Universal Parameter Management Interface for Mixed-Format Software
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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 displays 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
1Measurement precision
If different formats, machine languages, and language scripts are used for each software application's parameters, then each application can maintain its native functionality and precision, but the user must use different input devices and interpret different languages, leading to excessive idle time and errors
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a universal parameter management application as an intermediary layer between the user and multiple software applications. This mediator translates parameters from various application-specific formats (different machine languages and language scripts) into a unified format that the user can interact with consistently, eliminating the need to learn multiple input methods while maintaining precise parameter transmission to each application
Solution Approach 2:
The universal parameter management application provides a single unified interface that can manage parameters across multiple different software applications simultaneously. This universal tool performs the function of parameter management for diverse applications without requiring separate tools or methods for each application, thereby reducing idle time and improving operational efficiency
2Productivity
If a universal interface is implemented to manage parameters across multiple applications, then idle time is reduced and operational efficiency improves, but the complexity of the parameter management system increases due to translation requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The universal parameter management application serves as an intermediary that handles all translation and format conversion complexities internally. This mediator absorbs the system complexity by implementing translation engines that convert between various machine languages and language scripts, while presenting a simplified unified interface to users, thus improving productivity without exposing users to the underlying complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates and maintains a universal parameter representation that copies and translates parameter data between different application formats. This copying mechanism allows the universal interface to work with multiple application-specific formats simultaneously, managing the complexity of supporting diverse applications through a single unified parameter model that can be translated as needed
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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.