Software Management Device Restrictive Operation Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current software management systems fail to effectively manage and display face-to-face selling products to users without an online purchase right, leading to user discomfort and confusion, as these products are not properly recognized or operable within the system.
Innovation Solution
A software management device and system that includes a display for showing a product list with registered face-to-face selling products and a controller that restrictively receives user operations for such products, allowing certain operations like installation, updating, and uninstallation while preventing purchase-related actions, ensuring users can manage their products without feeling restricted.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the system restrictively receives user operations for face-to-face selling products to prevent unauthorized purchases, then purchase security is improved, but user operability and accessibility deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by implementing different operation reception modes for different product types. Face-to-face selling products receive restrictive reception (only installation, updating, uninstallation allowed) while online selling products receive non-restrictive reception (all operations including purchase allowed). This localized differentiation resolves the contradiction by tailoring the level of restriction to the specific product sales channel rather than applying a uniform approach across all products.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments user operations into different categories based on product type. For face-to-face selling products, operations are segmented into permitted ones (installation, updating, uninstallation) and restricted ones (purchase). This segmentation allows the system to maintain security for purchase operations while still providing full operability for management operations, thus resolving the contradiction between security and ease of operation.
2Loss of information
If the system displays face-to-face selling products in the product list, then user awareness and confirmation capability are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by using a single product list display interface that serves multiple product types (both face-to-face selling products and online selling products). The display unit universally presents all software products in one consolidated list, eliminating the need for separate display mechanisms for different product types. This reduces system complexity while maintaining complete product information visibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses visual differentiation (analogous to color changes) by displaying specific information items that indicate the sales channel type for each product. The list includes items showing whether a product is a face-to-face selling product or online selling product, allowing users to distinguish product types through the display without requiring complex separate interfaces. This maintains information visibility while keeping the system relatively simple.
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AI summary
A software management device includes a display which is a section that displays a product list showing a software product satisfying a predetermined condition, and displays a product list including an item indicating a registered face-to-face selling product which is sold on a face-to-face basis and for which license information has been registered, in a case where the registered face-to-face selling product satisfies the predetermined condition, and a controller that non-restrictively receives a user operation with respect to an on-line selling product, which is a software product sold on line, in a case where the user has an on-line purchase right, and restrictively receives a user operation with respect to the registered face-to-face selling product in a case where the user does not have the on-line purchase right.