Flexible Registration Framework for Embedded Systems
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modern embedded systems in devices often lack networking capabilities, role-based access control, remote interface capabilities, and remote control capabilities, requiring significant resource investment from device manufacturers for design and implementation, and typically use a single hardcoded registration technique that does not adapt to user or environmental conditions.
Innovation Solution
A flexible registration framework that allows devices to dynamically select and implement various registration techniques based on user, device, and environmental factors, enabling seamless integration with multiple registration methods and easy updates without altering device-side software.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If a single hardcoded registration technique is used in devices, then device complexity is reduced and ease of manufacture is improved, but adaptability to different user and environmental conditions deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic registration by allowing devices to switch between multiple registration techniques (direct registration, indirect registration, network-assisted registration) based on environmental conditions and user needs. The system dynamically selects the appropriate registration method rather than using a single hardcoded technique, resolving the contradiction between manufacturing simplicity and adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent makes the registration system universal by incorporating multiple registration techniques within a single device. The device can perform direct registration, indirect registration through intermediaries, and network-assisted registration, making it adaptable to various environments and user scenarios while maintaining a unified device architecture.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple registration techniques are integrated into devices, then adaptability and security are improved, but device complexity and manufacturer resource requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a registration service as an intermediary that manages multiple registration techniques. Instead of embedding all registration logic directly in the device, the registration service handles the complexity of selecting and executing appropriate registration methods, reducing device complexity while maintaining adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts complex registration logic from the device into a separate registration service. The device only needs to communicate with the registration service, which contains the sophisticated logic for selecting between direct registration, indirect registration, and network-assisted registration methods, thereby reducing device complexity.
3Ease of manufacture
If registration techniques are hardcoded during manufacturing, then ease of manufacture is improved, but ability to update and adapt registration methods deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a dynamic registration system where the registration service can update and modify registration techniques remotely. The system transitions from static hardcoded registration to dynamic updatable registration, allowing manufacturers to improve security and add new registration methods without recalling devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent prepares the device with a flexible registration framework during manufacturing that can accommodate future updates. The device is pre-configured to communicate with the registration service, which will provide updated registration techniques as needed, combining ease of manufacture with future updatability.
4Adaptability or versatility
If networking and remote control capabilities are added to embedded systems, then functionality and user experience are improved, but device complexity and development resources increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses a registration service as an intermediary that handles complex networking and remote control setup. The embedded system only needs basic communication capabilities to interact with the registration service, which manages the sophisticated networking configuration, role-based access control, and remote interface setup, thereby reducing device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The registration service performs self-service by automatically configuring networking capabilities, establishing remote control connections, and setting up role-based access control without requiring complex device-side implementation. The embedded system benefits from these capabilities without bearing the complexity burden.
Data Source
AI summary
A device includes at least one of a mechanical component or an electrical component and an Internet enabled embedded system that controls at least one of the mechanical component or the electrical component. The Internet enabled embedded system is configured to establish a connection to a local area network (LAN), provide data to a registration service via the connection to the LAN, receive from the registration service an instruction to implement a specified registration technique, and implement the specified registration technique. The registration service is configured to bind the embedded system to a user account responsive to satisfaction of a criterion of the specified registration technique.