Shared Device Personalization via User-Triggered Configuration Sync

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Solution Overview

Problem

Shared devices often have initial configurations that do not align with individual user preferences, leading to a poor user experience when users need to use these devices.

Innovation Solution

A method and terminal for controlling shared devices, which involves establishing a connection between a user device and a shared device, triggering the shared device to acquire personalized configuration information from the user device, and configuring the shared device accordingly.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If shared devices use initial configuration, then device complexity is reduced and ease of manufacture is improved, but user experience and adaptability deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconfiguration adaptabilityVSAvoidconfiguration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by storing user configuration preferences in advance on a server or user device. When a user accesses a shared device, the pre-prepared configuration information is automatically transmitted and applied, eliminating the need for real-time configuration adjustments and resolving the contradiction between adaptability and complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

A server acts as an intermediary between user devices and shared devices. The server stores configuration information and facilitates automatic transmission of personalized settings to shared devices, enabling users to access customized configurations without manually configuring each shared device, thus improving adaptability while maintaining simplicity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Ease of operation

If manual configuration is required for shared devices, then configuration precision is improved, but ease of operation and time consumption deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconfiguration easeVSAvoidconfiguration time
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables self-service by automatically transmitting configuration information from the user device to the shared device without requiring manual intervention. The user simply needs to establish a connection, and the system autonomously completes the configuration process, dramatically improving ease of operation and eliminating time consumption for manual configuration

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where the shared device automatically receives and applies configuration information from the user device. This automated feedback loop ensures that configuration preferences are accurately transmitted and applied without user intervention, resolving the contradiction between configuration precision and operational efficiency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentEP3618360B1Method and terminal for controlling shared device
Publication Date: 2025.05.28 GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP LTD
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AI summary

Implementations of the present application disclose a method and a terminal for controlling a shared device, the method includes: a user device establishes a connection with a shared device; the user device triggers the shared device to acquire personalized configuration information of a user, where the personalized configuration information is used for indicating a configuration preference of the user for the shared device. The method and the terminal in the implementations of the present application are beneficial to improving user experience.