Speech-to-Text Peripheral Bypassing Security Restrictions
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Solution Overview
Problem
In healthcare settings, the use of speech-to-text processing is hindered by security protocols that restrict the installation of additional software, limiting data entry to generic Human Interface Devices (HID) like keyboards, which impedes efficient record-keeping and increases security risks due to data breaches.
Innovation Solution
An audio input device processes voice inputs into text signals, transmitting them wirelessly to a peripheral that converts the data into keyboard character codes, allowing secure and efficient text entry on a computing system without requiring proprietary driver software, thus bypassing security restrictions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If speech-to-text processing software is installed on the computing system, then text entry efficiency is improved, but security restrictions are violated
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a peripheral device as an intermediary between the audio input device and the computing system. This peripheral acts as a mediator that performs speech-to-text conversion externally, then transmits the converted text to the computing system through a generic HID interface, thereby avoiding the need to install proprietary software on the secure computing system while still achieving efficient text entry
2Reliability
If generic HID interfaces are used for data entry, then security protocols are maintained, but text entry efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the speech-to-text system into three separate components: an audio input device for capturing speech, a peripheral device for performing speech-to-text conversion and acting as a HID interface, and the computing system for receiving and processing the text. This segmentation allows the computationally intensive speech-to-text processing to occur on external devices, maintaining security compliance while achieving high text entry efficiency through specialized hardware acceleration
3Object-affected harmful factors
If speech-to-text processing is performed remotely on a peripheral device, then security risks are reduced, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The peripheral device is designed with multi-functionality, serving both as a speech-to-text processing unit and as a generic HID keyboard interface. This universality allows a single device to perform multiple functions (speech processing, text conversion, and secure communication with the computing system), thereby reducing the need for additional specialized devices and simplifying the overall system architecture despite the remote processing requirement
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AI summary
A device and method for using a remote computing system, such as a smartphone or tablet, to convert speech to text through software residing on the system, transmitting the processed text wirelessly and privately to a peripheral, and having the peripheral interface with a destination computing system and appear as a generic human interface device, such as a keyboard, in order to transmit keyboard character codes through the interface to be entered into text boxes or fields on the destination computing system. By appearing to be a keyboard, the peripheral would not be locked out of the destination computing systems, even if the destination computing system is secured against software and hardware installations, restrictions by which other peripheral devices would be limited.