Automatic Terminal Configuration via User Identification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current communication terminals lack efficient methods for personalizing configurations across multiple devices used by the same user or shared among users, leading to inflexible and time-consuming processes for data retrieval and advertising profiling, with issues in confidentiality and data management.
Innovation Solution
A method and device for automatically activating a communication terminal's configuration based on the current user, involving user identification, retrieval of predefined configuration rules, and recovery of usage data from previous terminals, with confidentiality processing and adaptive parameterization for seamless user experience and data management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual configuration retrieval is used when switching devices, then user data can be transferred, but the process becomes inflexible, complicated, and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically identifying the user when they possess a terminal and proactively retrieving their configuration data from previous devices before the user needs it. This eliminates the need for manual initiation and reduces the time required for configuration transfer.
Solution Approach 2:
The configuration retrieval system operates autonomously by automatically identifying the user, selecting relevant configuration data, and transferring it without requiring user intervention. The system serves itself by managing the entire retrieval process based on user identification and predefined rules.
2Adaptability or versatility
If configuration data is shared across multiple devices, then advertising profiling can be maintained, but confidentiality issues arise when terminals are shared among multiple users
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies different quality characteristics to different portions of configuration data based on the user context. When a terminal is identified as being used by a specific user, only that user's configuration data is retrieved and applied, while other users' data is excluded. This ensures confidentiality while maintaining advertising profiling continuity for the authenticated user.
Solution Approach 2:
User identification acts as an intermediary mechanism that mediates between the need for configuration continuity and confidentiality requirements. By identifying the current user first, the system determines which configuration data should be retrieved, thus preventing unauthorized access to other users' data while maintaining service continuity for the legitimate user.
3Stability of the object's composition
If all usage data is retrieved from previous terminals, then configuration continuity is achieved, but device complexity and data management burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system retrieves only the necessary portion of configuration data rather than all available data. By using predefined retrieval rules and user identification, the system selectively fetches only the configuration items relevant to the current user and context, avoiding the complexity of managing and processing excessive data while maintaining configuration continuity.
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AI summary
The invention concerns the automatic activation of the configuration of a communication terminal (TERi) which is customised according to a current user of the terminal, characterised in that it implements the following: - identifying (E1), at a current time, the current user in possession of said terminal - retrieving (E2) parameterisation information of said terminal which has been predefined by the identified current user, - retrieving (E3) usage data of at least one communication terminal having been used by said current user prior to the current time, according to the retrieved parameterisation information of said terminal, - configuring (E4) said terminal that the current user has in his possession, using said retrieved usage data.