Random Access Cache for Analog Data Rescanning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current data acquisition technologies face inefficiencies in acquiring high-quality digital representations of analog data, particularly when settings need to be optimized, and in remote deployments where real-time adjustments are challenging, leading to suboptimal data quality and increased costs due to repeated physical reacquisition processes.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of virtual reacquisition methods that allow for the storage of raw data in a cache for reprocessing without physical reacquisition, enabling real-time or non-real-time adjustments of processor settings using analytic engines to enhance data quality, and allowing multiple users to process data with different settings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If physical reacquisition is performed to optimize data quality, then data quality improves, but time consumption and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent stores raw acquired data in a cache memory before processing, enabling future reprocessing without physical reacquisition. This preliminary storage action allows the system to revisit and reprocess data with different settings when quality optimization is needed, eliminating the need for time-consuming physical reacquisition while maintaining the ability to improve data quality.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a digital copy of the acquired data in cache memory that can be repeatedly processed without affecting the original data or requiring physical reacquisition. This copying mechanism allows multiple processing iterations with different settings, improving data quality assessment and optimization while saving time.
2Measurement precision
If remote control capability is added to allow recipient to request rescan with different settings, then data quality optimization improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a controller as an intermediary component that manages communication between the acquisition device and remote users. The controller receives requests for rescan with different settings, manages the processing queue, and coordinates the reacquisition process, thereby enabling remote quality optimization without directly complicating the core acquisition device architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The controller serves multiple functions: it manages remote user access, processes rescan requests, coordinates data retrieval from cache, and manages device settings. This multi-functionality allows the system to achieve remote quality optimization capability without adding separate dedicated components for each function, thereby limiting the increase in overall device complexity.
3Productivity
If raw data is stored in cache for virtual reacquisition, then productivity improves, but storage requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements cache storage that holds raw data for a limited period or up to a certain capacity threshold, rather than storing all historical data indefinitely. This partial storage approach enables virtual reacquisition for recent acquisitions, improving productivity for time-sensitive corrections, while limiting storage requirements by not retaining all possible data permanently.
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AI summary
An efficient method and system to enhance digital acquisition devices for analog data is presented. The enhancements offered by the method and system are available to the user in local as well as in remote deployments yielding efficiency gains for a large variety of business processes. The quality enhancements of the acquired digital data are achieved efficiently by employing virtual reacquisition. The method of virtual reacquisition renders unnecessary the physical reacquisition of the analog data in case the digital data obtained by the acquisition device are of insufficient quality. The method and system allows multiple users to access the same acquisition device for analog data. In some embodiments, one or more users can virtually reacquire data provided by multiple analog or digital sources. The acquired raw data can be processed by each user according to his personal preferences and/or requirements. The preferred processing settings and attributes are determined interactively in real time as well as non real time, automatically and a combination thereof.