Wireless Device Vendor Identification via Spread Spectrum Modulation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing wireless communication devices often connect using a common protocol, which may not meet specific power-saving requirements of certain devices, as they do not consider the unique characteristics and requirements of individual devices.

Innovation Solution

The use of spread spectrum modulation to hide vendor information in packets, allowing wireless communication devices to determine if they share the same vendor and adjust their communication mode accordingly, either using a specific power-saving mode if they do or a standard protocol if they do not.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a common communication protocol is used for all devices, then connection stability is improved, but specific device requirements (such as power-saving needs) cannot be met

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconnection stabilityVSAvoiddevice-specific requirement satisfaction
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The communication protocol is segmented into two layers: a standard protocol layer for basic stable communication and a vendor-specific extension layer for customized requirements. This allows devices to maintain stable connections through the standard protocol while enabling vendor-specific optimizations (such as power-saving modes) through the extension layer, thus resolving the contradiction between connection stability and adaptability to specific device requirements

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The communication mode is made dynamic by allowing devices to switch between standard protocol mode and vendor-specific optimized mode based on mutual identification. When two devices from the same vendor detect each other, they dynamically transition to a more efficient communication mode (such as reduced power consumption mode), whereas devices from different vendors continue using the standard stable protocol, thus achieving both stability and adaptability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Ease of operation

If vendor information is transmitted openly in packets, then device identification is simplified, but security and privacy are compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice identificationVSAvoidsecurity and privacy risks
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

A vendor-specific spread spectrum sequence code acts as an intermediary to convey vendor information indirectly. Instead of transmitting plain vendor identification data, the system modulates this information onto a spread spectrum sequence code, which serves as a carrier. This intermediary mechanism allows receiving devices to identify vendor information through correlation detection without exposing raw vendor data, thus balancing ease of identification with security and privacy protection

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The receiving device discards the spread spectrum modulation and recovers only the essential vendor identification information through correlation detection. The actual vendor information is embedded in the sequence code selection rather than explicitly transmitted, allowing the receiver to recover vendor identity without receiving or storing sensitive raw vendor data, thus maintaining security while enabling identification

Inventive Principle:
Principle #34Discarding and recovering

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

This approach enables efficient and optimized communication by allowing devices to switch between communication modes based on vendor matching, improving connection efficiency and meeting specific power-saving needs.

Implementation Method 1

a transceiver circuit (122), configured to receive a packet from an electronic device and demodulate the packet according to a spread spectrum sequence code corresponding to a predetermined communication protocol, in order to obtain in a physical layer a specific data string of the packet

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectSpread spectrum modulation: Phase Modulation

Implementation Method 2

The processor circuit is configured to determine a first detection value according to the specific data string and the spread spectrum sequence code corresponding to the predetermined communication protocol, determine a second detection value according to the specific data string and a spread spectrum sequence code corresponding to a predetermined vendor

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectCorrelation detection: Homodyne Detection

Data Source

PatentUS20230223982A1Wireless communication device and method that utilize spread spectrum modulation to hide vendor information
Publication Date: 2023.07.13 REALTEK SEMICON CORP
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AI summary

A wireless communication method includes: modulating, by a device, a string a string to be transmitted in a physical layer according to a spread spectrum sequence (SSS) code corresponding to a vendor of the device when the string is a specific data string of a packet; demodulating, by another device, the packet according to a first SSS code corresponding to a predetermined communication protocol; determining a detection value according to the specific data string and the first SSS code and another detection value according to the specific data string and a SSS code corresponding to a predetermined vendor, and determining whether both vendors of those devices are the predetermined vendor according to those detection values; and if both vendors of those devices are the predetermined vendor, performing, by the another device, a specific communication mode of the predetermined vendor to be connected with the device.