Data Synthesizer for Basic Phones Using Smartphone Sensor Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Basic mobile communications devices lack advanced capabilities and sensor data, limiting their ability to run sophisticated applications like smartphones, and current solutions rely on device replacement or external hardware additions.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that enables basic mobile devices to request and receive data from nearby enhanced devices, using a data synthesizer to generate and provide datapoints for applications, allowing basic phones to access enhanced services like GPS and accelerometer data through short-range protocols.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If basic mobile communications devices are used, then device complexity and cost are reduced, but the capability to execute advanced applications and access sensor data is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism where smartphone sensor data is shared with basic phones through wireless communication. The smartphone acts as a mediator, providing GPS, accelerometer, and other sensor data to basic phones without requiring the basic phone to have these sensors built-in. This resolves the contradiction by enabling advanced application execution on basic phones through external data sources while maintaining low device complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If device replacement with smartphones is implemented, then access to enhanced sensor data and applications is improved, but user cost and environmental impact increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes smartphone sensor capabilities universally accessible to both smartphones and basic phones. Instead of requiring device replacement, the system allows multiple device types to access the same sensor data resources. Basic phones can utilize smartphone sensor data for applications like mapping, weather, and location-based services, eliminating the need for universal smartphone adoption and reducing device disposal.
3Adaptability or versatility
If external hardware sensors are added to basic phones, then sensor data capability is improved, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of physically adding sensor hardware to basic phones, the system creates a virtual copy of smartphone sensor capabilities through software. Basic phones receive and process sensor data copies from nearby smartphones via wireless communication. This approach provides full sensor capability without any physical hardware additions, maintaining basic phone simplicity while achieving advanced functionality.
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AI summary
The functionality of smartphone applications may be extended to a basic phone, i.e., a phone lacking a particular smartphone capability, by providing a data synthesizer in the basic phone that synthesizers required data points. The data synthesizer may communicate with nearby smartphones to collect relevant data points such as location or motion data. Data points for the basic phone may be calculated from the collected data points. When an application on the basic phone requests data, a data provider proxy may retrieve a synthesized data point from the data synthesizer. In one example, a basic phone without a GPS or similar location module may execute a mapping application by averaging location data from nearby smartphones.