Mobile Device Database Creation via Passive Scanner Identification

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing methods for creating a database using a mobile device require direct influence and are restricted to authorized personnel, limiting access in situations like medical emergencies where non-authorized individuals, such as doctors, cannot retrieve information due to legal and regulatory constraints.

Innovation Solution

A method involving a mobile device, an identification parameter, an input interface, a registration unit, and a scanner where the mobile device is brought into the scanner's range, and additional information is manually entered via the interface, creating a data structure assigned to the identification parameter and stored in a database, allowing non-authorized personnel to access and contribute to the database.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If direct influence on mobile device is required to create database, then database creation is secure and controlled, but access is limited to authorized personnel only

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedatabase securityVSAvoidaccess availability
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a scanner as an intermediary device that passively receives identification parameters from mobile devices without requiring direct influence or manipulation. This mediator enables non-authorized personnel to access the database by simply scanning the automatically transmitted identification parameter, thus expanding access availability while maintaining database security through controlled data collection processes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The mobile device automatically transmits its identification parameter without requiring manual intervention, activation, or direct influence from the user. The device serves itself by broadcasting the identification parameter that the scanner can passively receive, eliminating the need for authorized personnel to manipulate the device while still enabling secure database creation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Manufacturing precision

If manual input of additional information is required, then data accuracy and conscious communication are improved, but time consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata accuracyVSAvoiddata entry time
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a hybrid approach where only essential identification parameters are automatically captured through scanning, while only supplementary additional information requires manual input. This partial automation strategy reduces overall time consumption compared to fully manual data entry, while still maintaining data accuracy for critical fields through automated scanning of the identification parameter.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentEP3348040B1Method for creating a database using a mobile device and an identification parameter
Publication Date: 2020.11.04 ARTEGIC AG
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AI summary

The invention relates to a method for creating a database (11) in which a mobile device (1) and at least one identification parameter (5) are used, wherein an input interface (6), a registration unit (4) and a first scanner (2) with a reception zone (3) are used, wherein: - the mobile device (1) is brought into the reception zone (3) of the first scanner (2), - the identification parameter (5) is sent out by the mobile device (1), - the identification parameter (5) is received by the first scanner (2), - access to the input interface (6) is provided by means of the registration unit (4), - the input interface (6) is operated manually and at least one piece of additional information (9) is input by means of the manual operation, - a data structure (10) is created in which the additional information (9) is associated with the identification parameter (5), - the data structure (10) is stored in the database (11).