Multi-Component Data Transmission Using Cryptographic Sharding
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for data transmission in networks with moving components, such as satellites, fail to ensure the integrity of data transmission effectively.
Innovation Solution
A method utilizing a distributed database with cryptographically linked parts, where data is divided into shards and transmitted via multiple components, ensuring integrity through cryptographic links, checksums, and digital signatures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If data is transmitted using a single moving component (e.g., one reflector or transponder), then the system structure is simple, but the data transmission rate is limited and reliability is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the data transmission task into multiple parallel channels by using multiple moving components (first reflector, second reflector, first transponder, second transponder). Each component transmits a portion of the data, allowing the system to achieve higher reliability through redundancy while maintaining manageable complexity through modular architecture
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines multiple moving components to work together in transmitting data simultaneously. The receiver integrates signals from multiple sources (reflectors and transponders) to reconstruct the complete data set, achieving improved reliability and data rate through coordinated operation of multiple components
2Productivity
If multiple moving components are used for data transmission, then data transmission rate and reliability improve, but the system complexity and synchronization difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary synchronization actions by establishing timing relationships between multiple moving components before data transmission begins. The system pre-configures the operational sequences of reflectors and transponders, ensuring they are synchronized and coordinated prior to actual data transmission, thereby reducing complexity during operation
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs feedback mechanisms where the receiver monitors and tracks the positions and transmissions of multiple moving components in real-time. This feedback information is used to adjust and maintain synchronization, allowing the system to achieve high data transmission rates while dynamically managing the complexity of coordinating multiple components
3Ease of operation
If multiple moving components operate independently, then system control is simplified, but data consistency and synchronization are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent designs multiple moving components with universal functionality - each refector and transponder can independently transmit data while following common protocols. This multi-functionality allows them to operate semi-independently with simplified individual control, while the receiver can integrate their outputs to maintain data consistency through standardized processing
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Ensures data integrity by allowing reconstruction of the original data from distributed parts, providing protection against manipulation and errors, and scalability without requiring redundant transmission capacity.
Implementation Method 1
at least one of the moving components is a reflector
Implementation Method 2
at least one of the moving components is a transponder
Data Source
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AI summary
In the method for transmitting data from a transmission origin to a transmission target by way of at least two components that move relative to the transmission origin and/or transmission target, the transmission takes place by way of a distributed database having at least two parts that are transmitted by way of at least two of the components, and wherein the parts of the distributed database are cryptographically linked to one another. The computer program product is designed and configured to transmit data from a transmission origin to a transmission target by way of at least two components that move relative to the transmission origin and/or transmission target in accordance with such a method, which is designed to distribute the data into a distributed database having at least two parts, to cryptographically link these parts to one another and to transmit the parts by way of at least two of the components, wherein the computer program product is preferably configured to request a respective signature of the parts from a component by way of which they are transmitted. The transmitter and/or receiver is designed to perform such a method and preferably has such a computer program product.