Gateway Node Routing Across Embedded Connectivity Interfaces
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Solution Overview
Problem
The challenge lies in designing a connectivity framework that can seamlessly integrate various computing devices with different communication protocols and security mechanisms, as existing solutions often require significant memory footprint, lack end-to-end encryption, and lock users into specific vendor ecosystems.
Innovation Solution
A connectivity framework with a unified application layer stack and messaging protocol that abstracts communication specifics, enabling secure, end-to-end encryption, and supports multiple connectivity technologies, including embedded peripherals, with a common interface for message exchange and secure session establishment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a connectivity framework integrates multiple communication protocols and security mechanisms, then adaptability and versatility are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an abstraction layer that acts as an intermediary between the application layer and various connectivity technologies. This abstraction layer provides a unified interface for message exchange, session establishment, and security management, hiding the complexity of multiple protocols from applications while maintaining compatibility with diverse connectivity technologies including Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and embedded peripherals.
Solution Approach 2:
The connectivity framework implements a universal message exchange mechanism that can operate across different connectivity technologies through a common application layer interface. The framework provides multi-functional capabilities including message routing, session management, encryption, and authentication through unified APIs, allowing single codebase to support multiple connectivity types without requiring technology-specific implementation for each protocol.
2Reliability
If end-to-end encryption is implemented across all communication channels, then security is improved, but processing overhead and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The framework establishes security contexts and encryption keys during session establishment phase before actual data communication begins. The abstraction layer pre-configures security parameters, performs key exchange, and sets up encryption mechanisms in advance, so that during normal message exchange, encryption/decryption operations are straightforward and do not add significant processing overhead to the communication path.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a unified application layer stack is used across different architectures, then portability is improved, but manufacturing precision and architecture-specific optimization are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The framework is segmented into distinct layers: a portable abstraction layer that handles message exchange, session management, and security in a architecture-independent manner, and a lower layer that interfaces with specific connectivity technologies and can be optimized for particular architectures. This segmentation allows the upper layers to maintain portability while the lower layers can be customized and optimized for specific hardware platforms without affecting the unified application interface.
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AI summary
An apparatus comprising a computing device including one or more processors, multiple peripheral communication devices, and a memory to store processor-executable instructions. The one or more processors are to perform operations of a gateway node comprising receiving a message from a first end node via a first one of the peripheral devices, the message including a source identifier comprising a first end node identifier assigned to the first end node and a destination identifier comprising a second end node identifier assigned to a second end node; consulting a routing table at least partially responsive to receiving the message; and forwarding the message to the second end node via a second one of the peripheral devices based on an entry in the routing table, the entry including an interface identifier stored in association with the second end node identifier, the interface identifier corresponding to the second one of the peripheral devices.