Pairing Facilitator Intermediary for Biometric Device Registration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Devices such as portable biometric monitoring devices often lack user interfaces or communication circuitry necessary for pairing and registration with other devices, hindering interoperability and requiring user intervention for subsequent connections.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing pairing facilitator-intermediary devices, like servers, to communicate data and instructions to devices, enabling them to pair or register without relying on their own user interfaces or communication circuitry, using techniques like short-range wireless protocols for secure data exchange.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If portable biometric monitoring devices are designed with minimal user interfaces to improve wearability and comfort, then device portability and user comfort are improved, but the ability of devices to pair and register with each other deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a pairing facilitator device as an intermediary that mediates the pairing process between portable biometric monitoring devices. The facilitator device receives pairing requests, manages pairing information, and enables devices with minimal interfaces to pair indirectly through the intermediary, thus resolving the contradiction between minimal interface design and pairing capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables portable devices to automatically perform pairing and registration operations without requiring user intervention. The devices can autonomously communicate pairing information through their limited interfaces and complete the pairing process independently, maintaining the minimal interface design while achieving pairing functionality.
2Device complexity
If portable biometric monitoring devices are designed without traditional user interfaces to improve device simplicity and comfort, then device simplicity and wearability are improved, but the capability for user interaction and data input deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The pairing facilitator device serves as an intermediary that handles complex user interaction tasks. Users can interact with the facilitator device through its full interface capabilities, and the facilitator subsequently manages communication with the simplified portable devices, effectively transferring user interaction capability from the portable devices to the intermediary.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical user interface elements (buttons, displays) on portable devices with wireless communication mechanisms. Pairing information is transmitted electronically through wireless protocols rather than through physical interface interactions, substituting mechanical interface systems with electronic communication systems.
3Reliability
If pairing information is manually entered through user interfaces to ensure secure pairing, then pairing security is improved, but the time required for pairing and user effort increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-generating and storing pairing information on both devices before the actual pairing occurs. When pairing is initiated, the devices can quickly exchange and verify pre-prepared pairing credentials through automated processes, eliminating the need for real-time manual entry while maintaining security.
Solution Approach 2:
The pairing process is automated through self-service mechanisms where devices automatically generate, exchange, and verify pairing information without user intervention. The system independently manages the security-critical pairing process, performing authentication and credential verification autonomously to both secure the pairing and minimize time requirements.
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AI summary
The present inventions, in one aspect, are directed to systems and circuitry for and/or methods of establishing communication having one or more pairing facilitator-intermediary devices (for example, a network connected server) to enable or facilitate pairing and/or registering at least two devices (e.g., (i) a portable biometric monitoring device and (ii) a smartphone, laptop and/or tablet) to, for example, recognize, interact and/or enable interoperability between such devices. The pairing facilitator-intermediary device may responsively communicates information to one or more of the devices (to be paired or registered) which, in response, enable or facilitate such devices to pair or register. The present inventions may be advantageous where one or both of the devices to be paired or registered is/are not configured (e.g., include a user interface or certain communication circuitry that is configured or includes functionality) to pair devices without use of a facilitator-intermediary device.