Wireless Bridging Device Feature Sharing Across Heterogeneous Interfaces
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing wireless devices often have multiple heterogeneous wireless radios that cannot efficiently share features across different interfaces, limiting their functionality and interoperability.
Innovation Solution
A wireless bridging computing device registers and publishes available features of accessible wireless devices, allowing for multi-hop heterogeneous wireless device feature sharing by bridging communications between devices with different radio interfaces, enabling feature consumption and protocol conversion.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If wireless devices use multiple heterogeneous wireless radios for different features, then communication capabilities are enhanced, but feature sharing across different interfaces is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a feature sharing manager as an intermediary component that mediates between heterogeneous wireless radios and features. This manager abstracts the complexity of different wireless interfaces (Bluetooth, WiFi, 3G) and provides a unified mechanism for feature discovery, registration, and sharing, enabling devices to share features across different radio interfaces without requiring direct compatibility between each interface pair
2Adaptability or versatility
If direct compatibility between devices is required for feature sharing, then feature sharing reliability is improved, but system interoperability is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal feature sharing framework where the feature sharing manager provides multi-functional capabilities to handle different wireless interfaces and feature types through a common mechanism. This universal approach allows diverse devices with different radios to share features reliably by translating and coordinating through the common manager, rather than requiring device-specific compatibility
3Area of stationary object
If wireless devices share features across multiple hops, then network coverage is extended, but communication overhead increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by having devices pre-register their available features with the feature sharing manager before actual feature sharing occurs. This advance registration creates a cached knowledge base of available features and their associated wireless interfaces, allowing the system to quickly route feature requests through multi-hop paths without excessive real-time communication overhead
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AI summary
Available features of each of a group of wireless devices accessible over one of a group of different wireless communication protocol interfaces of a first wireless bridging computing device are registered for sharing. A request for use of an available feature of a first wireless device over a first wireless communication protocol interface is received from a second wireless device over a second wireless communication protocol interface. In response to the request, use of the requested available feature of the first wireless device by the second wireless device is facilitated over the first wireless communication protocol interface and the second wireless communication protocol interface. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.