Pin System Wireless Signal Relaying Without Central Infrastructure
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing wireless communication systems lack a cost-effective method for transmitting short voice and data messages without the need for an interconnecting system, limiting their reach and functionality in applications like paging, profile match rating, and sales management.
Innovation Solution
A portable, hand-held device with a Point In Network (Pin) system that uses a relaying mechanism with radio frequency transmitters and receivers to extend the reach of wireless signals, allowing messages to be relayed between devices without a central interconnecting system, supporting voice and data transmission, and enabling features like profile matching and sales management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a wireless communication system uses traditional base-station interconnecting systems, then communication reliability is improved, but system cost and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and removes the central base-station interconnecting system from the wireless communication architecture. Instead of relying on traditional infrastructure, the system uses ad-hoc peer-to-peer communication between portable devices, eliminating the need for complex centralized infrastructure while maintaining communication functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The portable devices perform their own communication routing and signal relaying functions without requiring external base stations. Each device acts as both endpoint and intermediate relay, enabling the network to self-organize and self-manage communication paths dynamically without centralized control.
2Length of stationary object
If wireless signal reach is extended through multiple relays, then communication distance is improved, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements periodic listening and transmitting cycles where devices alternate between receiving and transmitting states. This allows relay devices to conserve energy by remaining in low-power listening mode most of the time, only activating transmission when they need to forward messages, thus extending signal reach while managing energy consumption.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces intelligent message relay mechanisms where intermediate devices act as mediators that selectively forward messages based on routing information and energy considerations. This intermediary approach enables extended communication distance by distributing the relaying function across multiple devices rather than requiring continuous high-power transmission from the source.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The Pin system provides a low-cost, efficient means of wireless communication, enabling the extension of message reach beyond single device coverage, supporting personal communication, marketing, and profile matching services, with optimized battery life and sophisticated algorithms for message relaying, allowing real-time voice and data exchange between devices.
Implementation Method 1
a relaying mechanism with a radio frequency transmitter and receiver
Data Source
AI summary
Provided herein are an electronic device, method and system for wireless communication over a wireless network. The device comprises an addressable point in network (Pin) which listens for all available wireless signals and creates and relays wireless signals containing destination address(es) for message(s) to other Pin(s). Wireless signal(s) are relayed from the Pin device(s) to other Pins over the network. Destination, receiving and originator Pin addresses and message flags within received messages are compared with message flags in a device memory trace queue to determine if the receiving Pin is the destination and/or origin of the message and whether the received message is retained and/or relayed or dropped. The system includes the Pin(s), a wireless communication network over which the message(s) are relayed to and from the Pin(s) and an enterprise provider information system (PIS) with an application stack configured to wirelessly transmit product and services information to the Pin(s).