Mobile Cloud Database Access via Charging Gateway
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing telecommunication systems face challenges in real-time data consolidation and billing across decentralized cellular networks, which are architecturally contradictory to the decentralized nature of cloud architecture, requiring efficient methods for data access and processing.
Innovation Solution
A method for mobile telecommunication devices to access cloud database systems via a digital cellular network, involving the generation of data views from multiple database schema instances using view variants, with processing done by database server nodes and potential enhancements through cloud connectors, firewalls, and SMS or USSD transmission channels.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If cellular networks are implemented as decentralized services, then network flexibility and scalability are improved, but real-time data consolidation for billing becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a charging gateway as an intermediary component that mediates between decentralized network elements and the billing system. The gateway collects charging information from multiple decentralized sources, performs local processing and consolidation, then forwards aggregated data to the billing system, thereby simplifying the overall data consolidation complexity while maintaining network decentralization
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the charging system into multiple independent components: charging data function (CDF) nodes distributed across the network, a charging gateway for local aggregation, and a centralized billing system. This segmentation allows each component to handle specific tasks independently, improving both network flexibility and managing data consolidation complexity through distributed processing
2Reliability
If multiple instances of database schema are created for separate regions, then data security and regional autonomy are improved, but system complexity and data exchange overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal charging gateway that can handle multiple functions: collecting data from different regions, performing local aggregation, validating charging information, and forwarding to the billing system. This multi-functional approach reduces the need for separate specialized systems for each region, thereby maintaining data security through regional autonomy while reducing overall system complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges multiple regional charging data functions into a unified charging gateway architecture that handles aggregation and validation centrally for each region. This combining approach reduces the number of separate systems needed, lowering system complexity while maintaining regional data security through the gateway's localized processing capabilities
3Measurement precision
If real-time charging information is collected from decentralized network elements, then billing accuracy is improved, but network traffic and processing overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by having charging gateways perform local aggregation and validation of charging information before forwarding to the billing system. The gateways pre-process data by collecting multiple charging records, summing them locally, and validating consistency, thereby reducing the volume of data that needs to be transmitted over the network while maintaining billing accuracy
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the aggregation and validation functions from the centralized billing system and places them at the edge charging gateways. This extraction allows local processing of charging data, reducing network traffic overhead by eliminating the need to transmit every individual charging record to the central system, while still achieving accurate billing through local consolidation
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AI summary
This disclosure provides a method, a system and a computer readable medium for transmitting and processing requests to access data in a cloud database system by a mobile telecommunication device. The method includes a telecommunication method for accessing data in a cloud database system by a mobile communication device via a digital cellular mobile telecommunication network. The method comprises a section for initiating on said mobile telecommunication device a request configured to access data organized according to a first database schema in said cloud database system. In another section of the method, the request is sent from the mobile telecommunication device to the cloud database system via a first transmission channel in said digital cellular mobile telecommunication network. In another section of the method, the request is received in said cloud database system by an interface to said first transmission channel. In another section of the method, the received request is processed in a first database server node to generate a first data view of a first instance of the first database schema in the cloud database system. The processing includes referencing, using a first view variant, one or more data tables included in the first instance of the first database schema to generate the first data view according to the request. In another section of the method, the received request is processed in a second database server node to generate a second data view of a second instance of the first database schema in the cloud database system. The processing uses a using a second view variant for referencing one or more data tables included in the second instance of the first database schema to generate the second data view according to the request. Additionally, a mobile telecommunication network management system is disclosed.