Multiple Logic-Capable Storage for Wireless Device Provisioning
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing diversity of communication devices with varying capabilities poses challenges for cellular operators in determining device functionality, leading to service outages, poor provisioning, and management inefficiencies due to non-compliance with specific standards, particularly in multi-standard environments with hundreds of millions of devices.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of Multiple Logic-Capable Storage (MLCS) devices that can interpret stored information using positive or negative logic, allowing for flexible provisioning of communication devices based on their capabilities, reducing the complexity and operational costs by dynamically assigning functionalities and minimizing stored information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional single-logic databases are used to store device functionality information, then the database structure is simple and easy to implement, but the system cannot efficiently handle diverse communication devices with varying capabilities, leading to service outages and poor provisioning
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the database into multiple logic-capable databases, each handling specific device types or functionality categories. This segmentation allows each database to be optimized for its specific purpose while collectively providing comprehensive device support, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal database system where each logic-capable database can handle multiple device types and functionality scenarios. The databases work together as an integrated system that provides universal support for diverse communication devices, achieving high adaptability without requiring each individual database to be overly complex.
2Measurement precision
If comprehensive device functionality information is stored for all device types, then device provisioning accuracy improves, but the amount of stored information and database size increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent assigns different storage characteristics and logic types to different databases based on their specific functions. Each database stores information with the appropriate level of detail and uses logic optimized for its specific device category, achieving high identification accuracy without uniformly storing all possible information across all databases.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of storing positive confirmation of all device capabilities, the patent uses negative logic databases that store information about what devices do NOT support. This inversion reduces stored information volume while maintaining accurate device functionality identification by focusing on exceptions rather than enumerating all capabilities.
3Productivity
If multiple logic-capable databases are implemented to handle device diversity, then service provisioning efficiency improves and outages are reduced, but the system complexity and operational complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces intermediary components including translation layers and coordination mechanisms that mediate between the multiple logic-capable databases and the device provisioning system. These intermediaries handle the complexity of coordinating multiple databases, allowing the system to achieve high provisioning efficiency while the intermediaries manage the operational complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamic database selection and logic switching based on device type and provisioning scenario. The system dynamically determines which logic-capable database to use and how to coordinate them, allowing flexible adaptation to different situations without requiring static complex configurations for all possible scenarios.
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AI summary
Wireless communication network access is facilitated via multiple logic-capable storage (MLCS) devices. One method comprises: scanning a record of records stored in a MLCS device to determine whether a communication device associated with a request for communication establishment has a defined functionality; and generating information indicative of the communication device failing to have the defined functionality based on identifying a value range inclusive of an identifier of the communication device and based on determining that the MLCS device is a negative logic storage device, wherein the MLCS device is programmable to have a first type of logic at a first time and a second type of logic at a second time. The first type of logic can be the negative logic type and the second type of logic can be a positive logic type.