Ephemeral ID Beacon for Universal Device Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current universal identification systems are hindered by the siloed model, where users need to install multiple applications on their devices, leading to memory issues, performance degradation, and security concerns, as they require users to actively manage and interact with various vendor-specific apps, which is cumbersome and insecure.
Innovation Solution
A system that uses a beacon apparatus, such as a smartphone, to broadcast an ephemeral ID, detected by scanner devices, which communicates with a dedicated server to verify user data, allowing seamless interactions with various devices without the need for users to actively manage multiple apps or accounts, thereby reducing the burden on smart devices and enhancing security.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users install multiple vendor-specific applications on their smart devices to interact with different devices, then users can access various device functionalities, but the device memory is consumed and performance degrades
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a universal identification system with a dedicated server that acts as an intermediary between users and various devices. Instead of installing multiple vendor-specific applications, users install a single application that communicates with the dedicated server. The server handles device-specific protocols and translations, enabling universal device access without requiring multiple local applications on the smart device.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal identification signal framework where a single application provides multi-functional access to various devices from different manufacturers. The system uses a standardized identification protocol that works across multiple device types and vendors, eliminating the need for separate vendor-specific applications and reducing overall memory consumption while maintaining broad device compatibility.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users install multiple vendor-specific applications on their smart devices, then users can interact with various devices, but device performance becomes sluggish due to multiple applications running simultaneously
Solution Approach 1:
The dedicated server acts as a remote intermediary that handles complex device communication protocols and data processing. By moving these computationally intensive operations to the server, the local smart device is relieved of the burden of running multiple heavy applications, thereby maintaining high performance while still providing access to multiple device types through the single application interface.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of having multiple full-featured applications locally, the system uses a single lightweight application that copies or replicates the essential identification and communication functionality. The application communicates with the dedicated server which maintains the full device-specific protocols and capabilities, allowing the local device to access multiple device types without hosting multiple complete application copies.
3Adaptability or versatility
If users install multiple vendor-specific applications, then users can access different device ecosystems, but the device becomes unstable with memory management problems and crashes
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal identification framework where a single application handles communication with multiple device types and vendors through standardized protocols. This eliminates the need to manage multiple separate applications, each with their own memory allocation and process management, thereby reducing the risk of memory leaks, conflicts, and crashes while maintaining broad device compatibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The dedicated server acts as a stable intermediary that manages all device-specific communication protocols and data formats. By centralizing these operations on the server side, the system isolates potential instability issues from the user's smart device. The single application on the user device communicates through well-defined interfaces with the server, reducing the complexity and potential failure points in the local device's software architecture.
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AI summary
A security system includes a physical sensor for determining presence of a first number of users within a detecting region, short-range readers for determining presence of a second number of authorized smart devices in response to ephemeral tokens, wherein the users may remain anonymous to the short-range readers, authentication servers for determining ephemeral tokens for smart devices in response to identifiers of the readers and the smart devices, a physical output device configured to provide a user detectable output, and a processor for determining whether the first number of users is different from the second number and for directing the physical output device to provide the user detectable output.