Shared Ambiance Apparatus Profile Mediation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems lack the ability to effectively manage and synchronize ambiance settings for multiple users within a shared location area, such as music, temperature, and digital content, leading to inconsistent experiences and inefficient use of digital media technologies.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that utilize a Shared Ambiance Apparatus (SAA) to receive and link user IDs with data structures, determining ambiance settings based on predefined parameters and generating digital signals to communicate these settings, allowing for synchronized experiences across users within a location.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a single operator selects music and settings for a public place, then the operator can control the ambiance, but multiple users experience inconsistent and unsynchronized preferences
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments users into different groups (e.g., party creators, guests, VIPs) with different levels of control and preferences. Each user has their own profile with personalized settings, but the system synchronizes these preferences across the group to create a unified ambiance experience that adapts to collective user needs rather than a single operator's choices.
Solution Approach 2:
The ambiance control system serves multiple functions simultaneously: it acts as a centralized control system for operators, a personalized preference manager for individual users, and a synchronization mechanism that harmonizes these conflicting needs. The system can operate in different modes (operator-controlled, user-controlled, or hybrid) to adapt to various social contexts.
2Ease of operation
If portable devices manage digital content for single users, then personal preferences are maintained, but shared location experiences remain unsynchronized
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors and detects the presence, preferences, and behavior of multiple users in the shared location. It collects feedback from each user's portable device about their music preferences, temperature preferences, and content choices, then uses this feedback to dynamically adjust and synchronize the ambiance settings across all devices, ensuring everyone experiences a harmonized environment that reflects collective preferences.
Solution Approach 2:
A centralized server or cloud-based platform acts as an intermediary between individual users' portable devices and the shared location's ambiance control systems. This intermediary receives preference data from multiple users, processes it according to predefined algorithms and user roles, and distributes synchronized control signals back to both the portable devices and the physical environment controls (speakers, thermostats, lighting).
3Reliability
If digital content is streamed without local storage, then unauthorized copying is prevented, but real-time sharing among multiple users is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements a nested architecture where a centralized cloud storage system contains the master content library with full protection measures, while local portable devices contain synchronized playlists and metadata. The cloud system nests the authoritative content source within a distributed network of user devices that can access and share content in real-time through coordinated streaming, maintaining both security and sharing efficiency.
Data Source
AI summary
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method is presented for mediating among a plurality of datagrams containing data, settings or preferences to produce ambience settings applicable to a location area that is shared by a plurality of users wherein at least one of said users is associated to one datagram among said plurality of datagrams.