Roaming Electronic Assistant for Seamless Environment Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current electronic assistants lack portability, requiring users to reconfigure settings and authorize devices when traveling to new environments, leading to inconvenience and inefficiency.
Innovation Solution
A roaming electronic assistant system that uses a server application to learn user preferences and authorization credentials in the home environment, maps them to destination devices using API information, and generates authentication tokens for seamless access to entertainment services without requiring users to re-enter credentials.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If electronic assistant controls devices in home environment, then user convenience is improved, but portability to different locations deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent copies user preferences, authorization credentials, and device configuration data from the home environment to a portable storage medium or cloud service. This allows the electronic assistant to replicate the home control experience at destination locations without requiring physical presence of home devices or manual reconfiguration.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a portable electronic device as an intermediary that stores and manages user preferences and authorization credentials. This intermediary enables seamless transition between locations by mediating between the user and destination environment devices, eliminating the need for direct home-device connection.
2Reliability
If electronic assistant requires device authorization credentials, then security is improved, but user effort and time required deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary actions by storing authorization credentials and device authorization tokens in advance during the home environment setup phase. This preliminary authentication allows the electronic assistant to automatically access destination devices without requiring users to perform time-consuming authorization procedures at each new location.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables the electronic assistant to automatically manage its own authentication by using stored credentials to self-authorize with destination devices. This self-service approach eliminates the need for user intervention in the authorization process while maintaining security through pre-established credentials.
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AI summary
A method of controlling an environment using a roaming electronic assistant. The method comprises receiving user environment setting preferences, user entertainment service authorizations, and user entertainment authorization credentials from devices in a home environment by an application executing on a computer system, establishing communication by the application with a destination location, receiving information about application programming interfaces (APIs) of devices located in the destination location by the application, establishing communication with the devices located in the destination location by the application based on the API information, whereby a presentation layer of the application is enabled to control the environment of the user at the destination location based on the user environment setting preferences, the user entertainment service authorizations, and the user entertainment authorization credentials.