Ultrasonic Data Encoding for Secure Audio Calls
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for secure data sharing during audio calls, particularly in telehealth settings, face challenges such as limited network connectivity, linguistic barriers, and the inability of cognitively impaired individuals to accurately communicate health insights, leading to potential misdiagnosis and data loss.
Innovation Solution
A system that encrypts patient health data using a patient health data encoding table, transmitting it as ultrasonic signals during audio calls, ensuring secure and accurate communication of health monitoring data from wearable devices to care providers, even in areas with limited internet access.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If patient health data is transmitted during audio calls using traditional methods, then data sharing is enabled, but data security and privacy are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical data transmission methods with acoustic signal embedding. Patient health data is encoded into audio signals that can be transmitted over telephone networks, substituting direct electronic data transfer with acoustic wave transmission to enhance security and privacy protection.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms patient health data from its original digital format into encoded acoustic signal parameters. By changing the representation parameters of the data (from digital values to audio frequency modulations), the system enables secure transmission while maintaining data integrity and confidentiality.
2Productivity
If direct network connections are used for data transfer, then large bandwidth is available, but network connectivity is not always available
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces audio signals as an intermediary medium for data transmission. Instead of relying directly on network connections, patient data is encoded into audio signals that can be transmitted through telephone networks, providing an alternative transmission path that works even when direct internet connectivity is unavailable.
Solution Approach 2:
The system substitutes electronic data transmission over networks with acoustic signal transmission. By using audio calls as the transmission medium, the patent enables data transfer in environments where traditional network connections are unavailable or unreliable.
3Ease of operation
If cognitively impaired individuals communicate health insights verbally, then communication is possible, but accuracy and reliability are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates an accurate copy of patient health data from wearable devices and transmits it through audio signals. This eliminates the need for cognitively impaired patients to verbally report their own health data, as the objective data is automatically captured, encoded, and transmitted, ensuring accuracy while maintaining ease of communication.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service data collection where wearable devices automatically capture and transmit patient health data without requiring the patient's active participation or cognitive processing. The data is automatically encoded into audio signals and transmitted during calls, improving both accuracy and ease of operation.
Data Source
AI summary
Sharing data by defining a data encoding table, maintaining a data record database, defining a data encryption code, providing the data encryption code with an outgoing call, receiving an audio response including encrypted data, decrypting the encrypted data, and updating the data record database according to the data.