Data Providing System Segmentation for Shared Device Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing data providing systems for shared devices among multiple users are inefficient as they often allow a single user to occupy the device for extended periods, and lack user-specific data designation capabilities.
Innovation Solution
A data providing system comprising a data providing apparatus, a data utilizing apparatus, and a communication apparatus, where users can request and receive identification information to access and designate specific data, preventing device monopolization by storing associations of identification and data specifying information securely.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a device is made available for common use by multiple users, then the utilization efficiency of the device is improved, but the risk of a single user occupying the device for extended periods increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the data access process into distinct phases: identification information request, identification information provision, data specifying information input, and data provision. This segmentation allows multiple users to interact with the shared device in an organized manner, preventing monopolization while maintaining efficient utilization.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by first requesting and providing identification information before allowing data access. This preliminary authentication step ensures that only authorized users can access the device and data, preventing unauthorized occupation while enabling efficient service delivery to legitimate users.
2Reliability
If user-specific data designation capability is added to a shared device, then user experience and data security are improved, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces identification information and data specifying information as intermediaries between users and the shared device. These intermediaries enable secure, user-specific data access without requiring complex authentication mechanisms or device modifications, thus maintaining simplicity while enhancing security.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses identification information (such as IDs or codes) as simplified copies of user identity, and data specifying information as copies of data selection criteria. This copying approach allows secure user-specific data designation without implementing complex user profile storage or access control mechanisms in the shared device.
3Adaptability or versatility
If identification information request and data designation functions are integrated, then user-specific data access is enabled, but the operation time required increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements periodic action by first requesting identification information, then subsequently requesting data specifying information only when needed for specific data access. This periodic, on-demand information collection reduces unnecessary operational steps and minimizes time loss while maintaining adaptability for user-specific data access.
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AI summary
A data providing system is provided with a data providing apparatus, a data utilizing apparatus configured to be connected with the data providing apparatus in a communicable manner, and a communication apparatus configured to be connected with the data providing apparatus in a communicable manner. The data utilizing apparatus is configured to send an identification information-sending request to the data providing apparatus, output identification information sent from the data providing apparatus, send the identification information to the data providing apparatus, and utilize data sent from the data providing apparatus. The communication apparatus is configured to allow a user to input the identification information and to designate data specifying information, and send the input identification information and the designated data specifying information to the data providing apparatus. The data providing apparatus is configured to send the identification information to the data utilizing apparatus in accordance with the identification information-sending request sent from the data utilizing apparatus, store the sent identification information, store an association of the identification information and the data specifying information sent from the communication apparatus on a condition that the identification information sent from the communication apparatus has been stored, and send data to the data utilizing apparatus. The data is specified by the data specifying information associated with the identification information sent from the data utilizing apparatus.