Virtual Desktop Peripheral Device Management Interface
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Solution Overview
Problem
The management of peripheral devices in a virtualization environment is cumbersome and prone to errors, requiring users to navigate complex device manager interfaces to associate, disassociate, and persist assignments across virtual machines.
Innovation Solution
A user-friendly interface and method for managing peripheral devices in a virtualization environment, allowing users to easily associate, disassociate, and designate persisting associations between peripheral devices and virtual machines through intuitive drag-and-drop operations and persistent association designations, facilitated by a control virtual machine or hypervisor.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users manage peripheral device assignments through the device manager interface, then device assignment functionality is achieved, but the process becomes cumbersome and error-prone
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a virtual desktop interface as an intermediary between the user and the device manager system. This virtual desktop provides a simplified, intuitive interface that mediates complex device assignment operations, allowing users to manage peripheral devices through drag-and-drop interactions rather than navigating the complex device manager interface directly
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a simplified copy or representation of the device management functionality within the virtual desktop environment. Instead of requiring users to interact with the full-featured but complex device manager, the system provides a streamlined copy of the essential assignment functions that is easier to use while maintaining the core functionality
2Productivity
If users manually assign peripheral devices through device manager steps, then device associations are established, but the process is time-consuming and burdensome
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-configuring the virtual desktop environment with device assignment capabilities built-in. The system prepares the interface and assignment mechanisms in advance, so when users need to assign devices, they can do so immediately through the prepared virtual desktop interface rather than navigating through multiple steps in the device manager
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the essential device assignment functionality from the complex device manager interface and places it directly into the virtual desktop environment. This extraction separates the core assignment function from the surrounding complexity, allowing users to perform assignments quickly without being burdened by unnecessary interface elements
3Stability of the object's composition
If persistent associations are implemented across reboots, then configuration persistence is achieved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service by enabling the virtual desktop system to automatically manage persistent device associations without requiring user intervention. The system automatically detects, saves, and restores device assignments across reboots, making the persistence mechanism transparent to users while maintaining configuration stability
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AI summary
An electronic device is provided for managing assignment of peripheral devices in a virtualization environment. The electronic device can include a user interface configured to display one or more representations of virtual desktops. The virtual desktops are associated with corresponding virtual machines. The electronic devices can also include one or more processors configured to provide to the user interface to display one or more representations of the peripheral devices based on detection that the peripheral devices are communicatively coupled to a control virtual machine of the virtualization environment. The one or more processors can be further configured to detect one or more first inputs received with respect to the one or more representations of the virtual desktops and the one or more representations of the peripheral devices; and facilitate to establish one or more associations between the peripheral devices and the virtual machines.