Workspace Docking Verification for Active Reservation Matching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing workspace reservation systems fail to verify that the user occupying a reserved workspace is the intended user, leading to resource inefficiencies and conflicts, and they require additional deployments and management costs for verification.
Innovation Solution
Utilize information from a computer docking station and a user's computing device to verify the user's identity against reservation records by comparing identifiers associated with both devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If workspace reservation systems allow users to reserve workspaces without verification, then ease of operation is improved, but reliability deteriorates due to inability to verify user identity
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses the user's own computing device to perform verification. When the user connects their device to the workspace resource, the device automatically provides identifiers that the server uses to verify the user's identity against the reservation record, eliminating the need for manual verification while maintaining ease of operation
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs verification automatically when the user connects their computing device to the workspace resource. The server obtains identifiers from the user's device and compares them against the reservation record before allowing workspace access, ensuring verification happens at the appropriate moment without additional user effort
2Reliability
If additional verification hardware is deployed to verify user identity, then reliability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses the user's existing computing device for multiple purposes: as the workspace resource identifier source, as the user identity carrier, and as the verification participant. This eliminates the need for separate verification hardware while maintaining reliability
Solution Approach 2:
The server acts as an intermediary that receives identifiers from the user's computing device and compares them against the reservation record. This software-based intermediary replaces the need for complex hardware verification systems while maintaining reliable identity verification
3Measurement precision
If additional verification hardware is deployed, then measurement precision is improved, but loss of energy increases due to additional deployments and management
Solution Approach 1:
The user's computing device automatically provides its identifiers to the server for verification. This self-service approach eliminates the need for manual verification processes and additional hardware management, reducing management costs while maintaining verification accuracy
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses digital identifiers (copies of user identity information) stored on the user's computing device instead of physical verification hardware. This digital copying approach reduces the need for physical deployments and associated management costs while maintaining precise verification
Data Source
AI summary
An identity of a software user occupying a workspace is verified against a reservation for the workspace using information associated with a workspace resource, such as a computer docking station, and information associated with a computing device of the user. A determination may be made that a computing device is connected to a computer docking station located at a workspace. Based on the computing device connecting to the computer docking station, a first identifier associated with the computing device and a second identifier associated with the computer docking station may both be obtained from the computing device. The first identifier and the second identifier may be compared against a reservation record associated with the workspace to determine whether a user of the computing device has an active reservation for the workspace. Output for display at the computing device may then be provided based on an outcome of the comparison.