DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANAGING ENVIRONMENT OF SYSTEM

• US 20120166397A1
• Filed: 12/21/2011
• Published: 06/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: LEE, Jeong-Woo, LEE, Shin Kyung, KWON, Oh Cheon
• Application Number:
  US13/332,807
• Publication Number:
  US 20120166397A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/687
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4451 User profiles; Roaming
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces

Abstract

A method in which a system environment management device manages user environment information, the method includes: connecting to a first user terminal; searching for and reading personal information and environment setting information of the first user terminal; analyzing the personal information and environment setting information; determining whether the analyzed personal information and environment setting information is a common element; and storing, if the analyzed personal information and environment setting information is a common element, the analyzed personal information and environment setting information in a common profile storage unit of the system environment management device.

Claims

1. A method in which a system environment management device manages user environment information, the method comprising:

connecting to a first user terminal;

searching for and reading personal information and environment setting information of the first user terminal;

analyzing the personal information and environment setting information;

determining whether the analyzed personal information and environment setting information is a common element; and

storing, if the analyzed personal information and environment setting information is the common element, the analyzed personal information and environment setting information in a common profile storage unit of the system environment management device.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing, if the analyzed personal information and environment setting information is not the common element, the analyzed personal information and environment setting information in an individual profile storage unit of the system environment management device.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

connecting to a second user terminal; and

setting use environment of the second user terminal based on the analyzed personal information and environment setting information.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the setting of use environment of the second user terminal comprises searching for and reading individual information and environment setting information of the second user terminal.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the setting of use environment of the second user terminal further comprises searching for a necessary profile in the profile storage unit.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the setting of use environment of the second user terminal further comprises:

collecting, if a necessary profile is stored in the profile storage unit, the necessary profile; and

changing use environment of the second user terminal based on the collected profile.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the collecting of the necessary profile is performed based on the number of use frequency of the user.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising converting the collected profile to correspond to use environment of the second user terminal.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein the setting of use environment of the second user terminal further comprises setting, if a necessary profile is not stored in the profile storage unit, the use environment by selection of the second user terminal.

10. A method in which a system environment management device manages user environment information, the method comprising:

connecting to a first user terminal;

converting a profile that is collected from personal information and environment setting information of a previously stored second user terminal to correspond to use environment of the first user terminal; and

setting use environment of the first user terminal based on the converted profile.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

separately storing existing individual information and environment setting information of the first user terminal as existing information;

storing individual information and environment setting information that is used for the first user terminal after use of the first user terminal is terminated; and

restoring the existing information.

12. A system environment management device that sets use environment of a second user terminal based on a first user terminal, the system environment management device comprising:

an input/output unit that transmits/receives data to and from each of the first user terminal and the second user terminal;

a profile data storage unit that receives and stores a profile that is used for the first user terminal through the input/output unit; and

an analyzing and processing unit that recognizes a profile in which the second user terminal requests and that sets use environment of the second user terminal based on contents that are stored in the profile data storage unit.

13. The system environment management device of claim 12, further comprising a converter that converts contents that are stored in the profile data storage unit according to a request of the analyzing and processing unit to correspond to the second user terminal.

14. The system environment management device of claim 12, wherein the profile data storage unit stores a profile that is used for the first user terminal in an extensible markup language (xml) standard form.

15. The system environment management device of claim 12, wherein the profile data storage unit comprises a common profile storage unit that stores a profile in which the first user terminal commonly uses with other user terminals, and an individual profile storage unit that stores a profile that is inherently set to the first user terminal.

16. The system environment management device of claim 15, wherein the common profile storage unit stores at least one of a static profile, which is information that does not change and a dynamic profile, which is information that changes.

17. The system environment management device of claim 15, wherein the profile data storage unit further comprises an environment configuration information storage unit that stores a profile that sets to correspond to user preference.

18. The system environment management device of claim 17, wherein the profile data storage unit further comprises a use history profile storage unit that stores a profile of a system environment use history of the user.

19. A system environment management device comprising:

a converter that converts a profile that collects from previously stored individual information and environment setting information of a first user terminal to correspond to use environment of a second user terminal; and

an analyzing and processing unit that sets use environment of the second user terminal based on the converted profile.

20. The system environment management device of claim 19, further comprising a use history profile storage unit that stores the set use environment.