Client Device Ambient Temperature Data Sharing for Thermal Management

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Solution Overview

Problem

Modern client computing devices face thermal management challenges due to varying ambient temperatures, as they often assume a fixed ambient temperature of 25°C when setting thermal thresholds, leading to inefficient heat management in different environments, resulting in reduced performance or discomfort.

Innovation Solution

Implementing an environmental data sharing protocol that allows client devices to transmit and receive ambient temperature data wirelessly, enabling adjustment of thermal thresholds based on actual environmental conditions, without requiring device pairing or authentication, using existing wireless networks like Bluetooth.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If fixed ambient temperature of 25°C is assumed for thermal threshold settings, then device complexity is reduced, but thermal management effectiveness deteriorates in varying environmental conditions

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvethermal management system complexityVSAvoidthermal management effectiveness

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses its own environmental sensor to detect ambient temperature and automatically adjusts thermal thresholds based on detected conditions, enabling self-adaptation without external intervention or complex configuration

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The thermal threshold values are made dynamic rather than fixed, allowing them to change automatically in response to varying ambient temperature conditions detected by the environmental sensor

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Reliability

If environmental data is shared between multiple devices, then thermal management effectiveness is improved, but device complexity and communication requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvethermal management effectivenessVSAvoiddata sharing system complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The environmental sensor serves multiple functions: it provides data for the device's own thermal management and simultaneously shares data to assist thermal management of other nearby devices, maximizing the utility of a single sensor

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS10856102B2Sharing of environmental data for client device usage

Publication Date: 2020.12.01 INTEL CORP

AI summary

Embodiments are generally directed to sharing of environmental data for client device usage. An embodiment of a client device includes a processor; an environmental sensor to sense an environmental condition, an output of the sensor being a local environmental sensor value; and a wireless receiver to receive environmental data for a certain proximity area from a second client device according to an environmental data sharing protocol via a wireless network. The environmental data sharing protocol allows receipt of the environmental data without requiring pairing, bonding, or other relationship of client devices.