Cellular Modem Usage Monitoring for Internet Plan Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Subscribers often select Internet subscription plans based on price without considering their actual usage patterns, leading to potential inefficiencies and missed opportunities for optimizing their plans based on usage habits and financial needs.
Innovation Solution
A cellular modem device monitors Internet service usage and compares it with predefined thresholds, presenting plan change options to subscribers, allowing them to adjust features like speed limits or data caps, and communicates these requests to the Internet service provider for automatic adjustments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If subscribers select Internet subscription plans based on price without considering actual usage patterns, then subscription plan selection is simple and quick, but subscription plan optimization is lost and user needs are not met
Solution Approach 1:
The system monitors actual Internet service usage data and provides feedback to subscribers about their consumption patterns. This feedback loop enables subscribers to see the relationship between their usage and current plan suitability, allowing them to make informed decisions about plan optimization without complex manual analysis.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically monitors usage patterns and presents optimized plan recommendations to subscribers, enabling them to self-optimize their subscription plans based on actual usage data. This self-service approach simplifies the process while achieving plan optimization, as subscribers don't need to manually analyze their usage patterns.
2Productivity
If subscribers manually check and change subscription plans periodically, then plan changes can be made, but time is lost and usage patterns may change between checks
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors usage patterns in real-time and pre-calculates optimal plan recommendations before subscribers need to make decisions. This preliminary action ensures that when subscribers do review their plans, the recommendations are already prepared based on the most current usage data, eliminating delays.
Solution Approach 2:
The system maintains continuous monitoring of Internet service usage rather than periodic checks. This continuous action ensures that usage patterns are tracked constantly, allowing for timely plan recommendations that reflect current usage behavior rather than outdated periodic snapshots.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the system monitors and presents multiple plan change options, then subscription plan optimization is improved, but device complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system focuses monitoring and analysis on specific usage parameters that are most relevant to plan selection, rather than analyzing all possible data points. By concentrating on key metrics such as data consumption, usage timing, and service type, the system achieves effective plan optimization without requiring complex processing of every possible usage variable.
Data Source
AI summary
This disclosure is directed to techniques for directly managing, via a cellular modem device, an in-home Internet service subscription plan for using an in-home Internet service from a wireless carrier network. The cellular modem device may facilitate adjustment of the in-home Internet subscription plan by monitoring Internet service usage at the cellular modem device and then comparing a monitored Internet service usage with a corresponding threshold value. Based on this comparison, the cellular modem device may present to the subscriber a selection that correspond to different adjustments in the subscription plan. The cellular modem device may then send a request for adjustment to Internet service provider based on a user-entered selection and a notification is thereafter received by the cellular modem device for the adjustment of the subscription plan by the Internet service provider.