Gateway Device Internet Door Connectivity Package Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current internet access schemes provide a single user experience for all applications, failing to offer diverse quality of service (QoS) and compute resources, which limits the ability to adapt to different application demands such as latency, edge compute power, and privacy levels, resulting in a suboptimal user experience.
Innovation Solution
The introduction of multiple Internet access 'doors' or connectivity packages that allow users to select from various virtual connections with distinct performance characteristics, including data throughput, latency, edge compute location, and privacy levels, enabling users to choose the best experience for their applications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a single internet access scheme is used for all applications, then network simplicity is maintained, but user experience adaptability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the single internet access connection into multiple virtual connections called 'doors,' each with distinct performance characteristics. Each door represents a separate virtual pipe through the network, allowing different applications to be routed through different doors based on their specific requirements for latency, throughput, or edge compute access.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically allows users to switch between different doors based on application needs. The gateway device can dynamically route traffic to different doors, and users can dynamically select which door to use for different applications, making the network adaptable without requiring physical reconfiguration.
2Reliability
If multiple connectivity packages with different performance characteristics are provided, then user experience quality is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway device is designed to handle multiple functions by managing multiple doors simultaneously. It can route different types of traffic through different doors, provide quality of service (QoS) policies for each door, and offer door selection to users. This multi-functionality is achieved through software-based virtualization rather than multiple physical devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The gateway device acts as an intermediary between the user's devices and the internet service provider's physical network. It virtualizes the access by creating multiple logical doors over the physical connection, managing the complexity of multi-path routing while presenting a simplified interface to users through a door selection mechanism.
3Measurement precision
If traditional network performance metrics are used, then measurement simplicity is maintained, but user experience assessment completeness deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of measuring the physical network path directly, the system creates virtual copies of network paths through multiple doors. Each door can be independently measured and characterized, allowing comprehensive QoE assessment without requiring complex physical measurement infrastructure. The virtual nature of doors enables easier measurement and comparison.
Data Source
AI summary
Various examples relate to apparatuses, devices, methods and computer-readable media for handling connectivity packages. An apparatus for a gateway device comprises interface circuitry, machine-readable instructions, and processor circuitry to execute the machine-readable instructions to obtain information on a plurality of available connectivity packages, with each connectivity package defining a connection between the gateway device and an endpoint of an internet service provider, and with each connectivity package being characterized by one or more connection performance parameters, select one or more connectivity packages of the available connectivity packages for data traffic of a client device, and route the data traffic of the client device via one or more connections between the gateway device and a corresponding endpoint of the internet service provider associated with a respective connectivity package of the selected one or more connectivity packages.