Master-Slave Interface for Vehicular Data Routing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current vehicular systems require expensive, complex remote displays for interfacing with onboard sensors and data devices, and lack efficient methods for data routing and control, especially in marine applications where standalone, user-friendly solutions are needed.
Innovation Solution
The Master/Slave Interface Device (MSID) enables cost-effective data routing and control by using a dual-mode device that can act as either a master or slave to onboard vehicular devices, leveraging existing handheld devices for processing and display, and providing wireless communication to consolidate data from various sensors and displays.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If expensive all-in-one remote displays are used for interfacing with onboard sensors and data devices, then user-friendly control and display functionality is achieved, but system cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by enabling standard handheld devices (smartphones, tablets) to perform multiple functions including displaying sensor data, providing user controls, and interfacing with various vehicular systems. The handheld device serves as a universal interface that can work with different sensor types and vehicular systems without requiring dedicated expensive displays for each function.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary component (interface device or system) that mediates between the handheld device and onboard sensors/data devices. This intermediary handles the complex communication protocols and data processing, allowing the handheld device to provide user-friendly control while the intermediary manages the technical complexity of interfacing with multiple sensor types.
2Adaptability or versatility
If expensive all-in-one remote displays are used for data routing and control, then comprehensive data access is achieved, but system cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables universal data access by allowing handheld devices to interface with multiple types of onboard sensors and data devices through a standardized interface. The interface device provides versatile data routing capabilities that work with various sensor types (depth sounders, GPS, weather instruments) without requiring specialized expensive displays for each data type.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the system into distinct functional components: the handheld device for user interaction, the interface device for data routing and processing, and the onboard sensors for data collection. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently, reducing overall system cost while maintaining comprehensive data access capability.
3Ease of operation
If standalone remote displays are used for vehicular interface, then independent operation is achieved, but system cost and complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies self-service by enabling handheld devices to independently interface with vehicular systems using their own built-in processors, displays, and communication capabilities. The handheld device serves itself as the remote interface without requiring external powered-on devices, leveraging the user's existing personal devices for the interface function.
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AI summary
In certain embodiments, the system of the invention automatically replicates a user's personal computing environment and provides associated remote server access using authentication credentials and data files supplied by a local handheld device as coordinated by session level software common to the handheld device, the replicated system, the system on which the replication occurs, and the remote servers. The application enables a handheld computing device to transfer a user's various online account credentials to a user's other computing devices securely and automatically. Thereafter the other computing device accesses a user's cloud-based storage and various on-line accounts and also pulls selected documents, bookmarks and related information directly from a user's handheld. The other computing device thereby essentially becomes a clone of a user's primary personal computer, complete with bookmarks, email account access, documents in a user's desktop and My Documents folder, pictures, music, and on-line content subscription access.