Device Status Exchange Server Centralized Profile Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems lack an efficient method for centralized data management and notification of updates for mobile communication devices across various institutions, leading to fragmented and outdated information access.
Innovation Solution
A device status exchange server that stores and manages profiles for multiple mobile communication devices, receives subscription requests from third-party servers, detects updates, and notifies registered servers of changes, ensuring synchronized and accessible information across the network.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If each institution maintains its own separate database of device information, then each institution can independently manage and access the information it needs, but the information becomes fragmented and outdated across different institutions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges previously separate institutional databases into a unified device information repository. Multiple institutions (wireless service providers, financial institutions, merchants) now access and contribute to a single centralized database that stores device profiles, payment credentials, and status information. This consolidation eliminates data fragmentation and ensures all institutions access the same current information.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified database serves multiple functions and multiple institutions simultaneously. It stores device information for wireless service management, mobile payment processing, fraud detection, and transaction authorization. The same database infrastructure supports diverse use cases across different institutional domains, making the system universally applicable.
2Productivity
If institutions access device information from separate databases, then data access is simple and direct, but updates cannot be synchronized across institutions in real-time
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where device status changes (such as credential updates, device state changes, or security events) automatically trigger notifications to all subscribed institutions. When one institution updates device information in the centralized database, the change is immediately communicated to other institutions through subscription-based notification systems, ensuring real-time synchronization without manual intervention.
Solution Approach 2:
Institutions subscribe to specific device information updates in advance through the centralized system. The notification infrastructure is pre-configured to monitor for relevant changes and automatically alert subscribed parties before transactions occur. This preliminary setup ensures that when a device presents credentials for payment or authentication, all relevant institutions already have current information ready for immediate verification.
3Loss of information
If a centralized system is implemented to share device information across institutions, then information accessibility and synchronization are improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized device information repository and notification service as an intermediary between multiple institutions. Rather than requiring direct point-to-point connections between all institutions (which would create exponential complexity), the intermediary manages all data storage, access control, and notification routing. Institutions interact with the intermediary through standardized interfaces, simplifying their individual system architectures while enabling comprehensive information sharing.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, devices and servers for exchanging information about the status of mobile communications are described. In one aspect, a method is implemented on a device status exchange server, which includes: storing a plurality of profiles associated with a plurality of mobile communication devices that are serviced by a wireless service provider having a wireless service provider server which tracks information about the mobile communication devices, the plurality of profiles storing at least some of the information tracked by the wireless service provider server; receiving, from third party servers, subscription requests for notification of an update in information associated with one of the mobile communication devices; registering the received subscription requests; detecting an update to the information stored in one of the profiles based on information received from a server; and in response to detecting the update: updating the profile associated with the mobile communication device associated with the updated information; and notifying the third party servers of the update in accordance with registered subscription requests.