Short-Distance Resource Sharing via Proximity Detection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing resource sharing technologies require users to acquire contact information or become friends to share resources, limiting the scope of sharing and leading to resource wastage due to inefficient utilization.

Innovation Solution

A method that allows users to share resources directly with strangers by searching for candidate users in a short-distance communication mode, determining the user to share with based on user selection, and sending the resource via short-distance communication protocols like Bluetooth or WiFi, expanding sharing scope and conserving traffic.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If users require contact information or friendship relationship to share resources, then resource sharing security is improved, but sharing scope is limited and resource utilization efficiency deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresource sharing securityVSAvoidsharing scope
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a short-distance communication mode as an intermediary mechanism that enables direct resource sharing between terminal devices without requiring traditional contact information exchange or friendship relationships. This intermediary communication channel maintains security through proximity-based authentication while expanding sharing scope to include strangers in physical proximity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent extracts the requirement for contact information and friendship relationships from the resource sharing process. By removing these traditional prerequisites and replacing them with short-distance communication-based direct sharing, the system expands adaptability while maintaining security through the proximity-based communication mechanism.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Reliability

If users require contact information or friendship relationship to share resources, then resource sharing security is improved, but resource utilization efficiency deteriorates due to inefficient matching

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresource sharing securityVSAvoidresource utilization efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The short-distance communication mode serves as an efficient intermediary that directly connects resource providers and seekers based on physical proximity. This eliminates the inefficient matching process of traditional social relationship-based sharing, improving resource utilization efficiency while maintaining security through proximity-based authentication.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary action by establishing short-distance communication connections before resource sharing occurs. This pre-establishment of communication channels based on proximity enables rapid resource matching and transfer, improving productivity without compromising security.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Adaptability or versatility

If traditional resource sharing methods are used, then sharing scope is limited, but network traffic consumption is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesharing scopeVSAvoidnetwork traffic consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent utilizes short-distance communication modes (such as Bluetooth or WiFi Direct) that operate independently of traditional cellular data networks. This hydraulic-like alternative communication pathway enables expanded sharing scope through direct device-to-device transmission, conserving network traffic by bypassing the cellular data infrastructure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #29Pneumatics and hydraulics

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements multi-functionality by enabling resource sharing through multiple communication pathways: traditional network-based sharing and short-distance direct sharing. This universality allows the system to expand sharing scope while conserving network traffic by selecting the appropriate communication mode based on whether proximity-based direct sharing is feasible.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

4Adaptability or versatility

If short-distance communication mode is used for resource sharing, then sharing scope is expanded and traffic is saved, but communication range is limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesharing scopeVSAvoidcommunication range
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLength of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent transitions from traditional two-dimensional network-based resource sharing to a three-dimensional approach that incorporates physical spatial proximity as an additional dimension. Short-distance communication modes enable resource sharing based on physical location in 3D space, expanding sharing scope to include nearby strangers while accepting limited communication range as a spatial constraint that defines the sharing boundary.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentUS20230199065A1Resource sharing method and apparatus, electronic device and computer-readable medium
Publication Date: 2023.06.22 DOUYIN VISION CO LTD
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AI summary

Provided are a resource sharing method and apparatus, an electronic device and a computer-readable medium, which relate to the technical field of information exchange. The method comprises includes: acquiring user information of at least one candidate user; displaying the user information, and receiving a selection operation of a first user for the user information; and determining a second terminal device according to the selection operation, and sending, to the second terminal device and by means of short-distance communication, resources to be shared.