Wireless LAN Quality Assessment Server for User Actionable Insights

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Solution Overview

Problem

Ordinary users cannot easily assess or improve the quality of their wireless LAN services due to the complexity of existing performance measurement results and lack of clear guidance on modifying settings to enhance quality.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus that obtain and compare performance measurement information to generate quality assessment information, providing users with actionable insights and modification settings to improve their wireless LAN experience.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If conventional performance measurement is used to assess wireless LAN quality, then technical performance data is obtained, but users cannot easily understand or act on the results

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveperformance measurement accuracyVSAvoiduser understanding and actionability
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a quality assessment server as an intermediary between the performance measurement system and the user. This server translates complex technical performance data into simple quality grades (S, A, B, C, D, F) and provides actionable modification settings, enabling users to understand and act on performance measurements without needing technical expertise

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transforms performance measurement parameters into quality grade parameters through a standardized evaluation system. By converting diverse technical metrics (download speed, upload speed, latency, packet loss) into a unified quality grade scale, the system makes performance assessment comprehensible and actionable for ordinary users

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Loss of information

If users are provided with detailed performance measurement data, then comprehensive information is available, but users still cannot determine how to improve quality

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation completenessVSAvoidguidance on modification
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the quality assessment server not only evaluates current performance but also provides modification settings that indicate how users can improve their wireless LAN quality. This closed-loop feedback system guides users from understanding their current status to taking actionable steps for improvement

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Quantity of substance

If performance measurement is performed in varying environments, then comprehensive performance data is collected, but results become difficult to compare and interpret

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveperformance data volumeVSAvoidcomparability of results
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent normalizes performance measurement data by converting various technical parameters into a standardized quality grade scale. This transformation allows performance data collected in different environments to be compared meaningfully, as all results are expressed in terms of the same quality grades (S, A, B, C, D, F) regardless of environmental variations

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS10880770B2Method and apparatus for managing quality of wireless LAN
Publication Date: 2020.12.29 KT CORP
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AI summary

The present invention relates to a method of managing quality of a wireless LAN. According to one aspect of the present invention, the method of managing the quality of the wireless LAN includes: obtaining basic performance measurement information on a terminal that accesses the wireless LAN and first performance measurement information; determining second performance measurement information to be compared with the first performance measurement information, by using the basic performance measurement information; generating quality assessment information for the first performance measurement information on the basis of the first performance measurement information and the second performance measurement information; and transmitting the quality assessment information to the terminal.