Wireless Device Binding via Common Association
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing wireless communication systems face challenges in binding devices without manual UI mechanisms, especially when new or non-designated devices need to communicate within a system, leading to potential interference from neighboring devices and confusion during the binding process.
Innovation Solution
Devices can be bound by association through sharing and storing information related to a common device, using this shared information as a broadcast address identifier to authorize and direct messages between them, eliminating the need for a traditional binding procedure.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional binding mode with user interface mechanisms is used, then devices can exchange address identifiers and become aware of each other, but devices without UI mechanisms or new devices cannot undergo the binding process and therefore cannot communicate
Solution Approach 1:
A third device acts as an intermediary to facilitate binding between two devices. The third device stores information associated with both the first and second devices, allowing them to exchange address identifiers through the intermediary without requiring direct manual binding operations between each other.
Solution Approach 2:
Devices automatically perform binding operations by utilizing information stored in memory without requiring manual user interface operations. The binding process occurs automatically when devices transmit and receive messages containing address identifier information.
2Ease of operation
If wireless communication is used, then installation becomes more convenient and flexibility increases, but transmitted information is potentially perceivable by neighboring devices within wireless transmission range
Solution Approach 1:
Devices transmit messages containing address identifier information that serves as a feedback mechanism. Receiving devices use this feedback information to verify the source and determine whether to accept the message, creating a verification loop that prevents interference from neighboring devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter of message transmission by incorporating address identifier information into the message structure. This allows receiving devices to distinguish between legitimate messages from bound devices and interference from neighboring devices based on the address identifier parameters.
3Reliability
If devices manually perform binding procedures, then address information can be exchanged, but the process is not intuitive for installers and confusion arises when device functions do not suggest connection pairs
Solution Approach 1:
The third device serves as an intermediary that automatically facilitates address information exchange between first and second devices. This eliminates the need for installers to manually bind devices directly, reducing confusion about connection pairs while maintaining reliable address information exchange.
Solution Approach 2:
The third device is pre-configured with information associated with both the first and second devices before the binding process begins. This preliminary preparation allows the binding to occur automatically without requiring installer intervention or intuitive understanding of connection relationships.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems, methods and apparatuses for binding two or more communication devices through their common association with one or more other devices. Information associated with a common device is stored at a first device. The information associated with the common device is also stored at a second device. A message is transmitted from the first device using the stored information as at least part of a broadcast address identifier. The message can then be accepted at the second device as a result of the information being known to the second device. A “binding by association” is thus effected by virtue of each of the first and second devices having been privy to the same information affiliated with the common device.