Radiobeacon Data Sharing via Soft Switch Uplink
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current resource-sharing systems, like ride-sharing, often exploit resource providers and lack means to distribute shared resources fairly without high costs, failing to achieve equitable reciprocity and efficient problem-solving in daily life challenges.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented system using low energy radio transmissions from radiobeacons to a cloud host server, enabling ad hoc networks of smart devices to upload messages and actuate remote machines based on user preferences, allowing for community-driven resource sharing without notifying private device owners and maintaining privacy.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If proprietary networks are built for resource sharing, then resource sharing capability is improved, but system complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes existing smartphones serve multiple functions: they act as both personal communication devices and as community nodal devices for resource sharing. The software application enables smartphones to function as routers and relays in the community network without requiring dedicated sharing infrastructure, thus achieving universality.
Solution Approach 2:
Community members' smartphones automatically perform resource sharing functions without requiring active participation or configuration. The background service automatically detects radiobeacons, relays messages, and manages network operations, making the system self-organizing and eliminating the need for complex manual setup or dedicated sharing devices.
2Productivity
If background forwarding service is provided to community members, then resource sharing efficiency is improved, but privacy protection becomes challenging
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary architecture where the smartphone acts as a mediator between the radiobeacon and the ultimate recipient. The device forwards messages without exposing their contents to the user, using the user's device merely as a transmission conduit. This intermediary role enables efficient background forwarding while preserving privacy through architectural design.
3Reliability
If smartphones are recruited as community nodal devices, then network coverage and reliability are improved, but user convenience and device autonomy are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically manages the recruitment and operation of nodal devices without requiring user action. The background service autonomously monitors for radiobeacons, manages message forwarding, and handles network protocols, making the device participate in the community network without burdening the user with configuration or operational tasks.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent separates the network functionality into distinct layers: the background service handles automated nodal device operations, while the foreground maintains user convenience. This segmentation allows the device to simultaneously provide reliable network participation and maintain ease of operation by isolating complex functions to automated background processes.
Data Source
AI summary
Remote actuation of machines or machine systems is realized by a system for coupling a radiobeacon to a smart device and in turn to a broader network. The smart device is configured as a proximity-actuated “community nodal device” by an application that operates as part of the system. The community nodal device is given instructions to function as a “soft switch”: to automatically “upswitch”, amplify, and broadcast low energy, local area radiobeacon “messages” to a cloud-based server, where the message is interpreted according to rules or policies established by an operator, and a command is transmitted for execution to a remote device. Conventional smart devices generally discard data not addressed to the owner of the smart device. Instead of discarding third party messages, the system preempts their handling, and using a soft switch formed from background resources, anonymously, without access to the message by a user interface of the proxy device, and without waiting for a network query from the host, engineers an “upswitched transmission” of radiobeacon-generated data to a cloud host. Advantageously, confidential sharing of ad hoc community resources results in a negligible load on background resources of the community nodal device. Messages may include a sensor data payload. Bit overloading enables a sensor data payload to be compressed into a few hundred bytes or less.