Handover Convenience Information Support for Seamless Service Continuity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current handover processes in wireless communications often disrupt service continuity and fail to provide users with convenient information, leading to negative experiences, especially in multi-overlapping economic regions with varying network sizes and performance.
Innovation Solution
The HOCIS method provides network-transparent convenience information support by using a secondary telecommunications process to inform users about potential, current, or retrospective handovers, ensuring service continuity and user awareness, thereby mitigating the negative impacts of handovers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If handover is implemented as a technical core process with minimal user interaction, then service continuity is maintained through automated procedures, but users lack awareness and cannot react flexibly to handover events
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a secondary telecommunications process (STCP) as an intermediary between the primary handover process and the user. This STCP runs in parallel and independently from the main handover procedure, providing the user with information about handover events without interfering with the automated handover execution. The STCP acts as a mediator that translates technical handover events into user-friendly notifications, allowing users to stay informed while the automated process maintains service continuity.
2Ease of operation
If handover information is provided to all users, then user awareness and flexibility are improved, but system complexity and information overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a self-service mechanism where the secondary telecommunications process automatically detects handover events and generates appropriate user notifications without requiring complex user configuration or manual intervention. The system autonomously determines when and what information to provide based on the handover state, reducing the burden on users while maintaining information provision. This self-service approach simplifies the overall system architecture by eliminating the need for complex user-side configuration interfaces.
3Reliability
If handover process is extended to include user information and support, then user experience and service continuity are improved, but handover duration and processing time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs preliminary action by starting the secondary telecommunications process before the actual handover event occurs. The STCP is initialized in advance and continuously monitors for handover conditions, so that when a handover event happens, the information provision is already in place and can immediately notify the user. This preliminary setup eliminates the need for post-handover information gathering and processing, thus avoiding delays in user notification while maintaining service continuity throughout the handover process.
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AI summary
An automatic and network-transparent “handover convenience information support” method for a subscriber of a primary communications process in which an handover takes place—wherein this handover process can comprise arbitrary times prior or after the “actual handover”.“Convenience information support” means that this PTCP-SUBC has not necessarily requested the convenience information, but he nevertheless regards this then unasked-for support as convenient or helpful, such as for example a passenger on a flight regarding associated announcements/references/measures at the departure or arrival airport. As opposed to such often uniform measures the convenience information is as a rule individually configurable by someone affected by it. The convenience support information for a subscriber takes place by transferring to him relevant information as regards this actual handover—which can be potential or current or retrospective—during the handover-process which was supplied for this by at least one non-human module in at least one system of at least one secondary telecommunications process.