Cellular Device Offloading Network Traffic via Secondary Link
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional methods for establishing high-speed and high-capacity computer networks require expensive and resource-intensive physical infrastructure, making it difficult to efficiently manage and offload network traffic.
Innovation Solution
The establishment of alternative communication channels using overlay networks and wireless clients, where a cellular device with a hybrid module acts as a wireless client to create a secondary link for offloading network traffic based on traffic type and network conditions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If physical cable, line, and connection are built to increase transmission bandwidth, then network capacity and speed are improved, but additional resources are required which are difficult and expensive
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses a cellular device as an intermediary to establish a wireless communication channel between the home unit and the network. Instead of directly building physical infrastructure, the system leverages the cellular device's existing wireless capabilities to create a secondary link, thereby avoiding the need for additional physical cables and connections while still achieving increased transmission bandwidth
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical/physical system of building physical cables and connections with a wireless communication system. By using the cellular device's wireless transceiver to establish a secondary communication link, the system substitutes physical infrastructure deployment with wireless signal transmission, eliminating the need for physical cable installation while maintaining network capacity
2Ease of manufacture
If overlay networks and wireless clients are used to create alternative communication channels, then resource efficiency is improved, but network complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes the cellular device serve multiple functions: it acts as both a user device for cellular communication and as a wireless client for establishing the secondary communication channel. By leveraging the cellular device's existing multi-functional capabilities (cellular transceiver and wireless transceiver), the system achieves resource efficiency without requiring dedicated separate infrastructure for each function
Solution Approach 2:
The system utilizes the cellular device's own wireless capabilities to create the secondary link, rather than requiring external infrastructure. The cellular device serves itself by using its built-in wireless transceiver to establish communication with the home unit, thereby achieving resource efficiency without adding external complexity
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AI summary
A process and/or apparatus capable of providing alternative communication channels for facilitating network communication is disclosed. The process, in some embodiments, maintains a primary link which facilitates network communication between various attached devices and content providers. After identifying a cellular and wireless capable (“CWC”) device, a hybrid function of the CWC device is activated for providing one or more overlay channels between through the CWC device creating a secondary link for communications between the various attached devices and content providers. The process is then capable of offloading network traffic between the primary link and the secondary link, for example, based on the types of the network traffic.