Mobile Content Coverage Application for Wireless Gap Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mobile devices face processor and power-intensive challenges in tracking wireless network connectivity, leading to battery drainage and disruptions in streaming audio and video content due to varying internet connectivity.
Innovation Solution
A content coverage application on mobile devices determines wireless coverage by interacting with a coverage determination system, providing users with notifications of impending coverage loss and allowing them to select content for download before gaps occur, thereby improving user experience during travel.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If mobile devices continuously track wireless network connectivity to prevent content disruption, then content streaming reliability is improved, but processor load and power consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary coverage determination before actual content streaming occurs. By querying coverage information in advance and storing it in a database, the system avoids the need for continuous real-time tracking during content consumption, thus reducing processor load and power consumption while maintaining reliability
Solution Approach 2:
The coverage determination system automatically queries and stores wireless coverage information without requiring active monitoring or user intervention during content streaming. The system serves itself by pre-fetching and caching coverage data, eliminating the need for continuous energy-intensive tracking operations
2Reliability
If mobile devices continuously track wireless network connectivity to prevent content disruption, then content streaming reliability is improved, but processor load increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary coverage determination before actual content streaming occurs. By querying coverage information in advance and storing it in a database, the system avoids the need for continuous real-time tracking during content consumption, thus reducing processor load and power consumption while maintaining reliability
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of continuous tracking, the system uses periodic coverage queries at specific locations or time intervals. The coverage information is updated periodically and cached, allowing the system to maintain reliability through periodic updates rather than continuous processing
3Loss of information
If the system provides detailed coverage information and download notifications to users, then user awareness of coverage gaps is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces a coverage determination service as an intermediary layer between the mobile device and the network. This intermediary component handles the complexity of coverage querying, data storage, and notification generation, allowing the main application to remain simple while still providing comprehensive coverage information to users
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed herein are methods and apparatus for coverage determination and download opportunity notification. A method for content coverage determination and download opportunity includes obtaining, by a content coverage application running on a mobile device, an itinerary from a map application on the mobile device. The content coverage application sends the itinerary and mobile device characteristics to a coverage determination system and receives a wireless coverage profile based on the itinerary and the mobile device characteristics. The content coverage application generates a list of entertainment applications running on the mobile device. The content coverage application provides a notification of a wireless coverage gap based on the wireless coverage profile and displays the list of entertainment applications and status for each listed entertainment application in response to user input. The content coverage application sends instructions to one or more of the listed entertainment applications to download content in response to user selections.