Radiobeacon Data Sharing via Soft Switch Upswitching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current resource-sharing systems, such as those used in ride-sharing services, often incur high costs for resource providers and lack mechanisms for fair distribution without exploitation, failing to effectively utilize Internet-compatible nodal devices for reciprocal resource sharing.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented system utilizing low energy radio transmissions from radiobeacons to create ad hoc networks among smart devices, enabling the upload of third-party messages to a cloud host server without notifying the device owner, allowing for background sharing of computing resources and message routing based on community priorities.
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 device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes existing smartphones serve multiple functions: they act as both user devices and community nodal devices for resource sharing. The application enables smartphones to function as routers and resource-sharing nodes without requiring dedicated infrastructure, thereby achieving universality and reducing the need for proprietary network hardware.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables community members to share their own computing resources (CPU, memory, storage) to collectively support radiobeacon message relay. Each participant's device contributes its own resources to the network, eliminating the need for external proprietary infrastructure and reducing overall system complexity.
2Loss of information
If background services are used for message forwarding, then privacy is maintained and device owner burden is reduced, but message routing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a cloud-based message router that acts as an intermediary between radiobeacons and end users. The router receives messages from radiobeacons, determines appropriate destinations based on routing rules, and forwards messages without requiring the smartphone owner to be aware of or manage the routing process, thus maintaining privacy while managing complexity centrally.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the message router learns from message patterns and community priorities to optimize routing decisions. Routing rules are dynamically adjusted based on feedback about message delivery success, community resource availability, and privacy requirements, reducing the need for complex manual configuration.
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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.