Aerosol Provision Control Interface for Authorized Data Reporting
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing aerosol provision systems lack secure and efficient mechanisms for authenticating and communicating data between authorized computing systems and aerosol provision devices, leading to potential unauthorized access and data integrity issues.
Innovation Solution
An aerosol provision device equipped with a controller that authenticates inputs from authorized computing systems using cryptographic keys and generates encrypted data reports, ensuring secure communication through wireless or wired connections.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If cryptographic authentication and encrypted data reporting are implemented in aerosol provision systems, then data security and integrity are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a controller as an intermediary component that manages cryptographic operations between the aerosol provision device and external computing systems. The controller handles authentication of inputs using cryptographic keys and encrypts data reports before transmission, thereby implementing security functions without requiring complex cryptographic hardware in the entire device architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements preliminary authentication actions by verifying the authenticity of computing system inputs using cryptographic keys before processing data. This preliminary verification ensures that only authorized data enters the system, preventing unauthorized access and data integrity issues before they can affect system operation.
2Reliability
If authentication mechanisms are added to verify computing system inputs, then data integrity is improved, but operation time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The authentication mechanism performs cryptographic verification as a preliminary action before main data processing. By authenticating inputs early in the data flow using cryptographic keys, the system ensures data integrity is established beforehand, allowing subsequent processing to proceed efficiently without repeated verification overhead.
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AI summary
An aerosol provision device comprising: a controller configured to control operation of the aerosol provision device; a control interface configured to receive inputs and provide input data to the controller corresponding to the inputs, the control interface comprising communication circuitry configured to send data to one or more further devices and receive inputs comprising data from one or more further devices; and a memory for storing a collection of use data comprising a plurality of entries, wherein the control interface is configured to: receive an input comprising an instruction to provide use data; and provide input data to the controller corresponding to the input, wherein the controller is configured to: receive the input data from the control interface; determine whether the input is from an authorised computing system; in dependence of determining that the input is from an authorised computing system, generate a data report comprising one or more entries of the collection of use data; and cause the communication circuitry to send the data report to an authorised computing system.