NTP Server Synchronization for Bio-telemetry Data
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing technologies fail to effectively stream bio-telemetry information from multiple participants during online sessions and synchronize it with other online data, limiting advanced analysis and data standardization across different platforms.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a system that uses a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) bot as a Network Time Protocol (NTP) server to synchronize clock times of client devices, allowing bio-telemetry data from multiple users to be streamed and correlated accurately within online sessions, enabling meaningful insights and data synchronization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If bio-telemetry data is captured from multiple client devices during online sessions, then data richness and analysis capability are improved, but time synchronization accuracy deteriorates due to lack of centralized time coordination
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a Network Time Protocol (NTP) server as an intermediary component that mediates time synchronization between multiple client devices and the central system. The NTP server receives time synchronization requests from client devices, provides accurate time references, and enables precise temporal correlation of bio-telemetry data across distributed devices without requiring direct peer-to-peer synchronization.
2Measurement precision
If clock times of multiple client devices are synchronized with NTP server, then data correlation accuracy is improved, but system complexity increases due to additional synchronization infrastructure
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the NTP server multi-functional by integrating it with the existing online session infrastructure. The same NTP server that provides time synchronization also works seamlessly with the video conferencing platform, bio-telemetry capture systems, and data processing pipelines. This universal approach allows a single component to serve multiple functions (timekeeping, data correlation, session coordination) without proportionally increasing system complexity.
3Loss of information
If bio-telemetry data is streamed from multiple users, then research insight quality is improved, but data standardization across platforms deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by establishing time synchronization with the NTP server before bio-telemetry data capture begins. Each client device synchronizes its clock with the NTP server at the start of the online session, ensuring that all subsequent data collection occurs within a pre-coordinated time framework. This preliminary time alignment enables standardized temporal referencing across diverse platforms and devices, facilitating data aggregation and comparison without requiring post-processing realignment.
Data Source
AI summary
A system can, in response to determining to capture bio telemetry data associated with client devices, synchronize respective second clock times of respective client devices with a first clock time maintained by a network time protocol server, wherein the respective client devices are configured to capture the bio telemetry data of respective users associated with the client devices, wherein the respective users are associated with respective user accounts. The system can synchronize the bio telemetry data of the respective users based the respective second clock times.