Gateway Redundant Network Source Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users often experience slow internet speeds and bandwidth limitations due to single internet sources, leading to buffering and unpleasant user experiences, especially during tasks like video streaming. Many users lack the technical expertise to identify and fix these issues.
Innovation Solution
A distributed system and method for selecting a redundant network source at a gateway, which combines multiple network sources such as cellular, DSL, satellite, cable, broadband, or fiber to increase internet speed and bandwidth. This system measures network speed, identifies additional sources, and combines them using NFC authentication and load balancing techniques.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If a single internet source is used, then device complexity is reduced, but network speed and bandwidth are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple network sources (primary and secondary connections) at the gateway to aggregate bandwidth and increase network speed. The system merges data traffic from different network sources through load balancing techniques, allowing simultaneous utilization of multiple connections without requiring complex manual configuration from users.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs self-service by automatically measuring network speed, identifying additional network sources, and selecting redundant sources without requiring user intervention. The gateway autonomously monitors performance metrics, evaluates available connections, and configures load balancing policies to optimize network utilization, eliminating the need for users to manually configure complex network settings.
2Productivity
If multiple network sources are combined, then network speed and bandwidth increase, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors network performance by measuring speed and other metrics from active connections. Based on this feedback, the gateway dynamically adjusts load balancing decisions and selects optimal redundant sources. The feedback mechanism enables automatic adaptation to changing network conditions, maintaining optimal performance while managing complexity through data-driven decision making.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments network traffic into different streams that can be independently routed through primary and secondary sources. By dividing data traffic and applying separate load balancing policies to different applications or data types, the system manages complexity through structured organization rather than treating all traffic uniformly.
3Ease of operation
If automatic source selection is implemented, then ease of operation improves, but measurement and detection difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway performs self-service by automatically measuring network speed and identifying additional sources without requiring external tools or user intervention. The system incorporates measurement capabilities directly into the gateway, enabling it to autonomously evaluate network conditions and select appropriate redundant sources based on real-time performance data.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary measurements and evaluations of network sources before actual data transmission occurs. By pre-measuring speed and other metrics, and pre-identifying available redundant sources, the gateway prepares load balancing configurations in advance, enabling fast and accurate source selection during operation without complex real-time calculations.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure is directed to methods and systems for selecting a redundant network source at a gateway. The system can include a gateway with the ability to support combining multiple network sources to increase the network speed or bandwidth from the gateway or selecting a redundant network source to increase the network speed or bandwidth for a particular application. The system can increase the network speed by adding a second network source for a particular application (e.g., video steaming, video call, etc.) or an application requiring lower latency than the current network source provides. The additional network source can send all the data packet traffic of the application or the application's traffic is split between the additional network source and the current network source of the gateway.