Carrier-Network Mobile Device Rule Enforcement for Multi-Device Compliance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems fail to effectively manage and enforce usage settings on multiple user devices, particularly for children or students, leading to disruptions and security concerns in learning environments, and there is a lack of automated tracking to ensure all devices are present and compliant with specified rules.
Innovation Solution
A wireless carrier network maintains relationships between user devices and enforces usage settings based on specified conditions, using mobile applications or network traffic blocking to ensure compliance, allowing authority figures to remotely manage and track device usage and location.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If mobile devices are provided to children for safety purposes, then child security is improved, but device management and compliance enforcement become complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a wireless carrier network as an intermediary system that manages multiple child devices through a single parent account. The network maintains relationship data, determines usage settings based on activation conditions, and enforces compliance automatically, eliminating the need for parents to manually manage each device individually.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables automatic determination of usage settings based on relationship data and activation conditions stored in the network. The carrier network automatically monitors compliance, determines active relationships, and adjusts usage settings without requiring continuous parental intervention, allowing the system to self-manage device compliance.
2Reliability
If usage settings are enforced on multiple user devices, then compliance with rules is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the management of multiple user devices under a single parent account framework. The wireless carrier network consolidates relationship data for all child devices associated with a parent account and processes compliance determination centrally, reducing the complexity burden on individual devices and users.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a universal management framework where a single parent account can manage multiple child devices with different usage settings. The carrier network's relationship data structure and compliance determination process work universally across all devices in the ecosystem, providing multi-functional management capability.
3Productivity
If automated compliance determination is implemented across multiple devices, then productivity in monitoring is improved, but information processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by maintaining pre-established relationship data and activation conditions in the wireless carrier network before compliance issues arise. The network stores predefined usage settings and relationship structures in advance, enabling rapid automated determination when compliance checking is needed without processing raw data from scratch.
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AI summary
Described herein are techniques for enabling remote implementation and enforcement of usage settings on one or more user devices. In some embodiments, a wireless carrier network maintains information on relationships between various user devices. Each relationship may be active under specified conditions (e.g., time and/or location) and is associated with usage settings that dictate one or more rules to be enforced while the relationship is active. In some embodiments, a set of usage settings may be generated for a particular user device based on all active relationships associated with that user device. The set of usage settings may be enforced by a mobile application installed upon a user device or by a wireless carrier network that blocks certain network traffic to and/or from the user device.