Mobile Endpoint Functionality Distribution
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Solution Overview
Problem
Communication devices often integrate multiple components to provide comprehensive services, but existing technologies do not efficiently distribute and aggregate functionality among component devices in a communication network, limiting user experience and service enhancement.
Innovation Solution
A method that identifies and distributes specific functions of a mobile endpoint to operable component devices within a communication network, allowing for enhanced service delivery by leveraging proximate devices such as displays, speakers, and microphones, and enabling automatic handoff and aggregation of functionality based on device availability and user preferences.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple logical components are integrated together in a single communication device, then comprehensive services can be provided, but the device complexity increases and functionality distribution becomes inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the functionality of a mobile endpoint into separate logical components (display function, audio broadcast function, voice reception function, etc.) that can be independently distributed to different component devices. This allows comprehensive services to be provided through distributed components rather than integrating all functions in a single device, thereby reducing device complexity while maintaining service comprehensiveness.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables component devices to perform multiple functions by receiving and executing function distributions from mobile endpoints. For example, a display device can serve as both a display component and a camera component when distributed appropriate functions, reducing the need for dedicated devices and simplifying the overall system architecture.
2Productivity
If functionality is distributed to component devices, then service quality and efficiency improve, but the system requires complex identification and distribution mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile endpoint automatically identifies available component devices and distributes functions to them based on their capabilities and current state, without requiring manual user configuration. The system self-manages the identification, capability matching, and function distribution processes, improving service efficiency while keeping the distribution mechanism transparent to users.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where component devices report their operational status and capability information back to the mobile endpoint. This feedback enables the endpoint to make intelligent decisions about function distribution, ensuring optimal service efficiency while simplifying the distribution mechanism through automated capability-based matching.
3Ease of operation
If functions are distributed based on device availability, then user experience is enhanced, but maintaining user control and preferences becomes more difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent allows users to pre-configure their preferences for function distribution before actual distribution occurs. Users can specify which component devices they prefer for specific functions or set general distribution policies in advance. When distribution is needed, the system executes these pre-configured preferences automatically, enhancing user experience while simplifying control management by avoiding real-time decision complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
In an embodiment, a method includes identifying a first component device of a plurality of component devices in a communication network and determining that the first component device is operable to perform a first function of a plurality of functions associated with a mobile endpoint. The method also includes distributing the first function from the mobile endpoint to the first component device in response to determining that the first component device is operable to perform a first function of the plurality of functions associated with the mobile endpoint.