Persona-Based IHS Setting Orchestration Across Heterogeneous Platforms
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Solution Overview
Problem
The transition from x86 to ARM-based processors in Information Handling Systems (IHSs) presents challenges in management, customization, optimization, interaction, and configuration, particularly in managing settings based on user personas across heterogeneous computing platforms.
Innovation Solution
A heterogeneous computing platform with an orchestrator that determines user personas using context or telemetry data, allowing for OS-independent modification of settings such as display, audio, and network configurations based on user personas, policies from ITDMs or OEMs, and utilizing AI models for decision-making.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a heterogeneous computing platform with multiple device types is used, then system functionality and performance are improved, but device complexity and management difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an orchestrator as an intermediary component that manages the heterogeneous computing platform. The orchestrator receives context data from various devices, determines user personas, and triggers appropriate setting modifications. This mediator abstracts the complexity of managing multiple device types, allowing each device to focus on its specific function while the orchestrator handles cross-device coordination and persona-based configuration.
2Ease of operation
If user persona-based setting management is implemented, then user experience customization is improved, but system complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the parameter of setting management from device-specific or user-specific to persona-based. Instead of managing settings individually for each device or user, the system defines personas as composite parameters that aggregate multiple attributes (device types, user roles, context data). This parameter transformation simplifies the management complexity by providing a higher-level abstraction that can trigger coordinated changes across multiple devices simultaneously.
3Measurement precision
If context and telemetry data collection is increased, then user persona determination accuracy is improved, but data processing load and privacy concerns increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies partial action by collecting only the specific context and telemetry data necessary for persona determination, rather than comprehensively monitoring all system parameters. The orchestrator selectively gathers data from devices based on what is needed to identify user personas and trigger appropriate settings, avoiding unnecessary data collection and processing. This approach balances accuracy requirements with processing load and privacy considerations.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for managing settings based upon user persona using heterogeneous computing platforms are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a heterogeneous computing platform and a memory coupled to the heterogeneous computing platform, where the memory includes a plurality of sets of firmware instructions, where each of the sets of firmware instructions, upon execution by a respective device among a plurality of devices of the heterogeneous computing platform, enables the respective device to provide a corresponding firmware service, and where at least one of the plurality of devices operates as an orchestrator configured to: determine a user persona associated with a user of the IHS based, at least in part, upon context or telemetry data received from at least a subset of the plurality of devices; and trigger a modification of an IHS setting based, at least in part, upon the determination.