Mobile Phone Location-Based Parameter Adaptation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face difficulties in manually reconfiguring their mobile cellular telephones to adapt to different cellular networks with varying communication capabilities and settings when roaming, as each network requires specific parameter settings.

Innovation Solution

A mobile telephone is equipped with a memory to store multiple sets of location-associated parameter settings, a detection mechanism to identify the current location, and control means to automatically retrieve and apply the appropriate settings from a database, allowing seamless operation across different networks.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If manual reconfiguration is used to adapt to different networks, then communication functionality is maintained, but user effort and time consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenetwork adaptabilityVSAvoiduser operation ease

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The mobile telephone automatically detects its current location and selects the appropriate parameter settings from stored sets without requiring user intervention. The system serves itself by autonomously adapting to different networks based on location detection, eliminating the need for manual reconfiguration while maintaining full network adaptability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

Multiple sets of parameter settings for different locations and networks are pre-stored in the mobile telephone's memory before roaming occurs. When the user travels to a new location, the appropriate settings are already available and can be automatically applied immediately, avoiding the need for manual configuration during network transitions

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Extent of automation

If multiple parameter settings are stored for different locations, then automatic adaptation is enabled, but device memory requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveautomatic settings adaptationVSAvoidmemory storage capacity

Core Design Contradiction:

Extent of automationVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The parameter settings are divided into multiple separate sets, with each set corresponding to a specific location or network. Rather than storing one large comprehensive configuration, the system segments the settings into manageable units that can be stored efficiently in memory and selected based on the current location, reducing overall storage requirements while enabling automatic adaptation

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS7551928B2Location dependent control of a mobile cellular telephone

Publication Date: 2009.06.23 NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY

AI summary

A mobile cellular telephone for communicating in a cellular telecommunications network comprising: a memory for storing a plurality of different sets of parameter settings and a database for associating each set of parameter settings with a location; detection means for detecting the current location of the mobile telephone; and control means for interrogating the database to obtain the set of parameter settings associated with the current location and for controlling the mobile telephone in dependence upon the obtained set of parameter settings.