Eyewear Experience Hub for Asynchronous Backend Requests
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wearable electronic devices like smart glasses have limited processing and memory resources, leading to inefficiencies in request/response models for communication with backend servers, which can result in compatibility issues and security challenges.
Innovation Solution
A device hub is introduced to optimize the request/response schema for wearable devices by enabling direct communication with backend services, providing standardized security procedures and compatibility, and handling asynchronous requests to ensure service availability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If wearable devices use direct communication with backend servers, then communication efficiency is improved, but device resource consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a device hub as an intermediary component that sits between the wearable device and the backend server. This hub manages and optimizes communication protocols, handling authentication, data formatting, and request routing. By centralizing these functions in the hub rather than requiring the wearable device to perform them directly, the system reduces the computational and energy burden on the wearable device while maintaining efficient server communication.
2Adaptability or versatility
If request/response schema is optimized for wearable devices, then compatibility is improved, but network request complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the communication system into distinct components: the wearable device, the device hub, and the backend server. Each component has a specific role in the request/response cycle. The wearable device sends simplified requests to the hub, which then translates them into appropriately formatted requests for the server and manages the response flow back to the device. This segmentation allows each component to operate with optimized complexity levels for its specific function.
Solution Approach 2:
The device hub serves as a mediator that handles the complexity of request/response schema translation. It receives simple requests from the wearable device, converts them into the appropriate schema for the backend server, and manages the response flow. This intermediary layer abstracts the complexity from both the wearable device and the server interface, improving compatibility while managing complexity centrally.
3Reliability
If security procedures are standardized, then security is improved, but implementation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The device hub acts as a centralized intermediary that handles all security procedures including authentication, authorization, and data encryption. Rather than requiring the wearable device to implement complex security protocols directly, the hub manages these functions centrally. The wearable device simply provides credentials or tokens, and the hub handles the security processing, reducing implementation complexity while maintaining strong security standards.
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AI summary
An electronic eyewear device communicates with a backend service system via a device hub that provides an edge proxy server for a service request from the electronic eyewear device to the backend service system. The device hub provides a standardized request/response optimized schema for providing a standardized communication between the electronic eyewear device and the backend service system in response to the service request in a standardized format adapted to minimize network requests. A standardized communication is provided to at least one backend service of the backend service system, and a standardized response to the standardized service request is received from the backend service(s) and provided to the electronic eyewear device. In one configuration, the device hub may issue asynchronous requests to backend services in response to a service request from the electronic eyewear device and merge responses into a standardized response for the electronic eyewear device.