Opportunistic Resource Sharing Between Mobile Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current power management and redundancy techniques in electronic devices, particularly mobile devices, fail to efficiently conserve energy and maintain functionality when devices are inactive or experience resource failures, leading to increased power consumption, heat production, and reduced device longevity.
Innovation Solution
Implementing resource sharing techniques among wireless devices to share homogeneous device resources, such as GPS receivers, allowing one device to turn off redundant resources and utilize another's, thereby reducing power consumption and enhancing redundancy through a resource share application that identifies, selects, and manages shared resources between devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If each device maintains its own homogeneous resources (e.g., GPS receivers) independently, then device functionality and reliability are ensured, but power consumption and heat production increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges homogeneous device resources across multiple wireless devices into a shared resource pool. Devices that have idle homogeneous resources (e.g., GPS receivers) share them with other devices that need them, allowing receiving devices to turn off their own resources and consume shared resources instead. This combining approach maintains functionality while reducing overall power consumption and heat production across the device group.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal resource sharing system where homogeneous device resources can serve multiple devices simultaneously. A single device resource can function as a shared resource for multiple consuming devices, making the resource system multi-functional. This universality allows any device in the group to access shared resources regardless of which device physically owns the resource, thereby reducing the need for each device to maintain its own redundant resources.
2Productivity
If devices operate independently without resource sharing, then device autonomy is maintained, but overall energy efficiency and redundancy are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a resource share application as an intermediary layer between device resources and consuming applications. This intermediary manages resource sharing, selection, and coordination automatically, handling the complexity of resource management so that individual devices and end users do not need to directly manage the complexity. The resource share application mediates between resource producers and consumers, enabling efficient energy utilization while abstracting away the management complexity.
3Reliability
If devices do not implement redundancy, then device simplicity is maintained, but robustness and high-availability of services are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges device resources across multiple devices to create a shared resource pool that provides redundancy. Instead of each device maintaining its own redundant resources, the system combines resources from multiple devices into a shared pool that serves the entire group. This provides service robustness and high-availability because if one device's resource fails, other devices can continue to access the shared resource, eliminating the need for individual device redundancy while maintaining overall system reliability.
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AI summary
Techniques for opportunistic resource sharing between mobile devices are described. A method comprises identifying a set of homogeneous device resources implemented by multiple devices based in part on resource configuration information received by a wireless transceiver, selecting a shared homogeneous device resource of one of the multiple devices to share between the multiple devices, and sending shared configuration information to identify the shared homogeneous device resource and a share role for each of the multiple devices. Other embodiments are described and claimed.