Hotspot Leasing Platform for Dynamic Data Sharing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face issues with accessing the internet due to geographical restrictions and high costs of temporary data plans, leading to data wastage or insufficient data usage.

Innovation Solution

A method for hotspot leasing, where users with excess data can lease their hotspot to those in need, using a network device to facilitate the connection and manage data usage, ensuring secure and efficient data sharing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If users purchase temporary data plans to access the Internet, then data access is enabled, but the unit price is high and data may be wasted if not fully used

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata access availabilityVSAvoiddata waste
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

Users with excess data independently lease their data to other users through the platform, eliminating the need to purchase additional data plans. The system enables peer-to-peer data sharing where supplying users self-manage their data resources and requesting users self-select suitable data sources based on their needs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the parameter of data usage from individual isolated consumption to shared collaborative consumption. By introducing data leasing contracts with flexible data amounts and pricing, the system transforms fixed data plan purchases into dynamic, demand-based data allocation, reducing overall data waste.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If users purchase data plans with geographical restrictions, then data service is provided, but users cannot access data outside restricted areas

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata service coverageVSAvoidgeographical flexibility
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The data leasing platform provides universal data access by connecting users across different geographical locations. Supplying users can lease their data to requesting users anywhere in the network, eliminating geographical restrictions inherent in traditional data plans. The system serves multiple functions: data sharing, location-independent access, and flexible contractual agreements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Stability of the object's composition

If users clear left communication data at the end of the month, then the system maintains data plan validity, but communication data is wasted

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata plan structureVSAvoidcommunication data waste
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSLoss of substance

Solution Approach 1:

Instead of discarding excess data at the end of the month, the system recovers and reallocates it to other users who need data. Supplying users can lease their unused data through the platform, transforming what would be waste into a valuable resource that benefits both the supplying user (who earns revenue) and the requesting user (who gains data access).

Inventive Principle:
Principle #34Discarding and recovering

Data Source

PatentUS11411846B2Method and a device for hotspot leasing
Publication Date: 2022.08.09 SHANGHAI SHANGWANG NETWORK TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

A method and a device for hotspot leasing are provided. The method comprises: acquiring a data request packet transmitted by a requesting user (S11); based on a target data request packet acquired by a supplying user from the data request packet, transmitting hotspot information provided by the supplying user to the requesting user corresponding to the target data request packet, and establishing a hotspot leasing contract between the requesting user and the supplying user (S12). Therefore, demand docking is provided for both parties of leasing and selling by means of the data request packet, so that users with excess data provide data to users with data gaps. Urgent needs of one or more surrounding users are solved, near-field social contact for mutual assistance is established, and data utilization is improved.