Inter-working Service for Walled Garden PTT Floor Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current push-to-talk (PTT) and multimedia services are walled garden systems, limiting inter-working between disparate communication networks and preventing clients from participating in sessions outside their proprietary networks, especially between PTT and VOIP or other multimedia services.
Innovation Solution
An inter-working service is introduced to provide an interface between walled garden PTT services and communication sessions outside these gardens, allowing participation as clients in both systems, enabling invitations, codec negotiation, media conversion, and floor control across different networks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a walled garden service is used to provide push-to-talk functionality, then service reliability and control are improved, but network interoperability and client accessibility are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
An inter-working service is introduced as an intermediary component between the walled garden PTT service and external networks. This service maintains the reliability and control of the original walled garden system while enabling interoperability with external networks such as VOIP and other multimedia services, effectively resolving the contradiction between service control and network interoperability
2Reliability
If proprietary clients are required for walled garden services, then service quality and floor control are improved, but client accessibility and ease of operation are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The system is segmented into distinct functional components: the proprietary walled garden PTT service maintaining floor control capabilities, and an inter-working service layer that handles external network communication. This segmentation allows proprietary clients to maintain full floor control functionality while enabling external clients to access the service through standardized interfaces, resolving the contradiction between floor control reliability and client accessibility
3Reliability
If floor control is implemented in a walled garden system, then communication order and reliability are improved, but system complexity and difficulty of inter-working are worsened
Solution Approach 1:
The inter-working service acts as a mediator that translates and adapts floor control mechanisms between the walled garden system and external networks. It maintains the communication order and reliability of the original system while abstracting away the complexity, allowing external clients to participate in floor-controlled communications without needing to understand or implement the complex floor control protocol themselves
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AI summary
Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for inter-working between a walled garden service such as a push-to-talk service and a communication session outside of the walled garden service. According to one embodiment, a system can comprise a first communication network adapted to provide a walled garden service and support a first communication session of the walled garden service and a second communication network adapted to support a second communication session. The second communication session can occur outside of the walled garden service. The system can also include an inter-working service communicatively coupled with the first communication network and the second communication network. The inter-working service can be adapted to provide an interface between the first communication session and the second communication session.