Therein lies the challenge: if what you are trying to do can be explained by a group like this one, you don’t have anything worthy of patent protection (though you can have copyright protection) since it would already be “known to one of ordinary skill in the art”.
Of course, if you never achieve your implementation goal, you don’t have any IP at all. If you are overly concerned, you can always engage the services of a subject matter expert and divulge to them in greater detail what you are trying to accomplish. In that way you solve your problem and protect your prospective IP rights.
Tony
OSR