoming event for providing the associated extended capability for use with a mobile wireless communication device.