Cloud Profile Virtualization for Mobile Device Portability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing mobile devices face inefficiencies in sharing and portability between users due to local storage of mobile device data, leading to resource duplication, increased complexity, and higher costs, as each user's settings and applications require distinct data processing capabilities.
Innovation Solution
A system that enables mobile devices to virtualize application programs and data, allowing users to access selected services without downloading and executing applications locally, by communicating with a server that executes the application and provides features to the device, utilizing a remote mobile device data store for user data and application data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If mobile device data is stored locally on each user's device, then each user can access their applications and settings independently, but resource duplication occurs, device complexity increases, and portability between users becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent moves data storage from the local device dimension to a remote cloud dimension, allowing the same physical device to serve multiple users by loading different user data profiles from the remote store, thereby enabling portability without local data duplication
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts user-specific application data and settings from the local mobile device and stores them in a remote mobile device data store, separating the executable code (which remains on the device) from the user-specific data, thus reducing local storage requirements and enabling easier portability
2Productivity
If applications and data are downloaded and executed locally on the mobile device, then service functionality is available, but resource duplication and storage requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a remote copy of user application data and settings in a cloud-based data store, allowing the device to access user profiles on-demand without storing multiple copies of the same data locally for different users, thus reducing local storage requirements while maintaining service functionality
3Reliability
If the mobile device is configured with specific data processing capabilities for each user's applications, then the applications can execute properly, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent designs the mobile device with universal data processing capabilities that can handle multiple user profiles and application types through a common architecture, rather than requiring specialized hardware or software for each specific application, thus maintaining reliability while reducing device complexity and cost
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AI summary
A mobile device is configured for use with selected mobile services and performs operations including receiving a request to use a given selected mobile service (SMS) which facilitates virtualization of an application program, first identifying and retrieving mobile application data (MAD) associated with the SMS from a first data store and receiving the SMS. A server provides the SMS to the mobile device and the SMS provides at least one feature of the application program to a first user. The MAD facilitates providing of the SMS on the mobile device and the SMS facilitates providing of features of the application program without having the mobile device download and execute the application program. The operations may include communicatively coupling the mobile device with a wireless component (WC) which communicatively couples the mobile device with the server and first authenticating, with the WC, a subscriber identity module (SIM) for the mobile device.