Teacher Signaling Device for Decentralized Learning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Computer programmers face inefficiencies and costs in reconfiguring programmable devices, as they require expertise and time to teach new behaviors, often necessitating the presence of an expert for reprogramming, which can be costly and time-consuming.
Innovation Solution
A teacher signaling device that conducts proxy teaching by obtaining objectives data, generating teaching routines, and broadcasting signals to learning devices, enabling them to learn new behaviors without direct user interaction, using signals that emulate user interactions and environmental conditions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If expert programmers manually reprogram learning devices using specialized programmer interfaces, then new behaviors can be taught to devices, but the process becomes time-consuming and costly requiring expert intervention
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary between users and learning devices. The server hosts a web-based programming interface that automatically generates and transmits teaching signals to devices, eliminating the need for users to directly interact with complex device programming interfaces. This mediator handles the complexity of behavior configuration while providing a simplified web interface to users.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the traditional mechanical/physical programming interface (specialized hardware connections and manual code writing) with a web-based electronic system. Users interact through standard web browsers using HTTP protocols, and the system electronically generates and transmits teaching signals automatically, substituting manual programming mechanics with automated web-based processes.
2Manufacturing precision
If expert programmers are scheduled to write code for reprogramming, then accurate behavior configuration is achieved, but immediate reprogramming is rarely accomplished and costs increase due to expert availability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables self-service reprogramming where users can independently configure device behaviors through a web interface without requiring expert programmer intervention. The system automatically processes user inputs, generates appropriate teaching signals, and transmits them to devices, allowing users to perform reprogramming tasks themselves at any time.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-configuring teaching signals and behaviors on a server before deployment to devices. The web interface allows users to define desired behaviors in advance, and the system prepares and stores the corresponding teaching signals ready for transmission, enabling immediate reprogramming without requiring expert scheduling.
3Ease of operation
If decentralized teaching is implemented allowing devices to learn autonomously, then user presence is not required and efficiency improves, but mechanisms for autonomous learning must be established
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the teaching mechanism complexity from the learning devices themselves and relocates it to a centralized server. Devices receive pre-packaged teaching signals via wireless communication without needing autonomous learning capabilities. The complex teaching logic is taken out of individual devices and consolidated on the server, simplifying device architecture while enabling user-independent reprogramming.
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AI summary
Various embodiments for conducting proxy teaching for learning devices within a decentralized system, including an embodiment method with operations for obtaining, by a teacher signaling device, objectives data related to activities of one or more of the learning devices, generating, by the teacher signaling device, teaching routines based on the obtained objectives data, and broadcasting, by the teacher signaling device, teaching signals configured to teach one or more of the learning devices based on the generated teaching routines. Other embodiments may obtain objectives data by requesting reflex information from the learning devices or intercepting event report messages transmitted by the learning devices. Other embodiments may include broadcasting discovery signals to identify nearby learning devices and modifying teaching routines when objectives of the generated teaching routines cannot be achieved. Other embodiments may include transmitting an authorization request to a user device to determine whether to broadcast teaching signals.