AAA Server Automated Service Authorization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current service authorization methods require users to manually subscribe to services, leading to increased operational difficulty and capital expenditure for operators due to limited licenses and potential idle user accounts.

Innovation Solution

An automated service authorization method where the AAA server performs registration and license control for user terminals, allowing access to services without manual subscription, by querying user information from a third-party service system and managing licenses dynamically.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If manual service subscription is implemented through business halls or portals, then service authorization control is achieved, but user operational difficulty increases and service accessibility decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice subscription convenienceVSAvoidsubscription process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system enables users to automatically subscribe to services without manual intervention. When a user terminal sends a service request, the AAA server automatically performs service subscription by interacting with the service system, eliminating the need for users to visit business halls or operate portals manually.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The AAA server performs service subscription in advance before the user actually uses the service. The system proactively subscribes the user to the requested service, so that when the user needs to use it, the subscription is already completed, avoiding last-minute manual operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If static license control is implemented during service subscription, then license management is simplified, but service availability decreases due to idle licenses and registration failures

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice registration efficiencyVSAvoidservice access reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system transitions from static license control to dynamic license management. The AAA server continuously monitors service usage and automatically manages license allocation based on real-time demand, allowing licenses to be dynamically assigned and released as users subscribe and unsubscribe from services.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where the AAA server continuously monitors service subscription status and usage patterns. Based on this feedback, the system automatically adjusts license allocation, ensuring that licenses are available when needed while preventing over-provisioning.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Reliability

If additional licenses are purchased to prevent service rejection, then service access reliability is improved, but operator capital expenditure increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveservice access reliabilityVSAvoidlicense quantity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system changes the parameter of license management from fixed quantity to dynamic allocation. Instead of purchasing a fixed number of licenses, the AAA server dynamically adjusts license availability based on actual service demand, allowing the same physical license to serve multiple users at different times.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The system makes licenses universal by allowing them to be shared across multiple users through time-multiplexed allocation. A single license can serve different users sequentially, and the AAA server manages the allocation to ensure service reliability without requiring additional licenses for each potential user.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentEP2178040B1A method, server and system of service authorization
Publication Date: 2012.05.16 HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

The present invention relates to the field of communications, and provides a service authorization method, server, and system. The method includes the following steps. A request for using a service is received from a user terminal, and if the user terminal has not registered the requested service yet, a registration of the user terminal is performed automatically. If the registration is successful, the user terminal is allowed to use the requested service. A license control is performed during the registration of the user terminal. Through the method, server, and system provided by the present invention, users may subscribe to services more conveniently, thus reducing the capital expenditure of operators.