Dynamic QoS Map for Network Message Adaptation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Network devices within a collaboration group often experience poor network reception or lack necessary capabilities to receive messages adequately, leading to weakened collaboration.
Innovation Solution
A system that provides dynamic and predicted Quality of Service (QoS) availability maps, identifies message manipulation requirements, and generates manipulated messages to meet the available QoS and device capabilities, ensuring effective collaboration among network devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If messages are transmitted at high quality (e.g., video messages), then communication richness is improved, but device compatibility and reception reliability deteriorate when devices lack necessary capabilities or have poor network reception
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically changes message parameters (quality, format, encoding) based on the receiving device's capabilities and current network QoS conditions. The message manipulation server adjusts parameters such as video resolution, audio quality, and format to match the receiver's specifications, ensuring reliable delivery without sacrificing unnecessary communication richness
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements dynamic message adaptation where the message characteristics are not fixed but continuously adjusted based on real-time conditions. The QoS availability map is updated dynamically, and message manipulation is performed on-demand based on current network conditions and device capabilities, allowing the system to respond flexibly to changing circumstances
2Reliability
If the system provides detailed QoS information and dynamic message manipulation, then message delivery reliability is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces a message manipulation server as an intermediary component that handles QoS management and message adaptation. This dedicated intermediary absorbs the complexity of QoS mapping, device capability assessment, and message transformation, shielding the simpler client devices from these complex operations while ensuring reliable delivery
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-mapping QoS parameters to device capabilities and pre-identifying suitable message formats before actual message transmission. The QoS availability map is maintained in advance, and device capabilities are assessed beforehand, allowing the actual message manipulation to be performed efficiently without complex real-time calculations
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AI summary
A system for management of task force collaboration over a communications network comprising a plurality of network devices, the system comprising processing circuitry configured to: provide: (a) a dynamic Quality of Service availability map, the dynamic Quality of Service availability map being indicative of current available Quality of Services at a plurality of geographical locations within the communications network; (b) groups' information indicative of one or more task force collaboration groups, wherein each task force collaboration group of the task force collaboration groups indicates at least two of the network devices being members in the respective task force collaboration group; and (c) current locations' information indicative of current geographical locations of at least some of the network devices; obtain, from a given member of a given task force collaboration group of the task force collaboration groups, a message to be transmitted to other members of the given task force collaboration group, other than the given member, the message having a Quality of Service requirement; identify at least one message manipulation requiring member of the other members, that is currently located, according to the current locations' information, at a respective first geographical location having, according to the dynamic Quality of Service availability map, an available Quality of Service that does not support the Quality of Service requirement; generate, for the message manipulation requiring member, a manipulated message, being a manipulation of the message, wherein the manipulated message meets the available Quality of Service; and communicate the manipulated message to the message manipulation requiring member