Group Coordinator for Secure Wireless Information Sharing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current systems for wireless communication and information management lack efficient methods for secure, seamless sharing and synchronization of informational content across multiple mobile wireless devices and servers, particularly in ensuring privacy and managing complex relationships between devices and servers.

Innovation Solution

The implementation of a group coordinator and wireless server architecture that utilizes secure communication channels, unique identifiers, and share groups to manage and disseminate information among mobile wireless devices, enabling secure sharing and synchronization based on privacy settings and trusted relationships.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If secure communication channels and unique identifiers are implemented to manage information sharing across multiple devices, then security and privacy are improved, but device complexity and system architecture complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovesecurityVSAvoidsystem architecture complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

A group coordinator entity is introduced as an intermediary to manage share groups and coordinate communication between wireless devices. The coordinator handles the complexity of secure channel management, unique identifier assignment, and share group membership, thereby improving security while preventing the complexity from being distributed to individual devices. This mediator approach resolves the contradiction by centralizing the complex security management functions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If share groups and trusted relationships are established to manage information dissemination, then privacy control is improved, but the complexity of managing relationships between devices and servers increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprivacy controlVSAvoidrelationship management complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements automatic share group formation and relationship management through predefined criteria and algorithms. Devices automatically establish trusted relationships based on shared identifiers and coordinator-managed rules, eliminating the need for manual relationship configuration. This self-service approach improves privacy control through automated trust verification while reducing the complexity of managing device-server relationships.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Productivity

If multiple wireless devices and servers are connected through a coordinated architecture, then information sharing efficiency is improved, but communication overhead and system coordination complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation sharing efficiencyVSAvoidcommunication overhead
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The group coordinator pre-establishes secure communication channels, assigns unique identifiers, and configures share group memberships before information sharing begins. This preliminary setup eliminates the need for repeated authentication and channel establishment during actual data transmission, thereby improving information sharing efficiency while minimizing communication overhead during operational phases.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS8005922B2Remote control in a wireless communication system
Publication Date: 2011.08.23 BLACKBERRY LTD
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AI summary

Apparatus and methods for wireless systems provide a mechanism to enhance the communication capabilities of wireless users. In an embodiment, a mobile wireless device is configured to access and control an application executable on a wireless server. In an embodiment, a wireless server is configured to execute an application resident on the wireless server under the control of a set of commands from a mobile wireless device. In various embodiments, the executed application can be an application different from an application to maintain and control a wireless communication link between the mobile wireless device and the wireless server.