Cloud Mobility Database for Group Call Location Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing communication systems face challenges in ensuring accurate and timely endpoint information for mobile devices within a group call, leading to latency errors and inefficiencies due to outdated location data across multiple systems.
Innovation Solution
A cloud-based multi-tenant call processing system that integrates Multi-Tenant Mobility Services and Mobility Database, utilizing RAN Adapters to manage mobility data across different communication systems, ensuring real-time updates and accurate location tracking for group members, facilitating efficient group call initiation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If location data is stored on each mobile device's own communication system, then each system can independently track its members, but the system complexity increases and latency errors occur when propagating location data across multiple systems
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges location data storage from multiple distributed communication systems into a single centralized cloud-based mobility database. This eliminates the need for each system to independently store and propagate location data, reducing system complexity while improving data accuracy and eliminating latency errors associated with data propagation between systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a cloud-based mobility database as an intermediary between multiple communication systems. This intermediary centralizes location data storage and provides a single source of truth for all systems, eliminating the need for direct intersystem message propagation and reducing both complexity and latency errors.
2Loss of information
If location data is propagated to all communication systems that include group members, then all systems have up-to-date information, but the number of intersystem messages increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent consolidates location data propagation into a single centralized cloud-based mobility database. Instead of propagating data to multiple individual systems, all communication systems access the same centralized database, eliminating redundant intersystem messages and reducing overall message overhead while maintaining data timeliness.
Solution Approach 2:
The cloud-based mobility database serves as an intermediary that stores location data centrally. Communication systems query this intermediary database rather than receiving propagated messages from each other, significantly reducing the number of intersystem messages required while ensuring all systems have access to current location information.
3Measurement precision
If a centralized cloud-based mobility database is used, then location data accuracy and timeliness improve, but the device complexity and infrastructure requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal cloud-based mobility database that serves multiple communication systems and functions. This single infrastructure handles location tracking, data storage, and retrieval for all systems, improving endpoint location accuracy while the shared nature of the infrastructure distributes the complexity across a common platform rather than requiring separate complex systems for each function.
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AI summary
A method and system for tracking endpoint location information of a first mobile device and a second mobile device that are members of a common talkgroup is provided. The first mobile device is located at a first communication system and the second mobile device is located at a second communication system. A first mobility update request from the first mobile device is received at a cloud-based mobility management service. The first mobility update request includes a request to update first endpoint location information of the first mobile device. The mobility management database is updated with the first endpoint location information. A second mobility update request from the second mobile device is received at the cloud-based mobility management service. The second mobility update request includes a request to update second endpoint location information of the second mobile device. The mobility management database is updated with the second endpoint location information.