Decentralized Network Register for Mobile Telecommunications

Solution Overview

Problem

Centralized databases in mobile telecommunications networks are costly, complex, and prone to failures, making them inefficient for storing and managing user data across a large network.

Innovation Solution

A decentralized network register using a peer-to-peer network with multiple register nodes, each associated with a geographic region, employs hash tables to store terminal identifiers and user data, allowing for distributed storage and retrieval of user information.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If a centralized database is used to store user data of all subscribers, then all user data can be managed in a single location, but hardware costs and technical complexity increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedatabase implementationVSAvoidhardware complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The centralized database is segmented into multiple distributed database nodes across the network. Each node stores a portion of the user data, eliminating the need for a single large centralized database. This segmentation reduces the hardware complexity and cost of any single database system while maintaining the ability to manage all user data collectively.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The database architecture transitions from a single-dimensional centralized structure to a multi-dimensional distributed structure across multiple network nodes. Data is organized using hash tables that map user identifiers to specific database nodes, creating a new dimensional organization that enables efficient distributed access without requiring a single large database system.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Ease of manufacture

If a centralized database is used to store user data of all subscribers, then all user data can be managed in a single location, but the failure risk for the entire network increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedatabase implementationVSAvoidnetwork reliability

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The centralized database is segmented into multiple distributed database nodes across the network. Each node stores a portion of the user data, eliminating the need for a single large centralized database. This segmentation reduces the hardware complexity and cost of any single database system while maintaining the ability to manage all user data collectively.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The database architecture transitions from a single-dimensional centralized structure to a multi-dimensional distributed structure across multiple network nodes. Data is organized using hash tables that map user identifiers to specific database nodes, creating a new dimensional organization that enables efficient distributed access without requiring a single large database system.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

3Ease of operation

If a centralized database is used, then data access is simplified, but high data transfer rates for simultaneous access require considerable technical complexity

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedata accessVSAvoiddata transfer infrastructure

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The centralized database is segmented into multiple distributed database nodes across the network. Each node stores a portion of the user data, eliminating the need for a single large centralized database. This segmentation reduces the hardware complexity and cost of any single database system while maintaining the ability to manage all user data collectively.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the mechanical/physical centralized database system with a distributed network-based system using hash table algorithms. Instead of relying on high-speed physical data transfer infrastructure to a single database, the system uses computational hashing to directly locate data across the distributed network, substituting algorithmic efficiency for physical data transfer speed.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS9179432B2Distributed network register

Publication Date: 2015.11.03 DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG

AI summary

For operating a telecommunications network for mobile telecommunication, a network register is used holding identifiers of mobile terminals for communication via the telecommunications network and network-related user data of the terminals. This the network register is formed from a peer-to-peer network having a multiplicity of decentralized register nodes that are networked with one another and are each associated with one geographic region. Hash tables held in the register nodes hold the identifiers of the terminals as hash values, and user data is stored associated with these hash values.