Mobile Eco-Rating Retrieval for Subscribed Communication Services
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users in the mobile communications market lack indicators that inform them about the environmental impacts of their subscribed services, including energy consumption, carbon footprint, and energy source mix, hindering their ability to make sustainable choices.
Innovation Solution
Implementing schemes that provide eco-rating information through AT commands, allowing terminal equipment to request and receive eco-rating data from a mobile termination, which can be represented visually to users, reflecting energy-related characteristics such as energy consumption, carbon emissions, and renewable energy usage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If eco-rating information is provided to users through mobile communication systems, then users can make informed sustainable choices, but the system complexity and energy consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary component (eco-rating information module) that mediates between the complex network energy management systems and the end user. This intermediary aggregates, processes, and simplifies complex environmental data into user-friendly eco-rating indicators, allowing users to access environmental impact information without exposing them to the underlying system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transforms complex environmental parameters (energy consumption, carbon footprint, energy source mix) into simplified eco-rating parameters that are easily interpretable by users. This parameter transformation converts difficult-to-understand technical data into meaningful indicators that guide user behavior toward more sustainable choices.
2Loss of information
If real-time eco-rating information is provided to users, then users can make informed decisions about their digital behavior, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary calculations and aggregations of environmental data in advance, storing results that can be quickly retrieved and presented to users in real-time. This pre-processing approach reduces the computational energy required at the moment of user interaction, as the heavy lifting of data aggregation and analysis has already been completed.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements continuous monitoring and updating of eco-rating information, maintaining a persistent state of environmental data that can be efficiently queried by users. This continuous action approach avoids repeated full recalculations, as the system maintains an ongoing record of environmental metrics that can be incrementally updated rather than completely recomputed.
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AI summary
Various solutions for provision of eco-rating information in mobile communications are described. A terminal equipment (TE) may transmit a request message to a terminal adapter (TA). The request may include an indication to request or enable the TA to retrieve eco-rating information of a subscribed communication service from a mobile termination (MT). The TE may receive a response message from the TA. The response message may include the eco-rating information of the subscribed communication service. Then, the TE may provide a representation of the eco-rating information.