Hardware Time Certification for Electronic Component Testing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Companies face challenges in preventing the unauthorized extended use of machines provided for trial, as existing software-based authorization systems can be easily bypassed, leading to potential losses and cheating by customers.
Innovation Solution
An electronic component testing system equipped with a hardware-based time certification component that checks and updates the authorization period, preventing modification of internal machine time and ensuring compliance with the trial period.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If a software-based authorization system is used to control machine access during trial period, then the authorization management is flexible and easy to implement, but the system can be easily bypassed or cracked by modifying internal machine time
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the software-based authorization system with a hardware-based time certification component. This hardware component is embedded in the machine and cannot be bypassed or modified through software manipulation. The hardware component includes a certification interface that physically connects to a time certification device, ensuring that the authorization period control is secure and cannot be circumvented by modifying internal machine time.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary time certification component that acts as a mediator between the machine and the authorization control system. This component includes a certification interface that communicates with an external time certification device, allowing the machine to verify its authorization status without exposing internal time information that could be manipulated. The intermediary component ensures secure communication and prevents direct access to critical authorization data.
2Ease of operation
If the machine allows trial operation with limited authorization period, then potential customers can evaluate the machine functions on site, but the company risks loss if customers use the machine beyond the authorized period
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the hardware time certification component continuously monitors the authorization period and provides real-time feedback to the machine's control system. When the authorization period expires or is exceeded, the system automatically receives a certification fail signal from the time certification component, which triggers the machine to stop operation or lock the operating program, preventing further unauthorized use and potential losses.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies preliminary action by having the hardware time certification component check the authorization period before allowing the machine to start or continue operation. The system proactively verifies the authorization status in advance, and if the authorization period has expired or been exceeded, it prevents the machine from operating before any potential loss can occur. This proactive approach ensures that customers cannot accidentally or intentionally use the machine beyond the authorized period.
Data Source
AI summary
Herein disclosed are an electronic component testing system and a time certification method. The electronic component testing system comprising a testing device and an interface device. The testing device comprises a backboard, and the backboard electrically connected to at least one test board and comprising a time certification component. The interface device, electrically connected to the testing device, provides a test instruction. Wherein the time certification component stores an authorization start time and an authorization end time. Wherein the testing device starts a test procedure according to the test instruction, the time certification component updates the authorization start time to a first stop time of the test procedure after the test procedure is completed.