Personal Cloud Interconnect via Gateway Rule Enforcement

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Solution Overview

Problem

Traditional centralized data sharing systems compromise user privacy and increase advertising exposure, as they process and store user data, whereas decentralized systems lack efficient data routing and sharing control mechanisms among personal clouds.

Innovation Solution

A personal cloud interconnect system that employs a decentralized communication topology, using gateway devices with agents to manage data sharing based on predefined rules, ensuring secure and private data exchange between personal clouds without processing user data, and utilizing virtual IP addresses for routing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If a centralized data sharing system is used, then data routing and sharing control are simplified, but user privacy is compromised and advertising exposure increases due to data processing and storage

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata routing and sharing controlVSAvoiduser privacy compromise and advertising exposure

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a decentralized mesh network as an intermediary layer between users and data sharing platforms. This mesh network enables direct peer-to-peer data exchange without centralized processing, eliminating privacy risks while maintaining routing control through distributed consensus mechanisms and smart contracts that enforce sharing rules without exposing user data.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent segments the centralized data sharing system into distributed peer-to-peer connections. Each user operates an independent node in the mesh network, breaking the monolithic centralized architecture into autonomous units that can share data directly without centralized processing, thus preserving privacy while enabling controlled sharing through distributed protocols.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

2Object-affected harmful factors

If a decentralized data sharing system is used, then user privacy is protected, but data routing and sharing control mechanisms become complex and inefficient

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser privacy protectionVSAvoiddata routing and sharing control mechanisms

Core Design Contradiction:

Object-affected harmful factorsVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements universal smart contracts and standardized data sharing protocols that function across all nodes in the decentralized mesh network. These multi-functional contracts handle routing, access control, data validation, and settlement in a unified framework, reducing the perceived complexity by providing a single standardized interface that works universally across the distributed system.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The decentralized system employs self-service mechanisms where each node autonomously manages its own data sharing policies, routing decisions, and security credentials through local smart contracts. The network self-organizes through distributed consensus algorithms, eliminating the need for complex centralized control mechanisms while maintaining privacy protection through autonomous node operations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

3Productivity

If centralized systems process and store user data, then data sharing efficiency is improved, but control over data storage and sharing is lost

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata sharing efficiencyVSAvoidcontrol over data storage and sharing

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements preliminary action through pre-configured smart contracts that encode data sharing rules, access permissions, and routing policies before data exchange occurs. These pre-established contracts automatically enforce user-defined control mechanisms during data sharing operations, maintaining both efficiency through automation and versatility through customizable pre-set rules that adapt to different sharing scenarios.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system employs dynamic smart contracts that can be modified and updated by users at any time to change data sharing policies, storage preferences, and access rules. This dynamic adaptability allows users to adjust their control parameters in real-time based on changing needs, while the underlying mesh network maintains efficient data routing through continuously updated distributed routing tables that reflect current user preferences.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS9450784B2Communicating data among personal clouds

Publication Date: 2016.09.20 MALIKIE INNOVATIONS LTD

AI summary

A gateway device performs authentication with an interconnect system that coordinates communication of data among a plurality of personal clouds. The gateway device is part of a first personal cloud that includes electronic devices. Data is communicated between the first personal cloud and at least a second personal cloud based on information in the interconnect system, wherein the communication is performed according to at least one rule provided at the gateway device, wherein the at least one rule includes at least one criterion relating to data to be shared among the plurality of personal clouds.