Wireless I/O Device Offloading Processing to External Server
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mobile communication devices face a challenge in balancing increasing computational power with the need to remain lightweight and portable, as adding more powerful computing and storage units increases weight and restricts mobility.
Innovation Solution
An input/output device that wirelessly connects to a computer unit or communication network, offloading processing and storage demands, allowing it to be extremely lightweight while leveraging external computing and storage capacities, with no direct processing or storage units within the device.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Power
If more powerful computing and storage units are added to mobile communication devices, then processing performance is improved, but weight increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the computing and storage units from the mobile communication device itself and places them in an external server. The mobile device retains only the communication module, display, and input interfaces, while all heavy processing and storage operations are performed remotely. This extraction resolves the contradiction by eliminating the weight penalty while maintaining full processing capability through cloud-based resources.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a communication network as an intermediary between the mobile device and the external server. This mediator enables the mobile device to access powerful computing and storage resources remotely without physically housing them. The communication network acts as the bridge that allows the lightweight device to leverage heavy external resources, resolving the weight-performance contradiction.
2Power
If computing and storage capacities are increased in the device, then processing capability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complex computing and storage subsystems from the mobile device and relocates them to an external server. This extraction dramatically simplifies the mobile device's architecture, removing the need for complex processors, large memory modules, and associated cooling and power management systems, while still providing high processing capability through remote access.
Solution Approach 2:
The external server provides universal computing and storage resources that can serve multiple functions and applications. Instead of the mobile device needing specialized hardware for each function, the multi-functional server handles diverse computational tasks, thereby reducing device complexity while maintaining processing capability.
3Weight of moving object
If the device is made lighter for mobile use, then portability is improved, but computing and storage capacity are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The communication network serves as an intermediary that connects the lightweight mobile device to powerful external computing and storage resources. This mediator allows the device to maintain its lightweight design while accessing high-capacity processing and storage remotely, effectively decoupling the physical weight from the functional capacity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the computing and storage capacities from the physical device and places them in external infrastructure. This extraction allows the mobile device to be optimized purely for portability and user interaction, while the heavy computational and storage functions are performed externally, resolving the contradiction between weight and capacity.
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AI summary
The invention relates to an I/O device (2) with an energy unit (8) for mobile operations of the I/O device (2), an input device (11), an output device (12), and an interface (16) which is designed as a transceiver unit and by means of which the I/O device (2) can be wirelessly coupled to at least one external data processing unit (3, 4) in order to exchange data. According to the invention, the input device (11) is connected to the interface (16), in particular in a direct manner, via a data export path in order to transmit data to the data processing unit (3, 4), and the output device (12) is connected to the interface, in particular in a direct manner, via a data import path order to receive data from the data processing unit (3, 4) such that data input by the user using the input device (11) can be immediately transmitted to the external data processing unit (3, 4) without being processed by the I/O device (2), and the input data processed into output data by the external data processing unit (3, 4) can be immediately output without being processed by the I/O device (2).