Social App Client for Unified Household Appliance Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for remotely controlling household appliances are complex and provide a poor user experience due to the need for separate client downloads and multiple client installations, making it difficult to manage and control different appliances from various manufacturers.
Innovation Solution
A method and device that utilize a social application client to send control commands to household appliances through a social application server, which registers each appliance with a unique social account, allowing for unified control and management by establishing binding relationships and using a unified protocol for communication with manufacturer servers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a separate client program is downloaded and installed for each household appliance, then the appliance can be remotely controlled, but the process becomes complex and user experience deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the control functionality for multiple household appliances into a single social application client. Instead of requiring separate clients for each appliance, the social application integrates appliance control capabilities, allowing users to manage multiple devices through one unified interface. This reduces the number of installations needed and simplifies the control process.
Solution Approach 2:
The social application client is designed to perform multiple functions: social interaction and household appliance control. By making the client universal, it can handle various control tasks for different types of appliances (air conditioners, refrigerators, televisions, etc.) without requiring separate specialized software for each device type.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple client programs are installed to control different appliances from various manufacturers, then comprehensive control is achieved, but management difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The social application client serves as a universal control platform that can manage multiple appliances from different manufacturers. It implements unified authentication and binding mechanisms that work across diverse appliance types, eliminating the need for users to manage multiple manufacturer-specific clients while maintaining broad compatibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary between the social application client and various household appliances. This server handles the complexity of communication protocols, authentication, and device binding, allowing the client to interact with diverse appliances through a standardized interface without requiring separate management for each device.
3Ease of operation
If a unified social application client is used to control multiple appliances, then user experience improves and control costs decrease, but a binding mechanism between social accounts and appliances is required
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary binding between social application accounts and household appliances during the initial setup phase. The binding relationship is established in advance through a simplified process involving verification codes, so that when users want to control their appliances, the connection is already in place and no complex authentication is needed during operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where the server provides verification codes to users, and users provide feedback by entering these codes to complete the binding process. This interactive feedback loop ensures secure and accurate binding between social accounts and appliances while keeping the process simple and user-friendly.
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AI summary
Provided is a method and device for remotely controlling a household appliance. The method includes: sending, by a social application client, a control command for a target household appliance, wherein the control command includes an account of the target household appliance, and the account of the target household appliance is a unique social account registered in a social application server when the target household appliance leaves a factory; and controlling, by the social application client, the target household appliance corresponding to the account of the target household appliance according to the control command. A user can directly control the household appliance through the social application client, thus improving the efficiency of controlling the household appliance and reducing the cost.