Context Procurator Relocating Service Negotiation to Network
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current technologies face challenges in facilitating service negotiation and mobility across diverse networks and devices, leading to increased complexity, bandwidth overhead, and service interruptions due to the need for predefined service sets and signaling protocols, which are not user-friendly and hinder the introduction of new devices or applications.
Innovation Solution
The Context Procurator relocates service negotiation from the end user device to the network, utilizing a software entity that builds a knowledge base of user needs and rules to negotiate services within the network, minimizing signaling overhead and supporting service establishment and maintenance across various networks and devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If service negotiation is performed at the end user device using standardized protocols, then service establishment can be achieved, but significant bandwidth overhead and delay are incurred
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the service negotiation function from the end user device and relocates it to a Context Procurator entity within the network. This allows negotiation to occur in the network core where processing resources are abundant, eliminating the delay and bandwidth overhead associated with device-based negotiation while maintaining reliable service establishment.
Solution Approach 2:
The Context Procurator acts as an intermediary between the end user device and the network service provider. It receives service requests from devices, performs negotiation with network entities, and establishes services without requiring direct negotiation between devices and networks, thereby reducing signaling overhead and delay.
2Adaptability or versatility
If extensive signaling protocols are used to support service negotiation, then service customization is possible, but bandwidth overhead increases and fewer users can be supported
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts extensive signaling exchanges from the air interface and relocates them to network-based Context Procurators. This allows sophisticated service customization and negotiation to occur over efficient network internal pathways, preserving bandwidth capacity for user data while enabling adaptable service configurations.
Solution Approach 2:
The Context Procurator serves as an intermediary that handles complex service customization negotiations internally within the network, preventing excessive signaling from consuming宝贵的 air interface bandwidth. This enables versatile service customization while maintaining high bandwidth capacity for supporting numerous users.
3Reliability
If service negotiation is performed during handover between access points, then service continuity can be maintained, but long delays cause noticeable service interruptions
Solution Approach 1:
The Context Procurator performs service negotiation and establishment actions in advance, before handover occurs. By pre-negotiating service parameters and establishing service contexts proactively, the system maintains service continuity during handover without experiencing noticeable interruptions, thereby improving both reliability and productivity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts service negotiation from the handover process itself and performs it separately through Context Procurators. This separation allows handover to proceed quickly for mobility while service negotiation occurs independently in the network, eliminating the trade-off between service continuity and service availability during handover events.
4Device complexity
If predefined service sets are used in standardized networks, then service establishment is simplified, but flexibility for new devices and applications is hindered
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic service negotiation through Context Procurators that can adapt to new devices and applications in real-time. Rather than relying on static predefined service sets, the system dynamically creates and negotiates service configurations, maintaining simple establishment procedures while enabling support for emerging devices and applications.
Solution Approach 2:
The Context Procurator acts as an intermediary that mediates between standardized network interfaces and diverse new devices/applications. It translates and negotiates service requirements dynamically, preserving the simplicity of standardized service establishment while enabling flexible support for innovative devices and applications that fall outside predefined service sets.
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AI summary
Provided is a software entity adapted to operate in a first network on behalf of a relocatable device to negotiate services for the relocatable device from the network, and to be transportable or replicable to operate in a second network to negotiate services for the relocatable device from the second network.