Peripheral Device Settings Sharing Across Gaming Consoles

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face challenges in seamlessly interacting with peripheral devices across different gaming consoles and locations, as existing technologies lack efficient methods for managing and sharing operational settings and control configurations, limiting flexibility and consistency in gaming experiences.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus for generating, storing, and sharing operational settings between peripheral devices, allowing for independent or cooperative setting generation, and enabling remote access control through a graphical user interface, using various communication methods, including device-to-device and cloud-based solutions, to facilitate flexible and portable gaming experiences across different consoles and locations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If users play video games at various gaming consoles with different peripheral devices, then gaming flexibility is improved, but consistency of operational settings deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvegaming flexibilityVSAvoidconsistency of operational settings

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates virtual copies of peripheral device operational settings that can be stored and transferred independently from the physical devices. User profiles containing operational settings are copied between different gaming consoles and peripheral devices, allowing the same control configuration to be replicated across multiple devices without being device-specific.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a communication interface and server system as intermediaries between peripheral devices and gaming consoles. This intermediary layer enables the transfer and synchronization of operational settings across different devices, acting as a mediator that maintains consistency while allowing flexibility in device selection.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If peripheral devices are customized for specific gaming consoles, then operational precision is improved, but portability across devices deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveoperational precisionVSAvoidportability across devices

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent makes peripheral device operational settings universal by enabling them to function across multiple different gaming consoles and device types. The system allows a single set of operational settings to be used with various peripheral devices and consoles through profile transfer, making the settings multi-functional rather than device-specific.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

Operational settings are copied from one peripheral device to another through the communication interface, preserving the precise operational configuration while enabling portability. The virtual copy of the settings maintains the operational precision needed for each specific device type while allowing the same configuration to be replicated across different hardware.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

3Ease of operation

If operational settings are stored locally on each peripheral device, then device independence is improved, but ease of sharing settings deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedevice independenceVSAvoidease of sharing settings

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the functionality of local storage with centralized sharing by combining peripheral devices, communication interfaces, and servers into an integrated system. Operational settings are simultaneously stored locally on each device for independence and centrally accessible through the communication interface for easy sharing, unifying these seemingly conflicting requirements.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

4Adaptability or versatility

If multiple peripheral devices are used across different locations, then gaming accessibility is improved, but management of operational settings deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvegaming accessibilityVSAvoidmanagement of operational settings

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The communication interface and server system serve as intermediaries that automatically manage operational settings across multiple peripheral devices and locations. This intermediary layer handles the complexity of synchronization and transfer, making the management process transparent to users while enabling broad accessibility across different devices and locations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS11058943B2Apparatus and method for managing peripheral device communications

Publication Date: 2021.07.13 GN HEARING AS

AI summary

A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a first peripheral device having a controller to store operational settings tailored for a gaming application, interact with the gaming application using the operational settings and user inputs, and share the operational settings with a second peripheral device for use with the gaming application. Additional embodiments are disclosed.