Intelligent Routeback Mechanism for Carrier Network Connectivity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wireless carriers face challenges in establishing and maintaining bilateral agreements for message and data exchange, leading to limited connectivity and increased operational costs, which restricts their ability to offer comprehensive services and maximize revenue.
Innovation Solution
A Messaging Inter-Carrier Vendor (MICV) acts as a trusted intermediary, establishing and maintaining agreements, providing intelligent routeback capabilities to efficiently process and route various types of messages and data, thereby enabling seamless communication across a network of carriers without the need for individual entities to manage direct connections.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If wireless carriers establish and maintain bilateral agreements for message and data exchange, then connectivity and service comprehensiveness are improved, but business and operational costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a Messaging Inter-Carrier Vendor (MICV) as a trusted intermediary that establishes and maintains bilateral agreements on behalf of multiple wireless carriers. The MICV acts as a central hub that manages routing tables and delivery rules, allowing carriers to exchange messages without direct bilateral agreements between each pair. This intermediary structure expands network connectivity while centralizing the operational complexity at the MICV rather than at each individual carrier.
2Adaptability or versatility
If wireless carriers establish and maintain bilateral agreements for message and data exchange, then connectivity and service comprehensiveness are improved, but additional business and operational costs are incurred
Solution Approach 1:
The MICV serves as a cost-efficient intermediary by consolidating agreement management. Instead of each carrier paying to establish and maintain separate bilateral agreements with every other carrier, the MICV establishes a single agreement framework that benefits all participating carriers. This reduces the total number of agreements needed from O(n²) to O(n), significantly reducing business costs while maintaining full mesh connectivity.
Solution Approach 2:
The MICV provides universal routing and delivery services that benefit all participating carriers through a single platform. The routing table and delivery rules mechanisms are universally applicable across all carrier pairs, eliminating the need for custom bilateral arrangements. This multi-functional approach allows the same infrastructure to serve multiple carriers simultaneously, reducing per-carrier costs.
3Ease of operation
If individual entities manage direct connections for message routing, then routing control is improved, but device complexity and administrative burdens increase
Solution Approach 1:
The MICV acts as an intermediary that handles the administrative burden of routing management. Individual carriers send messages to the MICV with destination addressing information, and the MICV's routing table determines the appropriate delivery path. This maintains routing control through the addressing mechanism while transferring the administrative complexity of managing direct connections to the MICV's centralized routing engine.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service routing through intelligent routeback capabilities. When the MICV cannot directly deliver a message, it automatically routes it back to the sending entity with instructions for alternative delivery. This self-service mechanism reduces administrative burden by automating routing decisions without requiring manual intervention from carriers, while still maintaining control through the routing table and delivery rules.
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AI summary
An intelligent routeback mechanism that may inter alia receive from an entity (such as for example a wireless carrier) aspects of the entity's messaging traffic, data, etc. with the intelligent routeback mechanism aiding the (1) return (optionally augmented, optionally transformed, etc.) to the entity of that portion of the traffic, data, etc. that the entity is able to deliver itself and (2) delivery of that portion of the traffic, data, etc. that the entity is unable to deliver itself. Such an intelligent routeback mechanism may reside in inter alia a Messaging Inter-Carrier Vendor.