Public Device Control via Centralized User Request Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems for controlling public devices in shared environments lack the ability to efficiently integrate user requests and preferences across multiple terminals, leading to suboptimal operation and user dissatisfaction.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus and method that integrates information from multiple user terminals to generate a data stream for controlling public devices, including sorting, processing, and transmitting control information, while also considering user opinions and priority settings, to ensure that public services are tailored to user demands.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If control information from multiple user terminals is directly transmitted to public devices without integration, then each terminal can independently control public devices, but the system cannot efficiently integrate user requests and preferences leading to suboptimal operation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a control server as an intermediary between user terminals and public devices. The control server receives control information from multiple terminals, integrates user requests and preferences, generates optimized data streams, and transmits them to public devices. This mediator resolves the contradiction by enabling efficient integration of multiple user inputs without requiring direct complex interactions between terminals and devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The control server merges control information from multiple user terminals into a single integrated data stream. By combining requests and preferences from different users and processing them centrally, the system achieves efficient integration while maintaining manageable complexity through unified control logic.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the system integrates information from multiple terminals to generate unified control data streams, then service quality improves by meeting user preferences, but the processing complexity and data integration requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The control server segments the complex integration task into distinct functional modules: receiving control information from terminals, extracting user preferences, generating data streams, and transmitting to public devices. This segmentation allows each module to handle specific aspects of the integration process, reducing overall processing complexity while maintaining adaptability to user preferences.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transforms control information from multiple terminals into standardized data stream parameters that can be efficiently processed and transmitted. By changing the parameter representation of user inputs into a unified data stream format, the system achieves better adaptability while managing processing complexity through parameter standardization.
3Reliability
If control information is processed and integrated centrally before transmission, then user requests are better coordinated, but the time required for information processing increases
Solution Approach 1:
The control server performs preliminary processing of control information by pre-integrating user requests and generating optimized data streams before transmission to public devices. This preliminary action ensures better control coordination by resolving conflicts and integrating preferences in advance, while the efficient stream generation minimizes the time penalty.
Solution Approach 2:
The system maintains continuous processing of control information from multiple terminals, continuously generating and transmitting optimized data streams to public devices. This continuous operation reduces idle time and ensures that control coordination is maintained without significant delays, as the processing pipeline remains active and flowing.
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AI summary
Provided are a method and apparatus for controlling a public device that provides services that are shared by a plurality of users. The plurality of users may control an operation of the public device in order to provide a public service desired by the users.