Searchable Best Fit Abstraction Framework for Multi-Carrier Service Bundling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional catalog systems are limited in providing information on alternative service and product offerings from multiple carriers and service providers, and in designing and searching for products and services across different technology platforms, restricting the ability to access and bundle network resources effectively.
Innovation Solution
A searchable best fit abstraction framework is implemented, which includes a network inventory server and a searchable best fit abstraction engine that instantiates inventory class objects with service abstractions, allowing customers to identify service offerings satisfying specific requirements and service providers to define offerings based on templates, while provisioning services across multiple carriers and technology platforms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a conventional catalog system is used to track service provider's product and service offerings, then the service provider can manage their own inventory effectively, but the system cannot provide information on alternative service offerings from multiple carriers or access network resources from other service providers
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary abstraction layer that sits between the conventional catalog system and multiple service providers. This abstraction layer standardizes interfaces and protocols, allowing the system to access and compare service offerings from multiple carriers without requiring complex point-to-point integrations with each provider, thus resolving the contradiction between versatility and complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal catalog system architecture that can handle multiple service providers and technology platforms through standardized interfaces. This universal system performs multiple functions including inventory tracking, service comparison, and resource allocation across different carriers, achieving versatility without proportionally increasing complexity
2Adaptability or versatility
If each technology platform uses proprietary conventions to address the same need, then each platform can be optimized for its specific requirements, but the system is limited in ability to design and search for products and services across multiple elements and technology platforms
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms proprietary platform-specific parameters into standardized abstract parameters that can be universally processed. By changing the parameter representation from platform-specific to platform-agnostic, the system enables cross-platform service design and search while maintaining the ability to handle platform-specific optimizations underneath the abstraction layer
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the technology stack into distinct layers: platform-specific implementation layers and a unified abstraction layer. This segmentation allows each technology platform to maintain its proprietary optimizations while the upper abstraction layer provides unified access across platforms, resolving the contradiction between platform optimization and cross-platform versatility
3Adaptability or versatility
If a service provider uses their own inventory of network resources, then they can control their resource allocation, but they are limited in ability to access other network resources from other service providers for bundling
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple service providers' inventory systems into a unified virtual inventory through the abstraction layer. This merging allows service providers to access and bundle resources from multiple carriers while the abstraction layer manages the complexity of resource tracking, allocation, and coordination across different providers, resolving the contradiction between versatility and complexity
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AI summary
A system for a searchable best fit abstraction framework includes a network having one or more network resources, a network inventory server programmed to generate a network inventory of the one or more network resources, and a searchable best fit abstraction engine in communication with the network inventory server. The searchable best fit abstraction engine includes at least one processor, and non-transitory computer readable media having encoded thereon computer software comprising a set of instructions executable by the at least one processor. The set of instructions includes instructions to retrieve the network inventory, instantiate an inventory class object for at least one network resource, define a set of service abstractions for the inventory class object, provide customer and service provider facing interfaces, and provision at least one service offering satisfying a customer service requirement, or as defined by a service template.