Application-Specific Data Session Management for Wireless Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current wireless communication devices are limited in tracking and billing for application-specific usage, as they typically establish a single data session for multiple applications, preventing network operators from differentiating service usage and billing accordingly.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of multiple application profiles with application-specific network address identifiers and priority categorization allows for differentiated data sessions, enabling service providers to track and bill based on application usage, and resolving conflicts through priority-based data session management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a single data session is established for multiple applications, then device complexity is reduced and ease of operation is improved, but the ability to track and differentiate application-specific usage is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the single data session into multiple application-specific data sessions, each with its own profile and network address identifier. This allows the system to track usage per application while maintaining a unified management structure through the data session manager.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality by assigning different characteristics (network address identifiers, profiles) to different data sessions based on their specific application requirements. Each data session has customized properties tailored to its associated application, enabling differentiated tracking and management.
2Loss of information
If multiple application-specific data sessions are established, then the ability to track and bill for application usage is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The data session manager serves as a universal control mechanism that handles multiple application-specific data sessions. It provides multi-functional capabilities including session establishment, maintenance, conflict resolution, and coordination, thereby managing complexity centrally rather than distributing it across individual applications.
Solution Approach 2:
The data session manager acts as an intermediary between the network service applications and the network infrastructure. It mediates the complexity by centralizing the management of multiple data sessions, handling conflicts, and coordinating resources, thus shielding individual applications from the complexity of managing multiple sessions.
3Measurement precision
If application-specific network address identifiers are implemented, then measurement precision of usage tracking is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-configuring application profiles with specific network address identifiers before data sessions are established. This advance preparation enables precise tracking from the outset without requiring complex real-time identification mechanisms during session management.
4Reliability
If priority categorization is implemented for data sessions, then reliability of service differentiation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by introducing priority category parameters to data sessions. These parameters enable the system to differentiate and prioritize services reliably based on predefined categories, allowing the data session manager to make automated decisions about resource allocation and conflict resolution.
Data Source
AI summary
Apparatus and methods of differentiated data session access on a wireless communication device and dynamic source determination of provisioning information on a wireless communication device are disclosed. User Identity Modules (UIMs) are provisioned such that network-service applications resident on the wireless device are associated with a corresponding application profile within the UIM. Each network-service application has a corresponding network address identifier defined within the user profile. The network address associated with the identifier is used to establish a data session for the corresponding network service application. By providing for application-specific network addresses, service providers and/or network operators can differentiate between what services a user is accessing during a data session. In addition, the UIMs may be provisioned with priority category identifiers that allow the associated network-service application to be prioritized for data session establishment.