Peer-to-Peer Device Management via Bidirectional Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional device management and monitoring systems are costly, complex, and primarily designed for communication service providers and enterprises, lacking flexibility for individual consumers and allowing only one-way management from a centralized server to client devices, without enabling peer-to-peer control.
Innovation Solution
A peer-to-peer device management and monitoring system where communication devices can assume both managing and managed roles, enabling bidirectional control and notification through request and response messages over a network, allowing devices to send commands and notifications based on predefined criteria.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a centralized server manages and controls client devices, then device management capability is provided, but system complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent inverts the traditional client-server model by enabling peer-to-peer device management where any device can act as both manager and managed device. This eliminates the need for a centralized server, reducing system complexity and cost while maintaining device management capabilities through bidirectional communication between devices.
Solution Approach 2:
Devices autonomously manage and control each other without requiring a centralized server. Each device has the capability to initiate management actions and respond to management requests, enabling self-service device management that reduces system complexity and eliminates server infrastructure requirements.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a centralized server manages devices, then management control is established, but flexibility for individual consumers is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables individual consumers to directly manage and control their own devices through bidirectional peer-to-peer communication, eliminating the need for centralized server mediation. This inversion of the traditional model provides full flexibility and control to individual consumers while maintaining effective device management.
3Ease of operation
If client-server model is used, then one-way management from server to client is achieved, but bidirectional control is not enabled
Solution Approach 1:
The patent inverts the unidirectional client-server relationship into a bidirectional peer-to-peer model where devices can both initiate and respond to management requests. This enables any device to act as manager or managed device, providing full bidirectional control capability that enhances system adaptability.
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AI summary
The present invention provides a method and system for peer-to-peer device management, monitor and control. Communication devices connected by communication networks can manage, monitor and control each other; they can be in both managing-monitoring-controlling and managed-monitored-controlled roles. That is, a device A can manage, monitor and control a device B, and the device B can manage, monitor and control the device A. In one aspect, communication devices can send request messages comprising management, monitor and control commands to peers and receive response messages comprising results and statuses to the request messages from peers, and vice versa. In another aspect, communication devices can send notification messages to peers for management, monitor and control when their monitored contents or states meet predefined criteria, and vice versa.