Communication Management for Wireless Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wireless devices often experience unavailability to exchange information due to varying wireless network quality and unavailability, such as physical obstructions, legal limitations, and user-initiated actions, leading to disruptions in scheduled data transfers.
Innovation Solution
A system that collects and processes wireless device information and user event information to anticipate communication events, allowing for the proactive exchange of data between the device and a communication management system before unavailability, using data processing components on the device or a network-based system to determine thresholds and geospatial criteria for data transmission.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If scheduled data transfer is implemented, then data delivery reliability is improved, but data transfer failure occurs when wireless device is unavailable
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by detecting communication events (such as device shutdown, flight mode activation, or entry into low-coverage areas) and proactively initiating data transfers before the device becomes unavailable. This allows scheduled data to be delivered in advance, preventing transfer failures and ensuring reliability even when the device later becomes unreachable.
2Reliability
If data transfer is initiated before unavailability, then data delivery reliability is improved, but additional system complexity is introduced
Solution Approach 1:
The wireless device autonomously monitors its own communication status and detects communication events without requiring external intervention. The device self-manages the detection of unavailability conditions and automatically triggers data transfers, eliminating the need for complex external management systems while maintaining high delivery reliability.
3Loss of information
If wireless network connection is maintained, then data availability is improved, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary data transfers when the device is still connected and available, storing data locally before the device enters low-power or unavailable states. This approach ensures data availability is maintained without requiring continuous network connectivity, thereby reducing energy consumption while preventing data loss.
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AI summary
A wireless device management environment may include various systems, methods and computer-readable media for managing communications based on a determination of communication events. The communication events correspond to the anticipated unavailability for a wireless device to exchange information via a wireless communication network. Wireless devices collect wireless device information and user event information that can include performance metrics, location information, user interaction information and/or additional information. A data processing component, on the wireless device and/or on a network-based communication management system, processes the wireless device information and user event information to determine communication events. Based on a determination of a communication event, the wireless device can exchange information with the communication management system, which can include the transmission of a set of data to the wireless device, in advance of the anticipated wireless device communication unavailability.