Edge Cloud Resource Reconfiguration for Traveling Users
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face the burden of carrying multiple devices and equipment while traveling, as existing technologies do not efficiently provide a consistent and personalized online experience across varying locations without imposing complex equipment requirements.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that reconfigures edge cloud resources based on a user's location, allowing access to a personalized cloud service through minimal user equipment, such as a smartphone or tablet, by provisioning and reconfiguring edge network resources to provide a consistent and rich online experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users carry multiple devices to access different online services and features, then the variety and richness of online experiences is improved, but the device complexity and burden on users increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary system (edge cloud platform) that mediates between users and online services. This intermediary provisions and manages the actual service resources, allowing users to access diverse online features through a single device without needing to carry multiple physical devices. The intermediary handles the complexity of resource allocation and service delivery.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent moves the complexity management to a different dimension by implementing cloud-based resource provisioning. Instead of requiring multiple physical devices at the user level, the system provisions virtualized cloud resources that can be dynamically allocated and managed remotely, separating the physical device layer from the service resource layer.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users access rich online features and content, then the functionality and capability is improved, but the equipment requirements and complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses virtualization and cloud copying to provide rich online features without requiring users to possess complex physical equipment. The edge cloud platform creates and manages virtual instances of services and resources that can be accessed by users through simple devices, effectively copying the functionality without the hardware complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a universal access model where a single user device can access multiple types of online services and features through the edge cloud platform. The platform provides multi-functional capabilities including content delivery, service provisioning, and resource management, allowing one device to serve multiple purposes.
3Reliability
If the system provides consistent personalized cloud service across locations, then the service reliability is improved, but the system complexity and resource provisioning increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-configuring and pre-provisioning cloud resources before users access them. The edge cloud platform anticipates user needs and prepares service instances, configurations, and resources in advance, ensuring consistent and reliable service delivery when users connect from different locations without requiring complex real-time configuration.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs feedback mechanisms where the edge cloud platform monitors user locations, service usage patterns, and preferences to dynamically adjust resource provisioning and service configurations. This feedback loop enables the system to maintain consistency and personalization across different locations while managing complexity through automated adaptive responses.
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AI summary
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a personalized cloud service requirement based on a user identity and proximity to a first location. A first edge network is configured based on the personalized cloud service requirement and the first location, and the user is provided with access to a personalized cloud service via the configured first edge network according to their proximity to the first location. A second, different location is determined, and a second edge network is configured based on the personalized cloud service requirement and according to the second location. The user is provided with access to the personalized cloud service via the configured second edge network according to their proximity to the second location. In this manner, the edge network may be reconfigured to effectively follow the user, thereby extending remote access to a consistent, personalized cloud service. Other embodiments are disclosed.