Communication Management System for Dynamic Quality Optimization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users of communication terminals face high costs due to the inability to selectively choose communication quality suitable for specific applications, leading to wasteful usage fees as higher quality data transmission is often required regardless of the application's needs.

Innovation Solution

A communication management system that transmits questionnaires to communication terminals to determine the required service and adjusts operating parameters for data transmission, allowing for optimized quality based on user responses, thereby reducing unnecessary costs.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If high-quality data transmission is provided, then communication quality is improved, but usage fee increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication qualityVSAvoidusage fee
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts communication quality parameters (bit rate, resolution) based on real-time conditions including network status, device capabilities, and application requirements. The communication management system continuously monitors and modifies transmission parameters to optimize the balance between quality and cost, rather than providing fixed high-quality service.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The invention changes key transmission parameters such as bit rate, image resolution, and audio quality levels according to the determined service type and network conditions. By varying these parameters dynamically, the system can provide high quality when needed and reduce quality (and thus usage fee) when application requirements are lower.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Adaptability or versatility

If the same communication terminal is used for different applications, then device versatility is improved, but ability to select appropriate communication quality deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice versatilityVSAvoidquality selection capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The communication management system automatically determines the appropriate service type and communicates quality parameters without requiring manual user selection. The system self-adjusts based on application identification, network conditions, and device capabilities, making the quality selection process transparent and automated for the end user.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The communication management system acts as an intermediary between the communication terminal and the network service provider. It translates diverse application requirements into appropriate communication parameters, shielding the user from complex quality selection processes while ensuring optimal service delivery for each application type.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS10021345B2Communication management system, communication terminal, communication system, communication control method, and recording medium
Publication Date: 2018.07.10 RICOH CO LTD
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AI summary

A communication management system transmits questionnaire information including a set of questions relating to one or more services available to a communication terminal to the communication terminal through a network, receives answer information including a set of answers to the set of questions from the communication terminal through the network, determines a service to be provided to the communication terminal based on the answer information, and transmits to a relay device an operating parameter for controlling the relay device in transmitting or receiving content data to or from the communication terminal according to the determined service.