Device Management Platform Multi-Network Provisioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current control centers face challenges in seamlessly managing both 4G and 5G networks from a single instance, requiring separate physical or logical service provider instances due to integration complexities with packet and device management core networks, leading to high costs and inefficiencies in network integration and device management across different service providers.
Innovation Solution
A device management platform that uses core or network identifiers to map and manage devices across multiple networks, enabling a single pane-of-glass view for enterprises to provision, troubleshoot, and bill devices across disjoint core networks, utilizing core identifier logic to distinguish between networks and support real-time monitoring and billing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a control center supports multiple core networks (4G and 5G) from a single instance, then management efficiency and cost are improved, but integration complexity with packet and device management core networks increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the control center into multiple logical service provider instances, where each instance can independently manage a specific core network (4G or 5G). This segmentation allows the control center to handle multiple networks without creating integration complexity, as each logical instance maintains separate integration relationships with its corresponding core network while running on a shared physical platform.
2Device complexity
If separate physical control center instances are established for different networks, then integration complexity is reduced, but capital expenditures and resource requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple logical service provider instances onto a single physical control center platform. This combining approach allows separate logical instances (each with simple integration to their respective core networks) to share physical resources including data center space, servers, and power infrastructure, thereby reducing capital expenditures while maintaining integration simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The physical control center is designed with universal capabilities to host multiple logical service provider instances simultaneously. This multi-functionality allows a single physical infrastructure to perform the roles of multiple dedicated control centers, reducing hardware requirements and capital expenditures while maintaining the ability to manage different core networks independently.
3Quantity of substance
If a single control center instance manages multiple disjoint core networks, then cost is reduced, but the ability to seamlessly manage different networks is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The control center implements dynamic routing and provisioning capabilities that can adaptively direct device management operations to the appropriate logical service provider instance based on the target core network. This dynamic behavior allows the single physical instance to seamlessly manage multiple disjoint networks by intelligently routing requests to the correct logical instance, maintaining full network management capability while reducing costs.
Data Source
AI summary
One or more processors of a device management platform map network identifiers to corresponding networks. An account of the device management platform manages devices on a plurality of networks based on the network identifiers. The one or more processors of the device management platform identify a network of a device associated with the account from the plurality of networks based on a mapping of a network identifier of the device to the network. The one or more processors of the device management platform perform an action for the device with respect to the network.