Aerosol Consumable Authorization via Remote Identifier Verification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing aerosol provision systems, such as electronic cigarettes, face challenges in ensuring correct and safe operation with authorized consumable components to prevent overheating or inadequate vapor generation due to the use of incorrect or incompatible consumables.
Innovation Solution
An aerosol provision device equipped with a transceiver and processor that obtains unique identification information from a consumable component, sends it over a communications network to a remote server for authorization verification, and enables operation only if the consumable is authorized based on a list of approved identifiers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If authorization verification via communications network is implemented, then consumable component compatibility and safety are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
A remote server acts as an intermediary between the aerosol provision device and consumable components. The server stores and manages the database of authorized identifiers, processing authorization queries from devices without requiring the device itself to maintain complex authorization databases. This mediator approach resolves the contradiction by externalizing the complexity from the device to the server infrastructure.
Solution Approach 2:
Authorization verification is performed preliminarily before allowing the device to operate with a consumable component. The device queries the remote server to verify the consumable's identifier before enabling vapor generation. This preliminary check ensures compatibility and safety are validated in advance, preventing incorrect pairings while maintaining simple device operation during actual use.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If remote server verification is implemented, then operation safety is improved, but communication network dependency increases
Solution Approach 1:
The authorization verification is performed as a preliminary action before the device operates with the consumable component. The device sends the consumable's identifier to the remote server and receives verification before enabling vapor generation. This ensures safety is validated in advance through network communication, while the device maintains simple operation during actual use without requiring continuous network connectivity.
3Measurement precision
If identifier-based authorization is implemented, then consumable authentication accuracy is improved, but information processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The authorization database and identifier verification logic are extracted from the device and placed on the remote server. The device only needs to extract and send the consumable's identifier to the server, which then handles the complex information processing of verifying against the authorized identifiers database. This extraction approach achieves high authentication accuracy while minimizing the information processing burden on the device itself.
Data Source
AI summary
An aerosol provision device is configured to couple to a consumable component, and includes a transceiver configured for connection of the device to a communications network; and a processor configured to: obtain identification information from a consumable component engaged with the device, the identification information being uniquely provided to the consumable component or to a group of consumable components to which the consumable component belongs; configure the identification information as an identifier for the consumable component; send, via the communications network, an authorization query including the identifier to a remote server holding a list of one or more authorized identifiers; receive, via the communications network, an authorization response to the authorization query from the remote server; and identify the consumable component as authorized if the authorization response indicates that the identifier is comprised in the list of authorized identifiers.