Semantic Communication System for High-Throughput Data Transmission

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Solution Overview

Problem

Traditional wireless communication systems struggle with high computational demands and processing delays, especially under bad channel conditions, making them inadequate for real-time applications with heavy traffic such as VR/AR and ultra-high-resolution video-on-demand.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a semantic communication system that processes data to generate semantic representations, using a variational autoencoder with a scaling layer and noise dimension elimination, and transmits these representations with a transport block containing a soft delivery part and an exact delivery part.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If traditional error-free deterministic communication modes are used, then data transmission reliability is improved, but computational demands increase and processing delays occur

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata transmission reliabilityVSAvoidprocessing efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts and transmits only the essential semantic meaning and key features of data rather than complete raw data. The semantic communication system identifies and transmits only the most important information elements, eliminating redundant data transmission while maintaining communication reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of transmitting raw data and ensuring error-free delivery, the patent inverts the approach by transmitting semantic representations that are inherently more robust to channel errors. The semantic layer provides natural redundancy and meaning preservation that tolerates transmission imperfections.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

2Reliability

If traditional communication modes are used for real-time applications with heavy traffic, then data integrity is maintained, but processing delays increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata integrityVSAvoidprocessing delays
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts only the essential semantic features and meaning from data before transmission. By removing redundant information and transmitting only the core semantic content, the system significantly reduces processing time while maintaining data integrity through semantic preservation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent performs semantic processing and feature extraction before data transmission. This preliminary action prepares compressed semantic representations in advance, reducing the computational burden during real-time transmission and minimizing processing delays.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If complete data transmission is used for high quality experience, then data completeness is improved, but data transmission size increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata completenessVSAvoiddata transmission size
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts and transmits only the essential semantic meaning, key features, and important information elements from complete data sets. This extraction process maintains data completeness in terms of semantic content while dramatically reducing the actual data transmission size.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of transmitting complete raw data, the patent inverts the approach by transmitting compressed semantic representations that capture the essence and meaning of the data. This inversion achieves data completeness at the semantic level with minimal transmission size.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #13The other way round (Inversion)

Data Source

PatentUS20250113255A1Semantic Communication
Publication Date: 2025.04.03 APPLE INC
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AI summary

An apparatus configured to receive data inputs corresponding to a plurality of data objects that are to be transmitted, process the data inputs to generate a semantic representation of each of the data objects, wherein the semantic representation comprises a semantic distance for each of the data objects, wherein the semantic distance relates each of the data objects to each other and prepare, for transmission, the semantic representations of the data objects.