Response Profile GUI for Fast Multi-Parameter Control Setup
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems require extensive user knowledge and input to configure complex response strategies due to numerous parameters and their interactions, making it time-consuming and difficult to design effective responses to environmental and external variable changes.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented response system with a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that uses minimal user inputs, such as sliders and a two-dimensional graph, to generate a multiple-parameter response profile, allowing users to visualize and adjust the profile in real-time, ensuring compliance with predetermined constraints.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional methods are used to design response strategies, then comprehensive control over system parameters is achieved, but the process becomes extremely time-consuming and requires specialist user knowledge
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a response system as an intermediary between the user and the target system. This response system includes a parameter setting engine that automatically generates response profiles based on user inputs, eliminating the need for users to directly configure complex system parameters. The intermediary handles the complexity of parameter relationships and generates appropriate responses automatically.
Solution Approach 2:
The response system performs self-service by automatically generating and adjusting response profiles without requiring extensive user input. The parameter setting engine autonomously processes user inputs, applies predetermined relationships between parameters, and generates complete response strategies, reducing the burden on users to manually configure each parameter.
2Manufacturing precision
If detailed parameter configuration is required, then precise system response control is achieved, but ease of operation deteriorates due to complex interactions between parameters
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the complex parameter configuration process into simpler components. Instead of requiring users to configure all parameters directly, the system divides the task into: (1) user input of high-level parameters, (2) automatic processing by the parameter setting engine, and (3) generation of the response profile. This segmentation reduces operational complexity while maintaining precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes parameters through automated transformation. Users input simple parameters, and the parameter setting engine automatically transforms these into the complete set of response profile parameters through predetermined mathematical relationships, eliminating the need for users to directly adjust complex parameter interactions.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple parameters are configured manually, then comprehensive response control is achieved, but device complexity increases from the user perspective
Solution Approach 1:
The response system acts as an intermediary layer that hides the complexity of multiple parameter configurations from the user. The user interacts with a simplified interface to provide high-level inputs, while the parameter setting engine handles the complexity of coordinating multiple parameters and generating the complete response profile, reducing perceived device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The parameter setting engine provides multi-functional capabilities by automatically handling parameter transformation, relationship management, and response profile generation. This universal processing function consolidates what would otherwise require multiple separate configuration operations, reducing overall system complexity from the user perspective.
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AI summary
There is described a computer-implemented response system configured to create a multiple-parameter response profile to generate a multiple-parameter instruction for a target system to respond to a current state value of a signal being handled by the target system, the response system comprising: a Graphical User Interface (GUI) generator configured to determine values of a plurality of response-profile defining parameters and to generate a displayable GUI, the GUI comprising: a first user-controllable slider control object for setting a value of a reference parameter; a second user-controllable slider object for setting a value of an aggregator parameter, wherein the aggregator parameter has a set of predetermined relationships with each of the plurality of response profile-defining parameters; and a two-dimensional response graph of current state values of the signal against values of a desired response parameter, the two-dimension graph showing the multiple-parameter response profile generated by: the value of the reference parameter; the value of the aggregator parameter which in turn determines the values of the plurality of response-defining parameters; and a set of predetermined constraints; wherein the value of the reference parameter determines a reference point on the two-dimensional graph and the value of the aggregator parameter and the set of predetermined constraints determines the shape of the response profile with respect to the reference point for different values of the current state value; a parameter setting engine configured to generate the multiple-parameter instruction in response to the current state value of the signal using the multiple-parameter response profile; and a communication engine for transmitting the multiple-parameter instruction to the target system to implement a response to the current state value of the signal.