Automated Error Diagnostic Controller for Home Network Repair
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Solution Overview
Problem
Consumers face difficulties in identifying and addressing error conditions in devices connected to a home network, as error codes are often unintelligible and not easily recognized, leading to unnoticed issues within the subscriber premise.
Innovation Solution
An automated diagnostics controller detects error conditions, retrieves identification information and error codes, generates queries for repair analysis, and outputs user interfaces with remedial information, enabling users to take actions or automatically initiate repairs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If error codes are displayed to identify problem types, then diagnostic information is provided, but consumers are unable to easily identify or understand the error condition
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary system (diagnostic server and controller) that translates between the device's internal error codes and user-friendly diagnostic information. The controller acts as a mediator between the network element and the consumer, converting technical error data into comprehensible repair analysis and actionable guidance, thereby resolving the mismatch between detailed error information and user understanding capability
Solution Approach 2:
The system transforms the error information from its original technical parameter form (error codes) into a different parameter representation (repair analysis, diagnostic information, and user-friendly descriptions). This parameter transformation occurs through the diagnostic server which retrieves and processes error codes into multiple formats including plain language explanations, troubleshooting steps, and repair recommendations that are appropriate for consumer understanding
2Ease of operation
If automated diagnostic systems are implemented, then repair analysis information is provided, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complex diagnostic processing functions from the local network element and relocates them to a remote diagnostic server. The controller at the network element is simplified to only perform basic error code retrieval and transmission, while the computationally intensive tasks of error analysis, information retrieval, and repair guidance generation are performed externally on the server, thereby reducing local system complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The diagnostic server provides a universal platform that handles multiple types of errors across different network elements through a single system. Rather than implementing specialized diagnostic logic in each individual device, the universal server performs error code translation, repair analysis generation, and troubleshooting guidance for various device types, reducing overall system complexity through consolidation
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AI summary
Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate automated repair analysis for client devices within a subscriber premise. A diagnostics controller may detect an error condition at a network element within a subscriber premise. When an error condition is detected, the diagnostics controller may retrieve identification information, an error code, and/or query parameters associated with the network element. The diagnostics controller may generate a query for repair analysis that includes the identification information, error code, and/or query parameters, and the diagnostics controller may output the query to an upstream server. In response, the diagnostics controller may receive a repair analysis that includes information associated with remedying the error condition. The diagnostics controller may generate and output for presentation a user interface that includes the information associated with remedying the error condition.