Universal Parameter Interface for Cross-Application Format Translation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Managing changeable parameters across multiple software applications with different formats, machine languages, and language scripts is inefficient and prone to errors due to the need for different input devices and language interpretation, leading to excessive idle time and inaccuracies.
Innovation Solution
A universal parameter management application that translates and presents parameters in a common format, machine language, and language script, allowing users to manipulate graphical representations for seamless parameter changes across diverse applications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple software applications use different formats, machine languages, and language scripts for parameters, then each application can maintain its native functionality, but user efficiency deteriorates due to needing different input devices and language interpretation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a universal interface as an intermediary layer between the user and multiple software applications. This interface translates and standardizes parameter inputs across different applications, eliminating the need for users to adapt to different formats and language scripts for each application, thereby maintaining application-specific functionality while improving user efficiency
2Reliability
If users manually manage parameters across multiple applications with different formats, then each application receives accurate native-format parameters, but time consumption increases due to re-entry and re-running applications
Solution Approach 1:
The universal interface is designed to work with multiple software applications simultaneously through a single standardized interface. Users input parameters once in a unified format, and the system automatically distributes and translates them to the appropriate native formats for each application, eliminating repetitive manual entry and reducing time loss while maintaining parameter accuracy
3Productivity
If a universal interface is implemented to standardize parameter management, then user efficiency improves through consistent input methods, but system complexity increases due to translation and conversion requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The universal interface acts as a centralized mediation layer that handles all translation and conversion operations. While this does increase system complexity, it concentrates the complexity in a single manageable component rather than requiring each application to handle multiple format conversions, making the overall system more maintainable and easier to manage
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AI summary
Some implementations described herein provide techniques and apparatuses for software parameter management through a universal interface. The techniques and apparatuses include a user device including a universal parameter management application. The user device may receive multiple sets of changeable parameters that may be provided to the user device using different formats, different machine languages, and/or different language scripts. The universal parameter management application may translate the multiple sets of changeable parameters into a common format, common machine language, and/or common language script. The user device may then provide each of the multiple sets through a common, changeable graphical representation of the changeable parameters on a graphical user interface of the device. The user may change each of the multiple sets of changeable parameters through an input that changes the common, changeable graphical representation.