Global Data Service Connection Manager for Shared Cellular Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face challenges in efficiently managing data communications when traveling to new areas, as existing solutions often require cumbersome credential setup and may expose users to security risks, while relying on cellular data can lead to high costs due to limited data allowances and inefficient pricing.
Innovation Solution
A global data service connection manager system that determines a shared data account balance and current market purchase price, automatically arbitrating data transactions between registered users via a network connection, ensuring data is acquired within the user's balance and at competitive prices, utilizing a cloud computing environment to facilitate efficient data access.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If users rely on cellular data service plans in unfamiliar locations, then data connectivity is maintained, but financial costs increase significantly due to limited data allowances and inefficient pricing
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables a single cellular data connection to serve multiple users simultaneously through credential sharing, allowing each user to access data services in unfamiliar locations without requiring separate cellular plans. The shared credentials system provides universal access across different geographic locations while distributing the financial burden among multiple users.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates digital copies of cellular data credentials that can be distributed to multiple users. Instead of each user needing their own physical SIM card and cellular account, the system generates shareable credential copies that replicate access to the primary user's cellular data service, enabling cost-effective access in unfamiliar locations.
2Ease of operation
If users establish wireless connections in new areas using stored credentials, then connection establishment is simplified, but security risks increase due to possible cloning or theft of user ID credentials
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces a credential management intermediary that sits between the user's device and the wireless network. This intermediary layer handles credential verification, distribution, and revocation, allowing easy connection establishment through automated credential sharing while maintaining security through controlled access management and the ability to revoke compromised credentials.
3Reliability
If users use cellular data connections when other options are unavailable, then data access is ensured, but data consumption rates become inefficient and costly
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts data consumption patterns by monitoring the number of active users sharing credentials and the available data allowance. When multiple users are actively consuming data, the system can detect when the shared cellular data limit is approaching and automatically trigger credential rotation or switch to alternative connectivity options, optimizing overall data consumption efficiency across the user group.
Data Source
AI summary
A global data service connection manager determines a shared data account balance for data available to a user as a function of data amounts previously made available to a shared data system by the first user for the use of other registered users. In response to a request by the first user to execute a data transaction by using data from the shared system, the shared data account balance and the data available at the brokered purchase price are automatically arbitrated to acquire at least one of data from a wireless service account of another registered user of the shared system in an amount that does not exceed the first user's shared data account balance, and data purchased from a wireless service account of another registered user of the shared system in a purchased amount that does not exceed data available at a brokered purchase price.