Access Platform Group Message Delivery via Intermediary Mediator
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current multicast methods in mobile wireless communication are inefficient, requiring enterprises to invest heavily in complex hardware and software systems to sequentially deliver messages to multiple mobile devices, leading to long delays and resource consumption.
Innovation Solution
A system where an access platform manages group message delivery by storing subscriber device numbers with a group ID, allowing for bulk message transmission and status reporting, shifting the burden from the customer to the access platform, which performs sequential delivery and status collection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If enterprises implement multicast messaging to large numbers of mobile devices using sequential transmission, then message delivery can be achieved, but hardware/software complexity and capital investment increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a messaging service as an intermediary between the enterprise and mobile devices. The messaging service handles the complex sequential transmission and status collection processes, allowing enterprises to send group messages without implementing complex hardware/software systems themselves. This mediator approach resolves the contradiction by centralizing complexity management in the messaging service while keeping enterprise systems simple.
2Reliability
If enterprises perform sequential multicast transmission to each mobile device, then individual message delivery can be tracked, but time consumption increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The messaging service acts as an intermediary that manages the sequential transmission process and collects status messages from mobile devices. By centralizing this time-consuming process in the messaging service, the system maintains reliable delivery tracking while minimizing the time enterprises need to wait for individual status confirmations, as the messaging service handles bulk status collection efficiently.
3Productivity
If enterprises build complex hardware/software systems for multicast messaging, then large-scale message delivery is enabled, but capital investment increases
Solution Approach 1:
The messaging service serves as a capital-efficient intermediary that provides large-scale multicast messaging capabilities without requiring enterprises to invest in complex hardware/software infrastructure. The messaging service absorbs the capital investment needs, allowing enterprises to access powerful group message delivery capabilities through simpler, lower-cost interfaces.
4Reliability
If enterprises receive individual status messages from each mobile device, then delivery confirmation can be obtained, but resource consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The messaging service merges individual status message collection into a unified process. Instead of enterprises handling separate status requests for each device, the messaging service consolidates status collection and returns aggregated delivery information. This merging approach maintains reliable delivery confirmation while significantly reducing the resources consumed by processing and managing individual status messages.
Data Source
AI summary
An access platform of a service provider storing at least one group identifier and a list of subscriber numbers of subscriber devices associated with the at least one group ID. The access platform receives a group ID and a message from a customer application running on a customer device. The access platform then compares the received group ID to the at least one group ID stored, and in response to the received group ID matching the at least one stored group ID utilizes the list of subscriber numbers associated with the received group ID to deliver the received message to the subscriber devices.