Profiled Wireless Docking Engine for Latency Reduction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users experience suboptimal docking sessions when connecting source devices with publicly available sink devices due to mismatched configurations, leading to limited functionality and increased setup time, particularly due to latency issues in content transmission across various communication paths.
Innovation Solution
An information handling system with a communication subsystem and processing system that provides a profiled wireless docking engine to establish a wireless docking session, retrieve device information, determine a wireless docking profile, and optimize content display based on the source device's capabilities and content requirements, thereby enhancing user experience by configuring an optimal communication path and display format.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple communication paths are used to connect source device and sink device, then connectivity and flexibility are improved, but latency in content transmission increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by establishing communication paths and determining device profiles before actual content transmission begins. The sink device retrieves source device information and determines a wireless docking profile in advance, so that when content needs to be transmitted, the optimal path is already identified and ready, eliminating latency during the transmission phase.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes parameters dynamically by determining device capabilities and content requirements, then selecting communication paths based on these parameters. The wireless docking profile includes parameters that specify which communication paths to use for different types of content and device configurations, allowing the system to optimize transmission speed by selecting appropriate paths based on current conditions.
2Ease of operation
If generic docking configuration is used for public sink devices, then ease of connection is improved, but functionality and user experience deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service by having the sink device automatically retrieve source device information and determine the appropriate wireless docking profile without user intervention. The device autonomously configures the optimal communication paths and display settings based on the detected source device capabilities and content requirements, maintaining ease of connection while achieving customized functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary configuration actions by retrieving device information and determining docking profiles before the actual docking session begins. This preliminary setup ensures that the system is pre-configured for optimal performance with the specific source device, eliminating the need for manual configuration while maintaining high functionality.
3Adaptability or versatility
If manual configuration is performed to optimize docking session, then functionality and performance are improved, but setup time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system eliminates manual configuration by implementing self-service automation. The sink device automatically retrieves source device information, determines the wireless docking profile, and configures optimal communication paths without user intervention. This automation achieves the same performance optimization that manual configuration would provide, but instantaneously upon connection, eliminating setup time entirely.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs all necessary configuration actions preliminarily and automatically during the connection establishment phase. By retrieving device information and determining docking profiles before the user begins using the system, the optimal performance configuration is achieved without requiring any setup time from the user perspective.
Data Source
AI summary
A profiled wireless docking system, includes a source device that includes a source device screen, a display device, and a sink device that is coupled to the display device. The sink device establishes a wireless docking session with the source device. The sink device then retrieves, from the source device, source device information about the source device. The sink device then retrieves, from the source device, content information that is provided for display on the source device screen by the source device. The sink device determines a source device wireless docking profile based on the source device information and the content information. The sink device then provides the content information for display on the display device according to the source device wireless docking profile.